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Looking beyond smart cities
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…
The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by MIT City Science for the Boston Museum of Science's yearlong pr…
Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
WORLDING workshop organizers collaborated with research scientist Dr. Rachel Connolly to co-design their first-ever in-person event.
Whispers Of The Mountain is a sensor system mounted on snow skis. The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…
Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
On Bloomberg TV, Professor Danielle Wood talks to Romaine Bostick about the use of satellite data for environmental management.
Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-share…
We further explore conversation visualization as a method of extracting and translating meaning for third party audiences who wish to bette…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Media Lab PhD student Isabella Loaiza is building data-driven tools to help people all over the world navigate the future of work.
In January 2023, a team led by MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Center…
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Ekene Ijeoma uses audio of people counting from 1 to 100 in a variety of languages to capture the full diversity of voices across the US.
Transforming data into knowledge
ML Learning
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Open Ocean
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
In Dezeen, learn more about Butlr, a spinoff co-founded by former Labbers Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng.
In Wired, Deb Roy, director of the MIT CCC, and postdoc Nabeel Gillani make the case for "you-are-here" maps for the internet.
Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their own…
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 operati…
The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the heart …
Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously e…
Moro, E., Calacci, D., Dong, X. et al. Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities. Nat Commun 12, 4633 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24899-8
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
An application that drains your computer's resources at the rate of COVID-19 infections and deaths in your state. It exhausts your CPU powe…
Doorley, R., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., Maciá, N. and Larson, K., 2020, September. Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints. In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
EEG-based biometrics (user identification) has been explored on small datasets of no more than 157 subjects. Here we show that the accuracy…
Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for lear…
Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.
Visualization recommender systems aim to lower the barrier to exploring basic visualizations by automatically generating results for analys…
Researchers currently rely on ad hoc datasets to train automated visualization tools and evaluate the effectiveness of visualization design…
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE co…
Visit DataUSADataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA ma…
Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at the…
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and create…
LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modular …