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Research Groups

Affective Computing

Director:
Rosalind W. Picard

Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion.
Biomechatronics

Director:
Hugh Herr

Enhancing human physical capability.
Camera Culture

Director:
Ramesh Raskar

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

Director:
Neil A. Gershenfeld

Turning information into things, and things into information.
Changing Places

Director:
Kent Larson

Enabling dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life.
Civic Media

Director:
Ethan Zuckerman

Creating technology for social change.
Conformable Decoders

Director:
Canan Dagdeviren

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy.
Design Fiction

Director:
Hiromi Ozaki

Sparking imagination and discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of new technologies through design and storytelling.
Fluid Interfaces

Director:
Pattie Maes

Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections.
Human Dynamics

Director:
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion.
Lifelong Kindergarten

Director:
Mitchel Resnick

Engaging people in creative learning experiences.
Living Mobile

Director:
Chris Schmandt

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions. [Please note: Speech + Mobility is changing its group name to Living Mobile.]
Macro Connections

Director:
Cesar A. Hidalgo

Transforming data into knowledge.
Mediated Matter

Director:
Neri Oxman

How digital and fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings, and system.
Molecular Machines

Director:
Joseph M. Jacobson

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts.
Object-Based Media

Director:
V. Michael Bove

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies.
Opera of the Future

Director:
Tod Machover

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation.
Personal Robots

Director:
Cynthia Breazeal

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better.
Playful Systems

Director:
Kevin Slavin

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability.
Responsive Environments

Director:
Joseph A. Paradiso

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks.
Scalable Cooperation

Director:
Iyad Rahwan

Reimagining the way society organizes, cooperates, and governs itself
Sculpting Evolution

Director:
Kevin Esvelt

Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering.
Signal Kinetics

Director:
Fadel Adib

Inventing technologies that extend human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Social Computing

Director:
Sepandar Kamvar

Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments.
Social Machines

Director:
Deb Roy

Designing media technologies for social engagement and change.
Synthetic Neurobiology

Director:
Edward Boyden

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations.
Tangible Media

Director:
Hiroshi Ishii

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation.
Viral Communications

Director:
Andrew Lippman

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness.

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