LocationBartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab DescriptionDr. C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Ins…
LocationSheraton Austin, Capitol ABCD, 701 E. 11th St. Description
Kumar, I. K. (2023). FOSTERING WELL-BEING: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth (thesis).
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
Dykes, G., Groff, J., Renfrew-Knight, H., & Sutch, D. (2010). Driving Social Innovation in Education. An HP white paper.
The third salon in our series aimed at advancing interdisciplinary lunar policy thinking relevant to near term lunar activity.
C. Breazeal, A. Thomaz
Hope, Alexis. (2021). Social Change through Community Innovation: Feminist and Participatory Design Approaches to Organizing Inclusive, Equitable, and Joyful Hackathons (Doctoral dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA).
LocationMIT Media Lab Description Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore
LocationMIT Media Lab Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) New Media Medicine Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore
Lecamwasam, K.H.M. (2023). Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Anxiety Disorders and Well-Being. Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab.
LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium DescriptionJohn Ratey will address the connection between exercise and the brain's performance and …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionPhysical and biological needs of the brain must be met as a precondition for "higher" functions t…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMarko Ahtisaari is a technology entrepreneur and designer. For the last four years he was executi…
LocationE15 Bartos Auditorium DescriptionWhy do we reach for a cookie when we know an apple is better for us, even if we’re trying to lose …
T. Nishikata, T. Hardjono and A. Pentland, Social Capital Accounting, October 2018.
As of 2021, the MIT Media Lab's Social Machines group has merged with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. The Laboratory fo…
The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.
Pataranutaporn, P., Danry, V., Leong, J. et al. AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being. Nat Mach Intell (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00417-9
Special lecture by psychologist Barbara FredricksonAre the moments of positive interpersonal connection we experience positive health behav…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDigital self-tracking, sometimes called "life hacking" or "personal analytics," involves parsing …
Orii, L., Alonso, L. and Larson, K., 2020. Methodology for Establishing Well-Being Urban Indicators at the District Level to be Used on the CityScope Platform. Sustainability, 12(22), p.9458.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-LL, Bartos Theater DescriptionThe human brain is made up of neurons, highly sophisticated and stable cellular st…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 (Nagashima Conference Room) DescriptionPART 1: Investigating Well-being and Character in PsychologyPART 2: D…
Despite living in an increasingly connected world, loneliness and social isolation are prevalent issues today. While social robots have bee…
MIT has developed an extension that allows knowing the emotional impact caused by the content that everyone creates and consumes on Twitter.
DescriptionJP Onnela is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is interested …
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
Ostrowski, A.K., DiPaola, D., Partridge E., Park, H.W., & Breazeal, C. (2019). Older Adults Living with Social Robots: Promoting Social Connectedness in Long-Term Communities. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. doi: 10.1109/MRA.2019.2905234
Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Ben-David, S., Roeder, G.J., Kimura, K., D’Ignazio, C., Breazeal, C., Yang, M, & Verma, A. Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution. Design Studies.
Nosakhare, E., Picard, R. W. Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being," ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’19), August 4–8, 2019, Anchorage, AK, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3330738
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
ESG+Community
DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…
Nosakhare, E., and Picard. R. 2019. Toward Assessing and Recommending Combinations of Behaviors for Improving Health and Well-Being. ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare 1, 1, Article 4 (December 2019), 29 pages.
We are exploring how social robots can be used to improve connection to others and are looking for participants age 18+ located in the US
Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.
Narain, J.*, Quach, T.*, Davey, M.*, Park, H., Braezeal, C., and Picard, R. "Promoting Wellbeing with Sunny, a Chatbot that Facilitates Positive Messages within Social Groups". Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Accepted. *Equal Contribution.
Sawhney, N. "Cooperative Innovation in the Commons: Rethinking Distributed Collaboration and Intellectual Property for Sustainable Design Innovation"
When they’re valued as design research partners, older adults feel empowered to contribute to technology design.
Innovation dynamics of emerging co-creation practices: What are the impacts on inclusion?
Director; Apollo Professor of Astronautics
In Scientific American, Dr. Alex Lipton and Media Lab Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland call for the creation of new banking regulations.
Ouko, L. "Documentation: A Reflective Practice Approach"
The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much mor…
Leong, Joanne, et al. "Social Wormholes: Exploring Preferences and Opportunities for Distributed and Physically-Grounded Social Connections." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7.CSCW2 (2023): 1-29.
I. Rahwan (2017). Towards Scalable Governance: Sensemaking and Cooperation in the Age of Social Media. Philosophy & Technology. 30(2), 161-178
Hawkins, R.D., Berdahl, A.M., Pentland, A.‘. et al. Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01682-x
Researchers present a user-centered design approach to creating intelligent social technologies to empower and help older adults at home.
M. Ehsan Hoque
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
Jaques, Natasha. Social and Affective Machine Learning. 2019. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD dissertation.
Kory Westlund, J. M., Martinez, M., Archie, M., Das, M., & Breazeal, C. (2016). Effects of Framing a Robot as a Social Agent or as a Machine on Children's Social Behavior. In S. Y. Okita, T. Shibata, & B. Mutlu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 25rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 688-693). IEEE: Washington, DC.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDigital social media is revolutionizing the way people socialize and create/share information. Un…
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. Wo…
Barahona, J. "Diffusion of Ideas, Practices, and Artifacts: Network Effects on Collective Outcomes"
Nosakhare, E. "Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Predicting Future Well-Being and Assessing Behavioral Influences on Mood, Stress and Health", MIT PhD Thesis, September 2018
Kalanithi, J. "Connectibles: Tangible Social Networking"
J. J. Kalanithi, V. Michael Bove, Jr.
Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Ben-David, S., Roeder, G.J., Kimura, K., D'Ignazio, C., Breazeal, C., & Verma, A. (2022, March). Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution. In 2022 Design Thinking Research Symposium. (pp. 121-138). DesignTech, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2022