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Project Research

MIT–Chile Research Workshops | Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence & Data Visualization

In January 2023, a team led by, MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Cente…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Belen Saldias Fuentes · Maggie Hughes +3 more
#artificial intelligence #data #extended intelligence +1 more
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Using satellites to monitor deforestation due to mining in Ghana

Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while indu…

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood
Project Research

Decision Support System for Drought Response in Angola

This project seeks to improve the use of satellite-based Earth Observation as an input to a Drought Decision Support System to inform the r…

in Space Enabled
Katlyn Turner · Danielle Wood
Project Research

Effect of a powered ankle on shock absorption and interfacial pressure

Lower-extremity amputees face a series of potentially serious post-operative complications. Among these are increased risk of further amput…

in Biomechatronics
David Hill · Hugh Herr
#bioengineering #bionics
Project Research

The City Science Summit - Overview

The City Science Summit is an annual gathering of the City Science Network: an international community of institutions and researchers that…

in City Science
Project Research

How to Grow (Almost) Anything - A New Model for Global Synthetic Biology Education

A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…

in City Science · Molecular Machines · Community Biotechnology
Eyal Perry · Pat Pataranutaporn +4 more
#robotics #bioengineering #learning +8 more
Project Research

MAIA

Low-cost, modular, open source, and portable bio reactor for urban bio-sensor development.

in City Science
Andres Rico · Eyal Perry +2 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors
Project Research

Chameleon

Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses co2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.

in City Science
Andres Rico · Carson Smuts +1 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors
Project Research

Ocean Logger: A Community-scale Ocean Profiling Sensor Node

Community-scale profiling sensor node for  ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities. 

in City Science
Andres Rico · Fadel Adib +2 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors
Project Research

JettSen

JettSen is  an open source mobile sensor system that enables citizens, urban planners, and city officials to collectively address urba…

in City Science
Andres Rico · Yasushi Sakai +2 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors
Project Research

Whispers Of The Mountain

Whispers Of The Mountain is a  sensor system mounted on snow skis.  The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…

in City Science
Andres Rico · Carson Smuts +1 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors #data visualization
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TerMITes

TerMITes are a wireless environmental sensor platform that enables designers and researchers with the necessary tools to capture envir…

in City Science
Kent Larson · Carson Smuts +2 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors
Project Research

FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search

FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…

in Signal Kinetics
Tara Boroushaki · Laura Dodds +2 more
#robotics #computer vision #health +6 more
Project Research

OctoStudio

The Lifelong Kindergarten group is designing OctoStudio, a new mobile phone app that enables children around the world to create with code.…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Natalie Rusk · Kreg Hanning +10 more
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Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Inigo Martinez Lopez +1 more
#robotics #design #data +7 more
Project Research

👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Manuj Dhariwal · Shruti Dhariwal
#kids #creativity #code
Project Research

Hyper-LOCAL Solutions to GLOBAL Challenges

Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of cities.Cities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the lat…

in City Science
Justin Blinder · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +13 more
Project Research

City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +10 more
#human-computer interaction #data #urban planning +1 more
Project Research

Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Check out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-print on arXiv. Check out a video from the Election Misinfo…

in Affective Computing
Matthew Groh · Ziv Epstein +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #data +7 more
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MicroPET: Investigation of Biodegradation of PET Plastics in Spaceflight

We present the "MicroPET" mission, consisting of an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully program…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu · Pat Pataranutaporn +4 more
#bioengineering #environment #synthetic biology +1 more
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Sleep++

Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Nathan Whitmore
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…

in City Science
Carson Smuts · Gabriela Bila Advincula +8 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
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Dive

Dive is a project to explore and induce lucid dreams using mobile devices.Lucid dreams are dreams in which  you are aware that you're …

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Nathan Whitmore
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Propel STEM

The Propel program was initiated by Elements of Education to address the disproportionately low rate of girls applying to the STEM-focused …

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Jaleesa Trapp
Project Research

Humans, Robots, Space, and the Future of Connectedness

Humans, Robots, Space, and the Future of ConnectednessWhat is the future of the human connection to each other, to machinery, to the univer…

in Space Enabled
Prathima Muniyappa
Project Research

Art Installation: NeuraFutures

Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures art installation features devices known as Brain-Computer Inter…

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna
Project Research

Braided Cosmopoetics: The Khasi cosmo-vison for an ethical space exploration

The Khasi people of trace their ancestry back to the stars. Hailing from the North eastern state of Meghalaya in India, the Khasis are famo…

in Space Enabled
Prathima Muniyappa
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Micro Mobile

Joe Kennedy – Harvard University: Graduate School of Design, DDes; Morgan Ip – Cambridge University: Scott Polar Research Institute, Post-D…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Project Research

AgriThrive: Emergency preparedness for Plant Growth in Martian/Lunar environments

Somayajulu Dhulipala, Manwei Chan, Carlos Portela, MIT SEDSOverviewAs humanity inches closer to setting up colonies on the Moon and Mars, l…

in Space Exploration Initiative
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Latent Lab

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Kevin Dunnell
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Liquid News

Liquid News aims to help people better understand and interact with the news by providing machine-learning-based analysis and semantic…

in Viral Communications
Dagmawi Haile · Andrew Lippman
#artificial intelligence #communications #entertainment
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Capturing the Moon: Assessing virtual reality for remote Lunar geological fieldwork

Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Project Research

Txt2Vid: Ultra-Low Bitrate Compression of Talking-Head Videos via Text

We present a novel video compression pipeline, called Txt2Vid, which dramatically reduces data transmission rates by compressing webcam vid…

in Fluid Interfaces
Misha Sra · Pat Pataranutaporn +1 more
Project Research

AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +4 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +2 more
Project Research

Theme | Virtual Humans & AI-Generated Characters

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…

in Fluid Interfaces
Joanne Leong · Pat Pataranutaporn +2 more
Project Research

AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning

This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…

in Fluid Interfaces
Valdemar Danry · Joanne Leong +3 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +1 more
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OpenCBDC

ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Thaddeus Dryja · Alexander Jung +4 more
#banking and finance #civic technology #economy +2 more
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Black Forest

Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…

in Poetic Justice
Ekene Ijeoma
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EmbER (Embodied Experience Remotely)

EmbER (Embodied Experience Remotely) explores the use of wearable sensory devices, communicating nonverbal signals, as an additional commun…

in Fluid Interfaces
Caitlin Morris · Valdemar Danry
Project Research

Theme | Experiential Integration of Humans and Computers

With the expansion of intelligent and ubiquitous computers everywhere, we have in many ways become cognitive cyborgs: most of us are insepa…

in Fluid Interfaces
Valdemar Danry
Project Research

Eliciting a Sense of Self when Integrating with Computers

While some Human-Computer Integration (HInt) systems have successfully demonstrated that humans and technology can be physically and functi…

in Fluid Interfaces
Valdemar Danry · Pat Pataranutaporn +1 more
Project Research

Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…

in City Science · Space Exploration Initiative
Carson Smuts · Chrisoula Kapelonis
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Biobío

The MIT City Science team will work with the Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CChC), Corporación Ciudades, and the Biobío regional govern…

in City Science
Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor · Kent Larson +3 more
Project Research

The Safety of Our Cities: A Look at Urban Security

​The perception of security has important effects on daily life and mobility choices, and this is often in parallel to the reality of …

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +3 more
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Can autonomy make bike-sharing more sustainable?

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +1 more
#environment #transportation #urban planning +1 more
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Urban Mobility Swarms: towards a decentralized autonomous bicycle-sharing system

Urban mobility can often be categorized as a complex system---e.g., a nonlinear system composed of many components that interact with each…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Juan Mugica Gonzalez +4 more
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Peristaltic Suit

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

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Ali Shtarbanov +1 more
#robotics #data #wearable computing +6 more
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AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…

in Human Dynamics · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Ziv Epstein · Hope Schroeder
Project Research

Voice Privacy Preservation

Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various information about emotions, feelings, and excitation through…

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Wonjune Kang · Deb Roy
#artificial intelligence #machine learning
Project Research

Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/We are developing nano-devices using meta-mat…

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
Deblina Sarkar
#synthetic biology #nanoscience
Project Research

2D Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence

Energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are projected to grow at an alarming rate over the next two decades. A recent st…

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
Deblina Sarkar
Project Research

Biodata

Smart watches contain a wealth of sensors with the potential to transform health research and intervention, but few teams have the the tech…

in Fluid Interfaces
Nathan Whitmore · Pattie Maes
Project Research

Lunar Sensor Net

We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ne…

in Responsive Environments
Fangzheng Liu · Joseph A. Paradiso
#robotics #design #environment +3 more
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Project Us

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

in Fluid Interfaces
Camilo Rojas · Shreya Kulkarni +2 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #banking and finance +6 more
Project Research

Photorythms

Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…

in Future Sketches
Chelsi Cocking
#design #computer vision #art +2 more
Project Research

Theme | Learning & Creativity

Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, eg cr…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes
Project Research

Theme | Attention, Memory & Optimal Performance

Multiple projects related to  the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory and optimal performance.

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes
Project Research

Theme | Health & Wellbeing

We develop systems that support  health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health, using technologies  such as wearabl…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes
Project Research

Let's Chance: Playful Probabilistic Programming for Children

Probabilistic thinking has been one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science, and it is rapidly gaining even more relevance as …

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Manuj Dhariwal · Shruti Dhariwal
#human-computer interaction #art #interfaces +2 more
Project Research

Ask Me, Don't Tell Me

Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…

Valdemar Danry · Pat Pataranutaporn +1 more
Project Research

Liquid Learning

Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …

in Viral Communications
Erick Oduniyi
#design #computer vision #interfaces +1 more
Project Research

Theme | Human AI Co-reasoning

We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +3 more
#artificial intelligence
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