Provides a unique environment for exploring basic research and applications at the intersection of computation and the arts. Research at the Media Lab comprises interconnected developments in an unusual range of disciplines, such as software agents; machine understanding; how children learn; human and machine vision; audition; speech interfaces; wearable computers; affective computing; advanced interface design; tangible media; object-oriented video; interactive cinema; digital expression from text, to graphics, to sound; and new approaches to spatial imaging, nanomedia, and nanoscale sensing.
