Initiative grants and research projects inform a series of publications. The research grant is listed first, followed by the publication that reports on its results:

MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
(Sherry Turkle, Founder and Director) Mitchell Kapor Foundation, 2001-present
• Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, edited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle, Fall 2007, MIT Press

Adolescence, Technology and Identity
(Sherry Turkle, Principal Investigator) Spencer Foundation, 2001-2003
• Falling for Science: Objects in Mind, edited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle, Spring 2008, MIT Press

Intimate Machines: Living with Relational Artifacts
(Sherry Turkle, Principal Investigator) National Science Foundation #0115668, 2001-2003
• untitled volume on robots and the human spirit by Sherry Turkle, forthcoming, Basic Books

Information Technologies and Professional Identity: A Comparative Study of the Effects of Virtuality
(Sherry Turkle, Principal Investigator; Joe Dumit, Hugh Gusterson, David Mindell, and Susan Silbey, Co-Principal Investigators) National Science Foundation #0220347, 2002-2005
• Simulation and Its Discontents, edited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle, forthcoming, MIT Press

Nurturant Technologies
(Sherry Turkle, Principal Investigator) The Intel Corporation, 2006-2007
• The Inner History of Devices, edited and with an introduction by Sherry Turkle, Fall 2008, MIT Press