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dear___

A mobile memory album that lets people approach emotionally charged photographs slowly, partially, and temporarily.

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MineScope

Spatial Data, Community Engagement and Sentiment Analysis platform for Dominga Mine sites in Chile

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AHA Seminar Series

Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…

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When do AI agents benefit from collaboration?

"Through a controlled evaluation of 260 agent configurations, we find that stronger single agents can outgrow the benefits of collaboration…

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Algorithmic Mirror

Algorithmic Mirror is an interactive visualization tool that simulates the hidden profiling practices of social media platforms. Developed …

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CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…

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Generative Vertical Land Use for Human-centric Communities

The Generative Vertical Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ide…

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CityScope Costanera

CityScope Costanera is a tangible platform that outlines the Costanera neighborhood of Concepcion, Biobío Chile. The Costanera de Concepció…

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Living Lab with CityScope using h-ABM

In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…

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Kharkiv Masterplan Visualization Tool: A Collaborative Platform for Post-War Reconstruction

The Kharkiv Masterplan Visualization Tool is a forward-thinking platform within the CityScope framework, developed in collaboration with th…

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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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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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What The Block – Onchain

What the Block – Onchain, is a hybrid physical-digital game in which interactions with NFC-enabled LEGO components trigger transactions on …

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NugiTex: An Interactive, Affective Wearable that Informs Users of a Plant’s “Comfort” Level through Haptic Cues

NugiTex is a line of interactive, affective wearable garments that convey the embodied experience of plants using device-initiated haptic c…

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From Remote Space to Remote Time (CHI'26 Panel)

From Remote Space to Remote TimeTuesday, April 14, 2026 (14:15 – 15:45 CEST)CHI 2026 Panel This panel explores a design vision that re…

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MeshModule: A Playful Modular Mesh System for Creative Construction (UIST'25 Poster)

MeshModule is a modular construction platform composed of soft, 3D-printed mesh units designed for rapid prototyping of interactive, reconf…

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Reconfigurable Inflatables Through Controlled Surface Crumpling

Reconfigurable Inflatables Through Controlled Surface Crumplinghttps://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202600074TBD …

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Corsetto: AI-empowered Modular Robotic Garment for Capture and Entrainment of Breathing Techniques

​Corsetto is a full stack system design and platform for upper-body haptics. The Corset-like garment and its control architecture are devel…

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Ocean of Dreams

We are living through a moment saturated with anxiety: fear of AI replacing human labor, deepening political divisions, war, displacement, …

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Gridnberg

Gridnberg is a topography-aware pedestrian routing dataset and application for New York City. It adds elevation to the NYCWalks network and…

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City Science Lab @ San Francisco (in development)

City Science @ San Francisco (CS@SF), under development,  is a civic initiative actively seeking support to launch the lab and to…

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Neural Transparency

Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AIMillions of users now desi…

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Design as an Astronaut

A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…

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Space Jellyfish

Space JellyfishOrbital Data Center for Planetary SustainabilitySpace Jellyfish is an orbital data center whose form emerges from energy har…

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E.Y.E.D.E.N. Greenhouse

EYEDEN (Eye-inspired Yielding Ecosystem for Deep-space Exploration and Nutrition) has been developed within the framework of the NASA Mars …

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Event Horizon Pavilion

The Event Horizon Pavilion translates the physics of a rotating black hole into an architectural, luminous, and sonic installation. Combini…

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Smello World!

Smello World is a biological “Hello World”: an experiment that encodes a short digital message into DNA and uses RNA logic in engineered E.…

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I Gave an AI a Body

What does it mean to give artificial intelligence a body? Not a body in the fleshy sense, or even a humanoid shell, but a form through whic…

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The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC)

The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is the world's leading data visualization tool for international trade data. The OEC makes mor…

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Open Benchmark of AI Impact on Humans

The first open benchmark measuring AI's impact on human well-being across physical, psychological, and societal dimensions.Measuring AI's i…

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[Al]legory of the Cave

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, prisoners chained to a wall perceive only shadows—and mistake them for reality. We extend this concept in …

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Social Simulation Arena

Social Simulation vs. The Real Future.Social simulation is now a product. Evaluation still has no common standard.Persona-prompted populati…

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Gadfly

Gadfly is an AI voice agent that enriches class discussions with well-placed provocations and questions. In practice, it: Listens to a…

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Heatmap

Heatmap is a tool to help qualitative researchers identify and curate significant moments from large corpuses of recorded conversation audi…

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Performing Performance Spaces: Expressing context in live music performances

Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …

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filescape

filescape is a next-generation file explorer designed to reimagine the way you interact with your personal files.Files are arrayed as …

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Conversational Spatial Analytics in Augmented Reality

The data we collect about the physical world keeps growing. Generative models, cheaper compute, and better sensing are pushing dataset size…

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MAS.S90: Introduction to Media Arts and Sciences

In collaboration with graduate students from across the Media Lab, the Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio has helped to develop MAS.S9…

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Jordan Rudess + jam_bot: A Human-AI Musical Dialogue

The Responsive Environments group at the MIT Media Lab is collaborating with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist and CAST Visiting Artist Jordan Rud…

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Comparing Interaction Strategies for AI systems in a Learning Context using Brain Sensing

Students are adopting LLMs at scale. This poses a question: does unrestricted AI access bypass the cognitive effort required for learn…

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Addressing Cameroon

Helping communities gather the geospatial data behind a working address and census system.

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Agent City Hall

American cities face growing tension among stakeholders whose priorities often conflict. Residents seek affordable housing and livable neig…

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Andorra Country Scale Digital Twin

Andorra Clone is a country-scale digital twin and scenario exploration platform being developed to help Andorra better understand and plan …

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Encountering the Other: An evening of interactive ritual

On the evening of Friday, October 24, 2025, a generative portal opened at the MIT Chapel. What you see inside will depend on you—and the ot…

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RLX: A Unified Multi-Backend Tensor Compiler and Distributed Runtime in Rust

Production machine learning (ML) stacks often split graph compilation and kernel execution across different layers and languages,…

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NeuroDatasets Tool

NeuroDatasets is tool, where one can browse and find all available neuroscience datasets for all major modalities: EEG, MRI, MEG, NIRS, PET…

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Super Spreaders

As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…

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Emergence

Emergence brings together more than a decade of research into practical emergency-response platforms for cities under stress. The appr…

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Asking Questions Of The Moon

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Towards Interstellar Brain-Computer Interfaces

Currently, we are seeing more and more robotics and AI efforts in space. However, to scale human activity and energy in space, we need huma…

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AI Comes Out of the Closet: Using AI-Generated Virtual Characters to Help Individuals Practice LGBTQIA+ Advocacy

AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…

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Ancestral Storytelling: Movement and Memory

Ancestral Storytelling: Movement + Memory embodies motion capture techniques for an interactive and immersive movement and sonic healing pe…

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Measuring Confusion using EEG and Eye-Tracking

Humans regularly navigate an overwhelming amount of information via text media, whether reading articles, browsing social media, or interac…

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AttentivU

AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of person’s cognitive states available in different form-factors: glass…

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Novel Bioelectronic Therapy for Incurable Cancer

Novel Bioelectronic Therapy for Incurable Cancer

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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…

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Future You: An Interactive Digital Twin System for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth

​Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…

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NeuroAtlas Tool

Following decades of research in neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces, one of the most common questions has remained remarkably consi…

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SensorTape: Modular and programmable 3D-aware dense sensor network on a tape

SensorTape is a modular and dense sensor network in a form factor of a tape. SensorTape is composed of interconnected and programmable sens…

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Rovables

We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, and …

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NailO

NailO is a wearable input device in the form of a commercialized nail art sticker. It works as a miniaturized trackpad the size and thickne…

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ChromoSkin

Makeup has long been used as a body decoration process for self-expression and for the transformation of one's appearance. While the materi…

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Filling Arbitrary Shapes with Non-Overlapping Procedural Floral Patterns

Presenting a novel algorithm that allows filling of arbitrary shapes with interlocking, procedurally generated floral patterns, with applic…

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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&nb…

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Feeling-the-Facts: AI-Powered Wearable Fact-Checker

The problem: misinformation you hear, not readMost fact-checking tools were built for text, for example, a headline you can pause on, a pos…

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Sleep++

Our sleep improvement app is now available for Android watches. Click here to try it!Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating t…

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Vocal Vibrations

Expressive Performance for Body-Mind WellbeingThe Vocal Vibrations music is now available for exclusive download from Bowers & Wilkins.…

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Hyperinstruments

The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic performe…