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Scalable Cooperation

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

Affective Computing

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

Opera of the Future

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

Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

Making Self-Care Fun

How MIT is leveraging game design principles to combat depression.

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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Programmable Synthetic Hallucinations

We are creating consumer-grade appliances and authoring methodologies that will allow hallucinatory phenomena to be programmed and utiliz...

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CONJURE

A recent focus of our lab has been making use of Tangible Displays and Body Object Space to develop new assistive technologies. As a test...

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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...

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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Marauder's Map

"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."The Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter universe uses UltraWide Band transmitters and receive...

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AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...

Evergreen Blues

Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs that together provide a collaborative musical narrative experience in the form of a multi...

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Pollock Patterns

“I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the paintin...

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Play this bingo game with your kids to teach them about AI

Designed at MIT and tested by kids ages 9 through 14, it shows how exposing kids to technology fosters their interest in STEM.

Thesis Research

Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative

Su, D. (2019). Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Extremely dextrous robot arm uses AI to solve Rubik's Cube one-handed

The extremely dextrous robot features a 24-joint human-hand-like design and took only four minutes to complete the task.

Publication Research

The New Science of Curiosity

To, A., Ali, S., Kaufman, G. Hammer, J. (2018). Integrating Curiosity and Uncertainty in Game Design. The New Science of Curiosity (pp. 169-203). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better

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Advancing Wellbeing

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Let's play: Waste at MIT

Let's play: Waste at MIT is a game about trash; it’s also a game about understanding civic infrastructure. This project explores the use ...

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Seasons Change Together

Seasons Change Together is a collaborative song construction experience for multiple simultaneous participants. It represents a firs...

Conversational Characters: AI agents for entertainment

We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the wa...

CONJURE helps people who are visually impaired play video games

Hackster.io profiles CONJURE, a project from the Tangible Media group that provides a tactile display for video games.

The internet is taking over a person’s life for Halloween. And you can be a part of it.

An MIT experiment is handing a single person’s free will to the crowd to test how the digital hive mind works.

This Halloween, a Social Experiment Will Allow Internet Users to Control the Actions of a Real Person

The Media Lab's BeeMe project is the love child of ‘Black Mirror’ and Stanley Milgram’s notorious experiments on free will and obedience.

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BeeMe

BeeMe a massive immersive social game that directly draws inspiration from popular culture, literature, performing arts, gaming, and YouT...

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Absolutely Nothing Will Go Wrong When MIT Lets the Internet Control a Real Person on Halloween

Researchers at the Media Lab are reportedly planning to hand an individual’s free will over to the internet.

MIT is giving you control of a real person on Halloween in a dystopian game that sounds like an episode of 'Black Mirror'

This Halloween, the creepiest event to attend might be a mass online social experiment hosted by researchers at the Media Lab.

MIT Media Lab is releasing a ‘social experiment’ on Halloween that will let users control a person’s actions

Something eerie has been brewing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.

Center for Mobile Learning

Scratch Day

Scratch Day (day.scratch.mit.edu) is a network of face-to-face local gatherings, on the same day in all parts of the world, where people ...

What makes an educational video game work well?

MIT designers explain their philosophy in a new book, “Resonant Games.”

Zero-G-ames

Games are a uniquely human endeavour, reducing stress and supporting mental well-being. Astronauts aboard the ISS have created their own ...

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Mission Wildlife

Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...

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GUI3D

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Compone...

Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a si...

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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability