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How the home will be disrupted and transformed by radical technological change.

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At-Home Sleep Apnea Screening

A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apnea …

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Home of Tomorrow - International Design Competition

Places for Change & Transformation2020 was a global experiment that profoundly altered human activity patterns. When public facilities …

Thursday — Saturday
July 1, 2021 —
September 4, 2021
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A Smart Home System That Respects Privacy

A Smart Home System That Respects Privacy The new device from MIT's Media Lab relies on passive carbon dioxide and infrared sensors.

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Home Fabratory

Using your personal fabratory, explore a world in which 3D printers cost as little as today's inkjets and are found in every home. We've de…

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The Home of the Future

Kent Larson

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Designing a home of the future

Stephen Intille

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Speculating on Biodesign in the Future Home | CHI 2021 Workshop

About the workshopThe home is a place of shelter, a place for family, and for separation from other parts of life, such as work. Global cha…

Friday — Saturday
May 7, 2021 —
May 8, 2021
5:00pm — 8:00pm ET
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Honey I'm Home

Honey I'm Home is the simplest smell output device possible: a one-bit system that can be used for any purpose. We present it as a presence…

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Designing, Evaluating Supportive Technology for Homes

S.S. Intille, K. Larson. Designing and Evaluating Supportive Technology for Homes. Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2003, IEEE Press.

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The goal: smart people, not smart homes

S.S. Intille, "The goal: smart people, not smart homes," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, IOS Press, 2006.

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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 …

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At-Home Chronic Health Care Monitoring

We are developing a wireless system of devices to monitor the condition of patients with chronic diseases. The patient will use these devic…

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Better Home Freezing, Cooking, and Farming

Instead of ordering produce or groceries through the Web, is there a radically different future built on distributed food production? Worki…

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The next generation of home robots will be more capable — and perhaps more social

Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.

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Designing and evaluating technology for independent aging in the home

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, and E. M. Tapia, "Designing and evaluating technology for independent aging in the home," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, 2003.

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'I Make Tiny Homes That Can Grow 33% Bigger'

Hasier Larrea, an alum of the City Science research group, talks about the research that led him to co-found spinoff Ori.

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Danielle Wood featured speaker in Italian Space Agency's "From Home to Space" Series

The US Embassy in Italy & Italian Space Agency invite you to a virtual program of the From Home to Space series

Thursday
May 7, 2020
9:00am — 10:00am ET
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Social robots will become family members in the homes of the future

Home robots won’t just be helpers and cleaners—they’ll be teachers and trainers, too.

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Activity Recognition with End-User Sensor Installation in the Home

Rockinson, R. "Activity Recognition with End-User Sensor Installation in the Home"

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Identi-wheez—A device for in-home diagnosis of asthma

Guy Satat, Krithika Ramchander, Ramesh Raskar Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016 IEEE 38th Annual International Conference, Pages 4375-4378

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Talking Machines: Democratizing the Design of Voice-Based Agents for the Home

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VR Haptics at Home: Repurposing Everyday Objects and Environment for Casual and On-Demand VR Haptic Experiences

Cathy Mengying Fang, Ryo Suzuki, and Daniel Leithinger. 2023. VR Haptics at Home: Repurposing Everyday Objects and Environment for Casual and On-Demand VR Haptic Experiences. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 312, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585871

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Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate

Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate. Fadel Adib, Hongzi Mao, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi, Robert C. Miller. Proceeding CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Toward Designing User-centered Idle Behaviors for Social Robots in the Home

Arias, Kika., Jeong, Sooyeon., Park, Hae Won., Breazeal, Cynthia., "Toward Designing User-centered Idle Behaviors for Social Robots in the Home.", 1st international workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge. Held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)

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VR Haptics at Home: Repurposing Everyday Objects and Environment for Casual and On-Demand VR Haptic Experiences

This paper introduces VR Haptics at Home, a method of repurposing everyday objects in the home to provide casual and on-demand haptic exper…

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Lessons learned using ubiquitous sensors for data collection in real homes

J. S. Beaudin, E. Munguia Tapia, and S. S. Intille, "Lessons learned using ubiquitous sensors for data collection in real homes," in Extended Abstracts of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1359-1362.

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Activity recognition in the home setting using simple and ubiquitous sensors

E. Munguia Tapia, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Activity recognition in the home setting using simple and ubiquitous sensors," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2004, vol. LNCS 3001, A. Ferscha and F. Mattern, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 158-175.

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Talking Machines: Democratizing the design of voice-based agents for the home

Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For m…

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Designing Long-term Parent-child-robot Triadic Interaction at Home through Lived Technology Experiences and Interviews

Huili Chen, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Soo Jung Jang, Cynthia Breazeal and Hae Won Park (2022). Designing Long-term Parent-child-robot Triadic Interaction at Home through Lived Technology Experiences and Interviews. In the proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)

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Activity Recognition in the Home Setting Using Simple and Ubiquitous Sensors

Munguia, E. "Activity Recognition in the Home Setting Using Simple and Ubiquitous Sensors"

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Palmar vs. Forearm EDA during Natural Sleep at Home

Rosalind W. Picard, Akane Sano, Rana el Kaliouby

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Homeostasis

A large-scale art installation that investigates the biological systems that represent and embody human life, and their relationship to the…

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Ring’s hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to…

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MIT Aims to Give Bitcoin Research, Development a Stable Home

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With(in)_homes

Gihan, Eva, and MamaG's homes.

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Robots at Home: Understanding Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction

C. Kidd, C. Breazeal

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Kevin Esvelt testifies before Senate Committee on Homeland Security + Governmental Affairs

Professor Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution research group at the Media Lab, spoke before the US Senate Committee on …

Thursday
July 11, 2024
10:30am ET
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Lab Homes in on Home Life

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MIT Media Lab Founder Nicholas Negroponte on "Predicting" the Future and Giving It a Home

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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group's wearables for cells technology featured on Nature Comms Chemistry homepage

Nature Communications Chemistry has featured NCB's Wearables for Cells technology

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Member Collaboration—Open Lab: Home Sprint with Google Arts & Culture

A 48-hour creative exchange between more than 40 artists and creative technologists.

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Homepage takeover: explore some of the amazing work our newest alumni have done at the Media Lab!

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30 Under 30 In Enterprise Tech: Drone School, AI Accountability And Buying Cars From Home

Joy Buolamwini identifies bias in algorithms and develops practices for accountability during design.

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Homeless Neighbors

By working in the same public spot over a long period of time, street vendors and panhandlers often amass a large amount of social capital.…

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The Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek group's Cell Rover technology featured on the NAE's Frontiers of Engineering homepage

The National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering program has featured Cell Rover, a miniaturized, magnetostrictive anten…

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Hermes: Homeostatic Control for a Conversational Mobile Robot

We are developing a spoken-language interface for interacting with mobile robots. In our approach, language understanding is treated as a p…

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How that giant homemade modular synth wound up at MIT

Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.

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The HomeBox: A Web Content Creation Tool for The Developing World

Piper, B and Hwang, R. E.

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From Personal Experience to Design: Externalizing the Homeowner's Needs Assessment Process

Beaudin, J. "From Personal Experience to Design: Externalizing the Homeowner's Needs Assessment Process"

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Nikhita Singh

Former Research Assistant

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Stephen S. Intille

Former Technology Director; Former Research Assistant, Vision and Modeling

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Lev Kanter

Former Type/Code

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Anastasia Ostrowski

Former Postdoctoral Associate

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Michael J. Hawley

Former Research Scientist

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Daniel Goodwin

Former Research Assistant