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A data designer driven to collaborate with communities

Media Lab alum + MIT DUSP Prof Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data—and why we lack it for many things
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Personal Robots

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

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Theme | Health + Wellness

An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Affective Computing

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

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

Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
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Dare to Dream: An Ultrasound Bra For Breast Health with Dr. Canan Dagdeviren

Canan Dagdeviren talks to Sharon Kedar about the latest generation of the wearable ultrasound scanner Conformable Decoders is developing.
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Deblina Sarkar named MIT-Royalty Pharma Faculty Founder Innovation Fellow 2023-24

The MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition aims to support female faculty entrepreneurs in biotechnology.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
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conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing

Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
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Technology for Women’s Health

Technology for Women’s Health
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Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases

Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases
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OctoStudio

OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
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Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
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Yiyun Zhang Presents at Space4Women Expert Meeting by UNOOSA and CSA

Presenting work at the UN/Canada Space4Women "Building capacity to promote and advance gender equality in the space sector."
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Art Installation: NeuraFutures

Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com The installation is currently open to public starting September 25, 2023 at …
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Build your skills with MIT’s women engineers

Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.
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Making life friendlier with personal robots

Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
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The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
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Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
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Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …
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Feet on Earth, head in the stars

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.
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Canan Dağdeviren: “Follow your dream because life is too short to follow someone else’s”

Canan Dağdeviren, head of the Conformable Decoders research group, discusses her time at the MIT Media Lab and where her research is headed.
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Do scientists have superpowers?

Randi Williams, who is a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, joins other talented scientists to talk about their careers.
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Kate Darling on the In Her Ellement podcast

Kate Darling discusses the work she's done to be seen as an expert within human-robot interaction and how to pass that power onto others.
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Inside two MIT students’ historic BattleBots runs

PhD students Lucy Du and Ginger Schmidt are crushing the competition — and gender barriers — in the world of televised robot combat.
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Artist Ani Liu has some radical suggestions for what pregnancy could look like: It begins with artificial wombs

The artist's incisive exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery addresses the biological and political realities of childbearing and rearing.
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Lara Ozkan selected as a MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Scholar

Lara Ozkan (undergraduate researcher in the Conformable Decoders group) was selected as MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s SERC Scholar.
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MIT engineers develop sensors for face masks that help gauge fit

The system measures biological and environmental changes, and detects contact between the mask and the wearer’s skin.
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Essence

The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We p…
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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 exclusivel…
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Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…
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Making her way through MIT

Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
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MIT News highlights Dr. Canan Dagdeviren being selected as a finalist for the Future Founders Initiative prize competition

MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech.
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Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI)

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse

Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio talk about The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook.
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5 questions with MIT Media Lab’s Jaleesa Trapp

Code.org interviews Lifelong Kindergarten PhD student Jaleesa Trapp in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Career Girls Role Models

Watch the interviews conducted by Career Girls with Labbers Randi Williams, Jaleesa Trapp, Marian Muthui, and Alexis Hope.
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Career Girls Role Models: Alexis Hope

Alexis Hope talks about her work that focuses on broadening the participation of women in designing technology for women’s health.
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Career Girls Role Models: Jaleesa Trapp

Jaleesa Trapp talks about her career path, how technology encodes the values of its designers, and the importance of play.
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Canan Dagdeviren wants more women in STEM to “Not give up”

“That’s one thing I always tell my female students.”
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Women in AI to watch

Read about Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes, who has been featured in Forbes's "Women in AI to Watch."
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Media Lab Research Takes Flight

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
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Why this deep-sea explorer thinks diversity is so important for science

To oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, the seas’ uncharted depths are full of opportunities to engage women and people of color in science.
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Design Fiction

Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…