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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +19 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +26 more
Accepting Applicants
Post Research

Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a third-year PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.

Jan. 16, 2019
in Space Enabled
#agriculture #artificial intelligence #ecology +6 more
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Space Enabled

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

#design #agriculture #artificial intelligence +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Sculpting Evolution

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering

#agriculture #bioengineering #civic technology +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Post Research

This city is a classroom

Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.

Jan. 28, 2019
in Sculpting Evolution
#ecology #learning #storytelling +3 more
Research
Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +17 more
Project Research

Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar +2 more
#ecology #environment #kids +2 more
Article Research

Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science

Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.

via AP News · Nov. 8, 2018
in Responsive Environments
#virtual reality #augmented reality #ecology +2 more
Project Research

Low-Power Wireless Environmental Sensor Network

Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton
#ecology #networks #sensors
Publication Research

The Networked Sensory Landscape: Capturing and Experiencing Ecological Change Across Scales

Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.

Academic Paper, March 2018
in Responsive Environments
#ecology #networks #sensors
Post Research

Hands-On Ecology: Fostering Neuroinclusivity in STEM Education

What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (a...

Feb. 22, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#ecology #environment #kids +2 more
Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#communications #ecology #environment +4 more
Article Research

The ‘rewilding’ of a century-old cranberry bog

The alewife, a type of river herring, wriggled against the current, a 10-inch streak that disappeared from view as it rounded a bend in t...

via The New York Times · July 4, 2017
in Responsive Environments
#ecology #environment
Project Research

Secure Sharing of Wildlife Data

Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Remo Frey
#ecology #networks #privacy +5 more
Project Research

Living Observatory: Sensor Networks for Documenting and Experiencing Ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...

in Responsive Environments · Terrestrial Sensing
Glorianna Davenport · Joseph A. Paradiso +4 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #ecology +4 more
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Living Observatory Installation: A Transductive Encounter with Ecology

In the Living Observatory installation at the Other Festival, we invite participants into a transductive encounter with a wetland environ...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton +1 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #ecology +2 more
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