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Article Research

He sold his mental-health startup to Airbnb, then relaunched it as a nonprofit with a bigger mission

As a graduate student at MIT, Rob Morris struggled with mental health. Today, he wants to make it easier for others to find help online.

via Fast Company · June 22, 2022
in Affective Computing · Media Lab Spinoffs
#health #technology #public health
Project Research

Microgravity Hybrid Extrusion

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gra...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Sean Auffinger +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Article Research

Reimagining public health infrastructure in the 21st century

A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.

via The Boston Globe · Sept. 22, 2021
in Community Biotechnology
#technology #public health #covid19
Research
Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +49 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...

in Community Biotechnology
David S. Kong · Desiree Dudley
#health #member company #technology +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...

in Civic Media
Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +8 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Archived
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +65 more
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +66 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Helping dairy farmers raise healthy cows

Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.

via MIT News · June 3, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#agriculture #food #health +3 more
Article Research

Ayah Bdeir on design, engineering and activism

Ayah Bdeir on her journey from Lebanon to MIT Media Lab, and why she started littleBits.

via Danielle Newnham Podcast · May 10, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#kids #creativity #technology +3 more
Article Research

Inaugural Day of AI brings new digital literacy to classrooms worldwide

Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.

via MIT News · June 1, 2022
in RAISE
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +11 more
Project Research

The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel Bellisle

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Article Research

MIT Media Lab trials modular tiles that self-assemble into "entirely novel type of space architecture"

Ariel Ekblaw talks about the TESSERAE project, which was tested on the Space Station during the recent Axiom Space AX-1 mission.

via Dezeen · May 27, 2022
in Space Exploration Initiative
#architecture #space #technology
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +12 more
Research
Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +44 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sanjana Sharma
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +36 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Creative Learning Design Tools

While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing exper...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Yusuf Ahmad
#design #kids #learning +3 more
Archived
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +29 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

#robotics #design #architecture +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle

#robotics #design #architecture +10 more
Research
Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +18 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Publication Research

Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-Art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations

Shuvo, I. I., Shah, A., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations”, https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100223, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4, 2100223, 2022.

Academic Paper, Jan. 2022
in Conformable Decoders
#design #bioengineering #biology +5 more
Project Research

Zenolith - An Interplanetary Time Device

On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of th...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sands Fish · Che-Wei Wang +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Article Research

AI-generated characters are here, they’re just not evenly distributed

The Fluid Interfaces group + NTT DATA hosted Virtual Beings + Being Virtual, a workshop exploring positive uses of AI-generated characters

via Forbes · April 15, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#virtual reality #artificial intelligence #member company +1 more
Project Research

SpaceHuman 2.0

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +16 more
Research
Camera Culture

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

#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agen...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Minoo Rathnasabapathy
#environment #health #politics +7 more
Project Research

Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me

Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +1 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +3 more
Archived
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +39 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +38 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

KnittedKeyboard

In this work, we have developed  a textile-based interactive surface fabricated through machine knitting technology. Our prototype e...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +9 more
Archived
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +26 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Ariel Ekblaw talks about leading the Space Exploration Initiative, self-assembling space architecture, science fiction, + long-term thinking

via Lex Fridman podcast · April 6, 2022
in Space Exploration Initiative
#architecture #space #technology
Research
Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +61 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...

in Personal Robots
Safinah Arshad Ali · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Post Research

Xiao Xiao wins second place in the 2022 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

For the project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin. Congratulations!

March 25, 2022
in Object-Based Media · Opera of the Future · Tangible Media
#art #music #creativity +2 more
Project Research

MM-RT

MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce so...

in Opera of the Future
Akito Oshiro van Troyer
#art #music #creativity +2 more
Project Research

BubbleSynth: Soap to Sound

BubbleSynth translates motion tracking and blob detection data collected from floating soap bubbles into sound, by using the size, positi...

Daniel Novy
#art #music #creativity +2 more
Article Research

MIT clean tech companies to watch

Explore a few of the clean tech startups begun by MIT researchers and alumni, including Media Lab spinoffs Graviky Labs and Stable Auto.

via MIT Sloan School of Management · March 3, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#environment #technology #alumni +1 more
Project Research

Reconfigurable space structures

Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific ta...

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +13 more
Research
Tangible Media

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#social networks #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +25 more
Article Research

The New Rules of Data Privacy

Hossein Rahnama, a visiting professor at the Media Lab, and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland explore the new rules of data privacy.

via Harvard Business Review · Feb. 25, 2022
in Human Dynamics
#data #privacy #technology +1 more
Article Research

Xiao Xiao, PhD: Creative Technologist, MIT

Alum and research affiliate Xiao Xiao talks to “I Am a Scientist” about her work, which merges science with art.

via I Am a Scientist · Feb. 25, 2022
in Tangible Media
#art #creativity #technology +1 more
Project Research

AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project.  All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #augmented reality #health +6 more
Project Research

Peristaltic Suit

It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Ali Shtarbanov +1 more
#robotics #data #wearable computing +6 more
Research
RAISE

RAISE

#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +10 more
Project Research

How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, studen...

in Personal Robots
Blakeley H. Payne · Safinah Arshad Ali +3 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +3 more
Article Research

Study: Digital literacy doesn’t stop the spread of misinformation

Digital literacy helps people identify misinformation — but it doesn’t necessarily stop them from spreading it.

via MIT Sloan School of Management · Jan. 5, 2022
in Human Dynamics
#communications #social media #technology
Article Research

MIT Startup Exchange: Creating powerful synergies

The MIT Startup Exchange hosts events + arranges introductions that can lead to opportunities for emerging companies like ML spinoff Tulip.

via MIT News · Jan. 20, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#technology #alumni #industry +1 more
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.

via McKinsey & Company · Jan. 13, 2022
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +5 more
Research
Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Q&A: Dolapo Adedokun on computer technology, Ireland, and all that jazz

MIT EECS student and Mitchell Scholar hopes to play music in Dublin while working on his MS in intelligent systems.

via MIT News · Jan. 11, 2022
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#entertainment #music #computer science +2 more
Article Research

The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence explored at TEDxMIT event

MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.

via MIT News · Jan. 11, 2022
in Camera Culture
#artificial intelligence #data #health +6 more
Research
Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +63 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #genetics +15 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...

in Fluid Interfaces
Camilo Rojas · Gaurav Patekar +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #banking and finance +6 more
Article Research

Gramophone reviews Tod Machover's Death and the Powers

Gramophone contributor Laurence Vittes spotlights Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers,” an opera about robots and humans.

via Gramophone · Jan. 3, 2022
in Opera of the Future
#robotics #music #technology
Project Research

Regional Technology Co-Creation and Transfer Ecosystems in Latin America

🚨Application to the 2022 Co-Design Experience here bit.ly/codesign2022 🚨Historically, the term technology transfer has been ass...

in Space Enabled
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar · Danielle Wood
#design #civic technology #technology +1 more
Article Research

Better democracy through technology

Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.

via MIT Technology Review · Dec. 17, 2021
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#social networks #civic technology #government +4 more
Article Research

Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.

via MIT News · Dec. 15, 2021
in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#social networks #civic technology #social media +3 more
Article Research

Harmonix keeps innovating, with lasting impact

The MIT spinout has been releasing iconic video games for more than 25 years.

via MIT News · Dec. 14, 2021
in Opera of the Future · Media Lab Spinoffs
#entertainment #gaming #music +4 more
Project Research

Living Observatory: Sensor networks for documenting and experiencing ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...

in Terrestrial Sensing · Responsive Environments
Glorianna Davenport · Joseph A. Paradiso +4 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #data +6 more
Article Research

What does it take to fool Penn and Teller?

Affective Computing alum Seth Raphael talks to Slice of MIT about his career, and how he uses and creates tech-based magic to inspire people

via Slice of MIT · Dec. 1, 2021
in Affective Computing
#creativity #technology #alumni
Article Research

Butlr Closes $7.9M Seed Funding for Breakthrough People-Sensing Platform

Butlr's people-sensing platform uses body heat to provide actionable spatial insights for the built environment.

via Business Wire · July 15, 2021
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#environment #sensors #technology +2 more
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