Research — MIT Media Lab

Butlr's people-sensing platform is designed as Google Analytics for buildings

In Dezeen, learn more about Butlr, a spinoff co-founded by former Labbers Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng.

Microgravity Hybrid Extrusion

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gra...

Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

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Narrative Visualization for Distributed Urban Interventions

The use of data-driven methods to examine dynamic spaces, relationships, and mechanisms within an urban environment frames the city as a ...

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Dressed in Data

This project steps beyond data visualizations to create data experiences. It aims to engage not only the analytic mind, but also the arti...

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ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.

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Data Culture Project

Struggling to build your organization's ability to work with data? Use our hands-on learning program to kickstart your data culture.datac...

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Data Therapy

As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their o...

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DataBasic

DataBasic is a suite of web-based tools that give people fun and relevant ways learn how to work with data. Existing tools focus on opera...

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The Constant Atlas

An interactive atlas of census data for direct consumption by individual citizens.

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Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...

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Space Exploration Initiative

City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&...

The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel Bellisle

Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...

How Headspace Health is tackling the global mental health crisis

CNBC profiles Headspace Health, which was formed through a merger between spinoff Ginger and meditation + mindfulness app company Headspace.

Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

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SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, and Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...

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The Challenge

Mental wellbeing is intimately tied to both social support and physical activity. The Challenge is a tool aimed at promoting social conne...

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Predicting students' wellbeing from physiology, phone, mobility, and behavioral data

The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obt...

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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

Publication Research

Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra

Berke A, Doorley R, Alonso L, Arroyo V, Pons M, & Larson, K. (2022) Using mobile phone data to estimate dynamic population changes and improve the understanding of a pandemic: A case study in Andorra. PLOS ONE 17(4): e0264860. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264860

Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

Zenolith - An Interplanetary Time Device

On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of th...

SpaceHuman 2.0

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...

Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

Health 0.0

Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me

Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...

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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

What it means to be counted: MIT art project aims to capture Ogden’s vocal diversity

“A Counting,” an art project from the Poetic Justice group, invites people to call in and count to 100 in their native language.

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.

Ocean vital signs

MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, + how much more it can take

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-minut...

Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation.&nb...

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Signal Kinetics team wins Explorer Prize in Ocean Observing Prize's DISCOVER Competition

Team Pulse of the Ocean becomes an Explorer Prize winner in the DISCOVER Competition—the first stage of the Ocean Observing Prize.

Dyadic Affect in Multimodal Interaction - Parent to Child (DAMI-P2C) Dataset

Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...

Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

Volta Labs, co-founded by alumni Udayan Umapathi and Will Langford, has announced a $20 million Series A funding round.

Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development), is a series of vocal portraits of freedom around the world. Currently, it features over 100 samples of pe...

A Counting

A Counting is a series of vocal and gestural portraits of the linguistic and ethnic diversity in US cities. Currently, it features counts...

Reconfigurable space structures

Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific ta...

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Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread

Doorley, R., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L., Ribó, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(1), pp.183-193.

Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

The New Rules of Data Privacy

Hossein Rahnama, a visiting professor at the Media Lab, and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland explore the new rules of data privacy.

Peristaltic Suit

It is known that prolonged exposure to micro and hyper-gravity induces various acute health risks, such as osteoporosis, skeletal muscle ...

Waze for our Pandemic Journey

Ramesh Raskar discuses potential approaches to creating apps that can leverage citizen engagement to improve government responses to crises.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...

Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...

The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence explored at TEDxMIT event

MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.

Future bright: SA data scientist awarded scholarship to study at MIT in Massachusetts

Lynn Cameron highlights Human Dynamics student Tobin South and his path from the University of Adelaide to the Media Lab.

Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium