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Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.media.mit.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-pri…
Enhancing human physical capability
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
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A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstruction
We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
Researchers from Fluid Interfaces presented this research at the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit.e…
This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
Researcher Pattie Maes believes it's crucial to build machines to support our intelligence rather than replace it.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Latent Lab is an AI-driven knowledge exploration system designed to navigate through the 4,000+ research projects within the Media Lab. Uti…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
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
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.
Leong, Joanne. Investigating the Use of Synthetic Media and Real-Time Virtual Camera Filters for Supporting Communication and Creativity. 2021. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS Thesis.
Artificial intelligence can make adults nervous, but experts say exploring it as a family is the best way to understand its pros and cons.
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
The segment highlighted Dr. Buolamwini's work on bias in AI.
The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
Smith, A., Schroeder, H., Epstein, Z., Cook, M., Colton, S., & Lippman, A. (2023). Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts.
Does using text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion in the creative process affect what people make in the physical world?
Member company Dentsu and the Affective Computing research group have been collaborating on a research project to use smartphone and d…
In January 2023, a team led by, MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Cente…
Kate Darling talks about the film M3gan and the future of artificial intelligence systems designed to have human relationships.
Low-cost, modular, open source, and portable bio reactor for urban bio-sensor development.
Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses co2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.
Community-scale profiling sensor node for ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities.
JettSen is an open source mobile sensor system that enables citizens, urban planners, and city officials to collectively address urba…
Whispers Of The Mountain is a sensor system mounted on snow skis. The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…
TerMITes are a wireless environmental sensor platform that enables designers and researchers with the necessary tools to capture envir…
Cynthia Breazeal led an MIT Open Learning pilot program to deliver a customized AI training program for users with varied backgrounds.
A global "AI Bill of Rights" that would help protect fairness, promote accountability, support innovation, and develop ethical guidelines.
Looking beyond smart cities
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Transforming data into knowledge
Tamiko Thiel, an innovator in VR/AR who studied computer graphics and visual imaging, talks about her work and her career.
Discussion on fact-checking and deepfake detection at the Election Misinformation Symposium 2022.
Alum Alexander Reben describes his experience making art with algorithms and considers what the future of the field may bring.
Alumni Nan-Wei Gong and Anirudh Sharma will deliver the 2022 C. Ashton Newhall Endowed Lecture at Elon University.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Media Lab spinoff Butlr, co-founded by Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng, raises $20 million in a Series A funding round.
Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
Critics, practitioners, and researchers like Human Dynamics PhD student Ziv Epstein talk about AI-generated art..
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
Liquid News aims to help people better understand and interact with the news by providing machine-learning-based analysis and semantic…