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Project Research

Living Knitwork Pavilion

​2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Irmandy Wicaksono · Manaswi Mishra +5 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Project Research

Peristaltic Suit

​Prolonged exposure to microgravity is known to cause various acute health risks, including muscle atrophy, bone loss, cardiovascular decon…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Ali Shtarbanov +2 more
#robotics #data #wearable computing +6 more
Article Research

The Loh Down on Science: Skin Deep

On "The Loh Down on Science," host Sandra Tsing Loh reports on research from the Conformable Decoders group.

via NPR · July 19, 2023
in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
#bioengineering #health #wearable computing +3 more
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +66 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Space Enabled

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

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +57 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +40 more
Accepting Applicants
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +73 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Kathleen Esfahany · Eyal Perry +6 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +19 more
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +69 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing

#robotics #design #virtual reality +47 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +46 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +58 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in

#robotics #design #social networks +71 more
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Project Research

OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…

in Tangible Media · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hila Mor +5 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +10 more
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Project Research

Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters: Mechanically Invisible Human Dynamos

Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …

in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Canan Dagdeviren
#bioengineering #energy #health +3 more
Project Research

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…

in Space Enabled · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Javier Stober
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Project Research

Theme | Sleep + Dreams

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez +5 more
#design #wearable computing #interfaces +3 more
Project Research

3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #art +22 more
Project Research

Conformable Ultrasound Patch (cUFP) For Cavitation-Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery

Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …

in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Aastha Shah · Chia-Chen Yu +3 more
#design #bioengineering #consumer electronics +8 more
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Project Research

Envirome Monitoring with CRISPR Biosensors

In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative · Open Ocean
Devora Najjar
#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Wearable Lab on Body

Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indivi…

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Pat Pataranutaporn · Abhinandan Jain +2 more
#health #wearable computing #sensors +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston
#design #architecture #consumer electronics +14 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

H0TP0T

By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food pr…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
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 task…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +13 more
Archived
Archived
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 the …

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

Self Assembling Space Frames

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air?  Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self As…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Che-Wei Wang
#robotics #design #architecture +14 more
Archived
Archived
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Harmony in Precarity

By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to explo…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
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Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communication (MOSAIC)

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Antenn…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
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Moving Liquids With No Moving Parts

Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propellan…

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

Ø-scillation: oscillating chemistry in zero gravity and beyond

How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar me…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Carson Smuts +5 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

AgriFuge

By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activities …

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
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Panspermia

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surviv…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
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Archived
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SpaceHuman 2.0

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

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +16 more
Archived
Archived
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ELI: Electronic Life-detection Instrument

Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial G…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
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Archived
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The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during …

in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
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Project Research

Cyber Biome

CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Pattie Maes · David S. Kong +1 more
#bioengineering #wearable computing #biology +1 more
Research
Conformable Decoders

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

#robotics #design #computer vision +45 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Feet on Earth, head in the stars

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.

via MIT Technology Review · Aug. 22, 2023
in Director's Office · Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces +4 more
#robotics #architecture #environment +9 more
Article Research

"Dream glove" boosts creativity during sleep

In a new study, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School find that brief naps can enhance creativity

via Science · May 15, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#human-computer interaction #cognition #neurobiology +4 more
Article Research

Does dream inception work?

Using Dormio, a project from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group, poet Will Dowd set out to pioneer a new reading experience.

via Nautilus · June 14, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#art #cognition #storytelling +2 more
Article Research

Wearable patch can painlessly deliver drugs through the skin

Using ultrasonic waves that propel drug molecules into the skin, the patch could be used to treat a variety of skin conditions.

via MIT News · April 19, 2023
in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
#health #wearable computing #technology +2 more
Article Research

ACM ByteCast: Pattie Maes

On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.

via Association for Computing Machinery · June 1, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +4 more
Article Research

Canan Dağdeviren: “Follow your dream because life is too short to follow someone else’s”

Canan Dağdeviren, head of the Conformable Decoders research group, discusses her time at the MIT Media Lab and where her research is headed.

via Advanced Science News · Sept. 24, 2021
in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
#bioengineering #health #wearable computing +3 more
Article Research

Here's how to use dreams for creative inspiration

Researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School find that brief naps appear to enhance creativity.

via Scientific American · May 15, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#human-computer interaction #cognition #neurobiology +4 more
Article Research

Want to control your electronics with your tongue? This company is making that happen

Media Lab alum Tomás Vega talks to ZDNet about MouthPad, a Bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece that enables hands-free control of digital devices.

via ZDNet · May 13, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Spinoffs · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
#bioengineering #wearable computing #alumni +1 more
Article Research

Virtual reality system lets you stop and smell the roses

Media Lab alum Judith Amores talks to Scientific American about a lightweight, wireless interface to deliver scents to VR users.

via Scientific American · May 9, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
#virtual reality #augmented reality #health +4 more
Article Research

MIT graduate develops hands-free tongue-controlled computer interface

7NEWS talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Tomás Vega and his Augmental co-founder Corten Singer about their bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece.

via 7NEWS · April 25, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Spinoffs · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
#bioengineering #wearable computing #alumni +1 more
Research
Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +72 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Affective Computing

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

#robotics #design #social networks +57 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of gla…

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #augmented reality #health +8 more
Article Research

Irmandy Wicaksono on the Create The Future podcast

Irmandy Wicaksono from the Media Lab's Response Environments group discusses innovations and ancient wisdoms to be found in arts & crafts.

via Create The Future · Feb. 17, 2023
in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#design #art #wearable computing +3 more
Article Research

Behind the veil of hypnagogic sleep

Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz discusses using “dream engineering” techniques to give people more control over their dreams.

via Harvard Medicine · Feb. 3, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#art #cognition #health +4 more
Research
Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #social networks +76 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Microgravity Extrusion

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

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

The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
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Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

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

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people

#robotics #design #virtual reality +63 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Personal Robots

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +72 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Targeted Dream Incubation

Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…

in Fluid Interfaces
Kathleen Esfahany · Ishaan Grover +6 more
#human-computer interaction #art #cognition +11 more
Article Research

Meet mouthpad^, a mouthpiece with trackpad that fully controls devices using tongue

Spinoff Augmental announces The MouthPad^, a custom-fit 3D-printed mouthpiece that lets users control digital devices hands-free.

via Designboom · April 19, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Spinoffs
#wearable computing #biomechanics #human augmentation
Article Research

Startup Creates Mouthpiece for Controlling Devices with Your Tongue

The device converts the user's tongue position and pressure into cursor actions by processing signals through a machine-learning algorithm.

via Manufacturing Business Technology · April 18, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Spinoffs
#wearable computing #sensors #human augmentation
Article Research

Podcast: Tales from the metaverse, high energy physics and deep electronics

Joe Paradiso talks to host Susan Kish about high-energy physics, wearables, electronic music, science fiction, and the metaverse.

via We Are ETH · April 21, 2023
in Responsive Environments
#music #wearable computing #sensors
Research
Opera of the Future

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

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +67 more
Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +18 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Cocoon: Speculative Dream Engineering

Cocoon is our vision of a programmable dream machine from the future. This device would be enabled by the synthesis of many devices under d…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Adam Haar Horowitz +1 more
#design #wearable computing #interfaces +1 more
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Publication Research

Frisson: Leveraging Metasomatic Interactions for Generating Aesthetic Chills

Jain, A., Schoeller, F., Zhang, E., & Maes, P. (2022, November). Frisson: Leveraging Metasomatic Interactions for Generating Aesthetic Chills. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 148-158).

Academic Paper, Nov. 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +1 more
Publication Research

Modulating Interoceptive Signals for Influencing the Conscious Experience

Academic Paper, March 2023
in Fluid Interfaces
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +2 more
Article Research

Are brain implants the future of computing?

The Economist reports on the future of brain-computer interfaces, including work being done by researcher Nataliya Kosmyna.

via Youtube · Dec. 15, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #computer science #technology +1 more
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