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Navajo Star Traveler

By Alvin Donel Harvey 

in Space Exploration Initiative
Project Research

Space Grip Shoe

Project Overview The Space Grip Shoe (SGS) is an iconic concept presented across the history of space fiction, from 2001: A Space Od...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Don Derek Haddad
Project Research

The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleThe Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronauts that...

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
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OctoPlay

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

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Natalie Rusk · Kreg Hanning +8 more
Project Research

Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#environment #health #sensors +6 more
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Capturing the Moon

By: Cody Paige & M. Regina A. MorenoThe RESOURCE (Resource Exploration and Science of our Cosmic Environment) team in the Human Syste...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maria Regina Apodaca Moreno
Project Research

Physical Instinct In Microgravity

By Michelle LinIn microgravity, the proprioceptive system undergoes adaptations due to the lack of constant gravitational cues [1]. Photo...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Shu-Yu Lin
Project Research

MicroPET : Investigation of Biodegradation of PET Plastics in Spaceflight

MicroPET aims to identify how microorganisms can efficiently degrade plastic waste and produce higher-value plastic materials, a process ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu · Pat Pataranutaporn +3 more
#bioengineering #space
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
Project Research

Robot Companion for Better Wellbeing

Globally, depression affects more than 264 million people of all ages, and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several interactiv...

in Personal Robots
Sooyeon Jeong · Sharifa Alghowinem +2 more
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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 ...

in City Science
Carson Smuts · Gabriela Bila Advincula +8 more
#design #architecture #art +2 more
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KALM: BCI Systems for Managing Anxiety and Stress

The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety.  With this set of tools we aim to make...

in Fluid Interfaces
Angela Vujic · Pattie Maes +1 more
#human-computer interaction #cognition
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Cardiac Arrest: Evaluating the Role of Biosignals in Gameplay Strategies and Players' Physiological Synchrony in Social Deception

Social deduction or deception games are games in which a player or team of players actively deceives other players who are trying to disc...

in Tangible Media · Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Neska Elhaouij +1 more
Project Research

(Dis)Appearables

by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Uni...

in Tangible Media
Ken Nakagaki · Joanne Leong +1 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction
Project Research

Acuation: Real-Time Acupoint Stimulation To Mediate The Urge To Smoke

Acu.ation is an intervention that aims to mediate the urge to smoke by pairing a wearable device that delivers transcutaneous electric ac...

in Affective Computing
Ila Kumar
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Zero Gravity Cuisine

in Space Exploration Initiative
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Yale-MIT Collaboration: UltraSpace

Space architecture projects for the Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space course in partnership with the Center for Collaborative Arts and Med...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Project Research

With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a...

in City Science
Margaret Church · Gabriela Bila Advincula +6 more
#design #architecture #art +5 more
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Designing healing-centered technology to support foster youth

In this project, we are exploring ways to design technology that promotes healing and care for young people who have experienced foster c...

in Affective Computing
Ila Kumar · Craig Ferguson +1 more
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Chameleon

Chameleon is a wall mounted sensor system that uses machine learning to classify building activity.We present the system as an alternativ...

in City Science
Andres Rico · Carson Smuts +1 more
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Brain Switch

The Brain Switch is a real-time, closed-loop brain-computer system allowing for real-time correspondence of simple user needs to a careta...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Nataliya Kos'myna
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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
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Patchbots: Milli-fluidic Soft Robots Towards On-body Locomoting Swarm UIs

Patchbots are sheet-form robots that are programmable on-the-fly by direct manipulation through bodily movements. The integrate...

in Tangible Media
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hila Mor +1 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +2 more
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indi...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Don Derek Haddad
#design #human-computer interaction #art +12 more
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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 democratiza...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +16 more
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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
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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optica...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
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Photorythms

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

in Future Sketches
Chelsi Cocking
#design #computer vision #art +2 more
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Liberatory Computing for African American Students

The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing...

in Personal Robots
Raechel Walker
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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management rai...

in Human Dynamics
Dan Calacci
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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 ...

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
Deblina Sarkar
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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-m...

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek
Deblina Sarkar
#synthetic biology #nanoscience
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Interactive Stories for Learning AI and Programming in Preschool

Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intell...

in Personal Robots
Parker Malachowsky · Ivan Sysoev +2 more
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Facilimate

During facilitated small-group conversations,  facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, manag...

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Cassandra Overney · Deb Roy
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What can we learn from predicting shadows?

By predicting sparse shadow cues, our physics-inspired machine learning algorithm can reconstruct the underlying 3D scene. Abstract....

in Camera Culture
Kushagra Tiwary · Tzofi Klinghoffer +1 more
#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence
Project Research

Theme | AI in the loop

In the 1980's media inventors were separated from creative users.  The same is true today with machine learning:  a cadre of in...

in Viral Communications
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
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Voice Privacy Preservation

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

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

Analysis of residual limb changes using digital image correlation and finite element modeling

Local changes in the volume, shape, and mechanical properties of the residual limb can be caused by adjacent joint motion, muscle activat...

in Biomechatronics
Aaron Jaeger · Dana Solav +6 more
Project Research

Designing Personalized AI Agents to Foster Human-Human Connections

Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What typ...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Huili Chen +3 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +1 more
Project Research

A Conversational Agent for Dynamic Procedural Interactions

Instructed learning is ever-present throughout our lives. An element of it, How-To questions, (e.g., “How do I cook rice?”, “How do I wri...

in Personal Robots
Pedro Colon-Hernandez
Project Research

λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus

 An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus

in Future Sketches
Lingdong Huang
Project Research

Finger Talk

Finger Talk is a small experiment Future Sketches has been working on related to gestural computation. What does it mean to have code you...

in Future Sketches
Lingdong Huang · Zach Lieberman +1 more
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The Atlas of Opportunity

The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in colla...

in Human Dynamics
Mohsen Bahrami · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +1 more
Project Research

Art Installation: NeuraFutures

NeuraFutures art installation features devices known as Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). BCIs access the user’s brain via sensors that a...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna
Project Research

Understanding the 15 Minute City

City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minut...

in City Science
Diego Antonelli · Pietro Dicosta +7 more
#design #human-computer interaction #civic technology +1 more
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School Diversity

Across most school districts in America, school attendance boundaries play an important role in determining which schools children are as...

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Social Machines
Cassandra Overney · Doug Beeferman +2 more
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Drawing++ Workshop

Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concept...

in Future Sketches
Zach Lieberman · Chelsi Cocking +1 more
#design #art #learning +2 more
Project Research

A Co-Design Experience: Technologies for Rural Sustainability in Colombia | 2022 Edition

​🚨Applications to the 2022 Co-Design Experience are now closed🚨OverviewThe development of technology in rural environments in Colombia is...

in Space Enabled
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar
#design #agriculture #civic technology
Project Research

Scratch + Civic Engagement

Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically and create positive change...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Jaleesa Trapp · Cecilé Sadler
#learning #computer science
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 ...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #entertainment +9 more
Project Research

Super Spreaders

As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in i...

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Hope Schroeder · Shayne Longpre
#social networks
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