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The goal of the Fluid Interfaces research group is to radically rethink the human-machine interactive experience. By designing interfaces that are more immersive, more intelligent, and more interactive we are changing the human-machine relationship and creating systems that are more responsive to people's needs and actions, and that become true "accessories" for expanding our minds.
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current projects
AudioPint
The reinvention of the musician's electronic toolbox: open, inexpensive, and extendable.David Merrill and David Bouchard in collaboration with Ben Vigoda
Augmented Mirror
A mirror which also reflects intangible information about yourself.David Bouchard and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Sajid Sadi, Enrico Costanza
Blossom
A mutilperson subtle remote awareness system.Sajid Sadi
Chameleon Guitar
Physical Heart in a Virtual Body: Digital Instruments Based on Physical Resonator.Amit Zoran and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Marco Coppiardi
Compact Contract: Commitments Made Easier
A tool for making small "contracts" with our friends and family, with a built-in reminder.Sajid Sadi, Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes
Connectus
Mapping connections in a physical social space via our digital patterns.Doug Fritz and Pattie Maes
Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy
Concept designs on the convergence of food and computation.Marcelo Coelho and Amit Zoran
Defuse
Defuse is a new method for navigating and participating in online discussions.Aaron Zinman
Done: Reflective Personal Project Management
A reflectOn that allows a person to reflect on the initial process of project planning.Sajid Sadi
Engaze
Generating representative data flashes of iconic images to be exchanged in the act of gazing.Doug Fritz and Sajid Sadi
Face Zoom
Face Zoom is an interface for exploring zoomable data sets by moving your body.Doug Fritz
Flexible Urban Displays
A flexible and modular LED-based display surface.David Bouchard and Sajid Sadi in collaboration with Orkan Telhan
Hole in the wall
Interactive physical portals for informational and fun experiences.Pranav Mistry
Influence
Influence is an interactive artwork visualizing collective behavior in a social network.Orit Zuckerman, Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes
inktuitive
An intuitive physical design workspace.Pranav Mistry in collaboration with Kayato Sekiya
Invisible Media
Invisible Media can augment objects around us to make them sensitive to our attention.David Merrill and Pattie Maes
ioMaterials
Using collocated input and output to create interfaces that provide interactivity through the materials that make up our world.Sajid Sadi, Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes
JotWatch: Instant Personal Note-Taking
JotWatch is a device designed with the singular purpose of easing quick note taking on the go.Sajid Sadi and Doug Fritz in collaboration with Eben Kunz, Melody Kuna
Life in a Comic
Adding time domain to a static comic using thermochromic ink.Amit Zoran and Pattie Maes
MemTable
Embodying Contextual History in Shared Workspaces.Seth Hunter in collaboration with Emily Zhao, Alexandre Milouchev
Midas: Touched-based Personalization
Touch-based personalization for ubiquitous systems.Sajid Sadi
Moving Portrait
A sensate evocative portrait that can reveal different aspects of its own personality.Orit Zuckerman and Pattie Maes
Personas
Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.Aaron Zinman
Portrait of Cati II
Portrait of Cati 2 is an homage to the project "Portrait of Cati" done by Stefan Agamanolis.Orit Zuckerman, Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes
Pulp-Based Computing
Pulp-Based Computing is a series of explorations that combine smart materials, papermaking and printing. .Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Joanna Berzowska and Lyndl Hall
PureJoy
A flexible vocal expression interface. You voice is the source material, and your hands can sculpt it with looping, layering and effects.David Merrill
Quickies: Intelligent Sticky Notes
Sticky Notes that can Remember, Remind, Send Messages & be Located.Pranav Mistry and Pattie Maes
ReachMedia
A system that supports on-the-move interaction with every day objects.Assaf Feldman, Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes
reAcoustic eGuitar
Googling, sharing & downloading acoustic guitar parts to be 3D printed .Amit Zoran
reBOOK
A digital interface for books, fusion of a 'real book' and an e-book.Natan Linder
ReflectOns: Mental Prostheses for Self-Reflection
Objects that help people think about their actions and change their behavior based on subtle nudges given in moment of action.Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes
Relational Pillow
With the Relational Pillow project, we're trying to provide a simple, intimate, and personable communication medium between loved ones.Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Amir Mikhak
Shutters
Shutters is a soft permeable surface for environmental control and communication.Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Steve Helsing
Siftables
Siftables aims to enable people to interact with information and media in a physical, natural and intuitive manner.David Merrill and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Jeevan Kalanithi
SixthSense
A wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures as the mechanism to interact with that information.Pranav Mistry and Pattie Maes
Soft Mechanics
Soft Mechanics is a design approach that uses the physical properties of materials to generate kinesis and actuation.Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes
SOMOS: Social Mobile User Interface
A new approach for a self forming, social contact book application .Pol Pla and Natan Linder
Soundforms
Soundforms is an interface for collaboritive musical composition with shapes.Seth Hunter and Pol Pla in collaboration with Eric Rosenbaum
SpaceMarks
Spatial Organization of Personal Digital Resources through Visualization and Crowdsourced Collaboration.Doug Fritz
SpendTrend: Reflecting on Spending Habits
SpendTrend is a ReflectOn designed to allow its user to reflect on spending habits.Sajid Sadi
Spotlight
Spotlight is about an artist's ability to create a new meaning using the combination of interactive portraits and diptych or polyptych layouts.Orit Zuckerman, Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes
Sprout I/O
Sprout I/O is a kinetic fur that can capture, mediate, and replay the physical impressions we leave in our environment.Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes
subTextile
A construction kit for computationally enabled textiles.Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes
Surflex
Surflex is a programmable surface for the real-time design and visualization of physical objects and spaces. .Marcelo Coelho and Pattie Maes
TaPuMa
Tangible Public Map for Information Acquirement through the Things We Carry.Pranav Mistry in collaboration with Tsuyoshi Kuroki
TeleStory
A Tangible Interface for Interactive Learning on Television.Seth Hunter in collaboration with Woohyoung Lee, Katya Popova
the Sound of Touch
A new instrument for manipulating digital sound that utilizes our intuitions about the sonic properties of materials.David Merrill in collaboration with Hayes Raffle, Roberto Aimi
Theme Stream
Visualizing complex time-based information.Doug Fritz and Pattie Maes
thirdEye
Technique that enables multiple viewer to see different things on a single display screen.Pranav Mistry and Pattie Maes
Transitive Materials
Transitive Materials is an umbrella project encompassing novel materials, fabrication technologies, and traditional craft techniques.Marcelo Coelho and Sajid Sadi in collaboration with Neri Oxman and Joanna Berzowska
WordPlay
A Table-Top Interface for Collaborative Brainstorming and Decision Making.Seth Hunter and Pattie Maes
Words In Words: MIT Media Lab the Complete Series
An anti-visualization of all English word combinations that contain "MIT Media Lab".Doug Fritz
old projects
CASY: Contextual Asynchronous System
CASYis a communication technology integrating audio/video messaging, asynchronous communication, and context-based delivery.Orit Zuckerman and Pattie Maes
Cherry Blossoms
When War Comes Home.Alyssa Wright
Collective Memory/Collective Intelligence
Interfaces that allow people to benefit from the knowledge and experience of others.Xinyu H. Liu and Pattie Maes
Embodied Emergence
How we can leverage emergent patterns to create visual and sonic textures that can be directly manipulated by users.David Bouchard and Pattie Maes
Hero Reports
Mapping Civic Courage.Alyssa Wright
Initimate Interfaces for Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
"Intimate interfaces" are discreet interfaces that allow interaction with mobile devices through subtle gestures and peripheral cues.Enrico Costanza and Pattie Maes
Intimate Communication Armband
A small wireless device embedded in an armband allows to interact with mobile devices in a subtle and unobtrusive way.Enrico Costanza and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Rebecca Allen (UCLA), Sam Inverso (ANU) and Alberto Perdomo
Object Awareness
Allow a user to gather personally relevant information about and interact with inanimate objects.David Gatenby and Pattie Maes
Playful Spaces
Immersive environments that allow a person to interact with a system or simulation in a natural way.Pattie Maes and David Gatenby in collaboration with Benjamin Buchwald and Ron MacNeil
Q&A@T
A local communication channel for the public and the neighborhood.James Teng and Pattie Maes
tagNet
social tagging, collective intelligence, media sharing, media browsing, cool.James Teng and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Wu-hsi Li
xLink
xLink is a context management solution for commodity ubiquitous computing environments.Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes