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Looking beyond smart cities
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
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…
We further explore conversation visualization as a method of extracting and translating meaning for third party audiences who wish to bette…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Media Lab PhD student Isabella Loaiza is building data-driven tools to help people all over the world navigate the future of work.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Transforming data into knowledge
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive expe…
Read the MIT Startup Exchange profile of Media Lab spinoff OpenSpace.
Most of the underwater world remains far off the map. For many of the most exciting exploration challenges—from Maya cenotes to urban aquif…
Tangible Swarm is a tool that displays relevant information about a robotics system (e.g., multi-robot, swarm, etc.) in real time whil…
This project takes the idea of the unity between heaven and man of the ancient Chinese philosophy I ching (Book of Changes), combines …
Michael Bove and David Levine collaborate with MIT students to push the boundaries of 3D cinema.
ABSTRACT The impending introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has posed regulatory and ethical questions regarding how they …
With over a billion people carrying camera-phones worldwide, we have a new opportunity to upgrade the classic bar code to encourage a flexi…
