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Co-designing Generative AI for Healthy Aging

The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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CityFlow: An Advanced Case-based Design System Integrated with Expert Workflow and LLM Retriever

CityFlow is a versatile tool that allows users to design, evaluate, and visualize urban solutions through an llm-integrated, case-based sys…
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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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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Crossroads

Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
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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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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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AI Systems that Use Questioning to Improve Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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NeuroChat

Millions of learners worldwide lack access to personalized education. Generative AI offers a potential solution, but a key challenge for AI…
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MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population

We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
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AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self

By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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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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Living Memories: AI-generated characters as interactive digital mementos

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

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Paul Liang joins MIT Media Lab Media Arts + Science Program + EECS/Schwarzman College of Computing as Asst. Professor, AI + Human Experience

Paul Liang joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing with a shar…
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
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Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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Imagine Yourself: Explorations in Fostering Personal Expression with Generative AI

In recent years, Generative AI technology has risen in popularity and has been promoted for its creative potential. However, applications o…
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
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Collective Echos

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
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Co-designing Generative AI Technologies with Older Adults to Support Daily Tasks

Chan, S. W. T., Liu, A. R., Ostrowski, A. K., Vaidya, M., Brady, S., Yoquinto, L., D’Ambrosio, L., Zulfikar, W., Maniar, N., Patskanick, T., Leong, J., Kosmyna, N., Coughlin, J., & Maes, P. (2024). Co-designing Generative AI Technologies with Older Adults to Support Daily Tasks. An MIT Exploration of Generative AI. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.4f2a95fc
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Generative AI-Enabled Context Personalization for Vocabulary Learning

Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
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Analogia

Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Data Provenance for AI

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
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Data Provenance for AI receives 2024 Infrastructure Fund award

The project purpose is to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of datasets in AI.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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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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Social Robots for Social-Emotional Learning for Arabic Speakers

This project aimed at enhancing the social-emotional and educational experiences of Arabic-speaking refugee children. The project leverages…
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Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
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Human detection of political speech deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video

Groh, M., Sankaranarayanan, A., Singh, N. et al. Human detection of political speech deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video. Nat Commun 15, 7629 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51998-z
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First AI + Education Summit is an international push for “AI fluency”

The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
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App Inventor

App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI

Longpre, S., Mahari, R., Chen, A. et al. A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI. Nat Mach Intell 6, 975–987 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00878-8
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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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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Study: Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models

Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
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Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness Interviews

Chan, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Suri, A., Zulfikar, W., Maes, P., & Loftus, E. F. (2024). Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness Interviews. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04681.
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Cyborg Psychology: The Art + Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing

This research aims to address the timely and timeless challenge of human-computer interaction by focusing on designing and studying human-A…
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Dissertation: Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing
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👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
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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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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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Tomorrow's Typography

This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
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MDAgents: Adaptive Collaboration Strategy for LLMs in Medical Decision Making

Foundation models have become invaluable in advancing the medical field. Despite their promise, the strategic deployment of LLMs for effect…
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The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell

The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn is set to premier at the 11th Asia Pacific Tr…
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Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification

Lu, C.*, Yu, Y.*, Karimireddy, S. P., Jordan, M. I., & Raskar, R. (2023). Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification. Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)
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RAISE

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
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Community Biotechnology

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology