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PerForm

PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for a form of interacti...
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AlterEgo

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

Exploring robotic sound generation mixed with human movements on the guitar. Guitar Machine II is a robotic guitar that responds to human...
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AttentivU

It is increasingly hard for adults and children alike to be attentive given the increasing amounts of information and distractions surrou...
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The Deep Image of the City

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
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Engagement with Voice-User Interface Agents

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
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[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...
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City Science Network
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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...
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Evergreen Blues

Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs that together provide a collaborative musical narrative experience in the form of a multi...
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Seasons Change Together

Seasons Change Together is a collaborative song construction experience for multiple simultaneous participants. It represents a firs...
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Deep Reality: An underwater VR experience to promote relaxation by unconscious HR, EDA and brain activity biofeedback

We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We mon...
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Byte.it

Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-fre...
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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...
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PopBots: An early childhood AI curriculum

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
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Wearable Wisdom

Having good mentors and role models is important for personal growth. Knowledge, advice, and inspiration from people a person admires can...
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LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modula...
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User needs for augmentative communication interfaces

We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...
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Designing robots in mixed reality

This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
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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...
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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...
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Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
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The Science of AI Research

We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...
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CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...
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Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
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FindingPlaces

What is FindingPlaces?In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Ma...
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Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significa...
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Bricoleur

Bricoleur allows makers of all ages to explore the creative possibilities of video and audio as programmable media on mobile devices. Usi...
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Programmable Droplets

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

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on ...
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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...