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Measuring Confusion using EEG and Eye-Tracking

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. Humans navigate an overwhelming amount of information flow daily,  part…

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NeuroChat

NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a personalized, dynamic learning experi…

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Guadalajara Mobility Choices

Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …

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Autonomous micro-mobility for food deliveries

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…

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LIMITER: the Microtonal Arcade Machine

LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…

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Zero Robotics

Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…

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CityScope Gipuzkoa: Accessibility Tool

Gipuzkoa as a 30-minute accessible region Gipuzkoa is a unique region characterized by a dispersed population along the coast and…

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Gastronomy and Beyond | SESSION 4 - Spring 2025

Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…

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Moonshot: Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AI

​Working Workshop on Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AIWorkshop dates:  September 17-18, 2025 Deadline for application : Au…

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Moonshot: Atlas of Human-AI Interaction

Project OverviewThe Atlas of Human-AI Interaction is an innovative framework that maps the complex landscape of empirical findings in human…

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From Lab to Living Room: Gamifying AI Research

AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…

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Multifunctional Autonomous Micro-Mobility

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CLIMB: Data Foundations for Large Scale Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models

Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…

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Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models

If we want AI to engage with us naturally—in classrooms, therapy, eldercare, and beyond—it needs to understand us, with or without words.&n…

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Space Fermentation

This research highlights opportunities to bring the rich culture of Earth-based fermentation practices to space to design beneficial applic…

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Automatic Design of Personalized FPCB-Based Tactile Sensing Gloves

Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…

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Multimodal AI for Education: Expanding Learning Beyond Text

Education is inherently multimodal—we don’t just learn through words, but also through visuals, interactions, and hands-on experiences. Whi…

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Connecting Through Comics: Co-creating creative digital tools for expressing complex emotions, with and for trauma-impacted youth

An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…

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Open Dance Lab: Digital Platform for Examining, Experimenting, and Evolving Intangible Cultural Data

We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…

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Emotional Self Voice

Emotions, shaped by past experiences, significantly influence decision-making and goal pursuit. Traditional cognitive-behavioral techniques…

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MirrorFugue

MirrorFugue is an installation for a player piano that evokes the impression that the "reflection" of a disembodied pianist is playing the …

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Deceptive Reasoning by AI Can Amplify Beliefs in Misinformation

ACM CHI 2025 · Research PublicationApril 2025In a randomized controlled trial study, “Deceptive Explanations by Large Language Models …

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Mirai: A Wearable Proactive AI "Inner-Voice" for Contextual Nudging

People often find it difficult to turn their intentions into real actions—a challenge that affects both personal growth and mental wellbein…

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Cities That Feel: Modeling Emotional Interactions and Collective Behavior in Cityscapes

This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …

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AI for Smell and Taste

Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…

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Real-Time Safety Mapping Through Community Sensors

We developed a small, handheld sensor to track when and where people feel unsafe in urban areas that are still growing or changing. The dev…

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Safe Cities: Modeling Urban Mobility and Perceived Safety through Agent-Based Simulations

Walking is the most essential and human way to move through a city. When people feel safe doing so, streets come alive, communities connect…

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Understanding Language Model Usage and Trust in Academia

Language models (LMs) are revolutionizing knowledge retrieval and processing in academia. However, concerns regarding their misuse and erro…

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Unified Foundation Models for Sensors

This project's vision is to unify sensors and signals from diverse domains, including physical, health, weather, and more, into a common la…

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Liberatory Computing for African American Students

The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…

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Exploring Foundation Models For Personalized Mental Health Assessment With Less Labels

To facilitate real-world applications of personal sensing such as, triggering a mobile intervention or detecting  early depression ons…

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Can Next-Generation WiFi Routers Reconstruct Indoor Layouts?

Indoor layout reconstruction has broad applications in various scenarios, such as smart homes and virtual reality. However, optical sensors…

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Cyber Subin: Human-AI Co-Dancing

Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…

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Gaze to the Stars

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…

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AI-Implanted False Memories

Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness InterviewsThis study examines the impact of AI on hu…

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Climate Intelligence

Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…

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Lifebook Project: Creative tools to support foster-involved youth with self-expression and experience processing

We are collaborating with NET Centers in Philadelphia, PA to identify opportunities to support youth in using digital technology …

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Scalable and Low Power Localization for Underwater Robots

EchoBLUE is an accurate, scalable, and low power system that enables full 3D localization of robots in complex, unstructured underwater env…

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Perspective-Aware AI at MIT Media Lab

Perspective-Aware AI (PAi) can shape the future of eXtended Reality (XR)

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CHARCHA: Captcha for GenAI

Secure  and Personalized Music Video Generation using CHARCHAMusic is a deeply personal experience and our aim is to enhance this with…

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Youth Innovation Internship: Supporting foster-involved youth in expressing themselves and imagining the future

We are organizing an innovative internship opportunity for youth in the Massachusetts child welfare system, starting in July 2025.This prog…

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2025 Technology Leadership Circle

The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…

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Your Brain on ChatGPT

This study explores the effects on your brain of using LLMs like ChatGPT in everyday tasks. Brain activity of 55 students aged 18-25 was re…

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Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…

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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …

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Decentralized AI

As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…

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Rocket Horizon

The project starts with the goal of creating space habitats from pre-existing structures, specifically envisioning how to transform a stars…

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Effectiveness of oxidants as disinfection agents in zero gravity

Manuel Sánchez Castro is a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab leading an initiative focused on testing aerosolized oxidant agents as a…

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Immersive Scope: A Conversational Framework for Collaborative Design

Immersive Scope is an immersive environment designed to help people visualize complex urban designs in a more engaging and accessible …

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Mapping the Future of Space

MIT Media Lab Curates the World Economic Forum's Strategic Intelligence Map on Space

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Deciding Across Scales

​Deciding Across Scales emerges as a cutting-edge approach to decision-making, aiming to influence various sectors and societal levels…

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Quantum Urbanizable Booster (QUB)

We are developing an innovative platform that accelerates the simulation of humanized agent-based models (h-ABM) using real data sourced fr…

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Perspective-Aware AI in the Future of Work

Perspective Aware AI can improve the way we interact in office spaces, even if remotely. 

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Perspective-Aware AI in the Future of Travel

What if Chronicles could help us enhance our travel experiences?

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Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Digital tools for social support amongst current and former foster-involved youth

Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…

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Tap To Remember

Tap To Remember is a wearable memory prosthesis.  We are testing whether laboratory techniques for enhancing memory—such as targeted m…

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Sleep++

Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…

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CARTOVIAJES Vincular la experiencia literaria y urbana a través del tiempo y de los viajes

CARTOVIAJESVincular la experiencia literaria y urbana a través del tiempo y de los viajesLinking Literary and Urban Experience through Time…

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BeWell Biomarkers

Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…

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Investigating How Diurnal Rhythms in Physiology Relate to Stress and Wellbeing

Wearable devices allow us to continuously and passively record elements of our physiology (e.g., electrodermal activity, skin temperature) …

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Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h - ABM)

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …

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City Science Lab @ San Francisco

City Science researchers are working with various stakeholders from San Francisco to develop a community engagement platform to analyze and…

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Long Range Ocean Connectivity at Ultra-Low Power

Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…

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MindSpace3D: 3D Object Reconstruction from EEG

​ Recent advances in visual decoding have demonstrated the feasibility of classifying and reconstructing perceived images from evoked …

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Measuring the Faithfulness of Large Language Model Explanations

Large language models (LLMs) are capable of generating plausible explanations of how they arrived at an answer to a question. However, thes…