Looking beyond smart cities

Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...

CityMatrix - An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThesis CitationZhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decis...

AlterEgo is a closed-loop, non-invasive, wearable system that allows humans to converse in high-bandwidth natural language with mach...

The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that al...

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...

Designing for, with, and by nature

Inventing the next-generation mobile device—highly personalized, wearable, and immersive—to support our unique needs and goals

ML Learning

OUR DREAM IS A SCI-FI FUTURE, WHERE DREAMS ARE CONTROLLABLE.We are working on building technology that interfaces with the sleeping mind....

Creating technology for social change

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

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...

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Components ...

Advancing Wellbeing

FingerReader, a wearable interface that uses audio and haptic feedback to enhance the reading experience, was selected for a 2017 Go...

Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...

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

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

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

How can we add the missing 'T' and 'E' in preschool STEAM education?

Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with t...

Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...

A large portion of the chemical and biological processes underlying our everyday experience remains imperceptible to us. Be it the conten...

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...

This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...

Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a si...

Viirj Kan, Emma Vargo, Noa Machover, Hiroshi Ishii, Serena Pan, Weixuan Chen, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2017. Organic Primitives: Synthesis and Design of pH-Reactive Materials using Molecular I/O for Sensing, Actuation, and Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 989-1000. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025952

Enhancing human physical capability

As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...

Seamlessly blend what you live with what you learn: mixed reality as a platform for language- learning “serendipitously in the wild."

An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."The Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter universe uses UltraWide Band transmitters and receive...

From sci-fi to the real world: DuoSkin's temporary tattoos turn your body into an interface.

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...

The Reality Editor is a web browser for the physical world: Point your phone or tablet at a physical object and an interface pops up with...

Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...

Judith Amores and Pattie Maes. 2017. Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, Denver, CO, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026004

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

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...

Pillow-Talk is a set of connected objects intended to assist in the capture and recall digitally stored dreams and memories via natural a...

DIVE is a new data exploration  platform that enables users to build rich stories from any dataset using just a few clicks. By combi...

We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, an...