Project Research

OnTheGo

As mobile device screens continue to get smaller (smartwatches, head-mounted devices like Google Glass), touch-based interactions with th...
Project Research

Spotz

Exploring your city is a great way to make friends, discover new places, find new interests, and invent yourself. Spotz is an Android app...
Project Research

Spellbound

Emerging pervasive games use sensors, graphics and networking technologies to provide immersive game experiences integrated with the real...
Project Research

CAPS: Curbing Assault to Protect Society

We present CAPS, wearable on-body capsules which produce repulsive odor to deter sexual abuse. The capsules can be triggered by self...
Project Research

Activ8

Activ8 is a system of three short games: See-Saw, a balancing game for Google Glass; Jump Beat, a music beat matching game for Google Gla...
Project Research

Conforming Materials

Combining the art of two worlds–fashion and biology–into one. Conforming Materials is working towards designing fully recyclable clo...
Publication Research

Smart specialization policy in the European Union: relatedness, knowledge complexity and regional diversification

Balland, P.A., Boschma, R., Crespo, J. and Rigby, D. (2018) Smart Specialization policy in the EU: Relatedness, Knowledge Complexity and Regional Diversification, Regional Studies, forthcoming.
Academic Paper, March 2018
Project Research

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
Publication Research

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality

Fuste, Anna, and Chris Schmandt. "ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
Article Research

Drive It! Guy Satat wins Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for All Photons Imaging and FemtoPixel technologies

He is passionate about developing imaging technologies that solve great challenges in society, science, and health
Publication Research

Patient-Centred Care Threats

Alsalamah, S., Alsalamah, H., Gray, A. W., & Hilton, J. (2018). Information Security Threats in Patient-Centred Healthcare. In Information Management Association (Ed.), Health Care Delivery and Clinical Science: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1531-1552). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3926-1.ch077.
Publication Research

eTELEMED

Murata, Y. AlSalamah, S. A. AlSalamah, H. A. Quero, G. Gheorghiu, B. Ossebaard, H. C. (Eds.). (2018). The Tenth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine (eTELEMED). Rome, Italy. IARIA XPS Press.
Post Research

Congratulations to Ed Boyden on being inducted as an AIMBE Fellow

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows honors those who have made o...
Article Research

The body electric

What if wearable and implantable devices could harvest energy from the heat, sweat or vibrations of the wearer?
Project Research

Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...
Article Research

Q&A: Composer Tod Machover presents “Philadelphia Voices”

Ambitious new piece in his “City Symphony” series features the birthplace of American democracy.
Article Research

"Philadelphia Voices" cheesesteak solo
Article Research

How a Philly cheesesteak goes from the grill to Carnegie Hall

“Philadelphia Voices” is the latest in a series of Machover symphonies inspired by cities.
Article Research

Orchestra’s new crowdsourced choral work features ‘Philadelphia Voices’

This week, the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres a new musical composition about its home city, by the city — in a way.
Publication Research

Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas

Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.
Publication Research

Design and Science

November 21, 2017.
Academic Paper, Jan. 2016
Publication Research

The Fintech Bubble

June 14, 2016.
Publication Research

Importance of Sleep Data in Predicting Next-Day Stress, Happiness, and Health in College Students

Taylor, S., Jaques, N., Nosakhare, E., Sano, A., Klerman, E., and Picard, R. "Importance of Sleep Data in Predicting Next-Day Stress, Happiness, and Health in College Students," Sleep2017, June 2017.
Publication Research

QuantifyMe: An Open-Source Automated Single-Case Experimental Design Platform

Taylor, S.*, Sano, A.*, Ferguson, C., Mohan, A., Picard, R. "QuantifyMe: An Open-Source Automated Single-Case Experimental Design Platform," Sensors, April 2018. (*equal contribution)
Archived
Project Research

FaceSense: Affective-Cognitive State Inference from Facial Video

People express and communicate their mental states–such as emotions, thoughts, and desires–through facial expressions, vocal nuances, ges...
Archived
Post Research

Giving Voice to Philadelphians

Tod Machover shares his insights into the creation and community of "Philadelphia Voices."
Article Research

Machine behavior needs to be an academic discipline

We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
Post Research

Statement regarding the relationship between the MIT Media Lab and Nectome

In response to questions being raised about the relationships of Professor Ed Boyden and MIT with the company Nectome, the MIT Media Lab ...
Article Research

Mummers and sizzling Philly cheesesteaks get their Philadelphia Orchestra moment

Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Project Research

Towards In-Vivo Biopsy

A new method to detect and distinguish between different types of fluorescent materials. The suggested technique has provided a dramatica...
Project Research

Beacon Concept Store with the Center for Future Banking

The Smart Cities and Cognitive Machines groups have teamed up with the Center for Future Banking to design a concept banking store in the...
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Project Research

Storytelling in the Preschool of the Future

Using the Preschool of the Future environment, children can create stories that come to life in the real world. We are developing interfa...
Archived
Article Research

Prototypes for the new space age

The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative shares results and next steps from its first zero gravity research mission
Post Research

Frequently Asked Questions: Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery
Project Research

Urban Tattoo

Scalable Urban Infrastructure for Human-Machine CohabitationNew infrastructure to help sustain public-sector participation and operation,...
Publication Research

Embedding behavior modification strategies into a consumer electronics device: a case study

J. Nawyn, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Embedding behavior modification strategies into consumer electronic devices," in Proceedings of UbiComp 2006. vol. LNCS 4206, P. Dourish and A. Friday, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 297-314.
Post Research

Hands-On Ecology: Fostering Neuroinclusivity in STEM Education

What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (a...
Post Research

Inspiration, Education, and Exploration at the Open Ocean Symposium

The New England Aquarium was proud to collaborate with the MIT Media Lab and National Geographic on the latest Open Ocean initiative even...
Post Research

Inspiring Change at Here Be Dragons

The New England Aquarium was proud to collaborate with the MIT Media Lab and National Geographic on the latest event from the Open Ocean ...
Article Research

Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award

MIT scientist is among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics.
Post Research

Congratulations to Ed Boyden on receiving the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award!

2018 Canada Gairdner International Awardee “for the discovery of light-gated ion channel mechanisms, and for the discovery of optogenetics"
Project Research

Computational Tinkering

As children tinker with materials in the world, they are constantly putting things together and taking them apart. They are learning thro...
Publication Research

AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface

A. Kapur, S. Kapur, and P. Maes, "AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface." 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2018), pp 43-53, March 5, 2018.
Thesis Research

The Equipped Explorer: Virtual Reality as a Medium for Learning
Project Research

Smell Camera: Record, Play, Rewind

We present Smell Camera: an innovative way of capturing memories in the form of smell that can be recorded, stored, and played in the fut...
Publication Research

Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Physically Reconfigurable Wearables.

Sang-won Leigh, et al. "Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Physically Reconfigurable Wearables." TEI 18, pp 11-18, March 3, 2018.
Publication Research

Closing the AI Knowledge Gap

Z. Epstein, B. H. Payne, J. H. Shen, A. Dubey, B. Felbo, M. Groh, N. Obradovich, M. Cebrian, I. Rahwan (2018). Closing the AI Knowledge Gap. arXiv:1803.07233 [cs.CY]
Publication Research

Studying Violin Bowing

Young, D.
Post Research

Inventing Smells for Space: A chemistry, design, and R&D collaboration with IFF

A chemistry, design, and R&D collaboration with International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc.
Article Research

A guide to daily life on Mars

What would daily life be like on the Red Planet?
Publication Research

Towards Photography Through Realistic Fog

G. Satat, M. Tancik and R. Raskar, "Towards Photography Through Realistic Fog", IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), (2018).
Post Research

Impact Award for Media Lab work at 2018 Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)

"A model of textual affect sensing using real-world knowledge," a 2003 paper by Fluid Interfaces alum Hugo Liu and former ...
Post Research

Neri Oxman: On architecture, femininity, feminism, and breaking down barriers

Neri Oxman interviewed as one of CNN's "five top women in world architecture"
Post Research

Neri Oxman: TED Talk

Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology
Post Research

Exploring the brain at the Media Lab

Celebrating Brain Awareness Week with a look at some of the Media Lab's brain research
Article Research

Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth

Read the full story online.
Article Research

How Lies Spread Online

The spread of misinformation on social media is an alarming phenomenon that scientists have yet to fully understand. While the data show ...
Publication Research

The Spread of True and False News Online

S. Vosoughi, D. Roy, S. Aral. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science. Vol 359, Iss 6380. Mar 09 2018.
Project Research

SNAPSHOT Expose

We are applying learnings from the SNAPSHOT study to the problem of changing behavior, exploring the design of user-centered tools which ...
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Article Research

Kids can pick up attitude from robots they play and learn with

“The goal is to have a companion that has all of the behaviors that we want to instill and promote in the child”
Post Research

GUI3D: Simulation Template for Processing 3

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3.
Post Research

Here be Dragons 2018: Lightning Talks

MIT students, faculty, and collaborators gave Lightning Talks during Here be Dragons 2018
Post Research

Resultado do Desafio Aprendizagem Criativa Brasil 2018

A Fundação Lemann e o MIT Media Lab selecionaram 12 brasileiros para receber a Creative Learning Fellowship oferecida pelo...
Gallery Research

Mobility++ Workshop Taipei 2017
Publication Research

A Trip to the Moon: Personalized Animated Movies for Self-reflection

Peng F., LaBelle V., Yue E., and Picard R.. "A Trip to the Moon: Personalized Animated Movies for Self-reflection." Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2018.
Publication Research

Assessment of time-varying accessibility and territorial cohesion using Time Distorted Maps: a case study based on public transport (...)

Balsa-Barreiro, José, Lukas Ambühl, Monica Menendez, and Rubén C. Lois-González. 2018. “Assessment of time-varying accessibility and territorial cohesion using Time Distorted Maps: a case study based on public transport systems in the region of Galicia, Spain.” Poster presented at the 97th Annual Meeting Transportation Research Board, Washington (USA), Jan 07-11.
Poster, Jan. 2018