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Project Research

Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...

in Personal Robots
Safinah Arshad Ali · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

DefeXtiles: 3D printing quasi-woven textiles via underextrusion

OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpens...

in Tangible Media
Jack Forman · Hiroshi Ishii
#design #human-computer interaction #fashion +4 more
Project Research

Invisible Variables: Personal Security Among Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is seeking participants for a paid study on the impacts of social distancing polici...

in Space Enabled
Katlyn Turner
#covid19
Project Research

Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Alex Berke +3 more
#data #government #public health +2 more
Project Research

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...

in Community Biotechnology
David S. Kong · Desiree Dudley
#health #member company #technology +3 more
Project Research

Vida Decision Support System for COVID-19

Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood
#public health #data science #covid19
Project Research

Saving Face

“Don’t touch your face” is seemingly simple advice. Since coronaviruses are stable for days on many surfaces, a person can get COVID-19 b...

in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Sculpting Evolution +1 more
Camilo Rojas · Irmandy Wicaksono +6 more
#health #sensors #covid19
Project Research

Research resiliency through lean labs

Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely whil...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · David Sadat
#design #bioengineering #health +6 more
Project Research

The Guardians

in Affective Computing
Craig Ferguson · Sara Taylor +3 more
#data #entertainment #gaming +6 more
Project Research

Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Clement Duhart +4 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Project Research

Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...

in Mediated Matter
Jorge Duro-Royo · Joshua Van Zak +11 more
#design #architecture #art +7 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. ...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #bioengineering #consumer electronics +13 more
Project Research

3D Printed Nasopharyngeal (NP) Swabs by OPT Industries, Inc. in response to the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis

Dr. Jifei Ou, who received his PhD and graduated from the Tangible Media group in 2019, started a company called OPT Industries, Inc...

in Tangible Media
Jifei Ou · Hiroshi Ishii
#manufacturing #3d printing #alumni +3 more
Project Research

The COVID Pandemic through the Lens of Vulnerable Youth in NYC

This project aims to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic might have further increased social inequalities by impacting those who were ...

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez
#covid19
Project Research

MASKproject: Open standard respirator, N95 alternative face mask

Designed for mass manufacture and rapid deployment, we are building an open hardware, reusable, sterilizable, modular, and filter-media a...

in Biomechatronics
Che-Wei Wang · Matthew Carney
#manufacturing #public health #materials +1 more
Project Research

DAMS: Differentially Private Sketching Data Structures

We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact tr...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #data +6 more
Project Research

Wearable Sanitizer: Open-source, On-body Sanitizer

Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and di...

in Fluid Interfaces · Responsive Environments
Pat Pataranutaporn · Ali Shtarbanov +4 more
#human-computer interaction #consumer electronics #open source +3 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 ...

in Molecular Machines
Pranam Chatterjee · Manvitha Ponnapati +1 more
#biology #public health #engineering +1 more
Project Research

Non-full-length G protein-coupled receptors: An unexpected discovery may lead to design new molecular devices

It was believed that functionalities of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) require full-length sequences which are negated by residue de...

in Molecular Machines
Shuguang Zhang · Pranam Chatterjee +1 more
#bioengineering #health #wellbeing +2 more
Project Research

Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology tha...

in Camera Culture · Sculpting Evolution
Ramesh Raskar · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +1 more
#artificial intelligence #communications #data +7 more
Project Research

Split Learning: Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma · Ramesh Raskar
#data #privacy #machine learning +4 more
Project Research

The Suggestion Box

The Suggestion Box offers schools a toolkit for framing decisions in two simple sentences and using these sentences to involve teachers, ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Yusuf Ahmad
#learning #covid19
Project Research

#BeatTheVirus

Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.T...

in Social Machines · Director's Office
David S. Kong · Susan Blumenthal, MD +3 more
#social media #covid19
Project Research

Pandemic Response CoLab

Pandemic Response CoLab will help individuals and groups work together to solve practical problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic. By l...

in Community Biotechnology
Berenice Estrada · Desiree Dudley +1 more
#health #member company #wellbeing +1 more
Project Research

Pandemic Supermind Activation

The Pandemic Supermind Activation brings together leaders in the biosciences and beyond, harnessing the power of ...

in Community Biotechnology
Desiree Dudley · David S. Kong
#member company #public health #covid19
Project Research

Bidirectional Contact Tracing

Contact tracing, isolation, and testing are some of the most powerful public health interventions available, but they haven't been optimi...

in Sculpting Evolution
Ethan Alley · Kevin Esvelt
#covid19
Project Research

Evolving Decoy ACE2 Receptor Mimics As COVID-19 Therapeutics

COVID-19 has over only a few short months resulted in the deaths of >400,000 people worldwide (as of mid-June 2020) and has forced man...

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal +4 more
#covid19
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
Kevin Esvelt
#covid19
Project Research

Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +30 more
#robotics #design #art +14 more
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #health +8 more
Project Research

DoppelLab: Experiencing multimodal sensor data

Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensiv...

Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton +1 more
#human-computer interaction #learning #music +3 more
Project Research

Robust Genome Editing with Broad Targeting CRISPR Enzymes

Programmable CRISPR enzymes are powerful and versatile tools for genome editing. They, however, require a specific protospacer adjacent m...

in Molecular Machines
Pranam Chatterjee · Noah Jakimo +1 more
#bioengineering #genetics #alumni +1 more
Project Research

HomeLAMP

HomeLAMP demonstrates the design and prototyping of a low-cost thermal processing unit for COVID-19 RT-LAMP testing and diagnostics entir...

Caitlin Morris · Daniel Goodwin
#covid19
Project Research

Designer molecular mops: Water-soluble cytokine receptors fused with Fc domain of IgG may be therapeutic for cytokine storms

In April 2019, Shuguang Zhang's lab started to use the QTY code to design a class of water-soluble cytokine receptors, including interfer...

in Molecular Machines
Shuguang Zhang · Rui Qing +1 more
#biology #public health #medicine +1 more
Project Research

QTY code designs for water-soluble beta-barrel transmembrane proteins

In collaboration with Prof. Tao Fei’s lab (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)In addition to a large number of membrane proteins that co...

in Molecular Machines
Shuguang Zhang
#biology #public health #medicine +1 more
Project Research

QTY CXCR4 becomes more hydrophilic and retains cell signaling activity

In collaboration with Prof. Horst Vogel and Dr. Horst Pick (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland).G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are vital fo...

in Molecular Machines
Shuguang Zhang
#biology #public health #medicine +1 more
Project Research

The QTY code: A simple tool for protein design

Structure and function studies of membrane proteins, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and multipass transmembrane protein...

Shuguang Zhang · Rui Qing +2 more
#biology #public health #medicine +1 more
Project Research

SoapCam

SoapCam is a WIP Human Computer Interaction system that motivates proper hand washing routines."Hand hygiene is the most important measur...

Ariel Noyman
#human-computer interaction #public health #gesture interface +1 more
Project Research

AI + Data Privacy Activities for K-9 Students

Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade sli...

in Personal Robots
Stephanie Nguyen · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #data #kids +4 more
Project Research

Doodle Bot - Creative AI learning

Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware,...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Safinah Arshad Ali
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Robot Mindset and Curiosity

Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Safinah Arshad Ali +2 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +4 more
Project Research

AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...

in Personal Robots
Daniella DiPaola · Blakeley H. Payne +1 more
#design #artificial intelligence #gaming +6 more
Project Research

Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang +9 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +10 more

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