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InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
Space Exploration Initiative
Haar Horowitz, Adam, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes. "Dormio: Interfacing with dreams." In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-10. 2018.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Enhancing human physical capability
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Website created as a rapid response to Covid-19 yields unexpected insights into what’s possible for reaching learners at a distance.
Dormio is the result of several year's worth of research conducted by the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.
Vega and his colleagues tested Dormio on group of 50 people this summer. Read about their results.
Guided dreaming could be used to boost creativity or to confront sources of stress and trauma.
While text-editors (e.g. Google Docs, MS Word) might be useful for writing a lecture, they’re not an intuitive medium for designing exper...
The purpose of the studio is to design and launch new online learning programs for the Lab itself and the communities we work with.
Creating technology for social change
Civic Media alum Charlie DeTar talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his work with Literati, using technology for social good, and more.
Marco Tempest of Magic Lab and the MIT Media Lab explained how magic tricks can test people’s psychological responses to emerging technology
Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.
The Targeted Dream Incubation (TDI) method is a technique for guiding dreams towards specific themes. Before sleeping, you choose a theme...
How MIT is leveraging game design principles to combat depression.
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...
Bringing project-based work online in two very different contexts: a middle school robotics course and a university product design studio.
Wonder Stories is always free for teachers, but for the duration of COVID-19, Wonder Stories is free to anyone.
The Guardians Project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile games to help people form beneficial long-term habits an...
Biomechatronics head Hugh Herr discusses his research with the No Barriers USA podcast.
Collect cute monsters and make your brain feel better.
The new LEGO Papert Fellows will spend one week at LEGO headquarters in Denmark to share ideas and collaborate on projects.
The ability to think and act creatively is now more important than ever before.