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Piccolo Kitchen

This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience t...

in City Science
Alejandro Garcia · Aditya Mehrotra +4 more
#robotics #design #food
Project Research

Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...

in Mediated Matter
Sunanda Sharma · Christoph Bader +5 more
#design #architecture #art +3 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 +5 more
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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 Space Exploration Initiative · Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #health #biotechnology
Project Research

The Interplanetary Cookbook

The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of thought-provoking recipes, too...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #food #health +2 more
Project Research

Orbit Weaver Suit

​​​​​​​​​The Orbit Weaver Suit for zero gravity was designed by Media Lab Director's Fellow Andrea Lauer in collaboration with ...

in Director's Fellows · Space Exploration Initiative
Andrea Lauer · Xin Liu
#design #art #fashion +3 more
Project Research

Moon Village

In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by t...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Responsive Environments
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #architecture #space
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +3 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +13 more
Project Research

Grain Prism

The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touc...

in City Science
Don Derek Haddad · Gabriela Bila Advincula
#design #art #music +1 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...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

Persian Domes for Human Space Exploration on Mars

The Lut Desert of Iran is one of the most similar regions to Mars. Close to that area, there are vernacular adobe architectures that are ...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Responsive Environments
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #architecture #construction +1 more
Project Research

Cilllia: 3D-printed micro pillar structures for surface texture, actuation, and sensing

In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well...

in Tangible Media
Hiroshi Ishii · Jifei Ou +1 more
#design #environment #fashion +4 more
Project Research

Technology Design for Coffee Production

IAP 2020 applications are open!🔥This course is open to all MIT students🔥Online application: bit/ly/mitcoffee2Application Deadline: D...

in Civic Media
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar
#design
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #art +9 more
Project Research

WITHOUT Identity

Graphics on incompletenessThe City Science Summit 2019, CITIES WITHOUT, explored a future without top-down and obsolete systems. During t...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Gabriela Bila Advincula
#design
Project Research

Wearable and Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

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

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #augmented reality +13 more
Project Research

AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...

in Fluid Interfaces
Arnav Kapur · Utkarsh Sarawgi +2 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

Essence

The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We...

in Advancing Wellbeing
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #fashion #perception +3 more
Project Research

Byte.it

Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-fre...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Tomas Vega Galvez
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +2 more
Project Research

Learning Creative Learning

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

in ML Learning · Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +15 more
#design #learning #makers
Project Research

City Science Lab Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +12 more
Project Research

Mekatilili Fellowship Program

Mekatilili is a learning initiative that provides a platform for African youth to enhance technical skills through creative learning...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Marian Muthui · Juliet Wanyiri +1 more
#design #learning #makers +3 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 c...

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

Space Food and Sensory Experiences

The human experience of food extends far beyond that of mere nourishment. Debriefs with astronauts tell us that food is a key creature co...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #food #space +2 more
Project Research

Theme | Assistive Technology

Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Utkarsh Sarawgi +3 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +4 more
Project Research

The Telemetron Orchestra

When contemplating the future of life in space, we dream not only of rockets and off-world societies, but also of art, of leisure, and fr...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Nicole L'Huillier · Thomas Sanchez Lengeling +1 more
#design #music #interfaces +3 more
Project Research

Scratch

Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +31 more
#design #art #gaming +5 more
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Responsive Environments
Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +11 more
Project Research

Engagement with Voice-User Interface Agents

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Hae Won Park +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #social robotics +1 more
Project Research

Moments

Moments is a prototype designed for users to save special moments and to experience those moments in the future. Firstly, a multi-se...

in Responsive Environments
Fei Jiang · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #virtual reality #sensors
Project Research

Income, Race, Bikes

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-sha...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Alex Berke
#design #civic technology #cartography +2 more
Project Research

PerForm

PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for interaction based o...

in Object-Based Media
Caroline Rozendo · Irmandy Wicaksono +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #music +2 more
Project Research

The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Opera of the Future
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#design #art #music +3 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 #kids +4 more
Project Research

Gemini

Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches ...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Project Research

The Future of Neuroimplantable Devices: A materials science and regulatory perspective

​The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...

in Conformable Decoders
Farita Tasnim · Canan Dagdeviren
#design #bioengineering #health +4 more
Project Research

Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...

in Fluid Interfaces
Harpreet Sareen · Pattie Maes
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +7 more
Project Research

Grappler: Arrays of bistable elements for landing distributed sensor networks on low gravity bodies

Can a modified snap bracelet be used to land infrastructure on an asteroid? It is notoriously difficult to stick a landing on a low ...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Responsive Environments
Juliana Cherston · Paul Strohmeier
#design #art #sensors +2 more
Project Research

Designing social robots for older adults

Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limita...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #design #human-machine interaction +5 more
Project Research

Cyborg Botany: Augmented plants as sensors, displays, and actuators

Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communicati...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Harpreet Sareen
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +4 more
Project Research

Making Data Matter: Voxel-printing for the digital fabrication of data across scales and domains

We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...

in Mediated Matter
James Weaver · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #manufacturing #3d printing
Project Research

City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +7 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Project Research

Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...

in Space Exploration Initiative · City Science
Carson Smuts · Chrisoula Kapelonis
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

TRANSFORM

TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of dat...

in Tangible Media · Terrestrial Sensing
Hiroshi Ishii · Daniel Leithinger
#design #sensors
Project Research

Tools to investigate societal impacts of robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Hae Won Park +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Project Research

EmotiveModeler: An emotive form design CAD tool

Whether or not we're experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their ...

in Object-Based Media
V. Michael Bove · Philippa Mothersill
#design #3d printing
Project Research

LinkedOut: Codesigning societal reentry with returning citizens

LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with t...

in Civic Media
Victoria Palacin · Ethan Zuckerman +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #civic technology +4 more
Project Research

SensorKnits: Architecting textile sensors with machine knitting

Digital machine knitting is a highly programmable manufacturing process that has been utilized to produce apparel, accessories, and footw...

in Hacking Manufacturing · Responsive Environments · Synthetic Neurobiology +1 more
Jifei Ou · Don Derek Haddad +3 more
#design #manufacturing #wearable computing
Project Research

Orbit Weaver

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu
#design #agriculture #architecture +8 more
Project Research

LeakyPhones

LeakyPhones is a public/private headset that was designed to encourage face-to-face interactions, curiosity, and healthier ...

in Fluid Interfaces · Tangible Media
Amos Golan · Hiroshi Ishii +1 more
#design #communications #music +3 more
Project Research

Transformative Appetite

We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can...

Wen Wang · Lining Yao +2 more
#design #food
Project Research

Silk Pavilion

The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary ...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Markus Kayser +3 more
#design #architecture #synthetic biology +2 more
Project Research

Spaces that Perform Themselves

As we generally experience on earth, there is no space without sound and there is no sound without space. Building on the understanding o...

Nicole L'Huillier
#design #architecture #music +1 more
Project Research

kinetiX

kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...

in Tangible Media
Jifei Ou · Jannik Peters +2 more
#design #art #manufacturing +3 more
Project Research

ScratchBit

ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Kreg Hanning · Andrew Sliwinski +4 more
#design #kids #learning
Project Research

Glass II

Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...

in Mediated Matter
Chikara Inamura · Giorgia Franchin +7 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Project Research

Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +2 more
Project Research

Programmable Droplets

​State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...

in Tangible Media
Udayan Umapathi · Hiroshi Ishii
#design #human-computer interaction #art +2 more
Project Research

Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +13 more
Project Research

Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Yi-Cheng Jiang +6 more
#design #architecture #civic technology +7 more
Project Research

Talking Machines: Democratizing the design of voice-based agents for the home

Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +7 more
Project Research

Zero-G-ames

Games are a uniquely human endeavour, reducing stress and supporting mental well-being. Astronauts aboard the ISS have created their own ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Jason Matthew Haas · Daniel Novy
#design #gaming #health
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