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Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Looking beyond smart cities
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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.
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
“We are adding a new layer of control between the world of computers and what your eyes see,” says Barmak Heshmat, co-founder of Brelyon
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—th…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Fellows are selected based on their potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies.
zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
Hal Abelson, co-director of MIT RAISE, talks to Kara Miller about the impact of AI on education.
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
In the 1990s, Professor Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, helped pioneer the concept of software agents.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…
Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
Beyond the Cradle
ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
Illuminate has been nominated for a 2024 SXSW Innovation Award in the Student Innovation category. Illuminate is an in…
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
MIT scientists address issues to bringing 2D magnetic materials into practical use, setting the stage for more energy-efficient computers
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
Abstract— Millions suffer from sleep disorders, and sleep clinics and research institutions seek improved sleep study methods. This paper p…
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
The researchers precisely controlled an ultrathin magnet at room temperature, which could enable faster processors and computer memories.
MORF FORM is a knitted animation piece on display at the Future Sketches room at ARTECHOUSE in Miami Beach.
FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.
Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…
By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi MishraCode Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Pr…
36 Days Of Type is an initiative that invites creatives to create their version of the letters and numbers of the Latin alphabet, one…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
In a study published in Nature Medicine, alum Matt Groh, Prof. Rosalind Picard, and colleagues found assistance from an AI model can help.
Groh, M., Badri, O., Daneshjou, R. et al. Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02728-3
Addressing Bias in Physician-Machine PartnershipsThis research program addresses how AI assistance can enhance physician decision-making on…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Designing for, with, and by nature
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Gallery of images of the interactive art installation: Illuminate.Artwork by Chelsi Alise Cocking of the Future Sketches group. Photography…
Can computer graphics algorithms be taught through drawing?In this prototypical activity book, we present the steps of four computer graphi…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology