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What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
As computing blends into everyday environments, powerful opportunities open up for social connection. How can we leverage technology to enh…
This project was produced as part of the 2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
This work was presented at the ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and…
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
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 close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…
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Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, …
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of gla…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Latent Lab - Navigating Innovation: Interactive Data Exploration & InspirationLatent Lab is an AI-driven, graphical knowledge expl…
CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
During facilitated small-group conversations, facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make n…
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
Can you ever be what you say and say what you are?Can your speech genuinely represent yourself and convey your thoughts and meaning?Does y…
Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of data …