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Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Enhancing human physical capability
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Looking beyond smart cities
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Behnaz Farahi joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) as Assistant Professor, Transformative…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Lee, Cassandra. Beyond-the-Ice: Designing Games for Facilitating Deeper Conversations. 2024. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master's thesis.
Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…
Smith, A., Linder, B., Landua Thabiso, B. M., Tien, D., de Castro Leal, D., & Reynolds-Cuéllar, P. (2021). Beyond the Classroom: The (Ongoing) IDDS Journey in Community-Engaged Design. In Engenharias e outras práticas técnicas engajadas (Vol. 2, pp. 389–432). Editora da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba.
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
The Notable Children’s Digital Media list recognizes real-time, dynamic, and interactive media content for children 14 years of age.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
This project explores a computational method to create controlled cuastics. I experiment with a process to transform pixels into caustic im…
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Infra Magazine about his work, which blends electronics and textiles.
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
The MIT Media Lab is excited to welcome two new visionary faculty members starting September 2024: Behnaz Farahi and Paul Liang. Both will …
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
For those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the ability to understand, name, or recognize the sensations signifying different emotional …
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…
In EdSurge, Media Lab alum Elliott Hedman and other experts call on edtech companies to pay more attention to their end users—children
Congratulations to the FibeRobo project for receiving four honorable mentions!
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Callender was awarded this prize for his body of work, Light Sculptures, Matters of Impermanence.
IntroductionThe typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, as developed by Geels and Schot, provides a theoretical foundation for und…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
In an interview with Textile Technology Source, Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about the use of AI in the textiles industry.
T² Tool Kit: A Tangible Telepresence (T²) Concept Framework aiming at Future Human Diaspora
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data a…
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Congratulations to the winners and honorees of the 2024 Core77 Design Awards!
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…