Pattie Maes

Screen interactions have been shown to contribute to increases in stress, anxiety, and deficiencies in breathing patterns. Since better res…

Open Hybrid is an open source augmented reality platform for physical computing and Internet of Things. It is based on the web and Arduino.…

KickSoul is a wearable device that maps natural foot movements into inputs for digital devices. It consists of an insole with embedded sens…

As part of a Google-sponsored Glass developer event, we created a Glass-enabled improv comedy show together with noted comedians from Impro…

Projected augmented reality in the manufacturing plant can increase worker productivity, reduce errors, gamify the workspace to increase wo…

LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information device…

Bin-ary is a self-contained gas detector that analyzes organic trash odor compounds and releases a subtle burst of scent when bad odor is d…

A web technology-based update of Smarter Objects and the reality editor project.

We are designing interfaces to enhance driver self-awareness through subliminal visual feedback and shape-changing materials. Advancements …

Cord UIs are sensorial augmented cords that allow for simple, metaphor-rich interactions to interface with their connected devices. Cords o…

The Relative Size of Things is a low-cost 3D scanner for the microscopic world. It combines a webcam, a three-axis computer-controlled plot…

This project explores the idea that some "intelligence" is encoded in the habits that people assume in daily life. Adopting someone else's …

We study augmentation of the creative writing process through a new text editor. This text editor presents short-length snippets from books…

It's common for us to attach different emotions to each moment in our lives, but when we capture and interact with them, we are often const…

PoCoMo is an implementation of a vision in future-projected social interfaces. In this project we try to capture the playfulness of collabo…

ReflectOns are objects that help people think about their actions and change their behavior based on subtle, ambient nudges delivered at th…

MTM "Little John" is a multi-purpose, mid-size, rapid prototyping machine with the goal of being a personal fabricator capable of performin…

Pulp-Based Computing is a series of explorations that combine smart materials, papermaking, and printing. By integrating electrically activ…

TeleTouch lets you touch and control from far. See thru your smartphone's camera and control EVERYTHING you see on the screen by touching i…

Midas is a touch-based personalization system that bridges the gap between personal area networks (PANs) and explicit authentication. It is…

Remnant is a greeting card that merges the affordances of physical materials with the temporal malleability of digital systems to create, e…

SpendTrend is a ReflectOn designed to allow its user to reflect on spending habits. Often we spend based on the momentary buying capability…

In a digital, immersive world, e-book readers and flat displays are taking over what was once the realm of books. The reBook project attemp…

We are using intelligent interfaces to spatially organize streams of incoming information into coherent themes. Theme Stream helps us to de…

Information that is spatially or temporarily detached from us is hard to relate to our own personal lives. In addition, we are confronted w…

Soundforms is a tabletop interface for collaborative composition. The shapes and sizes of objects are used as simple icons for controlling …

We have seen an explosion of data, but the tools necessary to understand it have not kept pace. Humans have innate spatial memory and spati…

subTextile is a toolkit for behavioral textiles: the intersection of on-body computation and electronic textiles focusing on the interactiv…

With the Relational Pillow project, we are trying to provide a simple, intimate, and personable communication medium between loved ones. Th…

TeleStory is a tangible interface for children to learn vocabulary through gestural experimentation. Children pair characters in a story an…

WordPlay is a mutual tabletop interface for the generating, organizing, and exploring new ideas. Participants add terms to the table by spe…

The system consists of virtual representations of a handful of people that react to what a person is currently reading, writing, or talking…

The Sound of Touch is a new instrument for real-time capture and sensitive physical stimulation of sound samples using digital convolution.…

Imagine taking a digital picture with your new camera-phone and the picture is able to annotate itself. For example, if you are at Fenway P…

Using the built-in camera of a mobile phone and inexpensive printed tags, users can leave and retrieve video messages in specific locations…

Portrait of Cati 2 is an homage to the project "Portrait of Cati" done by Stefan Agamanolis. This portrait reacts differently to a man or a…

The Context Manager is a generalized framework for connecting a variety of pervasive sensor technologies and output modalities to intellige…

This work explores a technological answer to the perennial question "What's for dinner?" Few of us know with great certainty the exact food…

taggyMedia is an online interactive system that provides easier and more interesting ways of media search and exploration. By constucting a…

Programming is the art of constructing a story about objects and what they do in various situations, expressed in programming languages whi…

People's tastes are their systems of aesthetic judgment and preference. Taste systems are generative; understanding the tastes of friends m…

We are designing and testing an automatic system to calculate the usefulness of items on Web pages. Using this system, Web sites can adjust…

The most common functions of mobile devices involve alerting the user; whether notifying of incoming calls and messages or reminding of cal…

The goal of this project is to allow a user with a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone or PDA to gather personally relevant information about, and…

As RFID technology matures, and PDAs such as smart phones become ubiquitous, the time is right to look at the future of RFID tags beyond th…

Interactive teaching tools strive to make subject-material more interesting through a hands-on approach to learning. Using video projection…

Remembrance Agents are a new class of applications that watch over a user's shoulder and suggest information relevant to the current situat…

This project has developed a software agent that finds people who have never met, but share similar interests, and introduces them to each …

The members of electronic communities are often unrelated to each other; they may have never met and have no information on each other's re…