Each Media Lab faculty member and senior research scientist leads a research group that includes a number of graduate student researchers and often involves undergraduate researchers.
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Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion.
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Enhancing human physical capability.
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Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection.
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Enabling dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life.
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Creating technology for social change.
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Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling.
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Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections.
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Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion.
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Engaging people in creative learning experiences.
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Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions.
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Transforming data into knowledge.
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Designing for, with, and by nature.
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Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts.
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Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies.
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Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.
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Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better.
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Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability.
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Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks.
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Reimagining the way society organizes, cooperates, and governs itself.
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Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering.
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Inventing technologies that extend human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks,
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Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments.
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Understanding and empowering human networks.
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Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations.
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Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation.
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Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness.
