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Director's fellow Jaylen Brown and Labber David Kong on Jaylen's educational journey and their new learning and leadership initiative.
US elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.
The 2020 MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) runs from January 6–January 31.
Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative citi...
Knitting is an established textile manufacturing technique that has been pervasive in the garment and technical fabrics manufacturing and...
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
StyleTeamwork; Collective This class is graded P/D/F. To pass, you must: (i) attend all the cleanroom sessions, (ii) work in a team ...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
The following ventures (startups, nonprofits, academic labs, studios, etc.) will be participating in the first Media Lab Venture Summit.
Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Shrinking problems in 3D printing Although a range of materials can now be fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques, these...
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Biplanar fluoroscopy (BiFlo) enables three-dimensional bone kinematics analysis using x-ray videos and bone geometry from segmented CT. H...
Giving voice and information to objects and spaces around us.Objects in our lives are usually either digital or not; mostly a wall is jus...
Based off of Jaidyn Edward's PopPet, Gizmo is a low-cost, Arduino-based robot used in AI curricula developed by the Personal Robots group.
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within t...
Below is a selection of press coverage of the collaboration between the MIT Media Lab City Science group at the University of Guada...
Looking beyond smart cities
We present a mobile heart rate regulator—ambienBeat—which provides closed-loop ambient biofeedback via subliminal tactile stimulus based ...
Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775
Disobedience Award
In this work, we propose a novel fabrication method for 3D objects based on the principle of spooling. By wrapping off-the-shelf material...
We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece...
Thanks to my advisor, Pattie Maes, I will serve as one of the guest editors for the upcoming IEEE Sensors Journal Special Issue on Advanc...
This initiative is for identifying cost-efficient and lightweight infrastructure systems for deployment in rapidly urbanizing areas.
Climate CubeSat Co-Building (C3) The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is driven by an effort to democratize the futu...
Updates on the DermalAbyss project
Huili Chen, Hae Won Park, Xiajie Zhang, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2020. Impact of Interaction Context on the Student Affect-Learning Relationship in Child-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20) https://doi.org/10.1145/3319502.3374822
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology tha...
Exhibited in the Tempe Center for Arts, AZ, USFeatured in Instructables, Awarded in Toy Contest
A previous collaboration between Su and Star, Seasons (季节), also received an Honorable Mention for Best Student Game at the 2019 IGF.
Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs that together provide a collaborative musical narrative experience in the form of a multi...
The Independent Games Festival (IGF) honors the most influential, innovative and acclaimed projects in independent game development.
Class Description and Motivation ~ In Sci Fab, we read and watch science fiction, and use the inspiration it provides to envisioneer and ...
“I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the paintin...
Narratarium augments printed and oral stories and creative play by projecting immersive images and sounds. We are using natural language ...
A basketball net incorporates segments of conductive fiber whose resistance changes with degree of stretch. By measuring this resistance ...
When Aleister Crowley defined magic as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will,” he might as easily have ...
We are expanding the home-video viewing experience by generating imagery to extend the TV screen and give the impression that the scene w...
We have added inexpensive, low-power, wireless sensors to product packages to detect user interactions with products. Thus, a bottle can ...
“We’ve already lost control of the term hologram, and we have George Lucas to thank!”
Balland, P., Jara-Figueroa, C., Petralia, S.G. et al. Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities. Nature Human Behavior (2020) doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0803-3
The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evo...
Artists and designers are working to address a major problem for marginalized communities in the data economy.
This is a story of dreams coming true in roundabout ways. How things inside are often not at all what they appear to be on the outside.
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
Approximately 3.5 million people in the US have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), of which about 30% are nonverbal or minimally verbal (mv)...
Narain, J*., Johnson, K*., Picard, R., and Maes, P. “Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data”. NeurIPS 2019 Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good. Accepted. *Equal Contribution.
Can robots help teachers improve classroom learning?
"It’s time for us to move beyond 'bias' as the anchor point for our efforts to build ethical and fair algorithms."
Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project was the result of a collaboration between MI...