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Open Ocean
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."The Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter universe uses UltraWide Band transmitters and receive...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Ethics Initiative
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
A recent focus of our lab has been making use of Tangible Displays and Body Object Space to develop new assistive technologies. As a test...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
“I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the paintin...
SuperMe features superheroes designed by Chicago Public School students
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
CE 2.0
Creating technology for social change
Transforming data into knowledge
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
MotivationThe need for inexpensive, reliable, 3D, 360-degree display technologies grows as augmented reality applications continue to inc...
Richie Mehta’s show balances negative media narratives of the Indian police & catalyses empathetic conversations on their working conditions
The Guardians project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile game platforms to create greater engagement with individ...
The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the wa...
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
Communicating a message through entertainment can be difficult, because you have to be careful not to preach to the audience.
Hackster.io profiles CONJURE, a project from the Tangible Media group that provides a tactile display for video games.
César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting...
Emerging Worlds
In this episode, we get the chance to talk to Anushka Shah, who works as a researcher at the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Ho, P. H., Miller, G. A., Wang M. Y., Haleftiras, N., Zuckerman, E. 2017. Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo. In proceedings of Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature (NatureCHI'17) at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'17).
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.
How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.