MIT Media Lab projects

Each Media Lab faculty member and senior research scientist leads a research group that includes a number of graduate student researchers and often involves undergraduate researchers.

• Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion.
• Enhancing human physical capability.
• Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection.
• Enabling dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life.
• Creating, deploying, and evaluating tools and practices that foster civic participation and the flow of information within and between communities.
• Sparking imagination and discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of new technologies through design and storytelling.
• Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections.
• Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion.
• Engaging people in creative learning experiences.
• Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions.
• Transforming data into knowledge.
• Designing for, with, and by nature.
• Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts.
• Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies.
• Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.
• Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better.
• Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability.
• Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks.
• Reimagining the way society organizes, cooperates, and governs itself.
• Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments.
• Building systems solutions for social change.
• Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations.
• Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation.