Press & Awards
2024
FibeRobo wins Gold at the International Design Awards
Gold in Textile & Materials / New technology fabrics
FibeRobo, a research project led by Media Lab PhD student Jack Forman, won gold in the Textile & Materials / New Technology Fabrics category at the 2023 International Design Awards. The project design team includes Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Sarah Nicita, Rosalie Hsin-Ju Lin, Liu Yang, Akshay Kothakonda, and Professor Hiroshi Ishii from the Tangible Media research group; other collaborators include Cedric Honnet (Responsive Environments group), Neil Gershenfeld (MIT Center for Bits and Atoms), and Megan Hofmann (Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University). FibeRobo is a novel body-temperature shape-changing fiber based on liquid crystal elastomers. The development of a new fabrication technique and chemical composition of the fiber enables self-reversing morphing at, or optionally slightly above, body temperature. These fibers, once formed into the larger textile structure through knitting, weaving, and sewing techniques, enables a myriad of applications from medical devices (compressions shirts), athletic wear (self-ventilating clothing), to interactive eating experiences (morphing table cloths), and transforming fashion pieces. The International Design Awards (IDA) recognize and celebrate smart, sustainable, multidisciplinary innovation across architecture, interior, product, graphic, and fashion design worldwide. The Farmani Group founded the IDA as the design sibling of the Annual Lucie Awards for Photography, which has emerged as one of the world’s most prestigious photography awards.
Jack Forman, Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Sarah Nicita, Rosalie Hsin-Ju Lin, Liu Yang, Megan Hofmann, Akshay Kothakonda, Cedric Honnet, Hiroshi Ishii, Neil Gershenfeld
Core 77 awarded FibeRobo Student Runner Up
Core 77 Design Awards 2024, Emerging Technologies, Student Runner Up
The 2024 Core77 Design Awards Emerging Technologies category honors systems, services, research, hardware, or software products created with the aid of recently created or developed software and hardware technologies. Examples can include projects that incorporate the use of artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), blockchain technologies, robotics, biometrics, advanced materials or new production processes.
Jack Forman, Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Sarah Nicita, Rosalie (Hsin-Ju) Lin, Liu Yan, Megan Hofmann, Akshay Kothakonda, Zachary Gordon, Cedric Honnet, Neil Gershenfeld, Hiroshi Ishii
FibeRobo receives Core77 Design Award Interaction Student Notable
Core 77 Design Awards
This year's Core77 Design Awards Interaction jury team was led by Stephanie Aaron, Vice President, Experience Design Lead at J.P. Morgan Chase. Joining Aaron on the panel Jess Greco, Director, Product Experience Design at Mastercard, Alex Wilcox Cheek, Design Manager at Google, Meghan Romero, UX Design Lead at J.P. Morgan Chase and Jennifer Bulcock, Founder/Owner at Peoplemade, LLC. The 2024 Core77 Design Awards Interaction category honors interactive content and user interface design for websites, mobile devices and experiential installations. Examples include: software, interactive projections, products with embedded user interface, animations, simulations, etc.
Jack Forman, Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Sarah Nicita, Rosalie (Hsin-Ju) Lin, Liu Yan, Megan Hofmann, Akshay Kothakonda, Zachary Gordon, Cedric Honnet, Neil Gershenfeld, Hiroshi Ishii
2023
2022
JMM Emerging Leaders 2022
Kris Dorsey
2021
HERMITS: Core 77 Design Awards 2021 Student Notable in Interaction Award
Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi Ishii
Jack Forman: MIT RISE LBGTQ + Pride Award
Jack Forman
Cathy Fang: MIT Office of Graduate Education Ida M. Green Fellowship
Cathy Fang
HERMITS: Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Award - Winner (Student Category)
HERMITS: Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Award - Winner (Student Category)
Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi Ishii
HERMITS: Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Award - Finalist (Experimental Category)
HERMITS: Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Award - Finalist (Experimental Category)
Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi Ishii
MIT News: New fibers can make breath-regulating garments
Press: MIT News
2020
DefeXtiles: UIST2020 Best Demo Award Honorable Mention
Jack Forman, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Hamilton Forsythe, Hiroshi Ishii
HelioZZZ: Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Award Honorable Mention (Student Category)
Jack Forman, Hiroshi Ishii
Venous Materials: Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Award Finalist (Experimental Category)
Hila Mor, Tianyu Yu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi Ishii
Venous Materials: Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Award Finalist (Student Category)
Hila Mor, Tianyu Yu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi Ishii
Venous Materials: Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Award Honorable Mention (General Excellence Category)
Hila Mor, Tianyu Yu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi Ishii
Cédric Honnet: Hackaday Best Wildcard Prize
Cédric Honnet
3D PRINTABLE CLOTH TAKES ADVANTAGE OF DEFECTS
Press: Hackaday
A Broken 3D Printer Inspired This Futuristic Fabric
Press: Gizmodo
The "Underextruding" Technique for 3D Printing Flexible Fabrics "Using an Inexpensive, Unmodified Printer"
Press: Core77
Speculative machines produce existential wonder
Press: MIT News
Profesor a vizionář Hiroši Išii: vím, co v digitálním světě chybí
Press: Proti Sedi (Czech Republic)
2019
inFORCE: TEI2019 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Ken Nakagaki, Daniel Fitzgerald, Zhiyao (John) Ma, Luke Vink, Daniel Levine, and Hiroshi Ishii
SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Slides & Photos: https://www.facebook.com/ishii.mit/posts/10157237743358544 Google Photo Album version is here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5h6L6K9VbM9gW7nY7 https://www.facebook.com/ishii.mit/posts/10157289292643544
Hiroshi Ishii
Fast Company Design Award
Fast Company’s 2019 Innovation by Design Awards- Honorable Mention from the Best Student Design
Kyung Yun Choi, Hiroshi Ishii
Tangible influence: A stroll through Hiroshi Ishii’s living legacy
Press: MIT Media Lab Web
Hiroshi Ishii wins ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Press: MIT Media Lab Web
2019 SIGCHI AWARDS SIGCHI LIFETIME RESEARCH AWARD HIROSHI ISHII
Press: ACM SIGCHI Web
2018
Programmable Droplets for Interaction
CHI Golden Mouse Award (Best Video Showcase)
Udayan Umapathi, Patrick Shin, Ken Nakagaki, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii
Honorable Mention in Experimental Category
Fast Company Innovation By Design
Udayan Umapathi, Patrick Shin, Ken Nakagaki, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii
Programmable droplets. Using electric fields to manipulate droplets on a surface could enable high-volume, low-cost biology experiments.
Press: MIT News Office
Programmable droplets. Using electric fields to manipulate droplets on a surface could enable high-volume, low-cost biology experiments.
Press: MIT News Office
MIT Discovery Could Drastically Reduce Experiment Costs
Press: Chemical Processing Online
Programmable Droplets Support High-Volume Alternative Tech to Microfluidic Chips
Press: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
‘Programmable Droplets’ could enable High-volume Biology Experiments
Press: Science Newsline
Novel System Advances Digital Microfluidics
Press: Biocompare
MIT researchers turn water into 'calm' computer interfaces
Press: Engadget
Calm Interfaces Are Here, And They’re Wonderful
Press: Fast Company
MIT researchers program water droplets to move and merge on command
Press: The Next Web
2017
Transformative Appetite: YouFab Global Creative Awards 2017 - Finalist
Wen Wang, Lining Yao, Chin-Yi Cheng, Teng Zhang, Daniel Levine, Hiroshi Ishii
ChainFORM: YouFab Global Creative Awards 2017 - Finalist
Ken Nakagaki, Artem Dementyev, Sean Follmer, Joseph A. Paradiso, Hiroshi Ishii
Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles
Press: MIT News Office
MIT used bacteria to create a self-ventilating workout shirt
Press: Popular Science
Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit
Press: MIT News Office
MIT researchers use bacteria to create workout clothes that cool the sweaty body
Press: The Washington Post
2016
bioLogic: Platinum A’ Design Award in the Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category
https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=46909
Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Helene Steiner, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Oksana Anilionyte and Hiroshi Ishii
bioLogic: Silver A’ Design Award in the Fashion, Apparel and Garment Design Category
https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=46909
Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Helene Steiner, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Oksana Anilionyte and Hiroshi Ishii
bioLogic: Golden A’ Design Award in the Wearable Technologies Design Category
https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=46909
Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Helene Steiner, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Oksana Anilionyte and Hiroshi Ishii
LineFORM: Golden A’ Design Award in Interaction Design Category
Ken Nakagaki, Sean Follmer and Hiroshi Ishii
IxDA Interaction Award finalist - Disrupting category
Jifei Ou, Lining Yao, Daniel Tauber, Hiroshi Ishii
Materiable: CHI 2016 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Ken Nakagaki, Luke Vink, Jared Counts, Daniel Windham, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer and Hiroshi Ishii
aeroMorph - UIST2016 Honorable Mention
https://uist.acm.org/uist2016/schedule#awards
Jifei Ou, Melina Skouras, Nikolaos Vlavianos, Felix Heibeck, Chin-Yi Cheng, Jannik Peters, Hiroshi Ishii
Fast Co.Design 2016 Innovation By Design Award
bioLogic: Fast Co.Design 2016 Innovation By Design Award Winner
Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Helene Steiner, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Oksana Anilionyte and Hiroshi Ishii
bioLogic: Design Intelligence Award (DIA Excellence)
Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Helene Steiner, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Oksana Anilionyte and Hiroshi Ishii
3D-Printed Hair Can Sense and Spark Motion
Press: The Creators Project
MIT brushes up on 3D-printing hair
Press: Gizmag
MIT Is Building Touchable Interfaces Out Of Soft, Synthetic Hair
Press: Fast.Co.Design
Shape-shifting interface lets you touch computer simulations
Press: engadget
MIT's Latest Tangible Interface? Shape-Shifting Digital Clay
Press: Fast Company
2015
TRANSFORM: A'Design Award Platinum
https://news.mit.edu/2015/transform-wins-adesign-platinum-0403
Hiroshi Ishii, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Amit Zoran, Philipp Schoessler
CHI 2015 Golden Mouse Award (Best Video Showcase)
Luke Vink, Viirj Kan, Ken Nakagaki, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Philipp Schoessler, Amit Zoran, Hiroshi Ishii
bioLogic: CHI 2015 Best Talk Award
Lining Yao and Jifei Ou
CHI 2015 Best Paper Honorable Mention Awared
Lining Yao, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Helene Steiner, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, and Hiroshi Ishii.
bioLogic: CHI 2015 Best Talk Award
Lining Yao, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Helene Steiner, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Hiroshi Ishii
bioLogic: CHI 2015 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Lining Yao, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Helene Steiner, Wen Wang, Guanyun Wang, Hiroshi Ishii
Core77 Community Choice Prize Winner
Jifei Ou, Lining Yao, Daniel Tauber, Hiroshi Ishii
iF Student Design Award
Jifei Ou, Lining Yao, Daniel Tauber, Hiroshi Ishii
MIT's Weird Snake Bot Could Be The Future Of UI
Press: Fast Company Co Design
MIT's creepy new snake robot could be the future of interactive tech
Press: The Daily Dot
2014
nFORM: Laval Virtual 2014 Award - INDUSTRIAL DESIGN & SIMULATION
Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii
inFORM: IDSA IDEA Award Bronze
Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii
inFORM: Core 77 Award - Interaction Student Winner
Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii
inFORM: Dot Award: Best of the Best - Design Concept
Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii
inFORM: Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards: Winner - Experimental
Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii
UIST 2014 People's Choice Best Demo Honorable Mention,
Sang-won Leigh, Philipp Schoessler, Felix Heibeck, Hiroshi Ishii
This Incredible Shapeshifting Table Responds To Your Movements In Dramatic Fashion
Press: Business Insider
George Takei visits the MIT Media Lab and the MIT AgeLab, George Takei Gets Schooled at MIT | Takei's Take Boston
Press: Takei's Take https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdU7LWHJbvi4QsIDoofsbNA
Amazing in Motion – Fabio Novembre, Nao Tamura and Hiroshi Ishii for Lexus
Press: TELEVISIONET.TV
MIT Transform project gives shape to human-object interplay
Press: TECHNOLOGY ORG
MIT Shows Off Shapeshifting Furniture That Changes Before Your Eyes
Press: International Business Times
Interactive furniture transforms with a wave of the hand
Press: CNET Australia
3D-Display Transform zeigt die Zukunft flexibler Möbel (Video)
Press: Engadget Germany
MIT Transform project gives shape to human-object interplay
Press: PHYS ORG
Now, shapeshifting furniture that can transform with gesture
Press: Business Standard
MIT Unveils Shapeshifting Furniture of the Future
Press: HYPEBEAST
MIT UNVEILS SHAPESHIFTING FURNITURE OF THE FUTURE
Press: EMAG.CO.UK
MIT's Kinetic Tabletop Is A Huge Step Towards Retail Shape-Shifting Furniture
Press: creators project
“Transform” dynamic furniture transforms its shape
Press: SLASH GEAR
MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future
Press: FAST COMPANY CO.DESIGN
2013
UIST 2013 Best Paper Award
Lining Yao, Ryuma Niiyama, Jifei Ou, Sean Follmer, Hiroshi Ishii
2012
Jamming User Interfaces wins Best Paper Award at UIST 2012
UIST 2012 Best Paper Award
Sean Follmer, Daniel Leithinger, Alex Olwal, Nadia Cheng, Hiroshi Ishii
Augmented-reality rope lets you team up to fly a kite
Press: New Scientist
2011
Snail Interface wins People's Choice Award at UIST 2011 Student Innovation Contest
UIST 2011 Student Innovation Contest
Anthony DeVincenzi, David Lakatos, Daniel Leithinger, Lining Yao
Recompose wins RTT Emerging Technology Contest 2011
RTT Emerging Technology Contest 2011
Matthew Blackshaw, Anthony DeVincenzi, Dávid Lakatos, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii
A Keyboard and Mouse? That's So 1970s
Press: Business Week
2010
Sourcemap wins Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica
Honorary Mention in Digital Communities at Ars Electronica
Sourcemap / Leonardo Bonanni and Matthew Hockenberry
Gold Medal / Korean Open Source Software Challenge
Leonardo Bonanni and Matthew Hockenberry
MIT opens new Media Lab Complex
Press: MIT News
"The stake that sticks out too far cannot be hammered in" (in Japanese) 人間発見 石井裕さん 出過ぎた杭は打たれない
Press: Nikkei Shimbun (Japanese newspaper) 日経新聞 ５回連載
2009
WoW Pod
SHASS's Peter de Florez Fund for Humor
Cati Vaucelle
Lasting Impact Award at UIST 2009
UIST '97 metaDESK paper received Lasting Impact Award at UIST 2009
Brygg Ullmer and Hiroshi Ishii
Tras la pista de la huella ecologica
Press: BBC Mundo
Where’s My iPod Made? SourceMap Has the Answer
Press: Fast Company
MAPPED:Where Do Computers Come From
Press: The Huffington Post
See Where Stuff Comes From with SourceMap
Press: Treehugger
Future design by the Media Lab
Press: Asahi-Shimbun GLOBE
Door to the Dream (in Japanese) 夢の扉 石井裕「未来のビジョンを 生み出し続けたい」
Press: TBS (Japanese TV)
HOW TO: Use the Web for Socially Responsible Shopping
Press: mashable.com
Game womb in play at MIT
Press: Boston Herald
Creativity and Research: Bridging Digital and Real with Sense of Touch (in Japanese) 独創性と探究心：デジタル・現実、触感で結ぶ
Press: Nikkei Shimbun（日経新聞）
WoWPod: a self-contained hut for WoW players
Press: Boing Boing
WoW Pod Meets All (Seriously, All...) of a Sedentary Gamer's Biological Needs
Press: Popular Science
WOW Pod: For the Professional Raider
Press: Gamesetwatch.com
Ishii Makes the Virtual Tangible
Press: MIT News
World of Warcraft Pod is everything the WoW addict needs to live
Press: TechDigiest
Amanda Parkes: "Phrases of the Kinetic: Dynamic Physicality as a Dimension of the Design Process"
Press: MIT Media Lab Webpage
2008
Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellow Nominee
Cati Vaucelle
Jabberstamp
Honorable mention, 2008 Interactive Media Design Review - I.D. Magazine
Hayes Raffle <br> Cati Vaucelle
Japan All Stars 100 『世界を変える100人の日本人』 石井 裕 世界一の大学が惚れた摩訶不思議未来ワールドをつくるサムライ教授
Press: TV Tokyo （テレビ東京）
Front Runner Professor Hiroshi Ishii at MIT Media Lab (in Japanese) フロントランナー デジタルの感触を創造する 石井 裕
Press: Asahi Shimbun (朝日新聞)
Touch Computing Hits Its Stride
Press: Business Week
Next Generation User Interfaces and Collaboration with Japanese Industries (in Japanese) ユーザー・インターフェース、「次世代型」大きなうねりに
Press: Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun (日経産業新聞)
Value of Universities: Creation of Intellectual Architecture (in Japanese) 大学の価値 知の体系創造
Press: Yomiuri Shimbun
Wearable Tech fashion show: Second Skin
Press: tv.boingboing.net
Prof. Ishii, Associate Director of the MIT Media Lab (in Japanese) MITメディアラボ副所長に石井氏、NTT出身、９５年教授に
Press: Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun（日経産業新聞）
MIT Media Lab Invents the Future (in Japanese) MITに見る「自ら創る未来」「人」が21世紀の研究テーマ
Press: Nikkei Computer（日経コンピュータ）
ISHII HONORED Muriel R. Cooper Professor Hiroshi Ishii has been chosen as the 2007-2008 Thomas A. Wasow Visiting Scholar by the Symbolic Systems program at Stanford University. Ishii will be in residence at Stanford from May 19-30. While at Stanford, he will give a lecture and lead a seminar.
Press: Stanford Symbolic System Program
Amanda Parkes named a "2008 Woman to Watch" by Mass High Tech
Press: Mass High Tech
Where innovation happens (in Japanese)
Press: Diamond Harvard Business Review March 2008
2005
Sina: World Class Design
Press: Sina Technology
2004
Topobo
Honorable Mention, Interactive Art, 2004 Ars Electronica Festival
Cyberarts Festival, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst. Linz, Austria September 2004
Amanda Parkes <br> Hayes Raffle
Topobo
Design Distinction, 2004 Interactive Media Design Review - I.D. Magazine
September/October 2004 Paper Issue
Hayes Raffle<br>Amanda Parkes
Audiopad
Honorable Mention, Interactive Design Awards Design of Interactive Systems 2004
ACM DIS 2004, Cambridge MA.
James Patten Ben Recht
Audiopad
Industrial Design Excellence Awards - Bronze award, Student designs
IDEA, 2004
James Patten and Ben Recht
Audiopad
DIS2004 - Best Interactivity, Best in Academic Category, Best in Show
ACM DIS 2004, Cambridge MA.
James Patten Ben Recht
This Ain’t Woody Allen’s Orb
Press: Wired News
2003
Easy Design Tool for Communication / Distribution Networks
Press: Nikkei Shimbun
Computing That Only Looks Like Child’s Play
Press: Business Week
Magic Touch for Electronic Music?
Press: Wired News
2001
2000
musicBottles
2000 IDEA Winners (Design Exploration: Silver) musicBottles Concept
BusinessWeek Online: June 12, 2000 Issue
Tangible Media Group
A Little Corner of the Luminous Room
2000 I.D. Interactive Media Design Review
"This project enables hologram simulation, shadow mapping, storage of digital items in physical objects and more. It transforms a common surface such as a desk or a blackboard into a digital workspace and, with its experimental interfaces, blurs the line between real and virtual."
John Underkoffler
IDSA Design Gumbo International Conference
Press: Core77
1998
Nauticoluratura
1998 I.D. Interactive Media Design Review
From 1998 MIT Reports to the President: "John Underkoffler won silver award from ID magazine for Nauticoloratura, a visual mechanism for teaching and studying orchestral scores."
John Underkoffler