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Q&A with Nataliya Kos’myna

Nataliya Kos’myna is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the MIT Media Lab, helping MITili evaluate the real-time biofeedback of learners
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Tangible influence: A stroll through Hiroshi Ishii’s living legacy

Celebrating Hiroshi Ishii's mentorship and groundbreaking research
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Augmented reality changing the factory landscape from PTC's room with a view

Valentin Heun describes his work with the PTC Reality Lab to transform factory operations by using augmented reality.
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Watch this device translate silent thoughts into speech

For people who can’t speak out loud due to illness or injury, AlterEgo might return their ability to communicate in real time.
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Could plants be the future of interface design?

Core77 reports on the Fluid Interfaces group’s work in cyborg botany.
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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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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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Neural interface technology for advanced prosthetic limbs

Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...
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EMMA: An emotionally intelligent personal assistant for improving wellbeing

The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that al...
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Experiential Lighting: New user interfaces for lighting control

The vision of pervasive computing is now mainstream. These connected devices permeate every aspect of our lives. Yet, we remain tethered ...
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HeartBit

HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weigh...
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News Graph

This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...
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Conversational Characters: AI agents for entertainment

We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the wa...
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Inside Professor Nanayakkara’s futuristic Augmented Human Lab

What can seamless human-computer interfaces do for humanity?
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reMi: Translating Ambient Sounds of Moment into Tangible and Shareable Memories through Animated Paper

Kyung Yun Choi, Darle Shinsato, Shane Zhang, Ken Nakagaki, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2018. reMi: Translating Ambient Sounds of Moment into Tangible and Shareable Memories through Animated Paper. In The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings (UIST '18 Adjunct). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 84-86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266109
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reMi

Translating ambient sounds of moment into tangible and shareable memories through animated paperWe present a tangible memory notebook—reM...
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Talking Machines: Democratizing the Design of Voice-Based Agents for the Home
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Learning to dance in VR

Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...
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The Leafy Green Cyborgs Are Coming

While plants at first glance look like static things, they are in fact very busy transmitting bio-electrochemical signals.
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PhysioHMD: a conformable, modular toolkit for collecting physiological data from head-mounted displays

Bernal, Guillermo, et al. "PhysioHMD: a conformable, modular toolkit for collecting physiological data from head-mounted displays." Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. ACM, 2018.
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A calm house is a smart house

Receptive Skins envisions a living building that silently interacts with air and temperature
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EmotionalBeasts

With advances in virtual reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication through l...
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Emotional Beasts: Visually Expressing Emotions through Avatars in VR

Bernal, Guillermo, and Pattie Maes. "Emotional Beasts: Visually Expressing Emotions through Avatars in VR." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
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A-pops

A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...
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RFind: Extreme localization for billions of items

Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
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Panorama

An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
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CityMatrix

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...
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Apops: Pilot Installation, Mexico City, December 2017

APOPS was presented at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab in Aug 2018. The slides from that presentation can be found below.
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Reality Editor 2.0

The Reality Editor is a web browser for the physical world: Point your phone or tablet at a physical object and an interface pops up with...
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LuminAR

LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devi...
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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WordSense

As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...
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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...
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FingerReader selected for a Golden Pin Concept Design Award

FingerReader, a wearable interface that uses audio and haptic feedback to enhance the reading experience, was selected for a 2017 Go...
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DIVE

DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
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Receptive Skins: The Breathing Wall

In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, t...
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Creativity and collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity

Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity, set out to underline the close connections between art and technology.
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Memento

Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily...
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Mission Wildlife

Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
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Personalized Interaction for Language Learning

The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language...
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Human microchipping is here, and it’s about to rock your skin’s world

“A few years ago, I was flipping through a fashion magazine and saw that Beyoncé had these cool metallic temporary tattoos."
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Reality Editor

The Reality Editor is a new kind of tool for empowering you to connect and manipulate the functionality of physical objects. Just point t...
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inFORM

Shape displays can be used to render both 3D physical content and user interface elements. We propose to use shape displays in three diff...
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GUI3D

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Compone...
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Intrepid

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...
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Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...
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DuoSkin selected as a finalist in the 2017 World Technology Awards

DuoSkin was one of four finalists in the Design category of the 2017 World Technology Awards.
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inFlux

We present a stiffness-changing interface based on a magneto-rheological (MR) fluid. The device consists of a material surface with ...
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RePose

Sleep is perhaps the most critical human activity for well-being, but seldom receives the priority it deserves. We get less rest than we ...
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Social Robots in Space: Initial Explorations

Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with t...
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Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo

Ho, P. H., Miller, G. A., Wang M. Y., Haleftiras, N., Zuckerman, E. 2017. Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo. In proceedings of Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature (NatureCHI'17) at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'17).
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Organic Primitives

A large portion of the chemical and biological processes underlying our everyday experience remains imperceptible to us. Be it the conten...
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DuoSkin

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...
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Kino

This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...
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Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a si...
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Organic Primitives: Synthesis and Design of pH-Reactive Materials

Viirj Kan, Emma Vargo, Noa Machover, Hiroshi Ishii, Serena Pan, Weixuan Chen, and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2017. Organic Primitives: Synthesis and Design of pH-Reactive Materials using Molecular I/O for Sensing, Actuation, and Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 989-1000. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025952
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Mixing Realities & Language Learning in the Wild

Seamlessly blend what you live with what you learn: mixed reality as a platform for language- learning “serendipitously in the wild."
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DuoSkin rolls out on the runway

From sci-fi to the real world: DuoSkin's temporary tattoos turn your body into an interface.
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FabricKeyboard turns textile into a musical instrument

FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.
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FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface

Wicaksono, I and Paradiso, J.A."FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface
", New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) May 15-19, 2017. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
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FabricKeyboard, la tastiera di tessuto del MIT

È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.