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Project Research

Panspermia

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surviv…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communication (MOSAIC)

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Antenn…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Moving Liquids With No Moving Parts

Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propellan…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Ø-scillation: oscillating chemistry in zero gravity and beyond

How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar me…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Carson Smuts +5 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

AgriFuge

By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activities …

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Harmony in Precarity

By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to explo…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response a…

in Fluid Interfaces
Utkarsh Sarawgi · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +5 more
Project Research

ELI: Electronic Life-detection Instrument

Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial G…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…

in Fluid Interfaces
Arnav Kapur · Eric Wadkins +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

Material Functionalization

When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…

in Responsive Environments · Tangible Media
Cedric Honnet · Paul Strohmeier +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #wearable computing +2 more
Article Research

FIGUR8 and Toppan Create Service for Upper-Body Misalignment Visualization

Spinoff Figur8 and member company Toppan Printing have developed a new service using musculoskeletal sensors to assess body misalignment.

via SPORTTECHIE · Feb. 25, 2021
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#health #wearable computing #sensors +2 more
Project Research

Targeted Dream Incubation

What Is TDI?Targeted Dream Incubation is a method for guiding dreams towards specific themes. It is a proposal both magnetic and unlik…

in Fluid Interfaces
Ishaan Grover · Tomas Vega Galvez +5 more
#cognition #learning #wearable computing +5 more
Center for Mobile Learning
#consumer electronics #developing countries #economy +5 more
Archived
Project Research

Frisson

Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…

in Fluid Interfaces
Abhinandan Jain · Tomas Vega Galvez +2 more
#human-computer interaction #cognition #wearable computing +1 more
Project Research

Flexible dry electrodes for EMG acquisition within prosthetic sockets

Acquisition of surface electromyography (sEMG) from a person with an amputated lower extremity (LE) during prosthesis-assisted walking rema…

in Biomechatronics
Seong Ho Yeon · Tsung-Han Hsieh +5 more
#robotics #human-machine interaction #wearable computing +5 more
Project Research

Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +18 more
Publication Research

Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices

Johnson, K.T. & Picard, R.W. (2020). Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices. Neuron 108(1), 8-12.

Academic Paper, Oct. 2020
in Affective Computing
#wearable computing #sensors #wellbeing
Project Research

Wearable Sanitizer: Open-source, On-body Sanitizer

Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and diso…

in Fluid Interfaces · Responsive Environments
Pat Pataranutaporn · Ali Shtarbanov +4 more
#human-computer interaction #consumer electronics #open source +3 more
Article Research

The Best Inventions of 2020 | A New Kind of Interface: MIT Media Lab AlterEgo

Congrats to Fluid Interfaces PhD student Arnav Kapur and collaborators on the selection of AlterEgo by ⁦Time Magazine for this recognition.

via Time Magazine · Nov. 19, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#communications #wearable computing #interfaces
Project Research

Doze: On-skin Scent Diffusion and Drug Delivery Patch

Doze is an IoT enabled platform for personalized scent diffusion and on-skin drug delivery. Leveraging a hydrogel technology, the Doze syst…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono
#human-computer interaction #bioengineering #consumer electronics +7 more
Project Research

[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, …

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Project Research

Leveraging artificial intelligence for the assessment of severity of depressive symptoms

This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Darian Bhathena
#wearable computing #affective computing
Article Research

How do you control your dreams? MIT scientists think they've figured it out

Dormio is the result of several year's worth of research conducted by the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.

via Mic · Oct. 1, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #creativity #technology +1 more
Article Research

A wearable sleep-tracker designed by an MIT team could give people the power to shape their own dreams

Vega and his colleagues tested Dormio on group of 50 people this summer. Read about their results.

via Business Insider · Oct. 1, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #creativity #technology +1 more
Article Research

Dream-shaping tech from MIT channels suggestions into your dreams

Guided dreaming could be used to boost creativity or to confront sources of stress and trauma.

via Live Science · Sept. 25, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #creativity #technology +1 more
Article Research

Q+A with Pattie Maes, MIT Professor of Media Technology

The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) talks to Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes

via MIT Integrated Learning Initiative · June 12, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #wearable computing +2 more
Publication Research

Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation

Berke A., Nawyn J., Lengeling T.S., Larson K. (2020) Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1229. Springer, Cham

Academic Paper, July 2020
in City Science
#human-computer interaction #privacy #wearable computing +2 more
Archived
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.

#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

A new way to control experimentation with dreams

Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.

via MIT News · July 21, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #creativity #technology +1 more
Project Research

Cocoon: Speculative Dream Engineering

Cocoon is our vision of a programmable dream machine from the future. This device would be enabled by the synthesis of many devices under d…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Adam Haar Horowitz +1 more
#design #wearable computing #interfaces +1 more
Archived
Project Research

SensorKnits: Architecting textile sensors with machine knitting

Digital machine knitting is a highly programmable manufacturing process that has been utilized to produce apparel, accessories, and footwea…

in Tangible Media · Synthetic Neurobiology · Responsive Environments +1 more
Jifei Ou · Don Derek Haddad +3 more
#design #manufacturing #wearable computing
Archived
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #health +8 more
Project Research

Wearable Wisdom

Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pers…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Tomas Vega Galvez +1 more
#human-computer interaction #extended intelligence #wearable computing +4 more
How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such a
#robotics #architecture #art +13 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Digital Life
#robotics #human-computer interaction #architecture +26 more
Archived
Article Research

An MIT lab is building devices to hack your dreams

From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.

via OneZero · April 13, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#wearable computing #technology
Project Research

BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Pattie Maes +2 more
#consumer electronics #health #wearable computing +5 more
Article Research

AttentivU biosignals help re-focus attention

Fluid Interfaces postdoc Nataliya Kosmyna discussed her AttentivU research for MIT xTalks.

via MIT Open Learning · Feb. 18, 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#health #wearable computing #sensors +1 more
Archived
Project Research

DermalAbyss: Possibilities of Biosensors as a Tattooed Interface

Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project was the result of a collaboration between MIT …

in Fluid Interfaces · Responsive Environments
Nicholas Barry · Pattie Maes +4 more
#health #wearable computing
Archived
Project Research

Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …

in Human Dynamics
Takeo Nishikata · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
#social networks #wearable computing #social science +4 more
Post Research

Rosalind Picard elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Rosalind Picard elected to the NAE for her contributions to affective and wearable computing.

Feb. 7, 2019
in Affective Computing
#wearable computing #technology
Article Research

A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.

via Quartz · Dec. 17, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#social networks #wearable computing #community +1 more
Publication Research

Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device

P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479

Academic Paper, April 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#health #wearable computing #sensors +1 more
Project Research

Wearable Lab on Body

Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indivi…

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Pat Pataranutaporn · Abhinandan Jain +2 more
#health #wearable computing #sensors +1 more
Publication Research

BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-Respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing

Amores, J., Hernandez, J., Dementyev, A., Wang, X., Maes, P. "BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing," Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018

Academic Paper, July 2018
in Affective Computing · Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces
#consumer electronics #fashion #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

Theme | Wearable Biotech Enhancement

Lab on Body, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-Digital Systems for Health and Human Enhancement

in Fluid Interfaces
Oscar Rosello · Pat Pataranutaporn +5 more
#health #synthetic biology #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

AttentivU: Towards Improved Wellbeing in the Car

Several research projects have recently explored the use of physiological sensors such as electroencephalography (EEG - brain activity) or …

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes +3 more
#wearable computing #wellbeing
Project Research

MoveU

MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR).  The device in…

in Fluid Interfaces
Misha Sra · Abhinandan Jain +1 more
#human-computer interaction #wearable computing #interfaces
Archived
Research
CE 2.0

CE 2.0

#robotics #architecture #art +20 more
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The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during …

in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
Archived
Research
Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.

#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Designing medical devices to bend with the body

Canan Dagdeviren creates flexible ultrathin systems to decode the patterns of disease.

via MIT ILP · July 17, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
#wearable computing #biotechnology
Project Research

Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters: Mechanically Invisible Human Dynamos

Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren
#bioengineering #energy #health +3 more
Article Research

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.

via Fast Company · May 16, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#communications #wearable computing #interfaces +1 more
Project Research

Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individuals …

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Abdullah M. Almaatouq
#data #economy #politics +4 more
Project Research

SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Akane Sano · Sara Taylor +9 more
#health #wearable computing #machine learning +2 more
Article Research

Computing Careers: Advice from Rosalind Picard on succeeding in the fast-growing field of "affective computing"

Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard talks to IEEE Computer Society for their series on careers in computing.

via IEEE Computer Society · May 21, 2019
in Affective Computing
#robotics #wearable computing #affective computing
Article Research

A breakthrough device that combines mind and machine

In the first live public demo of his new technology, TED Fellow Arnav Kapur introduces AlterEgo.

via TED2019 · April 1, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #wearable computing
Article Research

How wearable AI will amplify human intelligence

Pattie Maes and other experts talk to the Harvard Business Review about applications for wearable artificial intelligence agents.

via Harvard Business Review · April 30, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #wearable computing #technology
Post Research

Space Health Wearables

Designing Wearables for Space Exploration

April 28, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#health #wearable computing #space +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Living Observatory Installation: A Transductive Encounter with Ecology

In the Living Observatory installation at the Other Festival, we invite participants into a transductive encounter with a wetland environme…

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton +1 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #ecology +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Identi-Wheez: A device for in-home diagnosis of asthma

Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children. The skills required to diagnose it make it an even greater concern. Our solution …

in Advancing Wellbeing · Camera Culture
Ramesh Raskar · Guy Satat +1 more
#health #wearable computing
Project Research

BrightBeat: Effortlessly influencing breathing for cultivating calmness and focus

The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can als…

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Rosalind W. Picard
#health #wearable computing #affective computing +2 more
Project Research

SkinBot: A wearable, skin-climbing robot

We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and captu…

in Responsive Environments · Affective Computing
Artem Dementyev · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics #health #human-machine interaction +3 more
Project Research

HeartBit

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

in Fluid Interfaces
Oscar Rosello
#augmented reality #consumer electronics #health +4 more
Project Research

Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Epilepsy

We are performing long-term measurements of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity on patients with epilepsy. In certain cases, autonomic …

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Ming-Zher Poh
#health #wearable computing
Archived
Article Research

An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

In this TED Talk, Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard explains how AI can help save lives.

via TED · Nov. 1, 2018
in Affective Computing
#health #wearable computing
Article Research

Emotion AI, explained

Senior leaders should consider how emotion AI could change their industries and play a critical role in their firms.

via MIT Sloan School · March 8, 2019
in Affective Computing
#wearable computing #affective computing
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