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What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
As computing blends into everyday environments, powerful opportunities open up for social connection. How can we leverage technology to enh…
This project was produced as part of the 2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
This work was presented at the ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…
Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…
Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectivel…
The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the heart …
E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive expe…
We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We monit…
When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at f…
An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls.
Using a femtosecond laser and a camera with a time resolution of about one trillion frames per second, we recover objects hidden out of sig…
HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weight,…
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augmented…
Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert use…
This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-free …
Rethinking photography optics in the time dimensionWhat if we could design optics in time instead of space?
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 …
Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…