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DisCourse

DisCourse Dinners are curated social experiences that transforms dinner between strangers into an opportunity to reimagine how we listen, s…
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Gaze to the Stars

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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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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Pantheon

What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting, …
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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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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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MirrorFugue

MirrorFugue is an installation for a player piano that evokes the impression that the "reflection" of a disembodied pianist is playing the …
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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past

MIT researchers lay out design principles behind the TeleAbsence vision and how it could help people cope with loss
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Gaze to the Stars in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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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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Long Range Ocean Connectivity at Ultra-Low Power

Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
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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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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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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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TeleAbsence: Communicating Across Time

This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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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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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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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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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…
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Participatory Sensemaking

How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
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Legal Storytelling

"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…
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Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling

Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, Daniel Kessler, Eric Ma, Tal August, Irene Li, Alex Pentland, Yoon Kim, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. 2024. Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7194–7219, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
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Why don’t more people go vegan? It could be the label.

A recent experiment explored why people reject foods that are better for your health and the planet—and found answers rooted in psychology.
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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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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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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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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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Spinoff Xander secures $1.41 million in seed funding

Xander, a Media Lab spinoff company dedicated to enhancing communication for individuals with hearing challenges, has successfully complete…
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Rhythm: Open measurement and feedback tools for human interaction

Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rhyt…
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▓▒░ TeleAbsence

People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
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Augmenting Communication & Fostering Social Connection

As computing blends into everyday environments, powerful opportunities open up for social connection. How can we leverage technology to enh…
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Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality

This project was produced as part of the   2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…
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Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality

Joanne Leong, Olivia Seow, Cathy Mengying Fang, Benny J. Tang, Rajan Vaish, and Pattie Maes. 2022. Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality. In The Adjunct Publication of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’22 Adjunct), October 29-November 2, 2022, Bend, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages.
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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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Type experiments

​36 Days Of Type is an initiative that invites creatives to create their version of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet, one…
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Exploring Science Communication Through Song and Dance

Science is not just about discovery; it’s an art of communication too.In this project, we are exploring how complex scientific topics can b…
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Liquid News

The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…
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The negative impact of vegetarian and vegan labels: Results from randomized controlled experiments

OverviewWe found that vegan and vegetarian labels commonly found on menu items have a significantly negative impact on consumer's likelihoo…
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Signal Kinetics researchers win Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023

Signal Kinetics members Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib were honored with two Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023.
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Congratulations to Alexandra Kahn on induction into the MIT Quarter Century Club

Alexandra Kahn is a member of the 2022 class of inductees.
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Liquid Movies

Video has evolved from an esoteric production to the default means of online and broadcast communication. We accept a wrong or lengthy vide…
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Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera

The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models

Hang Jiang, Doug Beeferman, Brandon Roy, and Deb Roy. 2022. CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 6818–6826, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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TangiBel Soundscapes

Words are fleeting. Moments come and go, and what we vocalize “disappears into thin air."In this project, TangiBel Soundscapes, we propose …
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Jelani Cobb and Deb Roy Join Knight Institute Board

The Knight Institute was established by Columbia University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2016.
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Can Technology Help Humans Listen?

Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, discusses his research and how technology can be used for social good.
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean