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Experts explore human-centered AI in education, focusing on equity, AI literacy, and culturally aware tools for underserved communities.
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Inventing, investigating, and inspiring human-AI systems for human flourishing
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
The initiative has connected over 130 students with alumni who provide guidance on navigating the workforce.
Looking beyond smart cities
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Fathom Information Design, founded by alum Ben Fry, helped build Sentinel, winner of MacArthur’s $100M 100&Change award.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
MIT’s Living Climate Futures Lab takes a human-centered approach to investigating a global challenge.
Enhancing human physical capability
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Margaret Hughes and Cassandra Overney received an Honorable Mention for “Voice to Vision” at the MIT Prize for Open Data.
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
The emergence of AI companion applications has created novel forms of intimate human-AI relationships, yet empirical research on these comm…
Limb & Life is a collective of researchers dedicated to describing pressing challenges in rehabilitation services, especially in prosth…
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks — and ticks usually becom…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
These grants aim to inspire MIT researchers to make a meaningful contribution to responsible technology development and deployment.
The award honors impactful early-career research in health, development, and environment.
As generative AI tools become increasingly present in classrooms, schools face difficult questions about how to guide their use. This proje…
With the Sandoval Family, Kent Larson , Pia M Sorensen and Álvaro Garrido and Lara Martin.
With Eneko Atxa, Joxe Mari Aizega, Joxe Mari Aizega and Elena Arzak.
This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
Professor Deb Roy discusses his approach to creating spaces for listening and understanding in an age of polarization.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…
This award recognizes students who are building a better world.
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …
As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
In “Scientific InQueery,” LGBTQ+ MIT faculty and graduate students describe finding community and living their authentic lives.
This award is given to students from Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China who have demonstrated academic prowess and community involvement.
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.