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@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bioin…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Seasons Change Together is a collaborative song construction experience for multiple simultaneous participants. It represents a first …
Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs that together provide a collaborative musical narrative experience in the form of a multipl…
We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
PCB debugging can be tricky sometimes. Normally we should check which signal we want to measure in the schematic, switch to PCB layout to s…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
#ZoomADay was a year long project exploring the creation and use of synthetic characters and deep fakes for use in online telepresence and …
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
In Wired, Deb Roy, director of the MIT CCC, and postdoc Nabeel Gillani make the case for "you-are-here" maps for the internet.
Bubble is a pneumatically actuated wearable system that enables people with handdisabilities to use their own hands to grasp objects withou…
LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with the…
A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…
3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …
Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a projec…
The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make n…
by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Unive…
Patchbots are sheet-form robots that are programmable on-the-fly by direct manipulation through bodily movements. The integrated …
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratizati…
In this work, we have developed a textile-based interactive surface fabricated through machine knitting technology. Our prototype exp…
Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What types…
City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensiv…
Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respiratory…
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Developed in collaboration with dancer Loni Landon, Tapis Magique is a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet.
A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
PhD student Matt Groh speaks with Input Magazine’s Annie Rauwerda about his team's recent research on deepfake detection.
SynopsisThe class will cover a wide range of perspectives on deepfakes, from their historical ancestors through their philosophical underpi…
Afsar, Ozgun Kilic, et al. "Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes." ACM CHI'21 Workshop HAA'21.
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
Pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet generates 3D sensor data based on body gestures, drives an immersive sonic environment
C. R. Taylor, S. S. Srinivasan, S. H. Yeon, M. K. O'Donnell, T. J. Roberts, H. M. Herr, Magnetomicrometry, Sci.Robot. 6, eabg0656 (2021), DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abg0656
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces.
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
M. E. Carney, T. Shu, R. Stolyarov, J. F. Duval and H. M. Herr, "Design and Preliminary Results of a Reaction Force Series Elastic Actuator for Bionic Knee and Ankle Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 542-553, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2021.3098921.
The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the heart …
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WiStress is a system that can monitor a user’s stress passively using wireless signals. WiStress can be installed on a desk or near a couch…
Emotional arousal influences focus, attention, and decision-making, which are critical when driving. To help promote an optimal arousal lev…
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
MetaSense: Integrating Sensing Capabilities into Mechanical Metamaterial. J. Gong*, O. Seow*, C. Honnet*, J. Forman, S…
Jiang, Hang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Prithviraj Sen, Yunyao Li, and Alexander Gray. "LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking." ACL (2021).
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way to …
Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously e…
Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast walk…
A whole new mode of communication between prosthesis and user.
A recent feature in Designboom highlights research conducted by the Biomechatronics group that describes magnetomicrometry.