How the home will be disrupted and transformed by radical technological change.

Read more about where the Media Lab has been, and where it’s going, in MIT Technology Review.

A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apnea …

A Smart Home System That Respects Privacy The new device from MIT's Media Lab relies on passive carbon dioxide and infrared sensors.

Places for Change & Transformation2020 was a global experiment that profoundly altered human activity patterns. When public facilities …

Using your personal fabratory, explore a world in which 3D printers cost as little as today's inkjets and are found in every home. We've de…

Kent Larson

About the workshopThe home is a place of shelter, a place for family, and for separation from other parts of life, such as work. Global cha…

Stephen Intille

Honey I'm Home is the simplest smell output device possible: a one-bit system that can be used for any purpose. We present it as a presence…

S.S. Intille, K. Larson. Designing and Evaluating Supportive Technology for Homes. Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2003, IEEE Press.

S.S. Intille, "The goal: smart people, not smart homes," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, IOS Press, 2006.

Researchers find large language models make inconsistent decisions about whether to call the police when analyzing surveillance videos.

Zaidi, A., Karanika, A., Cheng, T. C., Chiang, Y. S., Cobb, C., Gupta, I., & Karahalios, K. (2026). Control in Context: How Smart Home Users Navigate Proxy-based Schemes.

Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children. The skills required to diagnose it make it an even greater concern. Our solution …

We are developing a wireless system of devices to monitor the condition of patients with chronic diseases. The patient will use these devic…

Instead of ordering produce or groceries through the Web, is there a radically different future built on distributed food production? Worki…

Tech titans and upstarts alike are working to deepen our relationships with their robots.

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, and E. M. Tapia, "Designing and evaluating technology for independent aging in the home," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, 2003.

Hasier Larrea, an alum of the City Science research group, talks about the research that led him to co-found spinoff Ori.

The US Embassy in Italy & Italian Space Agency invite you to a virtual program of the From Home to Space series

Home robots won’t just be helpers and cleaners—they’ll be teachers and trainers, too.

Rockinson, R. "Activity Recognition with End-User Sensor Installation in the Home"

This paper introduces VR Haptics at Home, a method of repurposing everyday objects in the home to provide casual and on-demand haptic exper…

Natasha Maniar, Samantha W.T. Chan, Wazeer Zulfikar, Scott Ren, Christine Xu, and Pattie Maes. "MemPal: Leveraging Multimodal AI and LLMs for Voice-Activated Object Retrieval in Homes of Older Adults." In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 993–1015. https://doi.org/10.1145/3708359.37

Guy Satat, Krithika Ramchander, Ramesh Raskar Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016 IEEE 38th Annual International Conference, Pages 4375-4378

Cathy Mengying Fang, Ryo Suzuki, and Daniel Leithinger. 2023. VR Haptics at Home: Repurposing Everyday Objects and Environment for Casual and On-Demand VR Haptic Experiences. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 312, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585871

Smart Homes that Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate. Fadel Adib, Hongzi Mao, Zachary Kabelac, Dina Katabi, Robert C. Miller. Proceeding CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Arias, Kika., Jeong, Sooyeon., Park, Hae Won., Breazeal, Cynthia., "Toward Designing User-centered Idle Behaviors for Social Robots in the Home.", 1st international workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge. Held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)

J. S. Beaudin, E. Munguia Tapia, and S. S. Intille, "Lessons learned using ubiquitous sensors for data collection in real homes," in Extended Abstracts of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1359-1362.

E. Munguia Tapia, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Activity recognition in the home setting using simple and ubiquitous sensors," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2004, vol. LNCS 3001, A. Ferscha and F. Mattern, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 158-175.

Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For m…

Huili Chen, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Soo Jung Jang, Cynthia Breazeal and Hae Won Park (2022). Designing Long-term Parent-child-robot Triadic Interaction at Home through Lived Technology Experiences and Interviews. In the proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)

Munguia, E. "Activity Recognition in the Home Setting Using Simple and Ubiquitous Sensors"

Rosalind W. Picard, Akane Sano, Rana el Kaliouby

A large-scale art installation that investigates the biological systems that represent and embody human life, and their relationship to the…

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to…

Gihan, Eva, and MamaG's homes.

C. Kidd, C. Breazeal

Chylek, D., Fedor, S., Zhang, B., Nathan, V., Freedman, M., Stickgold, R., & Picard, R. (2025, June). Evidence for a deep sleep homeostatic response in ambulatory settings. SLEEP 2025: 38th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Seattle, WA, United States.

Professor Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution research group at the Media Lab, spoke before the US Senate Committee on …

Nature Communications Chemistry has featured NCB's Wearables for Cells technology

A 48-hour creative exchange between more than 40 artists and creative technologists.

Joy Buolamwini identifies bias in algorithms and develops practices for accountability during design.

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By working in the same public spot over a long period of time, street vendors and panhandlers often amass a large amount of social capital.…

The National Academy of Engineering's Frontiers of Engineering program has featured Cell Rover, a miniaturized, magnetostrictive anten…

We are developing a spoken-language interface for interacting with mobile robots. In our approach, language understanding is treated as a p…

Joe Paradiso talks about making music, collaborating with students (and with the internet), and his massive modular synthesizer.

Piper, B and Hwang, R. E.

Beaudin, J. "From Personal Experience to Design: Externalizing the Homeowner's Needs Assessment Process"

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