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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, 3rd Floor Atrium DescriptionJohn Ratey will address the connection between exercise and the brain's performance and …
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 …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMarko Ahtisaari is a technology entrepreneur and designer. For the last four years he was executi…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDigital self-tracking, sometimes called "life hacking" or "personal analytics," involves parsing …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-LL, Bartos Theater DescriptionThe human brain is made up of neurons, highly sophisticated and stable cellular st…
DescriptionJP Onnela is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is interested …
Former Director of Human Resources
Former Advisory Council Member
Lecamwasam K, Bresle E, Martiny KM, et al. Beyond Performance: A Mixed-Methods Study of Carnegie Hall’s Well-Being Concerts. Health Promotion Practice. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/15248399251361095
Kumar, I. K. (2023). FOSTERING WELL-BEING: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth (thesis).
DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…
Thinking With Sand, a virtual talk series exploring new software interfaces and tools for augmented thinking and creative exploration.
Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…
Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Téo Xisto of the Lifelong Kindergarten group is among the recipients of the 2026 Joan Ganz Cooney Center Well-Being by Design Fellowship
The 2025 City Science Network Talks will cover research updates from the various network labs. Talks are presented monthly to members of th…
The 2026 City Science Network Talks will cover research updates from the various network labs. Talks are presented monthly to members of th…
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
Kubzansky LD, Kim ES, Boehm JK, Davidson RJ, Huffman JC, Loucks EB, Lyubomirsky S, Picard RW, Schueller SM, Trudel-Fitzgerald C, VanderWeele TJ, Warran K, Yeager DS, Yeh CS, Moskowitz JT. Interventions to Modify Psychological Well-Being: Progress, Promises, and an Agenda for Future Research. Affect Sci. 2023 Mar 3;4(1):174-184. doi: 10.1007/s42761-022-00167-w. PMID: 37064816; PMCID: PMC9982781.
LocationBartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab DescriptionDr. C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Ins…
Computers that analyze people’s feelings and stress? Those days are already here. Dr. Rosalind Picard, founder and director of the Affectiv…
From Lenin to Einstein: How Being Someone Else Can Change Your Behavior
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 (Nagashima Conference Room) DescriptionPART 1: Investigating Well-being and Character in PsychologyPART 2: D…
On May 2, Kent Larson, Director of the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab, will deliver a keynote talk titled "Cities as Hubs of Innov…
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.
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.
Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and the world
Who decides what future cities look like?
Join us for the third seminar series event hosted by the Women's Health Program (WHx) at the MIT Media Lab, featuring Amanda…
*Senthil, S., *Fedor, S., Zhang, B., Nathan, V., Stickgold, R., Picard, R. W., Associations Between Circadian Sleep Alignment, Sleep Regularity, and Wellbeing: Evidence from Wearable Data, In *Proceedings of the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI’25), Atlanta, GA, USA
What can observing nature show us about computation and creative practice?Join the Future Sketches group for the Fall 2025 edition of our L…
P. Pataranutaporn, N. Powdthavee, C. Archiwaranguprok, & P. Maes, Simulating human well-being with large language models: Systematic validation and misestimation across 64,000 individuals from 64 countries, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (48) e2519394122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2519394122 (2025).
Join us for the next seminar series event hosted by the Women's Health Program (WHx) at the MIT Media Lab, featuring Linda Griffith
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…
Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Can AI Predict Human Happiness? Researchers Simulate Well-Being for 64,000 Individuals WorldwideA new study reveals both promise and peril …
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.
Lecamwasam, K., Bartleet, B. L., Ortiz, T., & Koebner, I. (2025). Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: insights from the lullaby project’s international convening. Arts & Health, 1-11.
We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.
News coverage of a research collaboration with OpenAI investigating how chatbots affect users' social and emotional wellbeing
Join us for the first seminar series event hosted by the Women's Health Program (WHx) at the MIT Media Lab, featuring Megan Ann Greenfield
Professor Canan Dagdeviren has been invited to give a presentation at the EPFL BioE talks series, titled "MiNDS: Miniaturized Ne…
Join us for our online seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program! This event…
The University of Guadalajara (UdeG) established a Master's Degree in City Science (Maestría en Ciencia de la Ciudad or MCCd). The degree i…
THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS: How Mindful Innovation Can Fuel Well-beingTechnology—at least in theory—is improving our productivity, efficiency,…
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
Design in the 21st Century
Part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series.
Non-invasive Sleep Quality Monitoring with LIBS, an In-ear Sensing SystemSleep occupies nearly a third of human’s life and acts as a critic…
Dr. Andrew Walshe, Senior Director of High Performance for Red Bull, presents his seminar "Performance Under Pressure: Fear is Not an Optio…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionJohn Miller will examine different aspects of dating and relationships from the perspective of a …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA wealth of evidence indicates that exercise programs can relieve negative affect, alleviate stre…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMobile and ubiquitous computing research has led to new techniques for cheaply, accurately, and c…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis talk is free and open to the public, and will be webcast.This fun and interactive program te…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDigital technologies have made their way into all the aspects of our lives that, according to psy…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA fundamental challenge for modern society is the development of effective approaches to enhance …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-359 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.The popularity of…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionNew mobile apps and wearable devices for measuring health-related behavior and motivating health …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn his talk, Dr. Nock will describe recent findings from epidemiologic studies on the prevalence,…
Mobile Technologies for Health and Wellness: A Global PerspectiveWhat are the largest health needs around the world? And how can techn…