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OctoStudio transforms how children use mobile devices, enabling them to create their own stories and games anytime anywhere. Children …
Changing Places researchers are developing scalable strategies for understanding and creating hyper-efficient, technology-enabled spaces t…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com The installation is currently open to public starting September 25, 2023 at …
A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
We demonstrate a multimodal approach for perceptual learning that supplements a perceptually-ambiguous audio stimulus with haptics. In our …
The first in a series of sculptures that capture natural light patterns over time using computer vision.This work seeks to investigate arch…
This project explores a few computational approaches to use the shape of a knitted garment as input for its pattern.This experiment combin…
Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
ImmerScope City offers new ways of visualizing complex urban designs. It generates rendered images of streetscapes to allow for collab…
This project explores a computational method to use light as a medium for illustration. I experiment with a process to transform pixels int…
Cloud Light is a lighting object that draws inspiration from signed distance function geometries and nature. It functions as a lamp a…
2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…
Analogia is a game for sharing honest and sometimes challenging stories using a combination of talking prompts and absurd images. The cards…
Prolonged exposure to microgravity is known to cause various acute health risks, including muscle atrophy, bone loss, cardiovascular decon…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
The Festival of Invention and Creativity (FIC) is a great celebration of the inventive, collaborative, and hands-on spirit of B…
In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health, using technologies such as wearabl…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With on…
Smartglasses are increasingly popular because the face is an ideal location for continuously monitoring environmental and physiological sig…
A world in which thousands of people can construct and release autonomous biological agents is unlikely to flourishProfessor Kevin Esvelt, …
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffered…
The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standard…
Liquid handling robots are key components of modern biotechnology labs, but they largely function to spare humans from laborious or re…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life span …
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…
Energy consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are projected to grow at an alarming rate over the next two decades. A recent st…
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…
Emergence, when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, is an awe inducing phenomenon seen within natu…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…
Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
We propose sanitizer, a framework for secure and task-agnostic data release. While releasing datasets continues to make a big impact in var…
Current methods to assess depression and select appropriate treatments have many limitations and need improvement. Diagnosis is usually bas…
Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change bro…
Humanity has harnessed evolution to sculpt domesticated animals, crops, and molecules, but the process remains a black box. Which combinati…