Research — MIT Media Lab

ML Learning

Archived

Scalable Cooperation

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

Archived

Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

Archived

Open Ocean

Center for Civic Media

Archived

Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

Archived

Object-Based Media

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

3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ...

Article Research

Butlr's people-sensing platform is designed as Google Analytics for buildings

In Dezeen, learn more about Butlr, a spinoff co-founded by former Labbers Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng.

Article Research

The Internet Needs You-Are-Here Maps

In Wired, Deb Roy, director of the MIT CCC, and postdoc Nabeel Gillani make the case for "you-are-here" maps for the internet.

Archived

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.

Archived

Data Therapy

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 o...

Archived

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...

Archived

City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

Affective Computing

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

Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Whispers Of The Mountain

Whispers Of The Mountain is a voice activated sensor fusion system mounted on downhill snow skis. The system can record 6 axis accelerati...

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...

Physiophone: Electrophysiology Sonification

The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the hear...

Tune Field

Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously...

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 ...

City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology tha...

Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities

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

The Atlas of Inequality

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

Pandemic Pulse

An application that drains your computer's resources at the rate of COVID-19 infections and deaths in your state. It exhausts your CPU po...

Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...

Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints

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.

Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning & Collaboration Studio

Large-scale EEG-Based User-Identification Using Self-supervised Learning

EEG-based biometrics (user identification) has been explored on small datasets of no more than 157 subjects. Here we show that the accura...

Human Dynamics

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

Public Library Innovation Exchange

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

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.

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...

Archived

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...

Archived

DIVE

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

Archived

DataUSA

Visit DataUSADataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA ...

Archived

Theme | CityScope

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

Proxymix: Influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration

Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at t...

Archived

Micronauts

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

Archived

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

CityScope Volpe

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

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...

Scratch BlockArt

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

Flower: EEG visualization with the aid of machine learning

Flower is a new visualization tool for in-depth study of multi-sensor recordings in the time domain. It has been released for public down...

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.

Income, Race, Bikes

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-sha...

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...

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

Archived

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

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

Conversation Trees

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

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. ...

Archived

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

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

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

Scratch Memories

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

Archived