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Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
Media Lab researchers awarded MGAIC grants for exploring AI decision-making and human-AI musical collaboration.
Justen, L. (2025). Llms outperform experts on challenging biology benchmarks (No. arXiv:2505.06108). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.06108
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
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…
This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Looking beyond smart cities
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a personalized, dynamic learning experi…
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
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…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness InterviewsThis study examines the impact of AI on hu…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
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…
Today Vega is the co-founder and CEO of Augmental.
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Animations designed with the help of a pre-engineered GPT are coded further by the AI to connect with a wearable sensor. The r…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR). The device in…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
We introduce E-LIG, a laser-enabled, additive fabrication method for flexible, double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with integrated …
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Emotional arousal influences focus, attention, and decision-making, which are critical when driving. To help promote an optimal arousal lev…
We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
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.
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.
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
ConceptualTales uses generative AI to explain concepts through fiction-inspired analogies. Education, particularly in STEM and social …
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.