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LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-LL, Bartos Theater DescriptionThe human brain is made up of neurons, highly sophisticated and stable cellular st…
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…
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 …
DescriptionJP Onnela is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is interested …
Thinking With Sand, a virtual talk series exploring new software interfaces and tools for augmented thinking and creative exploration.
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 DescriptionAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting over 5 million …
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
Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…
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…
Dr. Dagdeviren is invited to deliver a talk titled: “Conformable Biomedical Devices: from Breast to Brain” during the Fall 2023 Seminar Ser…
Dr. Canan Dagdeviren is invited to give a talk at Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series, School of Engineering, Tufts University.I…
We've designed a health system strengthening model to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
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.
Computers that analyze people’s feelings and stress? Those days are already here. Dr. Rosalind Picard, founder and director of the Affectiv…
Téo Xisto of the Lifelong Kindergarten group is among the recipients of the 2026 Joan Ganz Cooney Center Well-Being by Design Fellowship
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.
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
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).
What can observing nature show us about computation and creative practice?Join the Future Sketches group for the Fall 2025 edition of our L…
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.
LocationBartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab DescriptionDr. C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Ins…
Public talk outlines ambitious plans to make his nation a hub for technology and innovation.
Professor Canan Dagdeviren has been invited to give a presentation at the EPFL BioE talks series, titled "MiNDS: Miniaturized Ne…
The University of Guadalajara (UdeG) established a Master's Degree in City Science (Maestría en Ciencia de la Ciudad or MCCd). The degree i…
From Lenin to Einstein: How Being Someone Else Can Change Your Behavior
Building Reproducible, Reusable, and Robust Machine Learning SoftwareWe have seen significant achievements with machine learning in re…
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…
Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and the world
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.
*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
Join us for the third seminar series event hosted by the Women's Health Program (WHx) at the MIT Media Lab, featuring Amanda…
Join us for our online seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program! This event…
In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.
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
K Lisa Yang Center for Bionics and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation aim to develop an integrative approach to strengthening
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
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.
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
“The Talking Drums” is a sound installation where we created a modular system for sending images through rhythmic patterns. It is an encryp…
Footage of the Biomechatronics Group in their work collaborating to improve the orthotic and prosthetic sector of Sierra Leone.
Anastasia Ostrowski talks to the Digital Future Society about her work in this Q+A.
For much of the last 25 years the focus of nutritional advice has been to reduce total fat intake and consume large amounts of carbohydrate…
Dr. Dagdeviren speaks at bi-weekly Engineering and Medicine Seminar Series of the Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII) at t…
MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech.
Join us for our online seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program! This event…