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Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...
Breathing actions are used to augment controller-based input by giving superpowers to players in two VR games. Blowing out long and stron...
GVS or galvanic vestibular stimulation is a technology that directly affects a user's vestibular system by altering their sense of balanc...
Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...
This work explores the design of techniques based on the cognitive illusion of "inattentional blindness" which is a failure to notice som...
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...
Mnemo is a prosthetic memory system to extend the capabilities of human memory. Mnemo uses physiological signals as well as m...
Facilitating coexistence, trust-building, and collaboration among people and machines.New modes of 21st century urban transportation are ...
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary ...
Embodied theories of language propose that the way we communicate verbally is grounded in our bodies. Nevertheless, the way a second lang...
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...
When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...
How can we get more value from the same buildings?Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources ...
Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind: A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...
Can we modulate the way we hear the world around us to make it more calming or to induce focus? While technology is usually associated wi...
Thesis CitationZhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute ...
City Science Lab Toronto is established in cooperation with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. It started in 2018 and is ...
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
LUI is a new Human-Computer Interface for interactive media on large screens and AR/VR platforms. It utilizes voice and gestures to natur...
The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is driven by an effort to democratize the future of space exploration. As such, we are committ...
Privacy-preserving mHealth application using Open Algorithm (OPAL) architecture to address urgent care challenges in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...
Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) is a non-contact optical-numerical technique for evaluating the dynamic m...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Read more about this project hereMIT City Science is working with Hafencity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothe...
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...
Expressing the hidden things inside, working with one of the most fragile of media.Hand carved illuminated Hen, Duck, Blue Duck and Goose...
Two of the most important traits of environmental hazards today are their invisibility and the fact that they are experienced by communit...
Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch...
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, t...
We propose an illumination grammar for different configurations of lasers and cosmetic products as a framework for aesthetic and interior...
Our team aims to improve bi-directional communication between the human nervous system, biological limbs, and bionic prostheses, through ...
Open Algorithm (OPAL)
Games are a uniquely human endeavour, reducing stress and supporting mental well-being. Astronauts aboard the ISS have created their own ...
In what is probably his most famous poem—Poema 20—the Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda wrote: “Es tan corto el a...
We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...
4K/8K Comics applies the affordances of ultra-high-resolution screens to traditional print media such as comic books, graphic novels, and...
To explore future mobility modes, the City Science group is working with Media Lab member company Panasonic to explore the use and potent...
Occupational stress can be described as a harmful emotional and physical response that occurs when high demanding job conditions cannot b...
Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change b...
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Most of the underwater world remains far off the map. For many of the most exciting exploration challenges–from Maya cenotes to urb...
Update: A trigger system has been implemented to enable users to play the cube in real time and explore interactive ways to compose space...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. Shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel, however, lie unique ecos...
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...
The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evol...
Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...
OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...
Time of Flight 3D cameras like the Microsoft Kinect are prevalent in computer vision and computer graphics. In such devices, the power of...
With our Ubiquitous Sonic Overlay, we are working to place virtual sounds in the user's environment, fixing them in space even as the use...