Event

Philippa Mothersill @ Design Research Society 2016

LocationBrighton, UK DescriptionThe future of design is becoming ever more digital: from the computer-aided design systems designers use to…

Tuesday
June 28, 2016
Person

Philippa Mothersill

Former Research Assistant

Post

Reaktor Breakpoint 2018 | Pip Mothersill, Designing the future designer’s toolbox

Event

Pip Mothersill Dissertation Defense— Towards Digital Liminality: Computational tools for "beyond average" creative thinking

Renowned designer Kenya Hara writes: “Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked.”

Tuesday
October 8, 2019
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

The Challenge: To shape the future with decentralized technologiesOur world faces a range of complex challenges across multiple sector…

Post

Pip Mothersill receives 2019 Wiesner Student Art Award

Pip Mothersill lives and thrives at the junction of design and engineering.

Event

Rosalind Picard @ 2016 Emotion Preconference for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

LocationSan Diego, CA Description

Thursday
January 28, 2016
Series

ML Research Theme: Decentralized Society

We believe that decentralized technologies offer a promising solution to the challenges we face in various sectors.

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Project

Design Daydreams

Design Daydreams is a digitally-augmented ideation table and post-it note that seamlessly connects the physical and digital content that de…

Event

SXSW | Humans, Machines & the Future of Industrial Design

In today’s digitally-mediated world, designers translate ideas back and forth between the richly poetic language of the physical world and …

Friday
March 10, 2017
12:30pm ET
Project

EmotiveModeler: An emotive form design CAD tool

Whether or not we're experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their fo…

Article

In a creative rut? Try MIT’s Mad Libs for designers

It’s easy to get into a slump at work. But a tool from MIT Media Lab offers a simple way to spark inspiration through random–and often nons…

Event

Research Deep Dive | Decentralized Society + Web3

Take a deep dive into new digital technologies with Ramesh Raskar, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, and Neha Narula.

Project

EmotiveModeler: Emotive Form Design Taxonomy

We have an unconscious understanding of the meaning of different physical objects through our extensive interactions with them. Designers c…

Post

Deblina Sarkar's research featured in IEEE Electron Device Society's newsletter

IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS) highlighted the research journey of Deblina Sarkar, an assistant professor at MIT and AT&T Career De…

Article

Student Runner Up Open Design Award Core77 Design Awards 2016

Publication

An Ontology of Computational Tools for Design Activities

Philippa Mothersill & V. Michael Bove Jr. (2018) An Ontology of Computational Tools for Design Activities, Proceedings of DRS2018 International Conference, 25–28 June 2018, Limerick, Ireland, p1261-1277, DOI: 10.21606/dma.2018.456

Publication

Design Daydreams: Juxtaposing Digital and Physical Inspiration

Mothersill, P., & Bove, V. M. (2019, June). Design Daydreams: Juxtaposing Digital and Physical Inspiration. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (pp. 265-269).

Post

Remembering Edith Ackermann, 1946-2016

Edith Ackermann was a beloved member of the Media Lab faculty from the early days of the Lab through the mid-90s, and continued to play an …

Article

SXSW: When Combining AI and Design, Computers Need To Get Moody

Two industrial designers explore an important question: How do we teach computers to design using emotion, creativity and serendipity?

Article

In A Creative Rut? Try MIT’s Mad Libs For Designers

A tool from MIT Media Lab offers a simple way to spark inspiration through random–and often nonsensical–design prompts.

Article

Student Winner Speculative Concept Award Core77 Design Awards 2016

Article

Get design inspiration through this Mad Libs-like game

design(human)design is a game developed by MIT Media Lab to help inspire designers with random but purposeful prompts.

Publication

The EmotiveModeler: An Emotive Form Design CAD Tool

Mothersill, P., & Bove Jr, V. M. (2015, April). The EmotiveModeler: An Emotive Form Design CAD Tool. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 339-342). ACM.

Event

Deblina Sarkar@2018 Material Research Society Fall Meeting: Nanoscale Mapping of the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Brain

 Understanding in 3-D how molecules are configured throughout neurons, and how neurons are configured in circuits, may not only enable…

Tuesday
November 27, 2018
4:00pm — 4:00pm ET
Publication

The Form of Emotive Design

Mothersill, P. "The Form of Emotive Design"

Event

UbiComp 2016

LocationHeidelberg, Germany DescriptionThe 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016) wil…

Monday — Friday
September 12, 2016 —
September 16, 2016
Publication

Design Research in HRI: Roboticists, Design Features, and Users as Co-Designers

Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.W. 2020. Design research in HRI: Roboticists, design features, and users as co-designers. IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication 2021 Workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge

Article

Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin highlighted our recent GI paper from Nature Biomedical Engineering

Piezoelectric sensors have many applications including as vibration sensors, accelerometers, energy harvesters, and even electronic drum pad

Event

Hiroshi Ishii @ SI International 2016, SII2016

LocationSapporo Convention Center DescriptionTRANSFORM: Beyond Pixels, Towards Radical AtomsWhereas today's mainstream Human Computer Inter…

Thursday
December 15, 2016
Post

2016: A year in the life of the Lab

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Event

Ed Boyden @ TEDSummit 2016

LocationThe Banff Centre DescriptionTEDSummit is a new five-day event for the most engaged members of the global TED community. The gatheri…

Sunday
June 26, 2016
Event

Media Lab @ CHI 2016

LocationCHI 2016 DescriptionCHI 2016 (May 7-12) will have a robust Media Lab presence.More details are available via the CHI 2016 program.T…

Saturday — Thursday
May 7, 2016 —
May 12, 2016
Event

Kent Larson Keynote @ CES 2016

LocationLas Vegas, NV Description

Thursday
January 7, 2016
Project

Antiracism & Technology Design Research Seminar Series

The Antiracism & Technology Design Research Seminar Series hosts speakers from around the world who center issues of race, intersection…

Publication

Body Integrated Programmable Joints Interface, CHI 2016 (Best Paper Honorable Mention - 4%), 2016

Sang-won Leigh, Pattie Maes

Publication

Decolonizing Learning Spaces for Sociotechnical Research and Design

Marisol Wong-Villacres, Adriana Alvarado Garcia, Juan F. Maestre, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Heloisa Candello, Marilyn Iriarte, and Carl DiSalvo. 2020. Decolonizing Learning Spaces for Sociotechnical Research and Design. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '20 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, N

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Fall 2016 Media Arts and Sciences Course List

Learn more about academic program options at the Media Lab.

Project

Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…

Post

MLK Visiting Professor Moriba Jah Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh

MLK Visiting Professor and Space Enabled Affiliate Moriba Jah was recently elected to RSE, Scotland's National Academy.

Publication

Pokémon Go, pH, and projectors: Applying transformation design and participatory action research to an environmental justice collaboration

Laura J. Perovich, Sara Wylie & Roseann Bongiovanni | Alex Wade (Reviewing editor) (2018) Pokémon Go, pH, and projectors: Applying transformation design and participatory action research to an environmental justice collaboration in Chelsea, MA, Cogent Arts & Humanities, 5:1, DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2018.1483874

Event

AI, Automation & Society

The consequences of contemporary technological innovations for the lives and values of future generations are enormous. The wide range of e…

Tuesday
November 14, 2017
5:30pm — 6:45pm ET
Event

Radical Atoms @ Ars Electronica Festival 2016

LocationLinz, Austria DescriptionIn close cooperation with Professor Hiroshi Ishii and the Tangible Media group, the 2016 Ars Electronica F…

Thursday — Monday
September 8, 2016 —
September 12, 2016
Event

Valentin Heun @ Augmented Reality World Expo 2016

LocationAugmented World Expo, Santa Clara California DescriptionCurrently, we use Augmented Reality mainly to superimpose virtual content w…

Sunday
June 5, 2016
Event

Media Lab Faculty @ World Economic Forum 2016

LocationDavos-Klosters, Switzerland DescriptionWednesday, 1/20, 12:30pm | Ed Boyden: Panel: Will Science Save Us?Wednesday, 1/20, 4-5pm and…

Wednesday — Friday
January 20, 2016 —
January 22, 2016
Event

AI, Automation and Society

In the first symposium, CASBS presents a panel discussion among three 2017-18 CASBS fellows supported by the Berggruen Institute: technolog…

Tuesday
November 14, 2017
5:30pm — 7:00pm ET
Group

Society of Mind

The Society of Mind research group focuses on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. We account for many aspe…

Video

Research Group Overview: MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.

Project

Society of Mind/The Emotion Machine

Professor Minsky continues to develop the theory of human thinking and learning called the "Society of Mind," which tries to explain how va…