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Coupling of EHD Fiber Pumps with Fluidic Artificial Muscles

Revolutionizing the future of fluid-based robotics using charge-injection electrohydrodynamic fiber pumps. This work is in collaboration wi…

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Generative AI for Personalized Learning

Fostering students’ interest in learning has many positive downstream effects. It can make students more persistent and impact student…

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Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…

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BuzzCam

The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world. It can grow up to 1.6 inches long and, because of its s…

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City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…

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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…

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Generative AI-Enabled Context Personalization for Vocabulary Learning

Full Paper Accepted for CHI 2024!  This paper will be presented in-person at the CHI 2024 conference in Honolulu, HI, USA, betwee…

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Synthetic Self-Perception

Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…

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Theme | Attention, Memory & Learning

Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.

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Theme | Attention, Memory & Learning (OLD)

Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…

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EmbER (Embodied Experience Remotely)

EmbER (Embodied Experience Remotely) explores the use of wearable sensory devices, communicating nonverbal signals, as an additional commun…

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Are you still watching?

Very few research works featuring AR and Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems considered integrating cognitive state of the user in their…

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ColloGraphy

ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…

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Large Language Model for Mixed Reality

We present Large Language Model for Mixed Reality (LLMR), a framework for the real-time creation and modification of interactive Mixed Real…

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WearVibe

Specifically crafted sensory stimulation can influence brain function and potentially improve cognition. In this project, we developed soft…

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Zero-knowledge (ZK) Tax

zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…

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An Explainable AI Model for Commuting Flow Generation

Understanding the link between urban planning and commuting flows is crucial for guiding urban development and policymaking. This research,…

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Theme | Human-AI Collaboration

Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…

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Synthetic Sensations

Electrical stimulation has long been used in medicine to induce phosphenes, or visual sensations, in patients with visual impairments. Rece…

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Theme | Health & Wellbeing

We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…

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Theme | Sleep + Dream Engineering

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…

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Theme | Interfaces + Platforms

Our research group designs various hardware and software platforms that can be used to do scientific experiments or implement a particular …

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MemPal: Wearable Cognitive Assistant for Dementia and Alzheimer’s Patients

Elderly individuals with cognitive impairment (e.g., dementia and Alzheimer's disease) have increasing difficulty with prospective memory a…

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InExChange

InExChange is comprised of a series of research studies and mixed-reality experienced designed to explore the impacts of shared physical se…

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Customizing Mnemonics with AI

Generating customized, memorable visuals and stories to support memory. Mnemonics are strategies used to remember information better (…

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Theme | Information Processing + Decision Making (OLD)

We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…

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Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant

​People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…

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Theme | Communication + Collaboration (OLD)

Communication skills are critical for all. We  design and develop systems to help people with communication issues, fostering more emp…

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Organs without Bodies. Generating physical objects with AI

We are currently in an AI revolution. Big AI models are writing entire books, and generating art sold worth millions. Soon content made fro…

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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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Illuminate

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…

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City Science Lab @ Taipei

The City Science Lab @ Taipei is a cooperation between The National Taipei University of Technology, also called NTUT or Taipei Tech, …

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Dual Energy-Climate Challenge

Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…

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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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Destination Lanzarote: Designing Earth Mission Control

Through collecting digital assets including 360 video, drone, photogrammetry, videos, and sensor data,  we will document the research …

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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…

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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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Gastronomy And Beyond

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

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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…

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Theme | 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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BentoScope

The BentoScope is a portable iteration of the CityScope platform, conceived by the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. This compact ve…

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ImmerScope City: Blending Perspectives and Design Experiences

ImmerScope City offers new ways of visualizing complex urban designs. It generates rendered images of streetscapes to allow for collab…

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conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…

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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…

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Conformable Phased Array Ultrasound Patch For Bladder Volume Monitoring (CUSB-Patch)

Ultrasound can be used to image soft tissues in vivo for early diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression. However, conventional ultra…

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HelioZZZ: a smart (material) sleep mask

HelioZZZ is an opacity changing eye mask that wakes you up with natural sunlight when you want it. The mask warms your eyes to help you fal…

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MobiScope: Advancing Decision-Making in New Urban Mobility

Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace.  In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…

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Sleep and Epilepsy: Demystifying the thousand-year-long conundrum

According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…

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SleepStim

SleepStim is a framework for automatically recording sleep physiology  and presenting sensory stimuli in sleep, using consumer smartph…

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Real-time Smartphone-based Sleep Staging using 1-Channel EEG and Machine Learning

Automatic and real-time sleep scoring is necessary to develop user interfaces that trigger stimuli in specific sleep stages. Howe…

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Masca

InspirationDreams are fascinating personally, therapeutically, and scientifically. Who hasn't woken up in the morning and wondered how they…

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Cocoon: Speculative Dream Engineering

Cocoon is our vision of a programmable dream machine from the future. This device would be enabled by the synthesis of many devices under d…

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Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…

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Cyber Key to Dreams

This project is a pipeline to algorithmically generate visuals of dreams collected from large groups during the COVID pandemic. Dreams…

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A Dream Hotel with Carsten Höller

We are working with MIT CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller to build prototypes for a Dream Hotel museum exhibition which will translate ex…

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Fascia Ecosystem: A Step Forward in Sleep Engineering and Research

Abstract— Millions suffer from sleep disorders, and sleep clinics and research institutions seek improved sleep study methods. This paper p…

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Dive

Dive is a project to explore and induce lucid dreams using mobile devices.Lucid dreams are dreams in which  you are aware that you're …

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Toy Stories

A custom circuit board is embedded into robotic toys which makes them come alive when a sleeper begins to dream. As you slip into REM sleep…

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Targeted Dream Incubation

Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…

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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…