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Patchbots are sheet-form robots that are programmable on-the-fly by direct manipulation through bodily movements. The integrated …
Our traditional manufacturing, fabrication, and electronics have been centered around synthetic and completely artificial techniques. Comin…
Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely while …
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…
E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive expe…
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
Recent advancements in orthopedic implants have made way for a new generation of bionic limbs that attach directly to the skeleton. Leverag…
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast walk…
Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platform …
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
An application that drains your computer's resources at the rate of COVID-19 infections and deaths in your state. It exhausts your CPU powe…
Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found a…
The Interplanetary Cookbook, developed by Maggie Coblentz, presents thought-provoking recipes and zero-g kitchenware for the future of life…
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with the …
We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or masks,…
We are presenting the WorkOut Sensor Node Assistant (WOSNA), a body sensor net composed of many tiny sensor nodes that can suck on the skin…
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …
'Shells, often found on seashores, exemplifies the absence of existed lives. What if a presence dwells in to animate them?'Projec…
In this project the ephemeral and intangible aspects of human communication are represented by a soap-bubble. The shapeless, intangibl…
Living Bits : Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Living Microorganisms in Human-Computer InteractionThere are trillions of living…
We are working on communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological sen…
StoryBlocks aims to promote creative expression, literacy development, and social-emotional development through storytelling for children a…
Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to make …
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary compositi…
Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-free …
There are 20 chemokine receptors that bind their respective chemokines. It is not currently understood how these structurally similar recep…
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience tha…
In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well-k…
Graphics on incompletenessThe City Science Summit 2019, CITIES WITHOUT, explored a future without top-down and obsolete systems. During the…
Moments is a prototype designed for users to save special moments and to experience those moments in the future. Firstly, a multi-sens…
The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroimp…
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is interfa…
Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limitati…
Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication…
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…
We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can t…
As we generally experience on earth, there is no space without sound and there is no sound without space. Building on the understanding of …
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For m…
Analyze and visualize urban interaction with computer vision and deep neural net.
Fensadense is a new work for 10-piece ensemble composed by Tod Machover, commissioned for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015. The project …
Digital Materials are a way of designing and manufacturing. Rather than building large, monolithic, single-use components, we discretize th…
Radical Atoms is our vision of interactions with future materials. Radical Atoms goes beyond Tangible Bits by assuming a hypothetical gener…
Imagine a future where lights are not fixed to the ceiling, but follow us wherever we are. In this colorful world we enjoy lighting that is…