GroundWalks
The GroundWalks project (formerly known as WalkSensePlace) leverages data from next generation shoe insole pressure sensors to better understand the grounds we walk…
Recent Work
Discovering Neighborhoods
Experience Design for New Forms of Local Urban Tourism For every visit to one of the well-established and well-known destinations, countless lesser-known places…
Experience Design for The Presidents Trail
In Spring 2021 the City of Quincy published the first maps of the Presidents Trail. This historic walking trail connects several of the…
Visualizing the 17th Century Netherlandish Art Market
As part of a collaboration between the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Experience Design Lab and the Co-Lab for Data Impact we…
Gymnast_CoBot
A collaborative robot for industrial work environments that takes inspiration from fitness routines on gym machines for a physically more sustainable work modality.…
Made by Humans Supported by Robots
What is a robot? And how do you feel about robots preparing the food you buy at the grocery store? This project seeks…
Seafood Factory as Real Time Observatory
The industrial workplace is evolving as described by the industry 4.0 framework. Machines on the factory floor are evolving from following fixed programs…
HuRoCo / Design for Human-Robot Collaboration
Our lab is engaging in a four year research endeavor on the topic of Design for Human-Robot Collaboration. Specifically, we are looking at…
Eyes on the Street and Cameras in Your Eyes
Designers and planners have long sought ways to better understand how humans experience the built urban environment. In this project we combine quantitative…
Spinning Awards
Spinning Awards is an interactive and improvisational visualization that makes 150 years of musical awards won by alumni from the New England Conservatory…
Open Lines
The project OpenLines consists in dynamic lines projected onto the floor of a busy campus atrium. The project is based on the observation…
Workplace + Public Realm
Reflecting on ways in which the built environment transforms radically as the boundaries between workplace and public realm are being renegotiated.
Exhibition: Northeastern Energy Flows at Gallery 360
Two interactive visualizations reveal how the bustling activity on Northeastern’s campus is fueled by energy consumed by the buildings on campus and help…
Data Orchestra | Northeastern Energy Flows
As part of the ‘Northeastern Energy Flows’ research project this interactive data visualization system provides access to fine grain data on energy consumption,…
Improvised Action in Responsive Environments
Together with a group of Viewpoints actors we have started experimentation for our new project that proposes a collaboration across the domains of…