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Long-term Personalized Multimodal Interactions Between a Human Group and a Social Robot

OverviewResearch efforts in social human-robot interactions (HRI) have been mainly targeted at a single-person interacting with a single ...
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Space Enabled

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

MIT News highlights Dr. Canan Dagdeviren being selected as a finalist for the Future Founders Initiative prize competition

MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech.
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MIT's Spectrum highlights Dr. Canan Dagdeviren in an article titled "Better Conforming Medical Devices"

By John Pavlus Imagine you're a patient being treated for Parkinson's Disease, which causes tremors. The disorder kills brain cells ...
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Regional Technology Co-Creation and Transfer Ecosystems in Latin America

In this project we invite MIT students and students from other international universities to address the tensions between long-standing t...
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Technology Design for Coffee Production | 2019 Edition

In the Civic Media and Space Enabled groups, we are exploring new theoretical frameworks for design, and novel design education methodolo...
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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A Counting

A Counting is a series of vocal and gestural portraits of US cities' linguistic and ethnic diversity. It features calls from over 50...
Publication Research

Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes

Afsar, Ozgun Kilic, et al. "Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes." ACM CHI'21 Workshop HAA'21.
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Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
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Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar and collaborators receive Honorable Mention for paper at CSCW 2021

“Growing together, remaining apart: The role of digital technology in former guerrilla fighters’ social capital."
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Growing Together, Remaining Apart: The Role of Digital Technology in Former Guerrilla Fighters' Social Capital

Debora de Castro Leal, Max Krüger, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Amparo Caicedo, Carlos Gómez, Dave Randall, and Volker Wulf. 2021. Growing Together, Remaining Apart: The Role of Digital Technology in Former Guerrilla Fighters' Social Capital. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 331 (October 2021), 24 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3476072
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Industry Talk | Tapis Magique: a choreomusical interactive carpet

Pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet generates 3D sensor data based on body gestures, drives an immersive sonic environment
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indi...
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Fluid Expressions - Watercolor in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...
Publication Research

On-Body Energy Harvesters through Innovative Designs and Conformable Structures

Fernandez, S. V., Cai, F., Chen, S., Suh, E., Tiepelt, J., McIntosh, R., Marcus, C., Acosta, D., Mejorado, D., Dagdeviren, C.†, “On-Body Energy Harvesters Through Innovative Designs and Conformable Structures”, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00800, 2021. [Invited Review Paper for Special Issue].
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Robotic Textiles in Action: OmniFiber

AZoM talks to Ozgun Kilic Afsar, a visiting doctoral student in the Tangible Media group, about her work on the OmniFiber project.
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...
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Theme | Sleep & Dreams

We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mind. As the dreamer descends into sleep, we track different sl...
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Technologies Toolkit

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science Group proposes the Technologies Toolkit.  This research aims to translate th...
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Theme | Communication & Collaboration

Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...
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OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop str...
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The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mob...
Article Research

New fibers can make breath-regulating garments

Robotic textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing, and potentially help patients recovering from postsurgery changes
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Designing Generative Dialogue Spaces

Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has bee...
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Participatory Sensemaking

How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design output...
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Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me

Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...
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Machinoia, Machine of Multiple Me: Integrating with Past, Future, and Alternative Selves

Pataranutaporn, Pat, Valdemar Danry, and Pattie Maes. "Machinoia, Machine of Multiple Me: Integrating with Past, Future and Alternative Selves." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
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superpose - A connected experience of sound and space

The superpose installation mediates continuously changing wave phenomena within a space that are visible, audible, and react to the prese...
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Design and preliminary results of a reaction force series elastic actuator for bionic knee and ankle prostheses

M. E. Carney, T. Shu, R. Stolyarov, J. F. Duval and H. M. Herr, "Design and Preliminary Results of a Reaction Force Series Elastic Actuator for Bionic Knee and Ankle Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 542-553, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2021.3098921.
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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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Commalla: Communication for All

​Interested in learning more about the Commalla project?  Fill out this form! 
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Ubiquitous Conformable Systems for Imperceptible Computing

Fernandez, S. V., Sadat, D., Tasnim, F., Acosta, D., Schwendeman, L., Shahsavari, S., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Ubiquitous Conformable Systems for Imperceptible Computing”, Foresight, doi.org/10.1108/FS-07-2020-0067, 2021.
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Project Captivate: A wearable platform for measurement and actuation across contexts

Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world.  We've des...
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Moon Village at Biennale Architettura 2021 | Life Beyond Earth

Life Beyond Earth is a multidisciplinary project that explores advanced space architecture concepts to enable humankind to live on the Moon.
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Research resiliency through lean labs

Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely whil...
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Moon Village

In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by t...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Canan Dağdeviren: Follow your dream because life is too short to follow someone else’s

Bioengineer Canan Dağdeviren is living her dream, decoding physical patterns of the human body in order to diagnose and cure diseases.
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Venous Materials: Towards interactive, fluidic mechanisms

By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...
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Ekene Ijeoma on ‘Trying to Portray Hidden Things’

Professor Ijeoma, spoke with Evan Moffitt from Frieze about his recent group exhibition at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha.
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Tune Field

Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously...
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E-maki: XR-enabled Scroll for Interactive Museum Artifacts

E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive ex...
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PlusMinus

PlusMinus
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
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Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
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An osseointegrated prosthesis with bi-directional neural communication

Recent advancements in orthopedic implants have made way for a new generation of bionic limbs that attach directly to the skeleton. Lever...
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Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Thesis Research

Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity

MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
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Interplanetary Gastronomy

The  Interplanetary Gastronomy research  aims to address the unique challenges and opportunities associated with eating in...
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Informality Crowdsourced Database

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platfor...
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Lunar Sensor Net

We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ...
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Astronaut Ethnography

Our journeys off-world have taught us just as much about humanity as the harsh environment of space. For the past 20 years, we have had a...
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KnittedKeyboard II

Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and ...
Course Research

Decoders 1.7: Introduction to Microfabrication

Style: Individual; PersonalThis class is graded P/D/F. To pass, you must: (i) attend all the cleanroom sessions, (ii) complete the sectio...
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Explore Moon Architecture Workshop Digital FUTURES

Explore Moon ArchitectureWorkshop @Digital FUTURESNASA’s Artemis Program is envisioning a plan to drive humanity to live on our closest c...
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Experimentally Verified Finite Element Modeling and Analysis of a Conformable Piezoelectric Sensor

Amiri, N., Tasnim, F., Tavakkoli Anbarani, M., Dagdeviren, C.†, Karami, A.†, “Experimentally Verified Finite Element Modeling and Analysis of a Conformable Piezoelectric Sensor”, Smart Materials and Structures, 30 085017, 2021.
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Responsive Environments

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

Enhancing human physical capability
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With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a...
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Self Assembling Space Frames

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air?  Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self ...