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Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Advancing Wellbeing
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Enhancing human physical capability
PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for a form of interacti...
Looking beyond smart cities
Nataliya Kos’myna is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the MIT Media Lab, helping MITili evaluate the real-time biofeedback of learners
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic computation and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well...
ML Learning
Celebrating Hiroshi Ishii's mentorship and groundbreaking research
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement
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...
Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-fre...
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 is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
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...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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 ...
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
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Transforming data into knowledge
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.
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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.
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...
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...
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...
APOPS was presented at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab in Aug 2018. The slides from that presentation can be found below.
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...