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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Programmable Synthetic Hallucinations

We are creating consumer-grade appliances and authoring methodologies that will allow hallucinatory phenomena to be programmed and utiliz...
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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reMi

Translating ambient sounds of moment into tangible and shareable memories through animated paperWe present a tangible memory notebook—reM...
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a novel wearable olfa...
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic computation and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
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Talking Machines: Democratizing the Design of Voice-Based Agents for the Home
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Communications Futures Program
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Counter Intelligence
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e-markets
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
Future Storytelling
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Emerging Worlds

Emerging Worlds
Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Hundred Dollar Laptop
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BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-Respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing

Amores, J., Hernandez, J., Dementyev, A., Wang, X., Maes, P. "BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing," Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018
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Physio FreeFall

This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...
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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Center for Mobile Learning
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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FingerReader selected for a Golden Pin Concept Design Award

FingerReader, a wearable interface that uses audio and haptic feedback to enhance the reading experience, was selected for a 2017 Go...
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Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers

Johnson, K.T., Taylor, S., Fedor, S., Jaques, N., Chen, W., Picard, R.W. "Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers." Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018.
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Ethics

Ethics
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HeartBit

HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weigh...
Center for Civic Media
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Reality Editor

The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...
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Intrepid

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...
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Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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Rhythm: A Unified Measurement Platform for Human Organizations
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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Pillow-Talk

Pillow-Talk is a set of connected objects intended to assist in the capture and recall digitally stored dreams and memories via natural a...
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Pillow-Talk: Seamless Interface for Dream Priming, Recalling and Playback
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How scalable global networks are changing our media, our communities, and our businesses.
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How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such as dogs.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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How computational tools help to capture, visualize, and analyze human experiences.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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Next Billion Network
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How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
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How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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Spatial Imaging
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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SIMPLICITY
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Digital Nations
Visible Language Workshop
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Architecture Machine Group
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How storytelling form can be best achieved using new computational approaches for the creator and user of media such as video, cinema, and photography.
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How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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