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Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
When contemplating the future of life in space, we dream not only of rockets and off-world societies, but also of art, of leisure, and fr...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
C. R. Taylor, H. G. Abramson, and H. M. Herr, “Low-Latency Tracking of Multiple Permanent Magnets,” IEEE Sensors Journal, pp. 1–11, 2019.
The Gamma SENSE (Sensory Engaging Nebulised Scent Experience) is a pioneering instrumental addition to the gamma instrument series. The d...
Looking beyond smart cities
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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 ...
Bird is a hand-controlled pointing system that translates a user's finger movements and positions into the motion of a 3D pointer in a vi...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
[Update 09/12/2019: This project has two open positions for UROPs/visiting students or interns. One position focuses around electrical en...
AttentivU and AlterEgo received honorable mentions in the Experimental category.
PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for interaction based o...
Enhancing human physical capability
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Transforming data into knowledge
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-fre...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
ML Learning
Advancing Wellbeing
Nataliya Kos’myna is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the MIT Media Lab, helping MITili evaluate the real-time biofeedback of learners
In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well...
Celebrating Hiroshi Ishii's mentorship and groundbreaking research
Valentin Heun describes his work with the PTC Reality Lab to transform factory operations by using augmented reality.
For people who can’t speak out loud due to illness or injury, AlterEgo might return their ability to communicate in real time.
Core77 reports on the Fluid Interfaces group’s work in cyborg botany.
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
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...
Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communicati...
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Our dream is a sci-fi future, where dreams are controllable. We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mi...
Having good mentors and role models is important for personal growth. Knowledge, advice, and inspiration from people a person admires can...
Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...
The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that al...
Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change b...
The vision of pervasive computing is now mainstream. These connected devices permeate every aspect of our lives. Yet, we remain tethered ...
HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weigh...
This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the wa...
What can seamless human-computer interfaces do for humanity?
Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
We are creating consumer-grade appliances and authoring methodologies that will allow hallucinatory phenomena to be programmed and utiliz...
Kyung Yun Choi, Darle Shinsato, Shane Zhang, Ken Nakagaki, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2018. reMi: Translating Ambient Sounds of Moment into Tangible and Shareable Memories through Animated Paper. In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings (UIST '18 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 84-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266109
Translating ambient sounds of moment into tangible and shareable memories through animated paperWe present a tangible memory notebook—reM...
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Designing for, with, and by nature
Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...
While plants at first glance look like static things, they are in fact very busy transmitting bio-electrochemical signals.
Bernal, Guillermo, et al. "PhysioHMD: a conformable, modular toolkit for collecting physiological data from head-mounted displays." Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. ACM, 2018.
Connected Coral integrates physical and digital elements in a visualization of the environmental impacts on reefs. This complex projectio...
Receptive Skins envisions a living building that silently interacts with air and temperature
With advances in virtual reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication through l...
Bernal, Guillermo, and Pattie Maes. "Emotional Beasts: Visually Expressing Emotions through Avatars in VR." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...