We build software that shapes our cities. More specifically, (1) we create micro-institutions in physical space, (2) we design social ...
looks at broadcasting in a broader way, as all aspects of the media business�from content capture to delivery�become digital, and as a ne...
is focused on developing a digitally connected, self-aware kitchen with knowledge and memory of its activities. The program explores new ...
explores how computation and communication can enrich the lives of older persons now and in the decades ahead. It focuses on making the t...
is about making things, and about the future of how things are made, from nano- to macroscale. It has two basic goals: first, to involve ...
explores ways that the digital revolution will transform the world of toys and play: old toys will become smarter; new toys will become p...
is focused on understanding devices, technology, and humans as they interface in a market setting; the new forms that transactions may ta...
looks at cars in the digital world. It explores the implications and applications of human-machine interface research, advances in person...
combines research in the areas of nanotechnology, biosensors, body networks and smart homes to give consumers the tools to take control o...
explores how micro- and nanoscale fabrication technologies offer fundamentally new ways to probe, to understand, and ultimately to contro...
looks beyond low-cost tags to ask how billions of inexpensive communicating objects can be tied together into coherent systems.
The Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic...
Cultural Resonation is the underlying philosophy and energy that informs all aspects of our work. Code Next (CN) is a Media Lab collabora...
The Emerging Worlds SIG is focused on emerging opportunities to address pressing challenges, and leapfrog existing solutions. Emerging Wo...
The Consumer Electronics Laboratory provides a unique research environment to explore ideas, make things, and innovate in new directions...
The Autism & Communication Technology Initiative utilizes the unique features of the Media Lab to foster the development of innovativ...
Most of us are awash in consumer electronics (CE) devices: from cellphones, to TVs, to dishwashers. They provide us with information, ent...
Living Labs is a new program that brings end users into the process of inventing a better future. The goal is to understand the adoption,...
The Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic...
Instead of building on a reactive health-care system centered around treating disease rather than preventing it, the Lab's Social Health ...
Our lives have been transformed by networks that combine people and computers in new ways. They have revolutionized the nature of the eco...
Visual Media is going through fundamental changes. It has irretrievability lost its lock on the audience but has gained unprecedented opp...
The deeply symbiotic relationship between our planet and ourselves is increasingly mediated by technology. Ubiquitous, networked sensing ...
Things That Think is inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments. Toward this end, Things That Think researchers...
The Center for Mobile Learning invents and studies new mobile technologies to promote learning anywhere anytime for anyone. The Center fo...
We want to increase the value of computing for the times when we are away from conventional screen and keyboard computers. To this end, w...
The Software Agents group investigates a new paradigm for software that acts like an assistant to a user of an interactive interface rath...
Communities need information to make decisions and take action: to provide aid to neighbors in need, to purchase an environmentally susta...
Our research is exploring a "constructionist" approach to the development of personal and community publishing tools in order to help inc...
In a world mediated through computing, our everyday lives are increasingly affected by complex and invisible systems. Some of these are a...
Human society is thoroughly immersed in a vast network of communicated information, consisting of media artifacts and procedural structur...
A broadband network can in concept bring every telephone conversation in America directly to every telephone; one could join any conversa...
The Gesture and Narrative Language group designs technology to enable and enhance natural forms of communication and linguistic expressi...
In the eRationality group we study how people behave and make day-to-day decisions, particularly in electronic environments. We investiga...
Language is central to how people reason about and understand their world. As computers increasingly pervade human lives and decision-mak...
The High-Low Tech group integrates high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures. Our primary aim is to engage diverse au...
We define Design Ecology as the study of malleable design that is aware of and can seamlessly react to changing environments. This new ap...
The Ecology Media Group explores the potential of computational media as access point to natural systems and global ecology. We work to i...
The Critical Computing group explores ways that static and moving images can become primary tools for reflection and explanation. we dev...
The Grassroots Invention group (GIG) is developing a suite of low-cost, powerful personal computation and fabrication technologies along ...
The Society of Mind research group focuses on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. We account for many as...
While most agree that learning in the twenty-first century needs to change drastically, few go so far as to question the basic conceptual...
Despite amazing advances in medicines and medical technology over the past 50 years, health care is in crisis. Costs are skyrocketing, he...
The Physics and Media group studies the relationship between the content of information and its physical representation, from molecular q...
This work has a double focus. First, considerable research has centered on designing computer tools and interfaces, "smart rooms," and co...
The Center for Bits and Atoms is a campus-wide program involving faculty from the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Electri...
The Sociable Media group investigates issues concerning identity and society in the networked world. We address such questions as how do ...
Within the next several years, another billion people will make regular use of cell phones, continuing the fastest adoption of a new tech...
The display is now limiting the functionality of on-the-go human-computer interaction, from both form-factor and power-consumption perspe...
We are creating the infrastructure to network people and everyday things: the synapses of "Things That Think."
The research of the Smart Cities group focuses on intelligent, sustainable buildings, mobility systems, and cities. It explores the appli...
The Spatial Imaging group develops new technology and interfaces for high-quality 3-D displays. Their research includes hardcopy holograp...
The Nanomedia group is developing a suite of technologies and chemistries to establish the field of printing functional devices and mate...
The Aesthetics + Computation group works toward the design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation ...
We are an art, activist, and political technology group, based on the premise that artists and engineers can rectify the imbalances of po...
SIMPLICITY is an experimental research program focused on developing technologies for designs that are simpler to understand, easier to u...
Digital Nations (DN) aims to address major social challenges (improving education, enhancing health care, supporting community developmen...
The Nanoscale Sensing group applies micro- and nanofabrication technologies towards the development of novel methods for probing biologic...
What is cinema becoming? All around us--in the laboratory, in theme parks and museums, on optical media and home computers, across the W...
The Context-Aware Computing group uses "context knowledge" such as where we are, how we feel and what we have done to drive machines to ...
The eDevelopment group invents systems that empower, enrich, and inter-connect developing communities. In particular, we study new e-com...
Computing devices have become indispensable to modern life, yet they remain largely ignorant about the people they serve and the world th...
The Lab's X-Reality Working Group explores the fluid merger of "real" and "virtual" worlds, looking broadly at "cross reality" at several...
The Physical Language Workshop designs tools for creating digital content in a networked environment, and the means by which the content ...