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Do video doorbells really help to deter crime?

The research on video doorbells—which includes a paper from the Human Dynamics group—hasn't found strong evidence that they reduce crime.

Data Activism Program

My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…

Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…

Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity

Bio-Digital Wearables for Space Health Enhancement

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…

Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra

Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…

First 100 days of pandemic; an interplay of pharmaceutical, behavioral and digital interventions - A study using agent based modeling

The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…

Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology Framework

One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…

The internet could be so good. Really.

For The Atlantic, Professor Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, imagines a new kind of social network.

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Diagnosing Diagnosis in Dermatology

Addressing Bias in Physician-Machine PartnershipsThis research program addresses how AI assistance can enhance physician decision-making on…

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Danielle Wood on Bloomberg Markets: The Close

On Bloomberg TV, Professor Danielle Wood talks to Romaine Bostick about the use of satellite data for environmental management.

Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

Towards Transparency in Dermatology Image Datasets with Skin Tone Annotations by Experts, Crowds, and an Algorithm

Groh, Matthew, Caleb Harris, Roxana Daneshjou, Omar Badri, and Arash Koochek. "Towards transparency in dermatology image datasets with skin tone annotations by experts, crowds, and an algorithm." CSCW (2022).

Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…

Camera Culture

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

Gigaverse

Dan Calacci, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, talks about one of his projects that centers around the gig economy.

Signal Kinetics

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

Drone package delivery and consumer privacy

Door-to-door drone package deliveries are taking off across the US. In this work we expose and study a newly emerging privacy is…

Latent Lab: Legacy

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…

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?&nb…

Peristaltic Suit

Prolonged exposure to microgravity is known to cause various acute health risks, including muscle atrophy, bone loss, cardiovascular decon…

Harnessing digital federation platforms and data cooperatives to empower SMEs and local small communities

Bühler, M. et al., 2023. Harnessing Digital Federation Platforms and Data Cooperatives to Empower SMEs and Local Small Communities, OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION. India.

Strengthening Community Data Engagement in Humanitarian Health Crisis: A reflection from Sierra Leone

In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.

Voyage Viewer

Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…

Empowering Cambridge youth through data activism

Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.

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-minute …

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Envirome Monitoring with CRISPR Biosensors

In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…

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Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…

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Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…

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Liberatory Computing for African American Students

The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…

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H0TP0T

By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food pr…

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Reconfigurable space structures

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

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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 the …

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Self Assembling Space Frames

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air? Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self As…

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Harmony in Precarity

By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to explo…

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Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communication (MOSAIC)

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Antenn…

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Moving Liquids With No Moving Parts

Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propellan…

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Ø-scillation: oscillating chemistry in zero gravity and beyond

How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar me…

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AgriFuge

By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activities …

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Panspermia

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surviv…

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SpaceHuman 2.0

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

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ELI: Electronic Life-detection Instrument

Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial G…

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The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during …

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Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy

Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…

Oceans Internet of Things

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

Co-crafting your career with AI

Media Lab PhD student Isabella Loaiza is building data-driven tools to help people all over the world navigate the future of work.

Teddy

Teddy is a cutting edge data collection platform available for both Android and iOS that lets you collect data from study participants in a…

MIT–Chile Research Workshops | Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Data Visualization

In January 2023, a team led by MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Center…

Objects as Cameras

Press: - MIT News: Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …

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Microgravity Extrusion

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

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Latent Lab: Large Language Models for Knowledge Exploration

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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

MIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients

Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.

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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

ChillsDB, A gold standard for aesthetic chills stimuli

Tiny ‘Rover’ explores cells without harming them

Professor Deblina Sarkar discusses a miniature antenna that can transmit data from inside cells without using damaging microwaves.

Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others

Media Lab spinoff Metaplane, co-founded by alum Kevin Hu, recently closed an $8.4 million seed funding round.

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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

Election Misinformation Symposium: Fighting misinfo through fact-checking and deepfake detection

Discussion on fact-checking and deepfake detection at the Election Misinformation Symposium 2022.

History's Great Recommenders: From ancient times to tomorrow

Michael Schrage considers the past, present, and future of recommendation engines, including Pattie Maes's advances in software agents.

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City Science Lab @ Aalto

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban a…

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Predicting Driver Self-Reported Stress by Analyzing the Road Scene

Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and sel…

What the well-dressed spacecraft will be wearing

Spacecraft wrapped in sensor-rich electronic textiles could double as scientific instruments

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