• Search Search
  • User Login
  • Nav Nav
Search
  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal
We are an interdisciplinary research lab working to invent the future of
  • health

  • art

  • human-machine interaction

  • learning

  • artificial intelligence

  • robotics

  • architecture

  • design

  • technology

  • consumer electronics

  • kids

  • music

  • wearable computing

  • networks

  • politics

  • bioengineering

  • entertainment

  • cognition

  • economy

  • human-computer interaction

  • data

  • machine learning

  • history

  • archives

  • social science

  • storytelling

  • sensors

  • interfaces

  • wellbeing

  • space

  • environment

  • covid19

  • computer science

  • developing countries

  • prosthetics

  • engineering

  • privacy

  • social robotics

  • ethics

  • civic technology

  • social media

  • civic media

  • imaging

  • public health

  • communications

  • synthetic biology

  • urban planning

  • augmented reality

  • neurobiology

  • biology

  • affective computing

  • virtual reality

  • computer vision

  • transportation

  • community

  • industry

  • energy

  • biomechanics

  • data visualization

  • social change

  • food

  • alumni

  • government

  • biotechnology

  • zero gravity

  • ocean

  • 3d printing

  • creativity

  • racial justice

  • medicine

  • agriculture

  • blockchain

  • genetics

  • manufacturing

  • data science

  • gaming

  • prosthetic design

  • women

  • behavioral science

  • construction

  • fashion

  • materials

  • social networks

  • banking and finance

  • open source

  • systems

  • cryptocurrency

  • security

  • crowdsourcing

  • climate change

  • diversity

  • collective intelligence

  • fabrication

  • makers

  • wiesner

  • language learning

  • cognitive science

  • internet of things

  • bionics

  • extended intelligence

  • performance

  • neural interfacing and control

  • perception

  • human augmentation

  • startup

  • interactive

  • autonomous vehicles

  • natural language processing

  • ecology

  • civic action

  • marginalized communities

  • nonverbal behavior

  • mapping

  • physiology

  • visualization

  • clinical science

  • physics

  • holography

  • long-term interaction

  • gesture interface

  • microfabrication

  • mechanical engineering

  • networking

  • trust

  • point of care

  • orthotic design

  • water

  • sports and fitness

  • autism research

  • primary healthcare

  • electrical engineering

  • voice

  • microbiology

  • hacking

  • member company

  • pharmaceuticals

  • rfid

  • nanoscience

  • clinical trials

  • mechatronics

  • trade

  • academia

  • member event

  • open access

  • gender studies

  • soft-tissue biomechanics

  • code

  • chemistry

  • real estate

  • randomized experiment

  • publishing

  • biomedical imaging

  • gis

  • event

  • exhibit

  • cartography

  • metamaterials

  • installation

  • Groups
  • Projects
  • Publications
  • Centers
  • Initiatives
More Close
Project Research

Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...

in Personal Robots
Safinah Arshad Ali · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, studen...

in Personal Robots
Blakeley H. Payne · Safinah Arshad Ali +3 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +3 more
Project Research

School Reviews

Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on sc...

in Social Machines
Nabeel Gillani · Eric Chu +2 more
#kids #learning #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

Thinking Cap

Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own i...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#kids #learning #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +15 more
Project Research

Play Analytics

Analyzing detailed data from SpeechBlocks to understand how kids engage with constructionist literacy learning technologies, with th...

Sneha Priscilla Makini · Anneli Hershman +4 more
#design #kids #learning +1 more
Project Research

Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +30 more
#robotics #design #art +14 more
Project Research

StoryBlocks

StoryBlocks aims to promote creative expression, literacy development, and social-emotional development through storytelling for children...

Michelle Shen · Sneha Priscilla Makini +5 more
#design #kids #learning +1 more
Project Research

SpeechBlocks

SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...

in Social Machines
Jim Gray · Ivan Sysoev +1 more
#design #construction #kids +5 more
Project Research

AI + Data Privacy Activities for K-9 Students

Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers are grappling with some herculean questions regarding kids' safety online. Homemade sli...

in Personal Robots
Stephanie Nguyen · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #data #kids +4 more
Project Research

Doodle Bot - Creative AI learning

Doodle Bot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware,...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Safinah Arshad Ali
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Robot Mindset and Curiosity

Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Safinah Arshad Ali +2 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +4 more
Project Research

AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...

in Personal Robots
Daniella DiPaola · Blakeley H. Payne +1 more
#design #artificial intelligence #gaming +6 more
Project Research

Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang +9 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +10 more
Project Research

ScratchJr

ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and anim...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Chris Garrity · Andrew Sliwinski +3 more
#robotics #design #kids +4 more
Project Research

Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon t...

in Personal Robots
Jon Ferguson · Hae Won Park +2 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Tega: A New Social Robot Platform

Tega is a new robot platform designed to support long-term, in-home interactions with children, with applications in early-literacy educa...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Hae Won Park +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #kids +3 more
Project Research

Duct Tape Network

The Duct Tape Network (DTN) is a series of fun, hands-on maker clubs that encourage young children (ages 7-10) to use cardboard, tape, wo...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Leo Burd · Alisha Panjwani
#kids
Project Research

Scratch Mondays

Scratch Mondays is an initiative  to share the Scratch Day spirit to schools in Brazil. After having a big Scratch Day event in 2018...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Carolina Rodeghiero · Leo Burd
#design #kids #community
Project Research

Scratch BlockArt

Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exi...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Shruti Dhariwal
#kids #learning #data visualization
Project Research

P2PSTORY: Dataset of children as storytellers and listeners in peer-to-peer interactions

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #data #kids +5 more
Project Research

Assessing Children's Relationships with Social Robots

Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in domains such as healthcare, education, therapy...

in Personal Robots · ML Learning
Randi Williams · Cynthia Breazeal +2 more
#kids #social robotics #long-term interaction
Project Research

Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...

in Personal Robots
Stefania Druga · Cynthia Breazeal
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +7 more
Project Research

Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar +2 more
#ecology #environment #kids +5 more
Project Research

Scratch Memories

Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Shruti Dhariwal
#kids #learning #data visualization
Project Research

ScratchBit

ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Kreg Hanning · Andrew Sliwinski +4 more
#design #kids #learning
Project Research

Andorra | Energy + Environment

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Juanita Devis +3 more
#architecture #energy #environment +6 more
Project Research

Scratch Day

Scratch Day (day.scratch.mit.edu) is a network of face-to-face local gatherings, on the same day in all parts of the world, where people ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Champika Fernando · Mitchel Resnick +3 more
#gaming #kids #learning +1 more
Project Research

Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Yi-Cheng Jiang +6 more
#design #architecture #civic technology +7 more
Project Research

Andorra | Innovation

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +5 more
#data #kids #learning +3 more
Project Research

Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Mirko Gelsomini +2 more
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
Project Research

Getting Started with Scratch

Every day, young people around the world use the Scratch programming language to create and share thousands of interactive projects on th...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Natalie Rusk · Shruti Dhariwal
#gaming #kids #learning
Project Research

Microworlds

The MIT Scratch Team is exploring ways to make it easier for newcomers to get started creating with coding. We are designing "microworlds...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Moran Tsur · Sarah Otts +2 more
#kids #learning #storytelling +1 more
Project Research

Foundations : Design of Codified Curricula in Coding, Design, Fabrication, Games, Music, Media, etc.

Foundations (2015 - 2016): The Year 1 MIT/Google collaboration program has Pilot Labs in NYC and Oakland. In the Labs, we introduce a coh...

in Code Next
Colin "Topper" Carew · Beckett Dunning +1 more
#kids #learning #computer science
Project Research

Team Edge: Design of Codified Curricula in Coding, Design, Fabrication, Games, Engineering, etc.

Team Edge (2016 - 2017): The Year 2 MIT/Google Collaboration. For it, we design and author Curricula and Learning Activities in the follo...

in Code Next
Colin "Topper" Carew · Beckett Dunning
#kids #learning #computer science
Project Research

Scratch Extensions

The Scratch extension system enables anyone to extend the Scratch programming language through custom programming blocks written in JavaS...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Andrew Sliwinski · Kreg Hanning +4 more
#gaming #kids #learning
Project Research

Scratch 3.0

Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . Th...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Andrew Sliwinski · Carl Bowman +5 more
#design #gaming #kids +3 more
Project Research

ShapeBlocks

ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As pl...

in Social Machines
Deb Roy · Nazmus Saquib
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #kids +2 more
Project Research

Wildflower Montessori

Wildflower is an open-source approach to Montessori learning. Its aim is to be an experiment in a new learning environment, blurring the ...

in Social Computing
Sepandar Kamvar
#kids #learning

  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal

More ways to explore

  • Videos
  • Publications
  • Job Opportunities
  • Contact

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Architecture + Planning

Accessibility
Donate to the Lab