LocationE14-633 DescriptionUser-generated content is everywhere: photos, videos, news, blogs, art, music, and every other type of digital m…

In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…

Pataranutaporn, P., Danry, V., Blanchard, L., Thakral, L., Ohsugi, N., Maes, P., & Sra, M. (2023, March). Living memories: Ai-generated characters as digital mementos. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 889-901).

Graduate Student

Pataranutaporn, P., Winson, K., Yin, P., Lapapirojn, A., Ouppaphan, P., Lertsutthiwong, M., Maes, P., & Hershfield, H. (2025). Future You: A conversation with an AI-generated future self reduces anxiety, negative emotions, and increases future self-continuity. In 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE61694.2024.10893443

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

This session will address the intelligence and design functions in the development of virtual humans.

Valdemar Danry, Joanne Leong, Pat Pataranutaporn, Pulkit Tandon, Yimeng Liu, Roy Shilkrot, Parinya Punpongsanon, Tsachy Weissman, Pattie Maes, and Misha Sra. 2022. AI-Generated Characters: Putting Deepfakes to Good Use. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 119, 1–5.

Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Asahi Broadcasting Corporation CD Prof of Media Arts and Sciences

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…

Pataranutaporn, P., Danry, V., Leong, J. et al. AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being. Nat Mach Intell (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00417-9

S.P.A.R.K.I. (Students' Personal Assistant for Reinforcing Knowledge and Innovation) is a GPT-powered chatbot that scaffolds children's wo…

Pillis, D., Pataranutaporn, P., Maes, P., & Sra, M. (2024). AI comes out of the closet: Using AI-Generated Virtual Characters to Help Individuals Practice LGBTQIA+ Advocacy. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the way …

Perry Naseck, Brian D. Mayton, Lancelot Blanchard, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2025. Generic Pan Tilt: Open Source Motion Control Platform for Entertainment and Research. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 37, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746058.3758998

In The Guardian, Pat Pataranutaporn warns that missing AI disclaimers in health content can lead users to trust information too easily.

Monroy-Hernandez, A. "ScratchR: a Platform for Sharing User-Generated Programmable Media"

The Media Lab is experimenting with new ways to open up access to our research.

In a new working paper, researchers consider the most effective ways to label online content as AI-generated, misleading, or both.

Critics, practitioners, and researchers like Human Dynamics PhD student Ziv Epstein talk about AI-generated art..

Shekar, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Sarabu, C., Cecchi, G. A., & Maes, P. (2025). People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy. NEJM AI, AIoa2300015.

Former Research Affiliate

Former Visiting Scientist, NTT Data

Graduate Student

Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, Madhav Lavakare, Kimaya Lecamwasam, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2025. Physical Manifestation of Generative AI Music Systems for Live Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Art Papers (SA Art Papers '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 28, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757369.3767613

This repository contains the source code for the paper AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being&nbs…

This project presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated …

Children today are more digitally connected than ever before, with increasing exposure to tablets, social media, and smartphones. As techno…

Andres Monroy-Hernandez

Former Research Scientist

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

Human-composed music elicits stronger emotions than AI-generated music, MIT Media Lab finds—even when listeners say they prefer AI

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Jonathan Gips, Wen Dong, Will Stoltzman

Strickon, J. "Smoke and Mirrors to Modern Computers: Rethinking the Design and Implementation of Interactive, Location-Based Entertainment Experiences"

Former Visiting Scientist

Professor of Media Technology; Germeshausen Professor

Epstein, Ziv, et al. "Who gets credit for AI-generated art?." iScience (2020): 101515.

Lecamwasam, K. and Chaudhuri, T.R. (2025). Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02856

Youn, H.J., Zhong, S., Shtarbanov, A., & Chwalek, P.C. (2023). NugiTex: An Interactive, Affective Wearable that Informs Users of a Plant’s “Comfort” Level through Haptic Cues. Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.

The Fluid Interfaces group + NTT DATA hosted Virtual Beings + Being Virtual, a workshop exploring positive uses of AI-generated characters

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…

Jisung Shin ,Daniel Platnick, Tanayjyot Singh Chawla, Li Zhang,Kazi Rahman, Amardeep Singh, Arnav Chandna, Marjan Alirezaie, Hossein Rahnama

P. Pataranutaporn* J. Leong*, V. Danry*, A. Lawson, P. Maes, M. Sra. 2022. *Co-first authorship ”AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning” to appear in FIE 2022, October 8-11, Uppsala, Sweden.

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Benesse Professor of Research in Education

AI-Generated Characters: Putting Deepfakes to Good UseHybrid Workshop on April 30, 2022 at  ACM CHI 2022AI-generated characters (more …

Flavia Sparacino, Christopher Wren, Alex Pentland, Glorianna Davenport

Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency,

Ryan Aylward, Joseph A. Paradiso

Sparacino, F. "Sto(ry)chastics: a Bayesian network architecture for combined user modeling, sensor fusion, and computational storytelling for interactive spaces"

This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health pla…

Bernal, Guillermo R, et al. “Paper Dreams: An Adaptive Canvas That Assists Users with Generating and Visualizing Stories.” GANocracy Workshop on Theory, Practice and Artistry of Deep Generative Modeling , 31 May 2019, p. 1., http://ganocracy.csail.mit.edu/.

Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…

Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.

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

Choi, Kyung Yun, and Hiroshi Ishii. "Bubble Talk: Open-source Interactive Art Toolkit for Metaphor of Modern Digital Chat." Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 2019.

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…

Developed by researchers at the MIT Media Lab, the platform helps users learn empathetic and inclusive communication practices.

What can AI “griefbots” do for those in mourning?

Alexander W Dreyfoos (1954) Professor; Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Postdoc Ziv Epstein, PhD student Robert Mahari, & Harvard Law lecturer Jessica Fjeld consider the issues of generative AI and copyright law.