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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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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Measuring AI performance in biology
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Media Lab researchers awarded grants from MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium

Media Lab researchers awarded MGAIC grants for exploring AI decision-making and human-AI musical collaboration.
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LLMs Outperform Experts on Challenging Biology Benchmarks

Justen, L. (2025). Llms outperform experts on challenging biology benchmarks (No. arXiv:2505.06108). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.06108
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Automatic Design of Personalized FPCB-Based Tactile Sensing Gloves

Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
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Re·Live: Recreating Past Environments as Immersive Walkable Virtual Reality Spaces

What if you could go back in time to your childhood homes? Or what if you could revisit an old vacation spot that you once visited? Or even…
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Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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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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Space Enabled

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

Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
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NeuroChat

NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a personalized, dynamic learning experi…
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From Lab to Living Room: Gamifying AI Research

AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
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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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CLIMB: Data Foundations for Large Scale Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models

Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
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Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models

If we want AI to engage with us naturally—in classrooms, therapy, eldercare, and beyond—it needs to understand us, with or without words.&n…
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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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AI for Smell and Taste

Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
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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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Randi Williams ’16: AI technologist and education advocate headlines 2025 URCAD

The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
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Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time

A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Cyber Subin: Human-AI Co-Dancing

Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
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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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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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Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Digital tools for social support amongst current and former foster-involved youth

Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
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Innovative mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers

Today Vega is the co-founder and CEO of Augmental.
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BeWell Biomarkers

Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
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Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h - ABM)

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
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Personalized animations for wearables vs standard signals

Animations designed with the help of a pre-engineered GPT are coded further by the  AI to connect with a wearable sensor.   The r…
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AttentivU

​There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
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Perspective-Aware AI

Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
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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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Frisson

Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
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MoveU

MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR).  The device in…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Latent Lab: Legacy

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
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E - LIG

​We introduce E-LIG, a laser-enabled, additive fabrication method for flexible, double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with integrated …
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VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
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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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Empathic GPS

Emotional arousal influences focus, attention, and decision-making, which are critical when driving. To help promote an optimal arousal lev…
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aSpire: Clippable, Mobile Pneumatic-Haptic Device for Breathing Rate Regulation via Personalizable Tactile Feedback

We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
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NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences

Baradari, Dünya, Nataliya Kosmyna, Oscar Petrov, Rebecah Kaplun, and Pattie Maes. 2025. “NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences.” arXiv [Cs.HC]. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07599.
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Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs

Alirezaie, Marjan, Hossein Rahnama, and Alex Pentland. "Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs." Proceedings of the AAAI. 2024.
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'@artbhot' - Towards a Creative Partner on Social Media

@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations.  Access…
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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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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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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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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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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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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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Future You: An Interactive Digital Twin System for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth

​Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
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Understanding impacts of companion chatbots on loneliness and socialization

Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
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New platform lets anyone rapidly prototype large, sturdy interactive structures

The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
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ConceptualTales

ConceptualTales uses generative AI to explain concepts through fiction-inspired analogies. Education, particularly in STEM and social …
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Beyond Imagination: Leveraging Generative AI to Enhance Learning Through Story World Analogies

Baradari, Dünya, Harry Han, Julia Xia, and Carey Ann Strelecki. 2024. “Beyond Imagination: Leveraging Generative AI to Enhance Learning through Story World Analogies.” In 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1–8. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/fie61694.2024.10892813.