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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Space Exploration Initiative
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and ...
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make...
by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Uni...
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Patchbots are sheet-form robots that are programmable on-the-fly by direct manipulation through bodily movements. The integrate...
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indi...
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Transforming data into knowledge
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
In this work, we have developed a textile-based interactive surface fabricated through machine knitting technology. Our prototype e...
Looking beyond smart cities
Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What typ...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minut...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ...
Check out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-print on arXiv. How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepF...
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with ...
OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpens...
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...
Video has evolved from an esoteric production to the default means of communication both online and as broadcast. We accept a bad or leng...
Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respirato...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is r...
There are currently UROP openings for this project. All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...
RAISE
Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.
A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...
Enhancing human physical capability
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...
PhD student Matt Groh speaks with Input Magazine’s Annie Rauwerda about his team's recent research on deepfake detection.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...
SynopsisThe class will cover a wide range of perspectives on deepfakes, from their historical ancestors through their philosophical under...
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
Afsar, Ozgun Kilic, et al. "Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes." ACM CHI'21 Workshop HAA'21.
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
Pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet generates 3D sensor data based on body gestures, drives an immersive sonic environment
C. R. Taylor, S. S. Srinivasan, S. H. Yeon, M. K. O'Donnell, T. J. Roberts, H. M. Herr, Magnetomicrometry, Sci.Robot. 6, eabg0656 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abg0656
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...
The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces.
Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop str...
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has bee...
Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and s...
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.
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.
The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the hear...
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WiStress is a system that can monitor a user’s stress passively using wireless signals. WiStress can be installed on a desk or near a cou...
Emotional arousal influences focus, attention, and decision-making, which are critical when driving. To help promote an optimal arousal l...
MetaSense: Integrating Sensing Capabilities into Mechanical Metamaterial. J. Gong*, O. Seow*, C. Honnet*, J. Forman,...