The home of the future will be different in both its technological and social roles. Advanced materials and new information technologies will combine with local influences to define new modes of interaction between house and resident. Working in a long-term...
The quality of life in urban space increasingly depends on the availability of information and knowledge as well as in the possibility to create and share information. Smart cities are emerging opportunities for meaningful user experiences to create connections...
Transquillity is a kinetic transformable media façade that will envelop Pandora and fuse together a building with its city and merge inside with outside, and its workers with passersby.
The media was imagined as a dynamic entity which would perform beyond a...
This project investigates how video communication can be reimagined to better integrate natural gestures and strategically manipulate content.
The first cycle focused on ad hoc exchanges between small clusters of people through video-mediated real-time...
The future of banks has been called into question as customers move toward a space where they can access their financial information, conduct transactions, and connect with financial information and experts without ever having to enter a bank branch. Future...
Memory Traces is an interactive collection of stories from the Boston Italian community. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Mobile Experience Lab in collaboration with the Italian Consulate of Boston captured 150 episodes that...
Locast Tourism allows for the rapid development of locative media travel guides combining high-quality, professional content with tourists' own experiences and local knowledge as captured through geo-located photos, videos and text. Created in a partnership...
“Only the patient knows about his or her experience of illness, social circumstances, habits and behaviour, attitudes to risk, values and preferences. Both types of knowledge are needed to manage illness successfully … “(Goodare and Lockwood 1999)
This research...
This project aims to address UV radiation and skin cancer prevention. The developed solution provides real-time and useful information to the user through a user-friendly interface in order to limit overexposure to a known human carcinogen. The architecture...
Youth in underserved communities often live in unmapped areas where little is known about the actual geography of services and interactions that shape their daily lives. The Mobile Experience Lab is working on technologies that help youth create and distribute...
Manifattura Domani is a publicly financed project creating a “green innovation hub” in an abandoned industrial site in Rovereto, northern Italy. We designed a Communication System for Manifattura Domani strategically designed to integrate the different subjects...
Locast Civic Media is a mobile & web platform to engage citizenship in the process of collecting, reporting and disseminating news and information related to the urban environment. In particular, a mobile application enables the user to create street reports (...
Locast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI TV. It consists of a combination of mobile and wearable computing elements supported by a distributed Web...
The way people organize the space of their house is strongly related to their local culture. In the process of designing a sustainable home not only is fundamental to make architectural choices toward an environmental and economical sustainability but it is also...
The site chosen was the Rural Development Academy in Bhogra, and it is a feasible reference for a small BSE with housing for 12-16 cows. The bio-digesting plant on site provides enough gas for cooking for the entire facility. The Academy also runs a construction...
The Green Wheel, developed by the Smart Cites group at the Media Lab, is a self-contained unit that includes an electric motor and battery, along with a generator that can recharge the battery. With a wirelessly operated throttle, the generator can release energy...
In particular, we are interested in understanding the future of media and how people access and elaborate information and content on mobile devices. During the educational workshop, we will explore some of the following areas or similar areas to better understand...
In October of 2008 sustainable design leaders from both Italy and the Northeastern United States convened in Boston to share and discuss the latest in green design concepts. Dignitaries from the European Union and the United States mingled and learned about ways...
No longer content to lean back and accept television programming as it is presented, the modern viewer expects to be able to interact with what they see on-screen. Ubiquitous mobile devices give viewers the ability to take TV consumption and production into their...
As electronics become more interwoven into the urban fabric, new opportunities for safety and social sustainability arise. The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in partnership with the Provincia di Brescia - Italy - is developing a ride-sharing system for youth...
The MIT Mobile Experience Lab has collaborated with RATP, the French Transportation Authority, since 2005 to study how information and communication technologies affect the public transportation system. Building on a new understanding the ecosystemic relationship...
Social networking applications are becoming increasingly popular among people of all ages and social status. The newest generation of mobile devices, with improved hardware and software capabilities, are opening new opportunities to access and disseminate...
With a smartphone in every hand, and an information terminal at every bus stop, future city dwellers will be able to collaborate with their cities in exciting ways. Working with Cisco Systems, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab is imagining how future cities can adapt...
Working with Cisco, the MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory envisioned a number of different possibilities for helping people to travel in more efficient and sustainable ways. The Personal Travel Assistant is an emergent service provided through a variety of...
Information and network technologies provide exciting opportunities to re-imagine the concept and function of a home. The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory and Cisco are partnering to explore the possibilities for making smart homes that can connect with each...
As part of the Redesigning Fashion Trade Shows project with Pitti Uomo, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab created an organic sculptural landmark, the Cloud, to give trade show visitors a new way to experience and interact with information. The Cloud serves as an...
Working with selected patients, physicians, and the patients' relatives or close friends, the Mobile Experience Lab identified a roadmap for product and services to improve communication hospitals, patients, and doctors.
Thanks to Diego Cupolo, Paul Keleher, and...
Near-Field Communication (NFC), can allow devices to seamlessly and intuitively communicate with one another, enabling a pleasant and convenient user experience. To explore the potential of this technology, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab in collaboration with...
Future sustainable public transportation systems will have to make use of the particular advantages of the cities they serve, from terrain and infrastructure to cultural habits and expectations. The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in collaboration with Cisco...
In any gathering of people there is a subtle and complex web of physical interactions that take place. These gestures simultaneously create and maintain a virtual space of connections and relationships that, until the advent of social networking technology,...
Our first prototype, “PittiFolio,” was a conference badge and kiosk system that supplemented the event guidebook. The badge itself was simple and stylish, consisting of a simple RFID chip encased in laser-cut leather. Users tapped their badge at an exhibitor to “...
In partnership with the Trentino Sviluppo division of the Provincia di Trento, Italy, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab is redesigning the village of Zambana, Italy, as an iconic “eco-village”. Leveraging cutting-edge design and technology to foster efficiency and...
With the emergence of pervasive digital media and networked communication, the way today’s youth access information, create and share knowledge is changing dramatically. At the same time, young people are interacting with their institutions and governments in new...
The workshop took place in Florence, Italy, and combined the Mobile Experience Lab's pluridisciplinary staff with employees of Pitti, uniquely excluding higher level executives and management so that all participants could feel as free as possible to contribute...
In collaboration with the Province of Florence, the Castel Pulci project sought to bring fashion into the future, make connections between people and entities committed to the advancement of the field, and reinforce Italy's leadership role. The castle, situated...
Wirelessly connected commuters provide new opportunities to rethink how an urban metro system can best function. In the Metro 2.0 workshop, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab re-imagined the Parisian Metro as a complex system, interacting with both the city and...
In future scenarios of public transportation, the bus stop can be more than the simple place where passengers and buses connect. With appropriate uses of information technology, the bus stop can serve as landmark and community rallying point, adopting new...
In the past five years, a number of location-sensing technologies have made their way into the mobile device market. The most familiar of these is GPS, which now comes standard in every new iPhone. Connected, location-aware devices can be an exciting and...
The eLens uses mobile information technology to enrich the physical environment. A cell phone's camera can serve as an electronic eye, recognizing visual codes that can serve as physical links to virtual information. This further blurs the line between the real...
Information technology will soon enable ubiquitous access to any information people require, when and where they require it. This mindset and expectation can be extended to the physical world where public transportation systems might one day give ubiquitous...
OngoingSustainable UrbanismFondazione Bruno KesslerThe home of the future will be different in both its technological and social roles. Advanced materials and new information technologies will combine with local influences to define new modes of interaction between house and resident. Working in a long-term...
December, 2012Avea LabsThe quality of life in urban space increasingly depends on the availability of information and knowledge as well as in the possibility to create and share information. Smart cities are emerging opportunities for meaningful user experiences to create connections...
May, 2012VEGATransquillity is a kinetic transformable media façade that will envelop Pandora and fuse together a building with its city and merge inside with outside, and its workers with passersby. The media was imagined as a dynamic entity which would perform beyond a...
April, 2012Sustainable MobilityAlcatel-LucentThis project investigates how video communication can be reimagined to better integrate natural gestures and strategically manipulate content. The first cycle focused on ad hoc exchanges between small clusters of people through video-mediated real-time...
January, 2012Sustainable UrbanismMIT Mobile Experience LabThe future of banks has been called into question as customers move toward a space where they can access their financial information, conduct transactions, and connect with financial information and experts without ever having to enter a bank branch. Future...
January, 2012Urban InterfaceItalian ConsulateMemory Traces is an interactive collection of stories from the Boston Italian community. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Mobile Experience Lab in collaboration with the Italian Consulate of Boston captured 150 episodes that...
December, 2011RAILocast Tourism allows for the rapid development of locative media travel guides combining high-quality, professional content with tourists' own experiences and local knowledge as captured through geo-located photos, videos and text. Created in a partnership...
September, 2011MIT Mobile Experience Lab“Only the patient knows about his or her experience of illness, social circumstances, habits and behaviour, attitudes to risk, values and preferences. Both types of knowledge are needed to manage illness successfully … “(Goodare and Lockwood 1999) This research...
September, 2011MIT Mobile Experience LabThis project aims to address UV radiation and skin cancer prevention. The developed solution provides real-time and useful information to the user through a user-friendly interface in order to limit overexposure to a known human carcinogen. The architecture...
August, 2011Educational WorkshopsUnicefYouth in underserved communities often live in unmapped areas where little is known about the actual geography of services and interactions that shape their daily lives. The Mobile Experience Lab is working on technologies that help youth create and distribute...
May, 2011Educational WorkshopsFondazione Bruno Kessler
December, 2010Next TVMIT Mobile Experience Lab
November, 20101st Annual Smart Sustainability SymposiumItalian Trade Commission
December, 2009Sustainable UrbanismFondazione Bruno KesslerManifattura Domani is a publicly financed project creating a “green innovation hub” in an abandoned industrial site in Rovereto, northern Italy. We designed a Communication System for Manifattura Domani strategically designed to integrate the different subjects...
November, 2009Connective TissuePontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do SulLocast Civic Media is a mobile & web platform to engage citizenship in the process of collecting, reporting and disseminating news and information related to the urban environment. In particular, a mobile application enables the user to create street reports (...
July, 2009Connective TissueMIT Mobile Experience LabLocast is an innovative platform for sharing and discovering location-based user-generated videos and production quality multimedia content provided by RAI TV. It consists of a combination of mobile and wearable computing elements supported by a distributed Web...
July, 2009Sustainable UrbanismFondazione Bruno KesslerThe way people organize the space of their house is strongly related to their local culture. In the process of designing a sustainable home not only is fundamental to make architectural choices toward an environmental and economical sustainability but it is also...
May, 2009Sustainable UrbanismEmergence BioEnergyThe site chosen was the Rural Development Academy in Bhogra, and it is a feasible reference for a small BSE with housing for 12-16 cows. The bio-digesting plant on site provides enough gas for cooking for the entire facility. The Academy also runs a construction...
April, 2009Sustainable MobilityMIT Mobile Experience LabThe Green Wheel, developed by the Smart Cites group at the Media Lab, is a self-contained unit that includes an electric motor and battery, along with a generator that can recharge the battery. With a wirelessly operated throttle, the generator can release energy...
March, 2009Educational WorkshopsRAIIn particular, we are interested in understanding the future of media and how people access and elaborate information and content on mobile devices. During the educational workshop, we will explore some of the following areas or similar areas to better understand...
February, 2009ExhibitionsFondazione Bruno KesslerIn October of 2008 sustainable design leaders from both Italy and the Northeastern United States convened in Boston to share and discuss the latest in green design concepts. Dignitaries from the European Union and the United States mingled and learned about ways...
December, 2008Sustainable UrbanismMIT Mobile Experience Lab
December, 2008Educational WorkshopsRAINo longer content to lean back and accept television programming as it is presented, the modern viewer expects to be able to interact with what they see on-screen. Ubiquitous mobile devices give viewers the ability to take TV consumption and production into their...
December, 2008Connective TissueProvincia di BresciaAs electronics become more interwoven into the urban fabric, new opportunities for safety and social sustainability arise. The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in partnership with the Provincia di Brescia - Italy - is developing a ride-sharing system for youth...
December, 2008Educational WorkshopsRégie Autonome des Transports ParisiensThe MIT Mobile Experience Lab has collaborated with RATP, the French Transportation Authority, since 2005 to study how information and communication technologies affect the public transportation system. Building on a new understanding the ecosystemic relationship...
November, 2008Connective TissueTelefónicaSocial networking applications are becoming increasingly popular among people of all ages and social status. The newest generation of mobile devices, with improved hardware and software capabilities, are opening new opportunities to access and disseminate...
September, 2008Sustainable MobilityCisco Systems, IncWith a smartphone in every hand, and an information terminal at every bus stop, future city dwellers will be able to collaborate with their cities in exciting ways. Working with Cisco Systems, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab is imagining how future cities can adapt...
September, 2008Sustainable MobilityCisco Systems, IncWorking with Cisco, the MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory envisioned a number of different possibilities for helping people to travel in more efficient and sustainable ways. The Personal Travel Assistant is an emergent service provided through a variety of...
July, 2008Sustainable UrbanismCisco Systems, IncInformation and network technologies provide exciting opportunities to re-imagine the concept and function of a home. The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory and Cisco are partnering to explore the possibilities for making smart homes that can connect with each...
June, 2008Urban InterfacePitti ImmagineAs part of the Redesigning Fashion Trade Shows project with Pitti Uomo, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab created an organic sculptural landmark, the Cloud, to give trade show visitors a new way to experience and interact with information. The Cloud serves as an...
June, 2008Connective TissueMIT Mobile Experience LabWorking with selected patients, physicians, and the patients' relatives or close friends, the Mobile Experience Lab identified a roadmap for product and services to improve communication hospitals, patients, and doctors. Thanks to Diego Cupolo, Paul Keleher, and...
April, 2008Connective TissueNokia USANear-Field Communication (NFC), can allow devices to seamlessly and intuitively communicate with one another, enabling a pleasant and convenient user experience. To explore the potential of this technology, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab in collaboration with...
March, 2008Sustainable MobilityCisco Systems, IncFuture sustainable public transportation systems will have to make use of the particular advantages of the cities they serve, from terrain and infrastructure to cultural habits and expectations. The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in collaboration with Cisco...
January, 2008Connective TissuePitti ImmagineIn any gathering of people there is a subtle and complex web of physical interactions that take place. These gestures simultaneously create and maintain a virtual space of connections and relationships that, until the advent of social networking technology,...
July, 2007Connective TissuePitti ImmagineOur first prototype, “PittiFolio,” was a conference badge and kiosk system that supplemented the event guidebook. The badge itself was simple and stylish, consisting of a simple RFID chip encased in laser-cut leather. Users tapped their badge at an exhibitor to “...
June, 2007Sustainable UrbanismTrentino SviluppoIn partnership with the Trentino Sviluppo division of the Provincia di Trento, Italy, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab is redesigning the village of Zambana, Italy, as an iconic “eco-village”. Leveraging cutting-edge design and technology to foster efficiency and...
June, 2007Educational WorkshopsProvincia di BresciaWith the emergence of pervasive digital media and networked communication, the way today’s youth access information, create and share knowledge is changing dramatically. At the same time, young people are interacting with their institutions and governments in new...
June, 2007Educational WorkshopsPitti ImmagineThe workshop took place in Florence, Italy, and combined the Mobile Experience Lab's pluridisciplinary staff with employees of Pitti, uniquely excluding higher level executives and management so that all participants could feel as free as possible to contribute...
May, 2007Educational WorkshopsProvincia di FirenzeIn collaboration with the Province of Florence, the Castel Pulci project sought to bring fashion into the future, make connections between people and entities committed to the advancement of the field, and reinforce Italy's leadership role. The castle, situated...
January, 2007Educational WorkshopsRégie Autonome des Transports ParisiensWirelessly connected commuters provide new opportunities to rethink how an urban metro system can best function. In the Metro 2.0 workshop, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab re-imagined the Parisian Metro as a complex system, interacting with both the city and...
October, 2006Urban InterfaceRégie Autonome des Transports ParisiensIn future scenarios of public transportation, the bus stop can be more than the simple place where passengers and buses connect. With appropriate uses of information technology, the bus stop can serve as landmark and community rallying point, adopting new...
August, 2006Educational WorkshopsAlcatel-LucentIn the past five years, a number of location-sensing technologies have made their way into the mobile device market. The most familiar of these is GPS, which now comes standard in every new iPhone. Connected, location-aware devices can be an exciting and...
July, 2006Connective TissueGeneralitat de CatalunyaThe eLens uses mobile information technology to enrich the physical environment. A cell phone's camera can serve as an electronic eye, recognizing visual codes that can serve as physical links to virtual information. This further blurs the line between the real...
January, 2005Educational WorkshopsRégie Autonome des Transports ParisiensInformation technology will soon enable ubiquitous access to any information people require, when and where they require it. This mindset and expectation can be extended to the physical world where public transportation systems might one day give ubiquitous...