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Open Ocean
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Looking beyond smart cities
ML Learning
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Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Creating technology for social change
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Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
Ethics
Exploring how the relational features of robots impact children’s engagement and learning.
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Code Next : Cultural Resonation
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Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
The Montessori Method is an educational approach that emphasizes independence and respect for a child's natural development process. Mont...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
SpeechBlocks is a smartphone app that allows children to explore spelling principles in an open-ended way. Children rearrange words on th...
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NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
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Advancing Wellbeing
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The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...
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It’s cute when a kid asks, “Alexa, did you farted?,” but as the realm of smart technology quickly evolves from household voice assistants...