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Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections
From sci-fi to the real world: DuoSkin's temporary tattoos turn your body into an interface.
This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...
The Mediated Atmospheres project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work e...
Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project is the result of a collaboration between MIT...
DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...
Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...
Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...
Combining tattoos and biotech to create biosensing ink that could one day give us information about our health via our skin.
The wearable uses automated machine learning to pick up changes.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
Machine Learning and Humanoid Robots for Measuring Engagement of Children with AutismEngageME is a project aimed at building a new techno...
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
Makeup has long been used as a body decoration process for self-expression and for the transformation of one's appearance. While the mate...
We present CAPS, wearable on-body capsules which produce repulsive odor to deter sexual abuse. The capsules can be triggered by self...
NailO is a wearable input device in the form of a commercialized nail art sticker. It works as a miniaturized trackpad the size and thick...
March 17, 2017 - MIT Media Lab's DuoSkin won the SciFi No Longer prize at the 2017 SXSW Innovation Awards.
DuoSkin is a winner of the 2017 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards.
We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, an...
Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A. and Shmueli, E., 2016 The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, pp.33-41
Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A., & Shmueli, E. (2016). Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change. PloS one, 11(3), e0151588. Chicago
Fluxa is a compact wearable device that exploits body movements, as well as the visual effects of persistence of vision (POV), ...
Center for Extreme Bionics
CE 2.0
How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences. Walter Bender is currently on leave.
How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we fou...
Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children. The skills required to diagnose it make it an even greater concern. Our solutio...
We are performing long-term measurements of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity on patients with epilepsy. In certain cases, autonomi...