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Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Do you hear the sound of a breath, or an ocean wave? A heartbeat, or thunder? Journey through a universe of shifting sonic identities …
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Leong, Joanne, et al. "Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
This work was presented at the ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and…
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
In a study presented at CHI 2023, Media Lab alumni used Pringles & audio filters to explore the intersection of sound, flavor, & perception.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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 p…
We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict w…
PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for interaction based on …
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
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and national…
We only perceive a tiny sliver of the world around us. We are constrained by what our senses can process. These senses evolved to react to …
Can a magician and a robot collaborate on stage to create a believable, evocative performance?We are studying how the …
Elisa Celis, Peter Krafft, and Nathan Kobe. (2016). Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
In a study of human perception of music in relation to different representations of video graphics, this project explores the automatic syn…