LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionKelly Dobson is an artist and engineer who pioneered the Parapraxis of Machine Design, a novel ar…
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LocationWiesner Room DescriptionMany important elements of our relationships with machines either go unnoticed or get very little attention…
LocationCenter for Advanced Visual Studies DescriptionKelly Dobson is an artist and engineer who works in the realms of technology, medicin…
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Former Alumna, Program in Media Arts & Sciences
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The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…
Wearable Body Organs are a series of digitally controlled, electromechanical wearable devices that respond to a set of psychologically and …
The SA+P-sponsored Wellness Program, including yoga classes and mindfulness meditation - is now available virtually.
Leigh, S. W., Sareen, H., Kao, H. L. C., Liu, X., & Maes, P. (2017). Body-Borne Computers as Extensions of Self. Computers, 6(1), 12.
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and the world
LocationMIT Media Lab Description Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore
LocationMIT Media Lab Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) New Media Medicine Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore
Zhang, C.*, Nayeem, M. O. G.*, Wang, Z.*, Pu, X., Dagdeviren, C.†, Wang, Z.L.†, Zhang, X.†, Liu, R.†, “Conductive hydrogels for bioenergy harvesting and self-powered application”, Progress in Materials Science, 138, 101156, 2023.
Dagdeviren, C.*,†, Li, Z., Wang, Z.L.*,†, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 19, 85-108, 2017. [Invited Review Paper]
Wednesday April 18, 2018 …
Fleming, Renée, et al. "Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness." Viking (Penguin Random House LLC). April 9, 2024. ISBN 9780593653197
Kyung Yun Choi, Valentina Sumini, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. ReSpire: Self-awareness and Interpersonal Connectedness through Shape-changing Fabric Display. In Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 449–454. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3325480.3329176
We have developed a technique by which devices like Pocket PCs, phones, or laptop computers can use audio processing to estimate their loca…
"I feel like I go to the real-life museum of science, where the machines and the projects all come to life."
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…
LocationBartos Theater, MIT Building E15 Description
Misha Sra, Chris Schmandt
LocationBartos Theater, MIT Building E15 Description
MIT resources for students, staff, and faculty.
Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
EEG-based biometrics (user identification) has been explored on small datasets of no more than 157 subjects. Here we show that the accuracy…
B. C. Dalton, V. Michael Bove, Jr.
As of 2021, the MIT Media Lab's Social Machines group has merged with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. The Laboratory fo…
Akane Sano, Rosalind W. Picard
E. C. Ferrer, I. Berman, A. Kapitonov, V. Manaenko, M. Chernyaev and P. Tarasov, "Gaka-Chu: A Self-Employed Autonomous Robot Artist," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom, 2023, pp. 11583-11589, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160866.
The Molecular Machines group is focused on pioneering the field of Avogadro scale engineering, which seeks to understand and approach the f…
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For m…
Vivek Sharma, Makarand Tapaswi, M. Saquib Sarfraz, and Rainer Stiefelhagen. In IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM), 2019.
A collaborative exhibit investigating art, environment, and community in our past and present.
FLUID INTERFACESWhile today's devices put the world’s information at our fingertips, they do not help us with some of the cognitive s…
Griffith, S. "Growing Machines"
Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indivi…
While some Human-Computer Integration (HInt) systems have successfully demonstrated that humans and technology can be physically and functi…
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
A. Dementyev, J. Qi, J. Ou, J. Paradiso, “Mass Manufacturing of Self-Actuating Robots: Integrating Sensors and Actuators using Flexible Electronics” in Proc. of IROS’18
Fernandez, S. V., Cai, F., Chen, S., Suh, E., Tiepelt, J., McIntosh, R., Marcus, C., Acosta, D., Mejorado, D., Dagdeviren, C.†, “On-Body Energy Harvesters Through Innovative Designs and Conformable Structures”, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00800, 2021. [Invited Review Paper for Special Issue].
Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.
New technology for next-generation wireless + batteryless micro-implantsThese wireless batteryless micro-chips can reprogram themselves ins…
Mohamed R. Abdelhamid, Ruicong Chen, Joonhyuk Cho, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Fadel Adib . 2020. Self-Reconfigurable Micro-Implants for CrossTissue Wireless and Batteryless Connectivity. In The 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ’20), September 21–25, 2020, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372224.3419216
Danry, Valdemar, et al. "On Eliciting a Sense of Self when Integrating with Computers." Augmented Humans 2022. 2022. 68-81.
Vivek Sharma, Makarand Tapaswi, M. Saquib Sarfraz, and Rainer Stiefelhagen. In IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2019
New device gives an amputee the ability to feel the location of his foot
J. Shen, K. Lecamwasam, H. W. Park, C. Breazeal and R. Picard, "Designing Conversational Agents for Emotional Self-Awareness," 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ACIIW59127.2023.10388072.