Research — MIT Media Lab

Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

Center for Civic Media

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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

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Object-Based Media

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

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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

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

Smart textiles sense how their users are moving

Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.

Post Research

IEEE hosts a special issue titled "Conformable Decoding" with Dr. Canan Dagdeviren as the invited area editor

This special issue encourages contributors to submit their work in this field to demonstrate its great potential to reshape everyday life.

The Guardians

Responsive Environments

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

He sold his mental-health startup to Airbnb, then relaunched it as a nonprofit with a bigger mission

As a graduate student at MIT, Rob Morris struggled with mental health. Today, he wants to make it easier for others to find help online.

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...

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Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon 2018

A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusiv...

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Space Exploration Initiative

City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

Helping dairy farmers raise healthy cows

Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.

Affective Computing

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

Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of futur...

How Headspace Health is tackling the global mental health crisis

CNBC profiles Headspace Health, which was formed through a merger between spinoff Ginger and meditation + mindfulness app company Headspace.

Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

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Huggable: A social robot for pediatric care

The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...

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EMMA: An emotionally intelligent personal assistant for improving wellbeing

The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that al...

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Physio FreeFall

This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...

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Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...

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Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

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The Challenge

Mental wellbeing is intimately tied to both social support and physical activity. The Challenge is a tool aimed at promoting social conne...

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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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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

Camera Culture

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

Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optica...

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

Breathing Garment: A respiratory regulation garment for voice pedagogy

Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respirato...

Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is r...

AttentivU

There are currently UROP openings for this project. All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...

Hunting for the Next Moderna

Boston Magazine looks at 10 recent biomedical innovations created by local researchers, including the AMI procedure.

Deploying machine learning to improve mental health

MIT scientist Rosalind Picard collaborates with clinicians to develop tools for mental health care delivery.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...

Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

Opera of the Future

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

Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have develo...

AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...

Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

On-site Analysis of Foodborne Pathogens Using Density-Shift Immunomagnetic Separation and Culture

Foodborne pathogens are a major source of human morbidity, food recalls, and economic loss. Current detection methods for foodborne patho...

Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...

The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence explored at TEDxMIT event

MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.

Publication Research

Multi-task Learning for Predicting Health, Stress, and Happiness

Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Nosakhare, E., Sano, A., Picard, R. In Proc. NIPS Workshop on ML in Health, Barcelona, Spain, December 2016. **BEST PAPER AWARD**

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Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health

Taylor, S.*, Jaques, N.*, Nosakhare, E., Sano, A. and Picard, R., "Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2784832 *Both authors contributed equally. WINNER: BEST OF COLLECTION

Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...

Democratizing prosthetic and diabetic care: A resilient model for healthcare delivery

As developers of prosthetic technology, we’re dedicated to understanding the challenges that people with limb loss face, not just after a...

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.

DeepCure scores $40M for AI-enabled drug discovery

Spinoff DeepCure, co-founded by Molecular Machines head Joe Jacobson and alumni Kfir Schreiber and Thrasyvoulos Karydis, raised $40 million

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