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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Dormio: Interfacing with dreams for creativity

Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Masque

 When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...
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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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Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
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Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a new human-computer interface for interactive media on large screens and AR/VR platforms. It utilizes voice and gestures to natur...
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Designing Robots in Mixed Reality

This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
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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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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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LuminAR

LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devi...
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Engagement with Voice-User Interface Agents

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
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Tools to Investigate Societal Impacts of Robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Can artificial intelligence create art?

Click looks at whether AI could ever create an artistic masterpiece.
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This device makes people find others more attractive by playing fake breathing sounds

Masque induces psychological changes by altering how users perceive their breathing.
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CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., ElKatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2018, July). Cityscope: a data-driven interactive simulation tool for urban design. Use case volpe. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 253-261). Springer, Cham.
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Assessment of Nerve Regeneration through a Novel Microchannel Array

B. Maimon, A. N. Zorzos, K. W. Song, R. Bendell, R. Riso, H. M. Herr
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism

Rudovic, O., Utsumi, Y., Lee, J., Hernandez, J., Castello Ferrer, E., Schuller, B., Picard, R. "CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018).
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Council on Extended Intelligence

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on ...
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CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization

Arnaud Grignard, Núria Macià, Luis Alonso Pastor, Ariel Noyman, Yan Zhang, and Kent Larson. 2018. CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 1939-1940.
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Talking Machines: Democratizing the design of voice-based agents for the home

Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
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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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Programmable Droplets receives Golden Mouse award at CHI 2018
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PerForm

“Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world.”—Oskar Fischinger, 1951.Almost 70 years ago, when...
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Ethics

Ethics
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CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...
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MIT Intelligence Quest launch: Social and emotional intelligence for human-AI collaboration

Cynthia Breazeal, MIT associate professor of media arts and sciences, describes her research on social and emotional intelligence.
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Watch water droplets dance across a surface using electricity

Cool things happen when you control water with a computer.
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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Boxie the Robot: Interactive Physical Agents for Story Gathering

How do we leverage people to make systems more intelligent, efficient, and successful? Is it worthwhile to involve people heavily in the ...
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The "Bar of Soap": Grasp-Based Interfaces

We have built several handheld devices that combine grasp and orientation sensing with pattern recognition in order to provide highly int...
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MACH: My Automated Conversation coacH

MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of...
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Digital Synesthesia

Digital Synesthesia looks to evolve the idea of human-computer interfacing and give way for human-world interacting. It aims to find a wa...
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