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Thinking Cap

Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
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Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast walk…
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When AI Recognizes Emotion, with Rosalind Picard

John Ellis talks to Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard about making AI and computers more emotionally intelligent.
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Make yourself "three heads" | MIT develops present, past, and future multi-headed system technology

Read (in Japanese) about "Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me,” an art project created by Fluid Interfaces student Pat Pataranutaporn.
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Magnetomicrometry: Tissue Tracking via Implanted Magnetic Beads

Amputation, muscle weakness, and nerve damage can make it difficult to perform simple daily tasks. In this project, we are developing a mi…
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Bio-Digital Wearables or Space Health Enhancement

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
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Self Assembling Space Frames

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air?  Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self As…
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H0TP0T

By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food pr…
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Panspermia

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surviv…
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Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communication (MOSAIC)

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Antenn…
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Moving Liquids With No Moving Parts

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

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

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

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

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

When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…
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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.
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Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
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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…
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Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices

Johnson, K.T. & Picard, R.W. (2020). Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices. Neuron 108(1), 8-12.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Q+A with Pattie Maes, MIT Professor of Media Technology

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

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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A new way to control experimentation with dreams

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

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

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

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
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AttentivU biosignals help re-focus attention

Fluid Interfaces postdoc Nataliya Kosmyna discussed her AttentivU research for MIT xTalks.
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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 …
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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 …
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Rosalind Picard elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Rosalind Picard elected to the NAE for her contributions to affective and wearable computing.
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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.
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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
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Wearable Lab on Body

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

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

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

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
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Designing medical devices to bend with the body

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

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
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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.
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A breakthrough device that combines mind and machine

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

Designing Wearables for Space Exploration
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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…
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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 …