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We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.
Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…
36 Days Of Type is an initiative that invites creatives to create their version of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet, one…
When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…
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This project transforms light into physical artifacts. I developed a custom software systems to capture images of sunlight in th…
This project explores a computational method to create controlled cuastics. I experiment with a process to transform pixels into caustic im…
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication techniqu…
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-share…
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…
This project explores a few computational approaches to use the shape of a knitted garment as input for its pattern.This experiment combin…
Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Latent Lab - Navigating Innovation: Interactive Data Exploration & InspirationLatent Lab is an AI-driven, graphical knowledge expl…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
During facilitated small-group conversations, facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
Cloud Light is a lighting object that draws inspiration from signed distance function geometries and nature. It functions as a lamp a…
Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…
Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
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…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desig…
Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …
The prosthetic interface consists of a compliant liner and rigid socket, and conventionally has been made through a very hands-on artisinal…
The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
Teddy is a cutting edge data collection platform available for both Android and iOS that lets you collect data from study participants in a…
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of data …
Shape displays can be used to render both 3D physical content and user interface elements. We propose to use shape displays in three differ…
The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touch …