• Search Search
  • User Login
  • Nav Nav
Search
  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal
We are an interdisciplinary research lab working to invent the future of
  • health

  • art

  • human-machine interaction

  • learning

  • artificial intelligence

  • robotics

  • architecture

  • design

  • technology

  • consumer electronics

  • kids

  • music

  • wearable computing

  • networks

  • politics

  • bioengineering

  • entertainment

  • cognition

  • economy

  • human-computer interaction

  • data

  • machine learning

  • history

  • archives

  • social science

  • storytelling

  • sensors

  • interfaces

  • wellbeing

  • space

  • environment

  • covid19

  • computer science

  • developing countries

  • prosthetics

  • engineering

  • privacy

  • social robotics

  • ethics

  • civic technology

  • social media

  • civic media

  • imaging

  • public health

  • communications

  • synthetic biology

  • urban planning

  • augmented reality

  • neurobiology

  • biology

  • affective computing

  • virtual reality

  • computer vision

  • transportation

  • community

  • industry

  • energy

  • biomechanics

  • data visualization

  • social change

  • food

  • alumni

  • government

  • biotechnology

  • zero gravity

  • ocean

  • 3d printing

  • creativity

  • racial justice

  • medicine

  • agriculture

  • blockchain

  • genetics

  • manufacturing

  • data science

  • gaming

  • prosthetic design

  • women

  • behavioral science

  • construction

  • fashion

  • materials

  • social networks

  • banking and finance

  • open source

  • systems

  • cryptocurrency

  • security

  • crowdsourcing

  • climate change

  • diversity

  • collective intelligence

  • fabrication

  • makers

  • wiesner

  • language learning

  • cognitive science

  • internet of things

  • bionics

  • extended intelligence

  • performance

  • neural interfacing and control

  • perception

  • human augmentation

  • startup

  • interactive

  • autonomous vehicles

  • natural language processing

  • ecology

  • civic action

  • marginalized communities

  • nonverbal behavior

  • mapping

  • physiology

  • visualization

  • clinical science

  • physics

  • holography

  • long-term interaction

  • gesture interface

  • microfabrication

  • mechanical engineering

  • networking

  • trust

  • point of care

  • orthotic design

  • water

  • sports and fitness

  • autism research

  • primary healthcare

  • electrical engineering

  • voice

  • microbiology

  • hacking

  • member company

  • pharmaceuticals

  • rfid

  • nanoscience

  • clinical trials

  • mechatronics

  • trade

  • academia

  • member event

  • open access

  • gender studies

  • soft-tissue biomechanics

  • code

  • chemistry

  • real estate

  • randomized experiment

  • publishing

  • biomedical imaging

  • gis

  • event

  • exhibit

  • cartography

  • metamaterials

  • installation

  • Groups
  • Projects
  • Publications
  • Centers
  • Initiatives
More Close
Research
Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +49 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +65 more
Archived
Project Research

Creative Learning Design Tools

While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing exper...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Yusuf Ahmad
#design #kids #learning +3 more
Archived
Research
Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

#robotics #design #architecture +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +44 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +38 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +66 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +26 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +61 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...

in Personal Robots
Safinah Arshad Ali · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

DefeXtiles: 3D printing quasi-woven textiles via underextrusion

OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpens...

in Tangible Media
Jack Forman · Hiroshi Ishii
#design #human-computer interaction #fashion +4 more
Project Research

Invisible Variables: Personal Security Among Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is seeking participants for a paid study on the impacts of social distancing polici...

in Space Enabled
Katlyn Turner
#covid19
Archived
Project Research

Glass II

Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...

in Mediated Matter
Chikara Inamura · Giorgia Franchin +7 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Glass I

Ancient yet modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago. Precise recipes f...

in Mediated Matter
John Klein · Markus Kayser +4 more
#design #art #biology +2 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...

in Mediated Matter
Sunanda Sharma · Christoph Bader +5 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Archived
Research
Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

MIT spinoff, OPT, ramps up production of its 3D-printed nasal swab

Spinoff OPT Industries is scaling up production of novel metamaterials, such as swabs for Covid-19 testing.

via TechCrunch · March 1, 2022
in Tangible Media · Media Lab Spinoffs
#3d printing #alumni #materials +2 more
Post Research

Media Lab research response to COVID-19

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

March 17, 2020
in ML Learning · Social Machines · Affective Computing +17 more
#covid19
Project Research

Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Alex Berke +3 more
#data #government #public health +2 more
Research
MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#social networks #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +25 more
Project Research

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...

in Community Biotechnology
David S. Kong · Desiree Dudley
#health #member company #technology +3 more
Post Research

Recordings: Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma

Aug. 3, 2021
in Community Biotechnology
#member company #public health #covid19
Article Research

Waze for our Pandemic Journey

Ramesh Raskar discuses potential approaches to creating apps that can leverage citizen engagement to improve government responses to crises.

via TEDxMIT · Dec. 14, 2021
in Camera Culture
#data #government #politics +3 more
Research
Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +63 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #genetics +15 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Vida Decision Support System for COVID-19

Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood
#public health #data science #covid19
Article Research

Opinion: Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It’s time to stop.

Kevin Esvelt calls on the research community to build defenses against future pandemics, not attempt to discover viruses that cause them.

via The Washington Post · Oct. 6, 2021
in Sculpting Evolution
#health #biology #public health +1 more
Project Research

Saving Face

“Don’t touch your face” is seemingly simple advice. Since coronaviruses are stable for days on many surfaces, a person can get COVID-19 b...

in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Sculpting Evolution +1 more
Camilo Rojas · Irmandy Wicaksono +6 more
#health #sensors #covid19
Research
Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

#banking and finance #cryptocurrency #economy +17 more
Project Research

Research resiliency through lean labs

Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely whil...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · David Sadat
#design #bioengineering #health +6 more
Article Research

Lockdowns reveal inequities in opportunities for walking activities

Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.

via MIT News · July 19, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#social networks #behavioral science #community +4 more
Article Research

Study: More people walked during the pandemic, but how much depended on their income level

Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.

via Boston.com · Sept. 22, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#banking and finance #sports and fitness #social science +2 more
Article Research

How Valencia crushed Covid with AI

By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer

via Wired UK · Sept. 8, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#artificial intelligence #data #technology +3 more
Article Research

Reimagining public health infrastructure in the 21st century

A new multidisciplinary field of public health technology should be established to modernize the nation’s health system.

via The Boston Globe · Sept. 22, 2021
in Community Biotechnology
#technology #public health #covid19
Project Research

The Guardians

in Affective Computing
Craig Ferguson · Sara Taylor +3 more
#data #entertainment #gaming +6 more
Post Research

Alum Nuria Oliver co-leads XPRIZE-winning team

Dr. Oliver co-led team VALENCIA IA4COVID19’s Grand Prize-winning entry to the XPRIZE Pandemic Response Challenge.

Aug. 27, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#covid19
Article Research

When AI Recognizes Emotion, with Rosalind Picard

John Ellis talks to Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard about making AI and computers more emotionally intelligent.

via News Items Podcast · Aug. 24, 2021
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #wearable computing #affective computing +3 more
Article Research

New device from MIT, Harvard can quickly detect COVID variants in saliva samples

The team talks to CBS Boston about their work on a low-cost tabletop device that can quickly detect SARS-CoV-2 using a saliva sample.

via CBS Boston · Aug. 6, 2021
in Responsive Environments
#bioengineering #public health #wellbeing +1 more
Article Research

New device can diagnose Covid-19 from saliva samples

The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

via MIT News · Aug. 6, 2021
in Responsive Environments
#bioengineering #public health #wellbeing +1 more
Article Research

Driving commuters toward sustainable options

How data from Access MIT informs flexible, sustainable commutes as staff returns to campus.

via MIT News · July 13, 2021
in City Science
#data #environment #transportation +3 more
Project Research

Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Clement Duhart +4 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Archived
Research
Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +33 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Publication Research

Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes

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

Academic Paper, June 2021
in Human Dynamics
#covid19
Archived
Project Research

Association between COVID-19 Outcomes and Mask Mandates, Adherence, and Attitudes

We extend previous studies on the impact of masks on COVID-19 outcomes by investigating an unprecedented breadth and depth of health outc...

in Human Dynamics
Dhaval Adjodah · Karthik Dinakar +1 more
#public health #medicine #covid19
Archived
Article Research

Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive.

Kevin Esvelt, master's student Anika Ullah, and other experts talk about bi-directional contact tracing, privacy, and halting Covid-19.

via Should This Exist · Dec. 21, 2020
in Sculpting Evolution
#health #privacy #wellbeing +1 more
Research
Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

#design #human-computer interaction #art +22 more
Project Research

Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...

in Mediated Matter
Jorge Duro-Royo · Joshua Van Zak +11 more
#design #architecture #art +7 more
Archived
Project Research

Silk Pavilion II

What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of...

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Sunanda Sharma +5 more
#design #architecture #art +5 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Vespers II

Novel technologies for additive manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical p...

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Rachel Smith +4 more
#design #art #3d printing +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Beast

Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters into digital form-generation protocols....

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #art #biology +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Monocoque

French for "single shell," Monocoque stands for a construction technique that supports structural load using an object's external skin. C...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #art #biology +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Raycounting

Raycounting is a method for generating customized light-shading constructions by registering the intensity and orientation of light rays ...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #art #biology +2 more
Archived
Post Research

Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping, KDD 2020

Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.

Aug. 24, 2020
in Space Enabled
#artificial intelligence #machine learning #data science +1 more
Article Research

Kent Larson on Resilient Communities and Sustainability | "On Cities" Masterclass Series

Kent Larson considers the societal stressors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and those that the world will face post-pandemic.

via Norman Foster Foundation · April 21, 2021
in City Science
#environment #urban planning #community +1 more
Project Research

A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #bioengineering #consumer electronics +13 more
Article Research

MIT develops machine-washable sensors that embed in clothing for constant vital sign monitoring

Its potential here on Earth has much more widespread benefit potential, particularly in the era of COVID-19.

via TechCrunch · April 23, 2020
in Conformable Decoders · Space Exploration Initiative
#design #consumer electronics #health +4 more
Post Research

Frequently Asked Questions: A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

Oct. 15, 2020
in Conformable Decoders
#design #consumer electronics #health +7 more
Project Research

3D Printed Nasopharyngeal (NP) Swabs by OPT Industries, Inc. in response to the 2020 COVID-19 Crisis

Dr. Jifei Ou, who received his PhD and graduated from the Tangible Media group in 2019, started a company called OPT Industries, Inc...

in Tangible Media
Jifei Ou · Hiroshi Ishii
#manufacturing #3d printing #alumni +3 more
Article Research

A better nasal swab for Covid-19 testing

MIT spinout OPT Industries uses novel additive manufacturing systems to create intricately-designed products.

via MIT News · April 8, 2021
in Tangible Media · Media Lab Spinoffs
#manufacturing #3d printing #alumni +3 more
Article Research

Supercomputers help researchers speed drug discovery for Covid-19

An MIT research team is using supercomputers to help develop a drug to treat the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

via The Wall Street Journal · April 14, 2020
in Sculpting Evolution
#data #machine learning #computer science +3 more
Archived
Project Research

COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we explo...

in Human Dynamics
Isabella Loaiza-Saa
#data #developing countries #economy +1 more
Archived
Publication Research

COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

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

Academic Paper, Oct. 2020
in Human Dynamics
#data #developing countries #economy +1 more
Article Research

Comprehensive report on pandemic response solutions developed by 180 leading experts

Online platform harnesses collective intelligence to accelerate recovery from Covid-19 and prepare for future disease outbreaks.

via MIT News · March 30, 2021
in Community Biotechnology
#member company #public health #covid19
Article Research

ACM ByteCast: Ramesh Raskar

Camera Culture head Ramesh Raskar talks to Rashmi Mohan about his interdisciplinary research and entrepreneurial endeavors.

via ACM ByteCast · March 22, 2021
in Camera Culture
#computer vision #augmented reality #sensors +3 more
Article Research

Information Hazards

MIT biologist Kevin Esvelt discusses the biology of the pandemic and how gain-of-function research jeopardizes public safety.

via The Open Mind · March 16, 2021
in Sculpting Evolution
#health #biology #wellbeing +1 more
Publication Research

Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle

N. Oliver, et al.(2020) Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle, Science Advances, pp.1-10. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc0764

Academic Paper, April 2020
in Human Dynamics
#covid19
Article Research

3 Questions: Claude Grunitzky MBA '12 on launching TRUE Africa University

CIS research affiliate describes his goals in creating a webinar series exploring sustainable development in Africa.

via MIT News · March 9, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#environment #learning #social media +4 more
More

  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal

More ways to explore

  • Videos
  • Publications
  • Job Opportunities
  • Contact

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Architecture + Planning

Accessibility
Donate to the Lab