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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +51 more
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Tangible Media

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +59 more
Accepting Applicants
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +30 more
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Research
Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Theme | Learning + Creativity

Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +5 more
Publication Research

Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity

Leong, Joanne, et al. "Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.

Proceedings, May 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#human-computer interaction #augmented reality #cognition +2 more
Project Research

Synthetic Self-Perception

Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…

in Fluid Interfaces
Joanne Leong · Pat Pataranutaporn +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +5 more
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +65 more
Accepting Applicants
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
Accepting Applicants
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

#design #virtual reality #computer vision +43 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera

The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.

via The New York Times · March 6, 2023
in Opera of the Future
#communications #environment #music +2 more
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2023 Brings Dreams to Life

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association

Feb. 15, 2023
in Tangible Media · Molecular Machines · Fluid Interfaces
#art #artificial intelligence #entertainment +5 more
Publication Research

Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts

Smith, A., Schroeder, H., Epstein, Z., Cook, M., Colton, S., & Lippman, A. (2023). Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts.

Academic Paper, Feb. 2023
in Human Dynamics · Viral Communications · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#artificial intelligence #creativity
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Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts

Does using text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion in the creative process affect what people make in the physical world?

Feb. 13, 2023
in Human Dynamics · Viral Communications · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#artificial intelligence #environment #creativity
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +68 more
Research
Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +59 more
Accepting Applicants
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +30 more
Accepting Applicants
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Manuj Dhariwal · Shruti Dhariwal
#kids #creativity #code
Research
Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #social networks +68 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…

in Human Dynamics · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Ziv Epstein · Hope Schroeder
#artificial intelligence #environment #creativity
Project Research

Photorythms

Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…

in Future Sketches
Chelsi Cocking
#design #computer vision #art +2 more
Project Research

A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…

in Poetic Justice
Ekene Ijeoma
#robotics #design #art +11 more
Project Research

Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…

in Poetic Justice
Nina Lutz · Justin Blinder +1 more
#art #data #creativity +5 more
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +30 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Developing community around design

Meet the MIT Morningside Academy for Design’s inaugural fellows, including Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar and Francesca Riccio-Ackerman.

via MIT News · Oct. 17, 2022
in Biomechatronics · Space Enabled
#design #creativity #community
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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

#robotics #design #agriculture +11 more
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Dreaming through Code

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…

in Future Sketches · Lifelong Kindergarten
Cecilé Sadler · Chelsi Cocking
#civic technology #learning #computer science +2 more
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +36 more
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Accepting Applicants
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BubbleSynth: Soap to Sound

BubbleSynth translates motion tracking and blob detection data collected from floating soap bubbles into sound, by using the size, position…

Daniel Novy
#art #music #creativity +2 more
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +32 more
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Object-Based Media

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Summer 2022 recommended reading from MIT

Enjoy these recent titles from Institute faculty and staff.

via MIT News · July 8, 2022
in Communications · Human Dynamics · Personal Robots +1 more
#robotics #data #social robotics +2 more
Project Research

The Guardians

in Affective Computing
Craig Ferguson · Sara Taylor +3 more
#data #entertainment #gaming +7 more
Article Research

Artist Xin Liu lets science-backed absurdity take the wheel

The artist and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative Arts curator makes work that explores why the seemingly impossible is possible.

via Cultured Magazine · June 28, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
#art #creativity #space +1 more
Article Research

Making art through computation

Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.

via MIT News · June 26, 2022
in Future Sketches
#art #civic technology #machine learning +3 more
Article Research

Ayah Bdeir on design, engineering and activism

Ayah Bdeir on her journey from Lebanon to MIT Media Lab, and why she started littleBits.

via Danielle Newnham Podcast · May 10, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#kids #creativity #technology +3 more
Article Research

The Science Behind Creativity

Seli is an assistant professor at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and also an artist. He uses Dormio to tap into hypnagogia.

via American Psychological Association · April 1, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #creativity #cognitive science
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Project Research

Creative Learning Design Tools

While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing experie…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Yusuf Ahmad
#design #kids #learning +3 more
Archived
Article Research

What it means to be counted: MIT art project aims to capture Ogden’s vocal diversity

“A Counting,” an art project from the Poetic Justice group, invites people to call in and count to 100 in their native language.

via KUER public radio · March 28, 2022
in Poetic Justice
#art #data #creativity +1 more
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Between Worlds: How do we learn Art & Design in the Digital Age?

Between Worlds was a day-long learning event that explored new methods of teaching art and design in today's hybrid and digital world.

April 1, 2022
in Future Sketches
#design #art #learning +1 more
Project Research

Drawing++ Workshop

Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …

in Future Sketches
Zach Lieberman · Chelsi Cocking +1 more
#design #art #learning +2 more
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Xiao Xiao wins second place in the 2022 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

For the project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin. Congratulations!

March 25, 2022
in Object-Based Media · Opera of the Future · Tangible Media
#art #music #creativity +2 more
Project Research

MM-RT

MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…

in Opera of the Future
Akito Oshiro van Troyer
#art #music #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Podcast: Night Shifts

Perchance to dream engineer: on new research into our sleeping minds

via Harper's Magazine · March 15, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #creativity #cognitive science
Article Research

Night Shifts

In the April issue, Michael W. Clune writes about the profound insights offered by the Dormio: "Can technology shape our dreams?"

via Harper's Magazine · March 16, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #creativity #cognitive science
Article Research

Xiao Xiao, PhD: Creative Technologist, MIT

Alum and research affiliate Xiao Xiao talks to “I Am a Scientist” about her work, which merges science with art.

via I Am a Scientist · Feb. 25, 2022
in Tangible Media
#art #creativity #technology +1 more
Article Research

Informer Episode 10: Zach Lieberman

Zach Lieberman talks to arts curator Roddy Schrock about creative coding, his career path, the work of his group at the Media Lab, and more.

via Informer Podcast · Jan. 10, 2022
in Future Sketches
#art #gaming #creativity +1 more
Article Research

What does it take to fool Penn and Teller?

Affective Computing alum Seth Raphael talks to Slice of MIT about his career, and how he uses and creates tech-based magic to inspire people

via Slice of MIT · Dec. 1, 2021
in Affective Computing
#creativity #technology #alumni
Article Research

Into the anthropocosmos with Ariel Ekblaw

A conversation recently aired on Planetary Radio, hosted by Mat Kaplan of the Planetary Society, featuring SEI director Ariel Ekblaw.

via Planetary Radio · Nov. 24, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#environment #creativity #space +1 more
Article Research

Scientists and musicians tackle climate change together

Discussion at MIT explores ways the music industry can help in the battle to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

via MIT News · Dec. 1, 2021
in Director's Office
#art #environment #music +2 more
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Xiao Xiao named as a semifinalist in the 2022 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

Xiao Xiao, an alum and research affiliate of the Tangible Media group, recognized for her project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin

Nov. 29, 2021
in Tangible Media
#art #music #creativity +2 more
Article Research

The consequences of hacking our dreams

Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks

via NPR's All Things Considered · Nov. 27, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #ethics #creativity +2 more
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Eyal Perry · Adam Haar Horowitz +5 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +16 more
Article Research

Inside your dreamscape

Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.

via Aeon · Nov. 23, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #ethics #creativity +3 more
Article Research

Epi/20: Fluid Music | Mutating Music with MIT Media Lab’s Charles Holbrow

Alum Charles Holbrow talks about his work and shares his views on the past, present, and future of music and technology.

via Beatseeker Podcast · Oct. 29, 2021
in Opera of the Future
#environment #music #computer science +2 more
Article Research

Why artist and engineer Xin Liu sent her wisdom tooth into outer space

The LA Times talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Xin Liu about her art project Living Distance.

via The Los Angeles Times · Oct. 28, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
#art #creativity #space +1 more
Article Research

The Modern Art Notes Podcast | No. 501: Ekene Ijeoma, Chloë Bass.

Episode No. 501 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Ekene Ijeoma and Chloë Bass.

via The Modern Art Notes Podcast · June 10, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#art #data #creativity +1 more
Article Research

Are advertisers coming for your dreams?

"We can see the waves forming a tsunami that will come, but most people are just sleeping on a beach unaware"

via Science Magazine · June 11, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

This Toronto-based nonprofit provides creative education to over 2,000 children in rural India

Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.

via SocialStory · Aug. 31, 2021
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Advertisers are hijacking your dreams, scientists say

This is the actual stuff of nightmares.

via Popular Mechanics · July 8, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Companies are ready to experiment with advertising in your dreams, and experts are sounding the alarm

Sleep and dream researchers are urging for an advance tightening of advertising law to nip all this in the bud before it starts in earnest.

via Relevant · July 6, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Neuroscientists warn advertisers are trying to 'weaponize sleep' by plugging into your dreams

“The potential for misuse of these technologies is as ominous as it is obvious.”

via The Hill · July 6, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Nightmare scenario: Alarm as advertisers seek to plug into our dreams

After Coors sought to steer unconscious minds to thoughts of beer, scientists have called for curbs on ‘targeted dream incubation.’

via The Guardian · July 5, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#cognition #learning #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Ekene Ijeoma reveals the revolutionary potential of data-based art

Ekene Ijeoma speaks with Document Journal about his interdisciplinary, data-based artworks and the intersectional issues they address.

via Document Journal · June 11, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#art #data #creativity +2 more
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