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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of gla…

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #augmented reality #health +8 more
Project Research

Using Shadows to See Behind Objects

The full text of our paper is available here.Sometimes the thing that we want to see is hidden behind something else. A neighboring vehicl…

in Camera Culture
Connor Henley · Tomohiro Maeda +2 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +2 more
Project Research

Wemoji

This project was produced as part of the   2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…

in Fluid Interfaces
Joanne Leong · Pattie Maes +1 more
#human-computer interaction #augmented reality #communications
Project Research

SensorNets

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bioin…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Elena Kodama +2 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Project Research

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pilot Simulator

With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Domain Randomization & Synthetic Data Generation for AUAVs - Reducing Perceptual Uncertainty of Sim2Real Navigation

Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Living Observatory: Sensor networks for documenting and experiencing ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectivel…

in Terrestrial Sensing · Responsive Environments
Glorianna Davenport · Joseph A. Paradiso +4 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #data +6 more
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
Eyal Perry · Adam Haar Horowitz +5 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +16 more
Project Research

Physiophone: Electrophysiology Sonification

The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the heart …

in Fluid Interfaces
Neo (Mostafa) Mohsenvand
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +4 more
Project Research

E-maki: XR-enabled Scroll for Interactive Museum Artifacts

E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive expe…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #virtual reality #art +3 more
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothenburgsort in Hamburg, Germany. The …

in City Science
Kent Larson · Margaret Church +3 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #civic technology +3 more
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 u…

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #data +4 more
Project Research

Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +18 more
Project Research

Deep Reality: An underwater VR experience to promote relaxation by unconscious HR, EDA, and brain activity biofeedback

We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We monit…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Anna Fuste +1 more
#virtual reality #human-computer interaction #augmented reality
Project Research

Modeling Auditory Memory

When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at f…

in Responsive Environments
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla · David Ramsay
#artificial intelligence #augmented reality #cognition +4 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
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

AR Enhanced Wall Plants: Escape Pod

An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls. 

in City Science
Alex Berke
#agriculture #architecture #augmented reality +1 more
Project Research

Taking a line on a walk

Bauhaus artist Paul Klee considered a line to be  one of the atomic elements of art and architecture. He famously described a line dra…

in Opera of the Future
Charles Holbrow
#augmented reality
Project Research

HeartBit

HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weight,…

in Fluid Interfaces
Oscar Rosello
#augmented reality #consumer electronics #health +4 more
Project Research

NeverMind: Using AR for memorization

NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augmented…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Oscar Rosello +1 more
#augmented reality #extended intelligence #health +2 more
Project Research

Broadercasting

Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.

in Viral Communications
Hisham Bedri · Mike Hao Jiang +1 more
#augmented reality
Project Research

Mathland: Play with math in mixed reality

Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert use…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Sirera i Pulido · Mina Khan +2 more
#augmented reality #learning
Project Research

CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…

in City Science
Kent Larson · Ariel Noyman +1 more
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +5 more
Project Research

RFind: Extreme localization for billions of items

Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-free …

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Yunfei Ma +1 more
#artificial intelligence #augmented reality #human-machine interaction +6 more
Project Research

Haptic Footprint

We only perceive a tiny sliver of the world around us. We are constrained by what our senses can process. These senses evolved to react to …

in Responsive Environments
Paul Strohmeier
#augmented reality #perception #data visualization
Project Research

Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…

in City Science
Kent Larson · J. Ira Winder
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +7 more

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