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A series of images from an exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2024.
Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—th…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Looking beyond smart cities
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
The prosthetic interface consists of a compliant liner and rigid socket, and conventionally has been made through a very hands-on artisinal…
Local changes in the volume, shape, and mechanical properties of the residual limb can be caused by adjacent joint motion, muscle activatio…
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules here.
Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.
Photo gallery related to the Guadalajara Mobility Choices project by the City Science group.
Professor Rosalind Picard talks about what gave her the inspiration to found a new field, Affective Computing.
Director Dava Newman spoke at Notre Dame about space exploration and the need for interdisciplinary research to solve problems on Earth.
The papers are intended as a resource for US policymakers.
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
The collaboration will focus on privacy-preserving designs.
Gastronomy and Beyond (G&B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sus…
ImmerScope City offers new ways of visualizing complex urban designs. It generates rendered images of streetscapes to allow for collab…
Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
Illuminate has been nominated for a 2024 SXSW Innovation Award in the Student Innovation category. Illuminate is an in…
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
Funded by a National Science Foundation EAGER GrantOpenCBDC raised the bar for CBDC performance and viability. In this subsequent work, we …
Programmability is one of the most touted benefits of tokenized systems, and there are billions of dollars locked up in smart contracts in …
Privacy and ProgrammabilityCollaboration with the Bank of Canada, began in January 2022This research will focus on exploring the technical …
This project compares the security of Proof of Work (e.g., Bitcoin) versus Proof of Stake (e.g., Ethereum 2) protocols along several dimens…
In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…
Bitcoin Core's internal Random Number Generator (RNG) continuously seeds itself from many different sources of entropy including the operat…
Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
Fostering students’ interest in learning has many positive downstream effects. It can make students more persistent and impact student…
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Enhancing Apple Vision Pro headset with brain sensing capabilities via non-invasive brain sensing (Electroencephalography - EEG)…
Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
Very few research works featuring AR and Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems considered integrating cognitive state of the user in their…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
Ancestral Storytelling: Movement + Memory embodies motion capture techniques for an interactive and immersive movement and sonic healing pe…
A 1-month residency in Shenzhen to scale research with mass manufacturing for affordability or unprecedented magnitudes.
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
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In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
Society is experiencing a growing challenge of mental health and wellbeing. This year, 32.3% of U.S. adults or over 100 million individuals…
For those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the ability to understand, name, or recognize the sensations signifying different emotional …
Current methods to assess depression and select appropriate treatments have many limitations and need improvement. Diagnosis is usually bas…
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project proposes that autonomous bicycles could serve as an alternative to current bike sharing models.
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support