The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
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Postdoctoral Fellow
We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...
The AMI is a method to restore proprioception to persons with amputation.
The MLTalks series brings leading voices from a wide range of fields into the Media Lab for thought-provoking conversations, wh...
Research Assistant
An astronaut's ability to leverage human biological sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spaces...
Collaboratively exploring the horizon of urban mobility
layer decentralizes recommendation systems and intersects third-party recommendations with your locally stored, personal information to r...
Search Intent Optimization unwinds SEO by externalizing intent. Users select their intent during a search’s initiation. We offer a set of...
Self-Advertising reclaims and repurposes attention from advertising media online. As we use the Internet, we often feel&nb...
HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weigh...
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and virtual reality headset to improve ...
Pattie Maes discusses her group’s approach to bridging this divide and improving our relationships with technology.
Seemingly an old TV box which turns out to offer an abundance of control over content selection: each aspect of news can be selecte...
How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of...
Leveraging sneaker culture to influence civic engagement. Marginalized groups have influence on digital platforms but often are unhe...
Research Scientist
This project aims at creating a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience...
Changing Places researchers are developing scalable strategies for creating hyper-efficient, technology-enabled spaces that can help mak...
The celebrated Kronos Quartet will give the first public presentation of Tod Machover’s new composition, GAMMIFIED.
+nudge helps people to become their imagined future self one nudge and a time.Distracted by all of the demands on our time from...
Fortune Magazine has named Joy Buolamwini to its 2019 list of the World's Greatest Leaders.
Teaching multiple AI agents to coordinate their behavior represents a challenging task, that can be difficult to achieve without training...
A tapestry where each pixel represents a pledge by an individual to vote. Anyone can participate and watch the growing and changing image...
The ability to automatically understand and infer characters' goals and their emotional states is key towards better narrative comprehens...
The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. Simultane...
An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to...
Visiting Scholar
PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a shape-changing tool can allow for different forms...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
Research Assistant
Despite recent efforts, current fact-checking organizations cannot keep up with the amount of information that is produced and spread thr...
Half of the world's population currently suffers from some form of physical or neurological disability. At some point in our lives, it is...
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and ...
Please join us for a seminar given by Ozge Akbulut, Associate Professor of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabanci University.Ab...
The Gamma SENSE (Sensory Engaging Nebulised Scent Experience) is a pioneering instrumental addition to the gamma instrument series. The d...
Bauhaus artist Paul Klee considered a line to be one of the atomic elements of art and architecture. He famously described a line d...
In "Let's see a game!" we expose the different perspectives in TV sports and news in order to build broadcasting systems t...
Workshop descriptions and locations
Chemical constituents are the most essential components of the fresh produce items consumed by people around the world. That chemistry ca...
We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated ski...
This project delivers a series of Github-signal based metrics that would be useful to both the layman and investor, helping look beyond t...
Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people roman...
We are performing long-term measurements of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity on patients with epilepsy. In certain cases, autonomi...
Physiological arousal is an important part of occupational therapy for children with autism and ADHD, but therapists do not have a way to...
The Affective Computing group aims to bridge the gap between human emotions and computational technology. Current research addresses mach...
Here we include a suite of projects that migrate information to personal devices and systems instead of centralizes silos. In part this t...
Media filter bubbles sacrifice shared reality amongst US citizens. We aim to burst these echo chambers by presenting short, automatically...
We are surrounded by displays and technologies whose mechanisms are hidden from view. This work is an exploration of revealing the underl...
Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.