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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
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
Enhancing human physical capability
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Canan Dagdeviren talks to Sharon Kedar about the latest generation of the wearable ultrasound scanner Conformable Decoders is developing.
The MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition aims to support female faculty entrepreneurs in biotechnology.
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
Designing for, with, and by nature
Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
Technology for Women’s Health
Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Presenting work at the UN/Canada Space4Women "Building capacity to promote and advance gender equality in the space sector."
Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com The installation is currently open to public starting September 25, 2023 at …
Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …
These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.
Canan Dağdeviren, head of the Conformable Decoders research group, discusses her time at the MIT Media Lab and where her research is headed.
Randi Williams, who is a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, joins other talented scientists to talk about their careers.
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.
PhD students Lucy Du and Ginger Schmidt are crushing the competition — and gender barriers — in the world of televised robot combat.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
The artist's incisive exhibition at Cuchifritos Gallery addresses the biological and political realities of childbearing and rearing.
Lara Ozkan (undergraduate researcher in the Conformable Decoders group) was selected as MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s SERC Scholar.
The system measures biological and environmental changes, and detects contact between the mask and the wearer’s skin.
Open Ocean
Creating technology for social change
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…
A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…
Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.
MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech.
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio talk about The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook.
Code.org interviews Lifelong Kindergarten PhD student Jaleesa Trapp in honor of Women’s History Month.
Watch the interviews conducted by Career Girls with Labbers Randi Williams, Jaleesa Trapp, Marian Muthui, and Alexis Hope.
Alexis Hope talks about her work that focuses on broadening the participation of women in designing technology for women’s health.
Jaleesa Trapp talks about her career path, how technology encodes the values of its designers, and the importance of play.
“That’s one thing I always tell my female students.”
Read about Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes, who has been featured in Forbes's "Women in AI to Watch."
Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
To oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, the seas’ uncharted depths are full of opportunities to engage women and people of color in science.
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…