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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 · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…

in Space Enabled · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Javier Stober
#robotics #architecture #art +16 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 p…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Understanding Molecular Evolution

Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…

in Sculpting Evolution · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Brian Wang · Erika Alden DeBenedictis +3 more
#robotics #environment #genetics +2 more
Project Research

Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…

in Space Enabled · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Danielle Wood · Minoo Rathnasabapathy
#environment #health #politics +7 more
Project Research

Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…

in Sculpting Evolution · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#agriculture #bioengineering #crowdsourcing +9 more
Project Research

Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology Framework

One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…

in Space Enabled · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Jack Reid
#agriculture #developing countries #ecology +3 more
Project Research

MicroPET: Investigation of Biodegradation of PET Plastics in Spaceflight

We present the "MicroPET" mission, consisting of an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully program…

in Space Exploration Initiative · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Xin Liu · Pat Pataranutaporn +4 more
#bioengineering #environment #synthetic biology +1 more
Project Research

Can autonomy make bike-sharing more sustainable?

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +1 more
#environment #transportation #urban planning +1 more
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 Re…

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +15 more
Project Research

Autonomous micro-mobility study for food delivery

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Ainhoa Genua Cervino · Naroa Coretti Sánchez +2 more
#data #environment #transportation +3 more
Project Research

Project Captivate: A wearable platform for measurement and actuation across contexts

Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world.  We've desig…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Patrick Chwalek · David Ramsay
#design #environment #health +1 more
Project Research

Battery-free wireless underwater camera

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…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Sayed Afzal · Waleed Akbar +5 more
#robotics #ecology #energy +10 more
Project Research

AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…

in Human Dynamics · MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Ziv Epstein · Hope Schroeder
#art #artificial intelligence #environment +4 more
Project Research

Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Ahmed Allam · Jack Rademacher +6 more
#data #energy #environment +3 more
Project Research

Enhancing well-being through low-frequency resonance: a parametric analysis of space geometry

Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Ahmed Allam
#design #architecture #environment
Project Research

Machine learning approach to design acoustic experiences

Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …

in Signal Kinetics · Opera of the Future · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Ahmed Allam · Nikhil Singh
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments

OverviewWe found that vegan and vegetarian labels commonly found on menu items have a significantly negative impact on consumer's likelihoo…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Alex Berke · Kent Larson
#communications #environment #food +1 more
Project Research

Towards a Congruent Hybrid Reality without Experiential Artifacts

​Situated VR: Towards a Congruent Hybrid RealityThe vision of Extended Reality (XR) systems is living in a hybrid reality or "Metaverse" wh…

in Fluid Interfaces
Valdemar Danry · Misha Sra +1 more
#virtual reality #cognition #environment
Project Research

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…

in City Science
Carson Smuts · Gabriela Bila Advincula +8 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Project Research

Meet the Ganimals

New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …

in Human Dynamics · Open Ocean · Responsive Environments +1 more
Ziv Epstein · Abhimanyu Dubey +2 more
#artificial intelligence #environment #ocean
Project Research

Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…

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

Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Inigo Martinez Lopez +1 more
#robotics #design #data +7 more
Project Research

Lunar Sensor Net

We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ne…

in Responsive Environments
Fangzheng Liu · Joseph A. Paradiso
#robotics #design #environment +3 more
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

Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Don Derek Haddad
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +15 more
Project Research

Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#robotics #architecture #environment +11 more
Project Research

KnittedKeyboard II

Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Mike Hao Jiang +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +13 more
Project Research

Argus: Water monitoring through nanosensors inside living plants

Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Comin…

in Fluid Interfaces
Harpreet Sareen
#robotics #design #environment +3 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

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +18 more
Project Research

The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez
#robotics #design #energy +9 more
Project Research

Ocean Cultures

The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as rā…

in Open Ocean · Responsive Environments
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#developing countries #environment #genetics +2 more
Project Research

Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags

Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found a…

in Tangible Media
Kyung Yun Choi · Hiroshi Ishii
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +5 more
Project Research

Aguahoja

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

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

RF-EATS: Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#environment #food #health +4 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #environment #health +8 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Sayed Afzal +4 more
#communications #data #energy +9 more
Project Research

Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Sayed Afzal +2 more
#communications #data #energy +6 more
Project Research

Low-cost invasive species management in coastal ecosystems: A case study in Benin

All over Africa, experts use satellite Earth Observation (EO) data for applications such as monitoring crop health or assessing the risk of…

in Space Enabled
Ufuoma Ovienmhada · Danielle Wood
#data #environment #technology +1 more
Project Research

Low-power wireless environmental sensor network

Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site w…

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton
#ecology #environment #networks +2 more
Project Research

SoundSignaling

Drawing inspiration from the notion of cognitive incongruence associated with Stroop's famous experiment, from musical principles, and from…

in Responsive Environments
Ishwarya Ananthabhotla
#human-computer interaction #environment #music
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-k…

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

Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microgra…

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Christine Joseph
#environment #health #politics +8 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 interfa…

in Fluid Interfaces
Harpreet Sareen · Pattie Maes
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +9 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 communication…

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

Doppelmarsh: Cross-reality environmental sensor data browser

Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evolv…

in Responsive Environments
Don Derek Haddad · Gershon Dublon +4 more
#environment #sensors
Project Research

TurboTrack: 3D backscatter localization for fine-grained robotics

TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-centim…

in Signal Kinetics
Yunfei Ma · Fadel Adib +1 more
#robotics #environment #health +8 more
Project Research

In-Vivo Networking: Powering and communicating with tiny battery-free devices inside the body

In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…

in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #environment #health +5 more
Project Research

Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar +2 more
#ecology #environment #kids +5 more
Project Research

Andorra | Energy + Environment

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Juanita Devis +3 more
#architecture #energy #environment +6 more
Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#communications #ecology #environment +4 more
Project Research

Mindful Photons: Context-Aware Lighting

Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhythms…

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +1 more
#architecture #cognition #environment +5 more

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