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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use

Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland, Kent Larson, and Dana Calacci. 2024. Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2024), 48 pages. https://doi.org/10. 1145/3687005
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
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Gigbox: a research and development toolkit centering workers in the gig economy

Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data a…
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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Open e-commerce 1.0, five years of crowdsourced U.S. Amazon purchase histories with user demographics

Berke, A., Calacci, D., Mahari, R. Yabe, T., Larson, K., & Pentland, S. Open e-commerce 1.0, five years of crowdsourced U.S. Amazon purchase histories with user demographics. Sci Data 11, 491 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03329-6
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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"AI Comes Out of the Closet" seeks to merge AI and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a way as innovative as it is necessary

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
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Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT)

The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
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AI Comes Out of the Closet: Using AI-Generated Virtual Characters to Help Individuals Practice LGBTQIA+ Advocacy

AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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OpenCBDC

ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
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Remaking City by Community-based Social Innovation

The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
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Making art through computation

Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Technology for Resilient Youth: Fostering emotional expression and social connectedness amongst at-risk young adults

​We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
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Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Why AI should move slow and fix things

Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Regional Technology Co-Creation and Transfer Ecosystems in Latin America

Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…
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Income, Race, Bikes

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-share…
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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RealTalk for Change Boston

A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
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Understanding the 15 Minute City

City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …
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Voice Your Choice: Creating a Community Engagement Process for New Magnet Programs in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools

Effective community engagement is critical in diverse organizations, such as school districts. However, current methods, including surveys,…
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Dreaming through Code

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
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A wearable ultrasound scanner could detect breast cancer earlier

The new device, which can be incorporated into a bra, could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer.
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The future of social media is a lot less social

Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
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On social media platforms, more sharing means less caring about accuracy

An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
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Let’s fight global tax dodgers with cutting-edge data science

Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar selected for MIT Open Data Prize

The MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries present the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data to highlight the value of open data at MIT.
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Privacy Limitations Of Interest-based Advertising On The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis Of Google’s FLoC

Alex Berke and Dan Calacci. 2022. Privacy Limitations of Interest-based Advertising on The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis of Google’s FLoC. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22), November 7–11, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560626
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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 P…
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Neil Gaikwad recognized by MIT and University of Chicago

Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.
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LinkedOut: Codesigning societal reentry with returning citizens

LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with the…
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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
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