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Project Research

OctoStudio

OctoStudio transforms how children use mobile devices, enabling them to create their own stories and games anytime anywhere. Children …

in Lifelong Kindergarten · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Natalie Rusk · Kreg Hanning +13 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +7 more
Project Research

Theme | Changing Places

Changing Places researchers are developing scalable strategies for understanding and creating hyper-efficient, technology-enabled spaces t…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +5 more
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

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

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Art Installation: NeuraFutures

Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com The installation is currently open to public starting September 25, 2023 at …

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Nataliya Kos'myna
#robotics #artificial intelligence #learning + teaching +3 more
Project Research

Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Andres Rico · Kent Larson
#sensors #community #water
Project Research

PurrfectPitch: Exploring Musical Interval Learning through Multimodal Interfaces

We demonstrate a multimodal approach for perceptual learning that supplements a perceptually-ambiguous audio stimulus with haptics. In our …

in Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Fluid Interfaces
Mengying (Cathy) Fang · Sam Chin
Project Research

Light Sculptures

The first in a series of sculptures that capture natural light patterns over time using computer vision.This work seeks to investigate arch…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Dexter Callender
#design #computer vision #architecture +2 more
Project Research

Computational Knitting Patterns

​This project explores a few computational approaches to use the shape of a knitted garment as input for its pattern.This experiment combin…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #fashion
Project Research

SkeleText: Skeletonization of Typefaces

Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #computer science +2 more
Project Research

Simulating Motion with Computation

​This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes.  All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #computer science +2 more
Project Research

ImmerScope City: Blending Perspectives and Design Experiences

ImmerScope City offers new ways of visualizing complex urban designs. It generates rendered images of streetscapes to allow for collab…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds +1 more
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Vincy Xiao +3 more
Project Research

Refraction - Using computation to illustrate with light

This project explores a computational method to use light as a medium for illustration. I experiment with a process to transform pixels int…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Dexter Callender
#design #manufacturing #creativity
Project Research

Cloud Light – Designing with signed distance functions (SDFs)

Cloud Light is a lighting object that draws inspiration from signed distance function geometries and  nature. It functions as a lamp a…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Dexter Callender
#design #creativity #code
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

Analogia

Analogia is a game for sharing honest and sometimes challenging stories using a combination of talking prompts and absurd images. The cards…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Cassandra Lee
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
Project Research

Voice Anonymization

Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Wonjune Kang · Deb Roy
#artificial intelligence #machine learning
Project Research

Technologies Toolkit

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Margaret Church +4 more
#design #developing countries #energy
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
Project Research

Festival of Invention and Creativity

The Festival of Invention and Creativity (FIC) is a great celebration of the inventive, collaborative, and hands-on  spirit  of B…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Leo Burd
Project Research

Photorythms: Interactive

​In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#art #computer science #interactive
Project Research

Illuminate

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#design #human-computer interaction #art +2 more
Project Research

Photorythms

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

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#design #computer vision #art +2 more
Project Research

Sleep and Epilepsy: Demystifying the thousand-year-long conundrum

According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…

in Affective Computing · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Boyu Zhang · Neska Elhaouij
#artificial intelligence #data #health +3 more
Project Research

Theme | Human-AI Interaction + 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 Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society +1 more
Joanne Leong · Pat Pataranutaporn +2 more
Project Research

Theme | Health + Mental Health

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

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Nathan Whitmore · Angela Vujic +4 more
Project Research

The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…

in Lifelong Kindergarten · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Jaleesa Trapp · Natalie Rusk +3 more
#human-computer interaction #learning + teaching #technology +2 more
Project Research

Targeted intracellular degradation of SARS-CoV-2 via computationally optimized peptide fusions

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With on…

in Molecular Machines · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Pranam Chatterjee · Manvitha Ponnapati +1 more
#biology #public health #engineering +1 more
Project Research

Smart Eyewear Research Platforms

Smartglasses are increasingly popular because the face is an ideal location for continuously monitoring environmental and physiological sig…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Patrick Chwalek · David Ramsay
Project Research

Secure DNA

A world in which thousands of people can construct and release autonomous biological agents is unlikely to flourishProfessor Kevin Esvelt, …

in Sculpting Evolution · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society +1 more
Kevin Esvelt
#covid19
Project Research

Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery (MiNDS)

Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…

in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Canan Dagdeviren
#design #bioengineering #health +8 more
Project Research

Liquid News

The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…

in Viral Communications · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Dagmawi Haile · Andrew Lippman
#artificial intelligence #communications #entertainment
Project Research

Life-Nanomachine Synergism

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…

in Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Deblina Sarkar
#robotics #bioengineering #data +9 more
Project Research

Latent Lab

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

in Viral Communications · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Andrew Lippman · Kevin Dunnell
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

FlowIO Platform for Soft Robotics and Programmable Materials

FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Ali Shtarbanov
Project Research

Flexible piezoelectric devices for gastrointestinal motility sensing

Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standard…

in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Zijun Wei · Canan Dagdeviren
#bioengineering #health #sensors
Project Research

Flexible automation for robotic bioengineering

Liquid handling robots are key components of modern biotechnology labs, but they largely function to spare humans from laborious or re…

in Sculpting Evolution · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Emma Chory · Dana Gretton +1 more
Project Research

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 intellig…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society +1 more
Parker Malachowsky · Ivan Sysoev +2 more
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

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 · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body +1 more
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Markus Elkatsha +19 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +9 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

A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…

in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Canan Dagdeviren · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #bioengineering #consumer electronics +13 more
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 · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Deblina Sarkar
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

Learning Creative Learning

Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…

in Lifelong Kindergarten · ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio +1 more
Carmelo Presicce · Lily Gabaree +6 more
#design #learning + teaching #makers
Project Research

Keeper: Online conversation support scaffolding modeled after ancient and modern social technologies

Emergence, when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, is an awe inducing phenomenon seen within natu…

in Social Machines · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Maggie Hughes · Belen Saldias Fuentes +1 more
Project Research

Voyage Viewer

Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.

in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Isabella Loaiza-Saa
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +5 more
Project Research

▓▒░ TeleAbsence

People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)

in Tangible Media · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Hiroshi Ishii · Xiao Xiao +8 more
#art #communications #creativity +1 more
Project Research

Public Library Innovation Exchange

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

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio · Lifelong Kindergarten +2 more
J. Philipp Schmidt · Ada Ren-Mitchell +7 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +11 more
Project Research

Detecting and Mapping Transparent or Mirror-like Surfaces with Lidar

Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…

in Camera Culture · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Tsung-Han Lin · Connor Henley
#robotics #computer vision #augmented reality +1 more
Project Research

Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Raechel Walker · Anastasia Ostrowski +1 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +8 more
Project Research

CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Social Machines · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +2 more
Hang Jiang
#social networks #artificial intelligence #civic media +4 more
Project Research

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 · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds +1 more
Ekene Ijeoma
#design #art #politics +2 more
Project Research

Bitcoin Security Initiative

Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Neha Narula
Project Research

A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…

in Poetic Justice · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Ekene Ijeoma
#robotics #design #art +12 more
Project Research

Zero Robotics

Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…

in Space Enabled · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Yiyun Zhang · Danielle Wood
#robotics #space
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, e.g.,…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +6 more
Project Research

Synthesizing data privately for Machine Learning

We propose sanitizer, a framework for secure and task-agnostic data release. While releasing datasets continues to make a big impact in var…

in Camera Culture · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Abhishek Singh · Ayush Chopra +4 more
Project Research

Objective assessment of depression

Current methods to assess depression and select appropriate treatments have many limitations and need improvement. Diagnosis is usually bas…

in Affective Computing · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Robert Lewis · Szymon Fedor +2 more
Project Research

Emotion Navigation

Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change bro…

in Affective Computing · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Neska Elhaouij · Rosalind W. Picard +10 more
#interfaces #affective computing #autonomous vehicles
Project Research

Understanding Molecular Evolution

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…

in Sculpting Evolution · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Brian Wang · Erika Alden DeBenedictis +3 more
#robotics #environment #genetics +2 more
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