Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin.
A musical piece typically has a repetitive structure. Analysis of this structure will be useful for music segmentation, indexing, and thumb…
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Effective May 11, 2023, federal and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Covid-19 public health emergencies ended. As a result…
The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic
Jaleesa Trapp talks to Brittney Gallagher about how she works to create equitable spaces for STEM learning experiences.
IEEE-EMBS 16th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks.
Plots describing the effect of COVID-19 in Mexico in terms of spending and employment
MIT resources for students, staff, and faculty.
Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…
How has the work of designers, so central to everyday life and society at large, been impacted by COVID-19? Museum of Modern Art curator Pa…
At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades
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The City Science group is collaborating on several projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the project pages linked b…
Kevin Esvelt, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro, Sandy Pentland, Beth Porter, Ron Rivest, and Ramesh Raskar will each present a short talk.
Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…
Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.
MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.
MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.
Yuan, Y., Jahani, E., Zhao, S. et al. Implications of COVID-19 vaccination heterogeneity in mobility networks. Commun Phys 6, 206 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01325-7
Ramesh Raskar and Sandy Pentland present approaches and projects related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…
An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
In this project we seek to combine data sources to understand the effect of the shock of COVID-19 as well as the recovery dynamics. W…
Heroy Samuel, Loaiza Isabella, Pentland Alex and O’Clery Neave 2021COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviourJ. R. Soc. Interface.182020103520201035 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1035
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Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit…
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Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University (…
Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group
Bradshaw, W., Alley, E., Huggins, J., Lloyd, A., & Esvelt, K. (2020). Bidirectional contact tracing is required for reliable COVID-19 control. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.06.20093369
Berke, A., Doorley, R., Alfonso, L., & Larson, K. (2022). Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting. Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221088776
Leveling the education playing field under COVID-19...and beyond.This event is presented by The HEAD Foundation, a Singapore-based foundati…
Yabe, T., Bueno, B.G.B., Dong, X. et al. Behavioral changes during the COVID-19 pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters. Nat Commun 14, 2310 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37913-y
“Data scientists and visualization designers need to take their civic role very seriously in a pandemic,” says the MIT assistant professor.
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 …
D. Adjodah, et al (2021) Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes, PLOS ONE, doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252315
The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
To date, two Media Lab projects have received RAPID grants for work related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Three most promising PPE solutions selected by expert judges on MIT Pandemic Response CoLab.
We don’t know, but the idea is hardly crazy—and if the answer is yes, we could save many lives long before a vaccine arrives
Researchers are racing to achieve the benefits of location-tracking without the surveillance.