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Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
Can you ever be what you say and say what you are?Can your speech genuinely represent yourself and convey your thoughts and meaning?Does y…
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Society of Craft about his work, which blends engineering with fabric arts.
Seasons Change Together is a collaborative song construction experience for multiple simultaneous participants. It represents a first …
Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs that together provide a collaborative musical narrative experience in the form of a multipl…
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
As we know from our ‘maker’ classes and workshops, different capabilities and approaches can yield remarkable projects. Let’s facilitate a …
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…
In this work, we have developed a textile-based interactive surface fabricated through machine knitting technology. Our prototype exp…
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way to …
Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously e…
E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive expe…
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)
"How can architects/urban developers use technology to foster the human/nature connection and improve our lives?" Glorianna Davenport
Mor, Hila, Ken Nakagaki, et al. "Venous Materials : Towards Interactive Fluidic Mechanisms." CHI '20, Honolulu, HI, USA, April 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376129
Su, D. (2019). Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.