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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning & Collaboration Studio
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

Haar Horowitz, Adam, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes. "Dormio: Interfacing with dreams." In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-10. 2018.
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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MIT Full STEAM Ahead offers scalable, hands-on remote learning for K-12

Website created as a rapid response to Covid-19 yields unexpected insights into what’s possible for reaching learners at a distance.
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How do you control your dreams? MIT scientists think they've figured it out

Dormio is the result of several year's worth of research conducted by the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.
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A wearable sleep-tracker designed by an MIT team could give people the power to shape their own dreams

Vega and his colleagues tested Dormio on group of 50 people this summer. Read about their results.
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Dream-shaping tech from MIT channels suggestions into your dreams

Guided dreaming could be used to boost creativity or to confront sources of stress and trauma.
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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...
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MIT Media Lab launches Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

The purpose of the studio is to design and launch new online learning programs for the Lab itself and the communities we work with.
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Literati CTO Finds “Tech for Good” in Boxes of Books

Civic Media alum Charlie DeTar talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his work with Literati, using technology for social good, and more.
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What magic can teach us about the future of technology, according to an MIT magician

Marco Tempest of Magic Lab and the MIT Media Lab explained how magic tricks can test people’s psychological responses to emerging technology
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A new way to control experimentation with dreams

Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.
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Targeted Dream Incubation

The Targeted Dream Incubation (TDI) method is a technique for guiding dreams towards specific themes. Before sleeping, you choose a theme...
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Making Self-Care Fun

How MIT is leveraging game design principles to combat depression.
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Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...
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SpeechBlocks

SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...
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Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses

Bringing project-based work online in two very different contexts: a middle school robotics course and a university product design studio.
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Wonder Stories: Proven to engage child readers like digital games

Wonder Stories is always free for teachers, but for the duration of COVID-19, Wonder Stories is free to anyone.
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The Guardians

The Guardians Project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile games to help people form beneficial long-term habits an...
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Episode 46: Pioneer through the pandemic with professor + innovator, Dr. Hugh Herr

Biomechatronics head Hugh Herr discusses his research with the No Barriers USA podcast.
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This MIT app makes self-care as addictive as a video game

Collect cute monsters and make your brain feel better.
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Meet the 2020 LEGO Papert Fellows

The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
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Cultivating Creativity during the Coronavirus Crisis

The ability to think and act creatively is now more important than ever before.