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Former Postdoctoral Associate
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LocationTrinity Rep, Providence, RI Description
LocationSeaport World Trade Center, Boston MA DescriptionVirtual Pianist: How can infusing technology into music change the way we play?
LocationGoethe Institut, Boston Description
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis thesis introduces and examines methods for the capture and reproduction of music on the pian…
Alum and research affiliate Xiao Xiao talks to “I Am a Scientist” about her work, which merges science with art.
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Here's to your magnificent life, dear mentor and friend. May all who have known you carry on your childlike "espirit"—of joy, curiosity, an…
Xiao Xiao, an alum and research affiliate of the Tangible Media group, recognized for her project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin
For the project T-Voks: The Singing and Speaking Theremin. Congratulations!
Xiao Xiao and Cynthia Solomon in conversation with Hal Abelson
MODULAND is a playground kit for learning electronic music.MODULAND is an interactive project created by the MIT Media Lab Berlin…
Xiao Xiao performs La Vie En Rose and a Tang Dynasty poem on the theremin at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME).
A week-long prototyping workshop.
Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education is a collection of six essays by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky.
MirrorFugue is an installation for a player piano that evokes the impression that the "reflection" of a disembodied pianist is playing the …
IFT celebrated its launch with a press conference, a research conference, and an evening of interactive arts performances.
The City Science Lab @ Taipei is a cooperation between The National Taipei University of Technology, also called NTUT or Taipei Tech, …
The Wetpaint project investigates new interfaces for exploring the history of a work of visual art. We are seeking intuitive metaphors for …
Stress OutSourced (SOS) is a peer-to-peer network that allows anonymous users to send each other therapeutic massages to relieve stress. By…
PingPong++ (PingPongPlusPlus) builds on PingPongPlus (1998), a ping pong table that could sense ball hits, and reuse that data to control v…
MirrorFugue is an interface for the piano that bridges the gap of location in music playing by connecting pianists in a virtual shared spac…
Andante is a representation of music as animated characters walking along the piano keyboard that appear to play the physical keys with eac…
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
Radical Atoms is our vision of interactions with future materials. Radical Atoms goes beyond Tangible Bits by assuming a hypothetical gener…
aireForm is a dress of many forms that fluidly morph from one to another, animated by air, reflecting the shifting of our own personas. Pne…
We introduce a family of fragile electronic musical instruments designed to be “played” through the act of destruction. Each Fragile Instru…
Du, X (March, 2022). Explore the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Co-design Inclusive Teaching Practices [Workshop presentation]. Inclusive HRI Workshop Equity and Diversity in Design, Application, Methods, and Community, HRI, 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22)
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
Segregation, or income inequality, is one of the major problems of our society. Residential segregation has long been of research interest …
ImmerScope City offers new ways of visualizing complex urban designs. It generates rendered images of streetscapes to allow for collab…
This paper explores how an actuated pin-based shape display may serve as a platform on which to build musical instruments and controllers. …
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
Don Derek Haddad, Gershon Dublon, Brian Mayton, Spencer Russell, Xiao Xiao, Ken Perlin, Joseph A. Paradiso
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Fragile Instruments: Constructing Destructible Musical Interfaces. Don Derek Haddad, Xiao Xiao, Tod Machover, Joe Paradiso. NIME17.
Xiao Xiao, Hiroshi Ishii
Xiao Xiao, Hiroshi Ishii
Xiao Xiao, Basheer Tome, Hiroshi Ishii
The recent availability of quantitative behavioral data provides an opportunity to study human behavior at unprecedented scale. Using large…
Fragile Instruments: Constructing Destructible Musical Interfaces. Don Derek Haddad, Xiao Xiao, Tod Machover, Joe Paradiso, to appear in NIME17.
Xiao Xiao, Anna Pereira, Hiroshi Ishii
Xiao Xiao, Michael S Bernstein, Lining Yao, David Lakatos, Lauren Gust, Kojo Acquah, Hiroshi Ishii
Xiao Xiao, Hiroshi Ishii
P. Chi Xiao, X., Chung, K., and Chiu, C.
Chiu, C., Xiao, X., and Chi, P.
Leo Bonanni Xiao, X., Hockenberry, M., Subramani, P., Ishii, H., Seracini, M., and Schulze, J.
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited number …
Three research projects featured in The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility
The understanding and modeling of social influence on human economic behavior in city environments can have important implications. In this…
Xiao Xiao, Pablo Puentes, Edith Ackermann, Hiroshi Ishii
A one-day event focused on global service innovations
Congratulations Graduates!
Kinéphone: Exploring the Musical Potential of an Actuated Pin-Based Shape Display Xiao Xiao, Don Derek Haddad, Thomas Sanchez, Akito van Troyer, Rébecca Kleinberger, Penny Webb, Joe Paradiso, Tod Machover, Hiroshi Ishii - NIME16
Xiao Xiao, Hiroshi Ishii
Leo Bonanni SERACINI, M., XIAO, X., HOCKENBERRY, M., COSTANZO, B.C., SHUM, A., TEIL, R., SPERANZA, A., AND ISHII,