Research — MIT Media Lab

We are an antidisciplinary research lab working to invent the future of

human-machine interaction
health
art
learning
artificial intelligence
architecture
robotics
consumer electronics
kids
networks
music
wearable computing
politics
entertainment
design
history
economy
cognition
archives
bioengineering
social science
storytelling
technology
machine learning
data
interfaces
developing countries
sensors
prosthetics
human-computer interaction
space
wellbeing
social robotics
computer science
social media
environment
engineering
privacy
ethics
civic media
imaging
civic technology
urban planning
affective computing
synthetic biology
neurobiology
communications
augmented reality
transportation
energy
virtual reality
data visualization
computer vision
biotechnology
blockchain
agriculture
biology
social change
food
banking and finance
crowdsourcing
3d printing
gaming
open source
government
manufacturing
genetics
systems
social networks
behavioral science
biomechanics
prosthetic design
industry
cryptocurrency
public health
wiesner
zero gravity
collective intelligence
fashion
makers
data science
performance
ocean
language learning
security
perception
nonverbal behavior
internet of things
ecology
construction
racial justice
extended intelligence
visualization
mapping
medicine
autonomous vehicles
community
physiology
long-term interaction
civic action
neural interfacing and control
climate change
gesture interface
networking
point of care
orthotic design
interactive
bionics
holography
trust
fabrication
pharmaceuticals
human augmentation
hacking
alumni
sports and fitness
startup
member company
autism research
open access
rfid
mechanical engineering
clinical science
member event
marginalized communities
primary healthcare
clinical trials
women
academia
soft-tissue biomechanics
gender studies
cognitive science
natural language processing
trade
randomized experiment
materials
chemistry
voice
real estate
microbiology
biomedical imaging
electrical engineering
gis
mechatronics
diversity
publishing
event
exhibit
metamaterials
installation

Research

Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

Research

Affective Computing

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

Project Research

MoCho: Mobility choices and societal impacts

MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pr...

Publication Research

What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform

Doorley, Ronan & Noyman, Ariel & Sakai, Yasushi & Larson, Kent. (2019). What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform. UrbComp SIGKDD 2019

Research

City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

Research

Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

Research

Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

Research

ML Learning

Project Research

Micronauts

Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...

Research

Open Ocean

Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

Research

Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

Archived

Project Research

Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...

Archived

Project Research

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...

Project Research

City Science Lab Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

Project Research

Aalto Campus-as-a-Service Simulations

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources...

Project Research

VizNet: Towards A Large-Scale Visualization Learning and Benchmarking Repository

Researchers currently rely on ad hoc datasets to train automated visualization tools and evaluate the effectiveness of visualization desi...

Project Research

VizML: A Machine Learning Approach to Visualization Recommendation

Visualization recommender systems aim to lower the barrier to exploring basic visualizations by automatically generating results for anal...

Project Research

LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modula...

Archived

Project Research

votoMosaic

A tapestry where each pixel represents a pledge by an individual to vote. Anyone can participate and watch the growing and changing image...

Archived

Project Research

Conversation Trees

An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to...

Project Research

RelatiVotey

Many people think their vote doesn't count—that a single vote would not change an election's outcome—and they stay home on Election Day. ...

Research

Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

Archived

Project Research

Radio Days

Following the 2016 election, the entirety of the nation became conscious of its polarization. According to a study by the National Bureau...

Archived

Research

Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

Thesis Research

SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories

Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.

Project Research

The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...

Project Research

CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...

Research

Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

Post Research

Visualizing Scissors Congruence wins a Vizzy

Visualizing Scissors Congruence was selected as one of the Experts' Choice Winners in the 2018 Visualization Challenge (the Vizzies).

Archived

Project Research

Visualizing Scissors Congruence

The remarkable Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwein theorem states that any simple polygon can be cut into finite pieces and rearranged to form any oth...

Archived

Project Research

Scratch BlockArt

Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exi...

Project Research

Scratch Memories

Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch...

Archived

Research

Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

Article Research

Diana Orghian – The Optimism Bias

Growing up in a foreign country, the optimism-mystique connection and making data digestible.

Publication Research

CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., ElKatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2018, July). Cityscope: a data-driven interactive simulation tool for urban design. Use case volpe. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 253-261). Springer, Cham.

Project Research

Andorra | Innovation

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...

Project Research

DIVE

DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...

Project Research

DataBasic

DataBasic is a suite of web-based tools that give people fun and relevant ways learn how to work with data. Existing tools focus on opera...

Center for Civic Media

Project Research

MoCho: Mobility choices and societal impacts

What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform

Micronauts

Theme | CityScope

Black Rock Atlas

Public Library Innovation Exchange

City Science Lab Andorra

Aalto Campus-as-a-Service Simulations

VizNet: Towards A Large-Scale Visualization Learning and Benchmarking Repository

VizML: A Machine Learning Approach to Visualization Recommendation

LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

votoMosaic

Conversation Trees

RelatiVotey

Radio Days

SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories

The Atlas of Inequality

CityScope Volpe

Visualizing Scissors Congruence wins a Vizzy

Visualizing Scissors Congruence

Scratch BlockArt

Scratch Memories

Diana Orghian – The Optimism Bias

CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Andorra | Innovation

DIVE

DataBasic

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality

Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data

DataBasic: Design Principles, Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners

Data Murals: Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy

Haptic Footprint

Feminist data visualization with Catherine D’Ignazio

DataUSA

Data Therapy