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Project Research

Zero Gravity Cookbook

The human experience of food extends far beyond that of mere nourishment. Debriefs with astronauts tell us that food is a key, creat...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #food #health +2 more
Project Research

CityScope Cooper Hewitt

We are at the dawn of a mobility revolution, where autonomous vehicles will replace cars controlled by humans. We can imagine this develo...

in City Science
Gabriela Advincula · Yan Zhang +10 more
Project Research

Thinking Cap

Peoples' mindset, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on task...

Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#kids #learning #wearable computing +2 more
Project Research

The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +2 more
#civic technology #economy #urban planning +4 more
Project Research

Flavor, environment, and the phenome

Flavor, in addition to making our food delicious, is a way of sensing biochemical richness. A highly flavorful plant generally contains a...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
John de la Parra · Rebekah Carlson +1 more
#agriculture #food
Project Research

Food Server

The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydropo...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Daniel Poitrast +4 more
#agriculture #machine learning
Project Research

Open Water Data

The Open Water Data project explores data physicalization as a path to community engagement and action on important environmental issues....

in Object-Based Media
Laura Perovich
Project Research

Computer Vision and Machine Learning

This project aims to bridge the current gap between controlled-environment agriculture and the computer vision and robotics fields. The i...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Rob Baynes
#robotics #artificial intelligence #machine learning
Project Research

OpenAg EDU

Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
David Zack · Caleb Harper +2 more
#environment #learning
Project Research

Open Phenome Project

The aim of this project is to create an open source digital library with open data sets that cross link phenotypic response in plant...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Tim Savas +2 more
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +4 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +10 more
Project Research

Tree Computer

The OpenAg™ Tree Computer is a Food Computer built to explore plant stress, health, longevity, and productivity across a wide r...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Alexander Auerbach · Daniel Poitrast +6 more
#agriculture
Project Research

Civic Entertainment

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Anushka Shah · Ethan Zuckerman
#civic media #communications #entertainment +3 more
Project Research

Designing social robots for older adults

Most countries are projected to see their 65 and older population surpass the number of people under the age of 15 by 2050. The...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #design #human-machine interaction +4 more
Project Research

Research Area | Novel Ethical and Explainable Artificial Intelligence based Digital Medicines and Treatments

We have described validation of novel machine learning architectures for designing faster, safer, and more efficacious digital medicines ...

#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +9 more
Project Research

Research Area | Point-of-Care Medical Technologies for Real World Data and Evidence Generation to Improve Public Health

Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative&nbs...

in Health 0.0
#bioengineering #developing countries #sensors +7 more
Project Research

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores the various modes of creativity that can be enabled by artificial intelligence.A fair amount of current research ha...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#art #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +1 more
Project Research

Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microg...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Christine Joseph
#politics #space #technology
Project Research

The Science of AI Research

We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...

in Scalable Cooperation
Morgan Ryan Frank · Manuel Cebrian +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #computer science +3 more
Project Research

Orbit Weaver

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu
#design #art #performance +2 more
Project Research

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...

in Human Dynamics
Kent Larson · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +3 more
#robotics #networks #urban planning +3 more
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TurboTrack: 3D Backscatter Localization for Fine-Grained Robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-cent...

in Signal Kinetics
Yunfei Ma · Fadel Adib +1 more
#robotics #computer science #technology +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: a Translational Perspective

Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data sources, the comput...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah · Francis Kendall
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +5 more
Project Research

Research Area | Medical Imaging Technologies Using Unorthodox Artificial Intelligence for Early Disease Diagnoses

Our published research findings listed below share key examples for reducing dependence on specialized medical devices, biological &...

in Health 0.0
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

Augmentative Communication Interfaces

We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...

in Fluid Interfaces
Jaya Narain
#design #human-computer interaction #health +1 more
Project Research

How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences

Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorde...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Ignacio Jara Figueroa · Amy Yu +1 more
#social science #social change #history
Project Research

Where's Pedro?

An 85-inch television screen combined with 8K resolution provides a tool through which multiple users can perform quick, highly detailed,...

in Object-Based Media
Pedro Colon-Hernandez
Project Research

The 8K Data Manipulator

The 8K Data Manipulator is a Unity game engine application which harnesses the gesture recognition and limb tracking available through Mi...

in Object-Based Media
Pedro Colon-Hernandez
Project Research

Hover

We designed, implemented, and tested a proof of concept, wrist-based wearable object identification system which allows users to “hover” ...

in Object-Based Media
Pedro Colon-Hernandez
Project Research

The Guardians

The Guardians Project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile game platforms to create greater engagement with individ...

in Affective Computing
Sara Taylor · Craig Ferguson +2 more
#data #entertainment #health +1 more
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Measuring and Reducing Social Segregation in Cities

We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in citie...

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Xiaowen Dong +1 more
#urban planning #social science #social change
Project Research

City Science Lab Shanghai

Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform fo...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Yan Zhang +8 more
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AttentivU

AttentivU helps you to stay attentive and engaged with your current task. It provides haptic feedback when it detects that you have a low...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#health #neurobiology #wearable computing +2 more
Project Research

Micronauts

Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...

in Object-Based Media · Open Ocean
Caroline Rozendo
#art #augmented reality #environment +2 more
Project Research

LeakyPhones

LeakyPhones is a public/private headset that was designed to encourage face-to-face interactions, curiosity, and healthier ...

in Fluid Interfaces · Tangible Media
Amos Golan · Hiroshi Ishii +1 more
#design #communications #music +3 more
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City Science Network

in City Science
Kent Larson · Ronan Doorley +9 more
#human-computer interaction
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City Science Lab Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#design #architecture #data +12 more
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Andorra | Tourism

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.With more than eight million visitors a year, tourism represents almost 30% of the eco...

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Ronan Doorley +6 more
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

in City Science
Guadalupe Babio Fernandez · Ariel Noyman +6 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

ArtBoat

​ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. ...

in Object-Based Media
Laura Perovich
#art #environment #community
Project Research

Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
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CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...

in City Science
Yan Zhang · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #transportation +2 more
Project Research

Reversed Urbanism

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Ronan Doorley +4 more
#data #networks #urban planning +1 more
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Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2019

ATENÇÃO: Saiu o resultado do Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2019! Clique aqui para conhecer os fellows e o...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Leo Burd
Project Research

SensorKnits: Architecting textile sensors with machine knitting

Digital machine knitting is a highly programmable manufacturing process that has been utilized to produce apparel, accessories, and footw...

in Responsive Environments · Synthetic Neurobiology · Tangible Media
Jifei Ou · Don Derek Haddad +3 more
#design #manufacturing #wearable computing
Project Research

Investigating Provenance in Pacific Island Fisheries

Fisheries in the Pacific Islands operate in an opaque market where an auditing tool built on a distributed ledger would be beneficial to ...

in Viral Communications
Oceane Boulais
Project Research

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...

in ML Learning
Lydia Guterman · Katherine McConachie +3 more
#agriculture #data #learning +3 more
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CivicLink

CivicLink is a self-hosted platform geared towards internal community organizers that aims to leverage community physical co-presence. Ci...

in Viral Communications
Sam Posner · Oceane Boulais +2 more
#networks #politics #transportation +2 more
Project Research

Boycott!

A web browser extension that reveals less well-known aspects of corporate public behavior such as environmental respect and political bia...

in Viral Communications
David Anderton · Andrew Lippman
#civic technology
Project Research

SuperGlue

SuperGlue is a core news research initiative that is a "digestion system" and metadata generator for mass media. An evolving set of analy...

in Viral Communications · Ultimate Media
Mike Hao Jiang · Andrew Lippman +2 more
Project Research

jamSheets: Interacting with Thin Stiffness-Changing Material

This project introduces layer jamming as an enabling technology for designing deformable, stiffness-tunable, thin sheet interfaces. Inter...

in Tangible Media
Hiroshi Ishii · Jifei Ou +1 more
Project Research

Aerial Light-Field Display

Suitable for anywhere a "Pepper's Ghost" display could be deployed, this display adds 3D with motion parallax, as well as optically relay...

in Object-Based Media · Future Storytelling · CE 2.0 +1 more
V. Michael Bove · Daniel Novy
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Leveraging artificial intelligence for the assessment of severity of depressive symptoms

Depressive disorders are ranked as the single largest contributor to non-fatal health loss (7.5% of all Years Lived with Disability), aff...

in Affective Computing
Project Research

The Role of Social Robots in Fostering Human Empathy

Empathy is a core human skill. From early stages of our lives, being able to understand and behave with empathy is fundamental to our soc...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar
Project Research

Diastrophisms

Diastrophisms is a sound installation with a modular system that sends images through rhythmic patterns. It is built on a set of debris f...

in Opera of the Future
Yasushi Sakai · Thomas Sanchez Lengeling +1 more
Project Research

Psychophysiological correlates of wellbeing in office workers

In this SIG, lasting 18 months, MIT proposes to design and develop algorithms for novel low-cost & non-invasive mental condition esti...

Project Research

Real-Time Assessment of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors

Depression correlated with anxiety is one of the key factors leading to suicidal behavior, and is among the leading causes of death world...

in Affective Computing · Advancing Wellbeing
Rosalind W. Picard · Szymon Fedor
Project Research

City Science Collaboration Guadalajara

The University of Guadalajara, referred to as UdeG, is a university network composed of 15 campuses within the state of Jalisco and one o...

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +2 more
Project Research

Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

in Affective Computing
Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic · Rosalind W. Picard
#robotics #human-computer interaction #health +9 more
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Sonic Enrichment at the Zoo

This project is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the San Diego Zoo to design and build interactive sonic enrichment systems ...

in Opera of the Future
Gabriel Miller · Rebecca Kleinberger +1 more
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Personalized Machine Learning for Future Health

The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evol...

in Affective Computing
Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic · Rosalind W. Picard
#human-machine interaction #pharmaceuticals #machine learning +2 more
Project Research

AI Spirits

Media manipulation technologies have the power to vanish people from photographs. Yet their souls live on in the deep memory of these alg...

in Scalable Cooperation
Matthew Groh
Project Research

Bitcoin vending machine

Lit, the lightweight Lightning Network software developed at the MIT Media Lab, works with multiple Bitcoin-like blockchains. The DCI tea...

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Neha Narula · Joseph Chung +2 more
#cryptocurrency
Project Research

Making Data Matter: Voxel-Printing for the Digital Fabrication of Data across Scales and Domains

We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...

in Mediated Matter
James Weaver · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #manufacturing #3d printing
Project Research

In-Vivo Networking: Powering and communicating with tiny battery-free devices inside the body

In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the...

in Signal Kinetics
#health
Project Research

Deep Angel: The AI behind the aesthetics of absence

Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit...

Abhimanyu Dubey · Niccolo Pescetelli +5 more
#artificial intelligence #social media #imaging
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