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In 2013, bioengineer Wen Wang, then a research scientist at MIT, attended a talk on how Bacillus spores shrink in response to falling rel...
Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
From sci-fi to the real world: DuoSkin's temporary tattoos turn your body into an interface.
This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...
Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...
DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...
È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.
In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Judith Amores and Pattie Maes. 2017. Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, Denver, CO, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026004
The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
We collaborated with NIAS (National Institute of Agricultural Science) to genetically engineer silkworms to develop new kinds of silk for...
Makeup has long been used as a body decoration process for self-expression and for the transformation of one's appearance. While the mate...
NailO is a wearable input device in the form of a commercialized nail art sticker. It works as a miniaturized trackpad the size and thick...
March 17, 2017 - MIT Media Lab's DuoSkin won the SciFi No Longer prize at the 2017 SXSW Innovation Awards.
DuoSkin is a winner of the 2017 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards.
Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
This project investigates soft mechanisms, origami, and fashion. We created a modified Miura-fold skirt that changes shape through pneuma...
This project steps beyond data visualizations to create data experiences. It aims to engage not only the analytic mind, but also the arti...
Fablur explores the limit of the self in its relationship to others through the medium of clothing. The augmented gown uses a rear dome p...