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Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Professor Tod Machover, head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group, talks to the Washington Post about AI, music, & human creativity.
Man of My Words is a wearable self-feedback voice changer for women to challenge internalized sexism. The experience is designed in two par…
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Opera of the Future alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses the human voice—how our voices affect our identities, how we hear ourselves, etc.
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at f…
Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pers…
Sound and space are fundamentally intertwined, at both a physical and perceptual level. Sound radiates from vibrating materials, filling …
“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” Sc…
Our voice is an important part of our individuality. From the voices of others, we understand a wealth of non-linguistic information, such …
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For m…
This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …
Music software that lets anyone compose music. The first music software program designed to teach students and adults how to compose music …
The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic performe…
