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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Looking beyond smart cities
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Enhancing human physical capability
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Individual mobility, both within cities and across cities, significantly impacts various societal aspects, such as well-being, the spread o…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Space Exploration Initiative
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
GeekWire reports on research that people were less likely to visit socioeconomically different areas while returning to pre-pandemic habits.
The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
SEI Analog Environments StudyProject OverviewThe way humans engage with space has changed rapidly over the past 60 years, moving from a mod…
During TEDxBentleyU, Belén C. Saldías Fuentes invited the audience to consider the cultural biases built into tools like ChatGPT.
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
Created by Media Lab PhD students Shruti Dhariwal and Manuj Dhariwal, CoCo is a digital learning platform that fosters collaboration.
In a new study, researchers from MIT and other universities show that personal mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't fully recovered.
Hawkins, R.D., Berdahl, A.M., Pentland, A.‘. et al. Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01682-x
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Digital Currency Initiative
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments
Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.media.mit.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-pri…
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
Beyond the Cradle
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
Transforming data into knowledge
Biomedical engineer and dancer Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20 explores connections between the human body and the outside world.
Ceasar McDowell, among others, spoke to participants at the WORLDING workshop on “Land-Use Planning and Authorship."
Discussion on fact-checking and deepfake detection at the Election Misinformation Symposium 2022.
From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
Of 25 proposed interventions for democracy tested, one developed by Human Dynamics researchers was among the most effective.
Media Lab researcher Kate Darling looks at the current state of household robots and considers how we may interact with them in the future.
Six MIT students, including Biomechatronics student Ayse Guvenilir, share their thoughts on belonging, identity, love, and MIT itself.
S. Sharma, N. Klop-Packel, A. Ekblaw, “The Astronaut Ethnography Web Project: Insights from First-Person Accounts of Space.” AC-22,E1,9,19,x68611, 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France, 18-22 September 2022.
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By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, and Colin DoyleTwenty-seven prominent researchers from MIT, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, …
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student at the Media Lab, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute Award presented annually to one MI…
Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…