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Material Functionalization

When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization...
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Opera of the Future

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

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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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 th...
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study

Johnson, K.T.*, Narain, J.*, Ferguson, C., Picard, R.W., and Maes, P. The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Case Studies Track of CHI 2020). (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)
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Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Picard, R.W., Maes, P. "Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data," NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Social Good, December 2019. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)
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Commalla: Communication for All

(Note: This project was previously called ECHOS.)  Official Commalla website:  https://commallamit.wixsite.com/commal...
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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology
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Theme | Assistive Technology

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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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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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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AttentivU

AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of glasses,  which senses brain activity (electroencephal...
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SoundSignaling

Drawing inspiration from the notion of cognitive incongruence associated with Stroop's famous experiment, from musical principles, and fr...
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SpaceHuman

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
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KnittedKeyboard

Knitting is an established textile manufacturing technique that has been pervasive in the garment and technical fabrics industry. In comp...
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SensorNets

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bio...
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PCBPT

The PCB debugging could be tricky sometimes. Normally we should check which signal we want to measure in the schematic and switch to PCB ...
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Responsive Environments

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

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, chan...
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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User needs for augmentative communication interfaces

We are working on communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological s...
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Ofrenda Digital

¿Cómo puede la tecnología influir en las celebraciones culturales? //  How can technology influence cultural celebrations?Ofrenda Di...
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TRANS-DOCK

In the research realm of shape changing interfaces in human-computer interaction, a variety of pin-based shape display designs have been ...
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Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...
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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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Tangible Media

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

Living Bits : Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Living Microorganisms in Human-Computer InteractionThere are trillions of livi...
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bioLogic—Science Advances

Cells’ biomechanical responses to external stimuli have been intensively studied but rarely implemented into devices that interact w...
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WraPr: Spool-Based Fabrication for Object Creation and Modification

In this work, we propose a novel fabrication method for 3D objects based on the principle of spooling. By wrapping off-the-shelf material...
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Programmable Droplets

​State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...
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inTouch

inTouch explores new forms of interpersonal communication through touch. Force-feedback technology is employed to create the illusion tha...
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Deep Reality: An underwater VR experience to promote relaxation by unconscious HR, EDA, and brain activity biofeedback

We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We mon...
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Prototyping Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms

Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Yu Tianyu, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2020. Prototyping Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 881–884. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3374920.3374967
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Byte.it

Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-fre...
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PerForm

PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for interaction based o...
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Tales from Virtuality – Research under quarantine at the MIT Media Lab

Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
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Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
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DoppelLab: Experiencing multimodal sensor data

Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensiv...
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On-Face Olfactory Interfaces

On-face wearables are currently limited to piercings, tattoos, or interactive makeup that aesthetically enhances the user, and ...
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Wearable Wisdom

Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pe...
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Crowdsourcing the detection and evaluation of misinformation

This strand of work seeks to develop new interventions to reduce the spread of information, and deploy those interventions towards a crow...
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Empathic GPS

Emotional arousal influences focus, attention, and decision-making, which are critical when driving. To help promote an optimal arousal l...
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Sunny

Sunny is a Facebook messenger chatbot by Monique Davey, Jaya Narain, and Tina Quach that promotes wellbeing by strengthening connections ...
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Let's Chance: Playful Probabilistic Programming for Children

Probabilistic thinking has been one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science, and it is rapidly gaining even more relevance a...
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Meet the 2018 LEGO Papert Fellows

2018 marks the second cohort of the LEGO Papert Fellowship program, which honors the legacy of educational-technology pioneer Seymour Papert
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Jamming to Knitting, Music to Machines: Bringing interdisciplinary research to the manufacturing ecosystem

Here's my take on the future of textiles, as well as the connection between research and manufacturing.
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ETH Zurich at the WEF – RETHINKING Creativity

KnittedKeyboard at ETH Rethinking Creativity Pavilion
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SoapCam

SoapCam is a WIP Human Computer Interaction system that motivates proper hand washing routines."Hand hygiene is the most important measur...
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PopBots: An early childhood AI curriculum

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
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Proxymix: Influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration

Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at t...
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Fluid Interfaces researchers and David Kong win Best Paper Award at Augmented Humans International Conference

Congratulations to Pat Pataranutaporn, Angela Vujic, David Kong, Pattie Maes, and Misha Sra!
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LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modula...
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JoyBranch

The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment.  Animal agency—con...
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The Deep Image of the City

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...