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Alum Rébecca Kleinberger (Opera of the Future) considers ways of building games that work for birds' unique needs.
Looking beyond smart cities
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rhyt…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
In Success Magazine, Professor Cynthia Breazeal talks about how people can use AI technologies to enhance human abilities.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
Space Exploration Initiative
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Professor Rosalind Picard talks about what gave her the inspiration to found a new field, Affective Computing.
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
This project is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the San Diego Zoo to design and build interactive sonic enrichment systems fo…
In El País, researchers from Fluid Interfaces discuss their study that found users' beliefs about a chatbot influenced their interactions.
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment. Animal agency—contr…
Alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses her work at the intersection of new technology, animal-computer interaction, and the sonic environment.
Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
"The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week" dives into research by alum Rébecca Kleinberger showing that parrots seem to enjoy video chats.
GeekWire reports on research that people were less likely to visit socioeconomically different areas while returning to pre-pandemic habits.
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
Sparking conversations through artwork and envisioning future values for a spacefaring society
Studying group dynamics in space environments with virtual reality simulations to inform the design of future governance systems
In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
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.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments
False assumptions about election malfeasance could create a “death spiral” for democracy — but also provide some hope for bipartisan repair.
Braley, A., Lenz, G.S., Adjodah, D. et al. Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01594-w
Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
Transforming data into knowledge
Ziv Epstein talks about his latest research project, which will attempt to "map the networks of cooperation and serendipity at Burning Man."
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
The design process is no longer limited to one group of individuals, as number, level, and cost make tools ever more accessible. As we move…
Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, how …
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optimiz…
As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…
RAISE
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to qu…
OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for c…
Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mult…
The Space Governance Collaborative is an interdisciplinary group of researchers based at the MIT Media Lab with a growing network of g…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…
Collect cute monsters and make your brain feel better.
Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at the…
