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Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
Explore the Media Lab community’s PanelPicker proposals!
The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.
Congratulations to the six fellowship recipients!
Manuel Cherep has been selected for the prestigious 2024-2026 "la Caixa" Fellowship competitively awarded to students from Spain
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
On Saturday, June 8, 2024, the "Galactic 07" flight took place in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s spaceship was converted into a suborbital s…
In the 1990s, Professor Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, helped pioneer the concept of software agents.
This award is given to students from Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China who have demonstrated academic prowess and community involvement.
They were honored in the Students and Education categories respectively.
Authors include researchers from the Fluid Interfaces, Future Sketches, and Tangible Media research groups.
Caitlin is an artist, researcher, and educator creating and researching around themes of perception and the human-environment relationship.
A one-month residency in Shenzhen to scale research with mass manufacturing for affordability or unprecedented magnitudes
The paper authored by Professor Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer is from CHI '97.
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
First things first. Make sure you have your PCB, solder, soldering iron, flux pen, and electronic components ready to go.
In El País, researchers from Fluid Interfaces discuss their study that found users' beliefs about a chatbot influenced their interactions.
In a new working paper, researchers consider the most effective ways to label online content as AI-generated, misleading, or both.
Augmental co-founders have been recognized in the Social Impact category of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
On The World by PRX and WGBH, researcher Nataliya Kosmyna talks about advances in and potential applications for brain-computer interfaces.
In Psychology Today, author William Poundstone considers research from the Fluid Interfaces group in light of the Clever Hans effect.
In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation
Media Lab spinoff Augmental was recognized for their work on the MouthPad^, a smart oral splint.
Research from the Fluid Interfaces group finds that users' perceptions of an AI chatbot influence their interactions with the technology.
In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.
The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
Pat Pataranutaporn discusses the inspiration behind his research at the intersection of biological systems and digital technology.
Postdoctoral fellow Samantha Chan (Fluid Interfaces) and collaborators win Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2023.
Designing systems for cognitive support
Joanne Leong, research assistant in the Fluid Interfaces group, and her colleagues won an MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) grant.
Xin Liu, an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and collaborator with the Space Exploration Initiative, talks to Artnet about her practice.
The series was initially inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel.
Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,
The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
Using Dormio, a project from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group, poet Will Dowd set out to pioneer a new reading experience.
On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.
In a new study, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School find that brief naps can enhance creativity
Researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School find that brief naps appear to enhance creativity.
Media Lab alum Tomás Vega talks to ZDNet about MouthPad, a Bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece that enables hands-free control of digital devices.
Media Lab alum Judith Amores talks to Scientific American about a lightweight, wireless interface to deliver scents to VR users.
7NEWS talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Tomás Vega and his Augmental co-founder Corten Singer about their bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece.
Pattie Maes, head of the Fluid Interfaces research group, earns MITili grant for AI-generated personalized learning project.
These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.
Cynthia Breazeal and Pattie Maes awarded seed grants for projects exploring AI and workplace management.
Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz discusses using “dream engineering” techniques to give people more control over their dreams.
David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.
Misha Sra is an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and current assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Barbara.
Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.
The MouthPad^ received the Grand Prix prize in the Innovation category and Silver in the Health + Wellness category.
The MouthPad^ has been honored as the Winner of the Emerging Technologies Award and as a Runner Up for the Design for Social Impact Award!
A number of Media Lab and MIT projects and spinoffs were recognized.
We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.
Q+A sessions on two research projects with contributors from MIT and the Media Lab will be livestreamed from the ISS on May 26 and May 28.
The Axiom Mission 2 launch will carry a variety of research from the MIT Media Lab to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 21, 2023
A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep, especially when guided to dream about a topic.
We investigated how guiding dreaming at sleep onset could enhance creativity.
The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.