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City Science

Enabling dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Health Sensing (Human-Computer Interaction)

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ...
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Signal Kinetics

Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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Human Dynamics

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

Creating technology for social change
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Fluid Interfaces

Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Ethics
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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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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Article Research

Lyme disease is spreading, and it’s partly this mouse’s fault

Black-legged ticks in forests of the Northeast and Midwest have a variety of options for the three blood meals they consume in their life...
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Mediated Atmospheres

The Mediated Atmospheres project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work e...
Project Research

DermalAbyss: Possibilities of Biosensors as a Tattooed Interface

Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project is the result of a collaboration between MIT...
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
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Sculpting Evolution

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
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SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, and Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
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Social Computing

Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
Article Research

Transparency advocate shakes up genetic engineering

Kevin Esvelt has emerged as a leader in the debate about the ethics and politics of releasing genetically engineered animals.
Article Research

Why college students need their sleep

A regular sleep schedule is important for happiness and wellbeing.
Publication Research

Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields

Grossman N, Bono D, Dedic N*, Kodandaramaiah SB*, Rudenko A, Suk HJ, Cassara AM, Neufeld E, Kuster N, Tsai LH, Pascual-Leone A, Boyden ES (2017) Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields, Cell 169(6):1029-1041. (* equal contribution)
Publication Research

Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity

T. Knopfel and E. Boyden, eds. (2012) Optogenetics: Tools for Controlling and Monitoring Neuronal Activity, Progress in Brain Research, vol. 196, Elsevier.
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Revolutionizing Amputation Surgery for the Restoration of Natural Neural Sensation

Lower-extremity amputation surgery has not seen significant change since the Civil War. This research is focused on the development of no...
Publication Research

On prosthetic control: A regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interface

S. S. Srinivasan, M. J. Carty, P. W. Calvaresi, T. R. Clites, B. E. Maimon, C. R. Taylor, A. N. Zorzos, H. Herr, On prosthetic control: A regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interface. Sci. Robot. 2, eaan2971 (2017).
Article Research

This Tattoo Ink Can Sense How Healthy You Are

Combining tattoos and biotech to create biosensing ink that could one day give us information about our health via our skin.
Article Research

Wristband detects emotion during epileptic seizures

The wearable uses automated machine learning to pick up changes.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Post Research

Launching a lab

How Canan Dagdeviren is going about setting up a new research group at the Media Lab.
Publication Research

Near-Infrared Imaging for Detecting Caries and Structural Deformities in Teeth

10.1109/JTEHM.2017.2695194
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Opera of the Future

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

Tools for Mapping the Molecular Structure of the Brain

Brain circuits are large, 3D structures. However, the building blocks—proteins, signaling complexes, synapses—are or...
Publication Research

Could we train bacteria to make themselves harmless?
Project Research

Next-generation protein vaccines against infectious diseases

The gram-positive cocci Streptococcus pneumoniae causes pneumonia, otitis media, meningitis, and bacteremia in pediatric, elderly, and im...
Project Research

Preventing Tick-Borne Disease by Permanently Immunizing Mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
Project Research

Antimicrobials to treat infectious diseases without leading to resistant bacteria

"Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and m...
Project Research

MedRec: Using Blockchain for Medical Data Access, Permission Management and Trend Analysis

Years of heavy regulation and a long-standing focus on compliance have co-opted the ability of the healthcare industry to implement novel...
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters: Mechanically Invisible Human Dynamos

Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...
Publication Research

MedRec: Using Blockchain for Medical Data Access and Permission Management

Azaria, Asaph, Ariel Ekblaw, Thiago Vieira, and Andrew Lippman. "MedRec: Using Blockchain for Medical Data Access and Permission Management." In Open and Big Data (OBD), International Conference on, pp. 25-30. IEEE, 2016.
Publication Research

A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare:“MedRec” prototype for electronic health records and medical research data

Ekblaw, Ariel, Asaph Azaria, John D. Halamka, and Andrew Lippman. "A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare:“MedRec” prototype for electronic health records and medical research data." (2016).
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Ultrasound Imaging for Transtibial Prosthetic Interface Design

In the United States, there are an estimated 1.7 million people living with amputation, with that number expected to double by 2050. Comp...
Publication Research

Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A., & Shmueli, E. (2016). Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change. PloS one, 11(3), e0151588. Chicago
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Center for Extreme Bionics

Center for Extreme Bionics
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Skin Perfusion Photography

Skin and tissue perfusion measurements are important parameters for diagnosis of wounds and burns, and for monitoring plastic and reconst...
Project Research

Predicting Students' Wellbeing from Physiology, Phone, Mobility, and Behavioral Data

The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obt...
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
Changing Places consortium
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How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's needs.
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Center for Civic Media
Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Communications Futures Program
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such as dogs.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.