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To explore future mobility modes, the City Science group is working with Media Lab member company Panasonic to explore the use and potent...
Games are a uniquely human endeavour, reducing stress and supporting mental well-being. Astronauts aboard the ISS have created their own ...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...
Occupational stress can be described as a harmful emotional and physical response that occurs when high demanding job conditions cannot b...
Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change b...
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Most of the underwater world remains far off the map. For many of the most exciting exploration challenges–from Maya cenotes to urb...
Update: A trigger system has been implemented to enable users to play the cube in real time and explore interactive ways to compose space...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...
Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. Shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel, however, lie unique ecos...
Open Algorithm (OPAL)
Machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring engagement of children with autismEngageME is a project aimed at building a new techno...
We are creating a gesture and/or voice-controlled Large User Interface (LUI) that allows a user to manipulate visual information and...
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...
The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evol...
Seeing through dense, dynamic, and heterogeneous fog conditions. The technique, based on visible light, uses hardware that is similar to ...
OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...
Time of Flight 3D cameras like the Microsoft Kinect are prevalent in computer vision and computer graphics. In such devices, the power of...
With our Ubiquitous Sonic Overlay, we are working to place virtual sounds in the user's environment, fixing them in space even as the use...
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the...
Cosmetics essentially diffract and scatter light in a way that makes the wearer appear different to the naked eye. In this project we exp...
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
PubPub reinvents publication to align with the way the web was designed: collaborative, evolving, and open. PubPub uses a graphical forma...
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
Drawing inspiration from the notion of cognitive incongruence associated with Stroop's famous experiment, from musical principles, and fr...
Identity is fluid. As we travel this journey of life, we get imprinted and we forget parts of ourselves. Older people's memories are eras...
A Wearable Olfactory Display That Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental WellbeingBioEssence is a novel wearable ...
Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...
Complications of prosthetic leg use in persons with lower extremity amputation often occur at the prosthetic socket, and includes delayed...
In the quest towards general artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have explored developing loss functions that act as intrinsic moti...
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
Two of the most important traits of environmental hazards today are their invisibility and the fact that they are experienced by communit...
“Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world.”—Oskar Fischinger, 1951.Almost 70 years ago, when...
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...
Room-scale virtual reality opens up exciting new possibilities for exploratory learning. Phenomena that otherwise cannot be experienced d...
This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students, Vik Parthiban and Andrew Spielberg, from Media Lab and CSAIL (Daniela Rus) respect...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
The future of human life outside of Earth will heavily depend on the ability to fabricate and manufacture things. Yet fabrication in spac...
This project aims to improve the prediction accuracy of wellbeing (stress, mood, and health levels) using temporal machine learning model...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Receiving a shot or discussing health problems can be stressful, but does not always have to be. We measure participants' skin conductanc...
Adding augmented reality to the living-room TV, we are exploring the technical and creative implications of using a mobile phone or table...
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
Narratarium augments printed and oral stories and creative play by projecting immersive images and sounds. We are using natural language ...
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Young Learner's Companion Developing robots' growth mindset and pro-curious behavior and fostering the same in young learners via lo...
The increasing geographical separation and the technological divide has made it more difficult for elders to interact with their families. ...
We explore an art form where machines take on an essential role in the aesthetics and processes of the creation. Our main theme can be su...
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the ...
For 18 months, the Smithsonian has been collecting art, photos, films, and interviews about the New Thing Art and Architecture Cent...
Scaffolding storytelling to connect children through self-expressionStoryBlocks is a smart-expressive medium, designed in collaboration w...
The Launch Team: Christian McBride (winner of six Grammy Awards), David Gage, Mas Hino, and Topper Carew.
NCCU: music is a strong and universally accepted aspect of black culture. It has given birth to the genres of blues, jazz, gospel, rap, h...