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Project Research

How to Grow (Almost) Anything - A New Model for Global Synthetic Biology Education

A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…

in City Science · Molecular Machines · Community Biotechnology
Eyal Perry · Pat Pataranutaporn +4 more
#robotics #bioengineering #learning +8 more
Project Research

AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +4 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +2 more
Project Research

AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning

This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…

in Fluid Interfaces
Valdemar Danry · Joanne Leong +3 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Dreaming through Code

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…

in Future Sketches · Lifelong Kindergarten
Cecilé Sadler · Chelsi Cocking
#civic technology #learning #computer science +2 more
Project Research

Brazilian Creative Learning Network / Aprendizagem Criativa no Brasil

The Brazilian Creative Learning Network is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning …

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Leo Burd · Ann Valente +3 more
#learning
Project Research

The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Jaleesa Trapp · Natalie Rusk +3 more
#human-computer interaction #learning #technology +2 more
Project Research

Learning Creative Learning

Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…

in Lifelong Kindergarten · ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Carmelo Presicce · Lily Gabaree +6 more
#design #learning #makers
Project Research

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
J. Philipp Schmidt · Ada Ren-Mitchell +7 more
#robotics #design #art +6 more
Project Research

The Guardians

in Affective Computing
Craig Ferguson · Sara Taylor +3 more
#data #entertainment #gaming +7 more
Project Research

Computing for a Purpose

Facilitating opportunities for non-dominant youth to learn how to use technology as a tool to engage civically and create positive change i…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Jaleesa Trapp · Cecilé Sadler
#learning #computer science
Project Research

Drawing++ Workshop

Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …

in Future Sketches
Zach Lieberman · Chelsi Cocking +1 more
#design #art #learning +2 more
Project Research

Festival of Learning

An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.

in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Katherine McConachie · J. Philipp Schmidt +4 more
#learning
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 lea…

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, students…

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 scho…

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

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Eyal Perry · Adam Haar Horowitz +5 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +16 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 int…

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 Re…

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

Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Clement Duhart +4 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Project Research

Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags

Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found a…

in Tangible Media
Kyung Yun Choi · Hiroshi Ishii
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +5 more
Project Research

Child-Driven, Robot-Guided Literacy Activity

 

in Personal Robots
Pedro Colon-Hernandez · Safinah Arshad Ali +2 more
#robotics #design #construction +5 more
Project Research

Cyber Joe: AI Mentor for MIT Media Lab Students of 2050

This video interview is a part of Media Lab X.0: Anthology of Tomorrows.In 2020, first-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab were tas…

Pat Pataranutaporn · Nikhil Singh +3 more
#artificial intelligence #learning
Project Research

Targeted Dream Incubation

What Is TDI?Targeted Dream Incubation is a method for guiding dreams towards specific themes. It is a proposal both magnetic and unlik…

in Fluid Interfaces
Ishaan Grover · Tomas Vega Galvez +5 more
#cognition #learning #wearable computing +5 more
Project Research

Play Analytics

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

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

Unbreakout

Unbreakout (beta) is a tool for participatory Zoom breakout rooms. Let your meeting attendees propose their own breakout discussion topics …

in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Katherine McConachie · J. Philipp Schmidt
#learning #open source
Project Research

How MIT Learns

Judging by the work of its alumni and faculty, MIT is an amazing place for learning. When I first arrived on campus, I wanted to better und…

in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
J. Philipp Schmidt · Katherine McConachie
#learning
Project Research

Unhangout

Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online.Each event has a landing page, which we call…

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
J. Philipp Schmidt · Katherine McConachie +2 more
#learning #open source
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 ow…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +30 more
#robotics #design #art +15 more
Project Research

StoryBlocks

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

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

Learning Loops

Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to make …

in Social Machines
Anneli Hershman · Sarah Ballinger +5 more
#design #social networks #human-machine interaction +2 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 compositi…

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

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #health +8 more
Project Research

DoppelLab: Experiencing multimodal sensor data

Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensive …

Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton +1 more
#human-computer interaction #learning #music +3 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 slime…

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, s…

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 long…

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 child…

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? We…

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

in Personal Robots
Jon Ferguson · Hae Won Park +2 more
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +11 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 educati…

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

Circuit Stickers

Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printing …

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Jie Qi +2 more
#art #learning #storytelling +1 more
Project Research

INSPIRE

INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing from …

in Social Machines
Belen Saldias Fuentes · Sneha Priscilla Makini +4 more
#learning #networks #storytelling +1 more
Project Research

RGBox

The RGBox is an experimental game to teach fundamentals of additive color mixing theory. As opposed to the behavior of pigments that g…

in City Science
Gabriela Bila Advincula
#learning #interfaces
Project Research

Scratch BlockArt

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

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 education…

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

City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosyst…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#ecology #learning #storytelling +3 more
Project Research

NeverMind: Using AR for memorization

NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augmented…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Oscar Rosello +1 more
#augmented reality #extended intelligence #health +2 more
Project Research

Mathland: Play with math in mixed reality

Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert use…

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Sirera i Pulido · Mina Khan +2 more
#augmented reality #learning
Project Research

Curious Learning: Understanding learning behaviors for early literacy

Early literacy plays an important role in a child's future. However, the reality is that over 57 million children have no access to a schoo…

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Nikhita Singh +1 more
#robotics #data #learning +1 more
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 lea…

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 link.…

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

Learning to dance in VR

Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those in…

in Fluid Interfaces
Misha Sra
#virtual reality #learning #interfaces
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

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

Bricoleur

Bricoleur allows makers of all ages to explore the creative possibilities of video and audio as programmable media on mobile devices. Using…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Sean Hickey
#human-computer interaction #learning
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 national…

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

Instrumentation of Montessori Learning Materials

The Montessori Method is an educational approach that emphasizes independence and respect for a child's natural development process. Montes…

in Social Machines
Nazmus Saquib
#human-machine interaction #learning
Project Research

Playful Words

While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is l…

in Social Machines
Anneli Hershman · Deb Roy +7 more
#learning
Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#communications #ecology #environment +4 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 cohor…

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 followi…

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

Personal Research Projects

Our Personal Research Projects group is dedicated to the closure of the digital and educational divides and gaps as they effect the underse…

Colin "Topper" Carew · Beckett Dunning
#learning #computer science
Project Research

ShapeBlocks

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

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

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