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Tangible Media

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +29 more
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Signal Kinetics

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

#robotics #artificial intelligence #communications +16 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#artificial intelligence #food #health +8 more
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #computer vision +47 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...

in Fluid Interfaces
Arnav Kapur · Pattie Maes
#design #human-machine interaction #wearable computing +3 more
Post Research

Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.

Dec. 19, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
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Social Computing

Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments

#design #art #environment +8 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Project Research

Reality Editor 2.0

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...

in Fluid Interfaces
Benjamin Reynolds · Pattie Maes +1 more
#augmented reality #interfaces #internet of things
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Project Research

Wireless Communication from Underwater to the Air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Junsu Jang +1 more
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
Project Research

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

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

in City Science · City Science Network
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #cryptocurrency +9 more
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Project Research

Reality Editor

The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...

in Fluid Interfaces
James Hobin · Pattie Maes +2 more
#augmented reality #consumer electronics #interfaces +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

RePose

Sleep is perhaps the most critical human activity for well-being, but seldom receives the priority it deserves. We get less rest than we ...

in Tangible Media · Advancing Wellbeing
Hiroshi Ishii · Daniel Fitzgerald
#robotics #design #virtual reality +6 more
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Zensei: Embedded, Multi-Electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition

We introduce Zensei, an implicit sensing system that leverages bio-sensing, signal processing, and machine learning to classify uninstrum...

in Camera Culture
Munehiko Sato · Rohan Puri +2 more
#human-machine interaction #interfaces #member company +1 more
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Publication Research

Zensei: Embedded, Multi-electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition

Munehiko Sato, Rohan S. Puri, Alex Olwal, Yosuke Ushigome, Lukas Franciszkiewicz, Deepak Chandra, Ivan Poupyrev, and Ramesh Raskar. 2017. Zensei: Embedded, Multi-electrode Bioimpedance Sensing for Implicit, Ubiquitous User Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3972-3985.

Academic Paper, May 2017
in Camera Culture
#human-machine interaction #interfaces #member company +1 more
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RoomScope

RoomScope is an immersive real-time architectural sensor visualization using Microsoft HoloLens.

in Changing Places
Honghao Deng
#augmented reality #internet of things
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