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OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mu...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity ...
Media Lab spinoff company Figur8 has developed a cost-effective, portable system to measure and track human motion.
Moments is a prototype designed for users to save special moments and to experience those moments in the future. Firstly, a multi-se...
An underwater internet of things monitoring the effects of climate change or sampling waters on distant planets
Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Advancing Wellbeing
The MAS.808 course perspective article published in Foresight was chosen as a winner by the editorial team, as it is one of the most exce...
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...
Digital Synesthesia looks to evolve the idea of human-computer interfacing and give way for human-world interacting. It aims to find a wa...
On May 2nd, 2019 we launched three TESSERAE v2 hardware tiles into space and back! They rode to just over 100km (past the Karman line) on...
Lensless imaging with compressive ultrafast sensingTraditional cameras require a lens and a mega-pixel sensor to capture images. The lens...
Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...
The vision of pervasive computing is now mainstream. These connected devices permeate every aspect of our lives. Yet, we remain tethered ...
Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evo...
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of dat...
Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ...
The esc-Pod (or Escape Pod) is an exploratory platform for researchers investigating moments of refuge within our bustling work liv...
Ekblaw, Ariel, and Joseph Paradiso. “ Self-Assembling Space Habitats:TESSERAE Technology and Mission Architecture for Zero-g Construction ” To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference (2019).
ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. ...
News coverage of the RFIQ project
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...
Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rh...
Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
With advances in virtual reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication through l...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...
When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.
Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
MIT researchers have developed a system that can produce images of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can’t penetrate it.
Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...
Smart office uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize individual work environments
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...
In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, t...
Batteries wear out, but breathing, sweat and body heat might provide alternative fuel.
With our Ubiquitous Sonic Overlay, we are working to place virtual sounds in the user's environment, fixing them in space even as the use...
Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of sci...
Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.
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 ...
Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision.
How Canan Dagdeviren is going about setting up a new research group at the Media Lab.
The Conformable Decoders group is now home to a state-of-the-art cleanroom called the "YellowBox."
Piezoelectric sensors have many applications including as vibration sensors, accelerometers, energy harvesters, and even electronic drum pad
Getting in Touch with Your Inner Stomach: An ingestible and flexible piezoelectric device enables sensing of changes in the GI tract.
FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling, and stretching.
Media Lab researchers are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland.
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.
È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.
Textile in G Major
In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.
Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...
Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...
We use terahertz transmission through sedimentary rock samples to assess the macro and micro porosity. We exploit the notable water absor...
The MIT Media Lab collaborated with London-based theater group Punchdrunk to create an online platform connected to their New York City p...
With over a billion people carrying camera-phones worldwide, we have a new opportunity to upgrade the classic bar code to encourage a fle...
Early in the opera "Death and the Powers," the main character, Simon Powers, is subsumed into a technological environment of his own crea...
We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, an...