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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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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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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Space Enabled

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

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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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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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
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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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A model of virtuosity

Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Dyadic Affect in Multimodal Interaction - Parent to Child (DAMI-P2C) Dataset

Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
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Latent Lab

Latent Lab - Navigating Innovation: Interactive Data Exploration & InspirationLatent Lab is an AI-driven, graphical knowledge expl…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Brain Switch

The Brain Switch is a real-time, closed-loop brain-computer system allowing for real-time correspondence of simple user needs to a caretake…
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Living Knitwork Pavilion

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Article Research

Whither BCIs?

Researcher Nataliya Kosmyna and other experts discuss the potential of and safeguards needed for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
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AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choices

Future You, developed by Dr. ​​Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
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Technology for Resilient Youth: Fostering emotional expression and social connectedness amongst at-risk young adults

​We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced developmental trauma, or chronic stre…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use

Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland, Kent Larson, and Dana Calacci. 2024. Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2024), 48 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687005
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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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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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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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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Co-designing Generative AI for Healthy Aging

The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental and Visuospatial Workload in Virtual Reality Environments

Bernal, Guillermo, Hahrin Jung, Ismail Emir Yassi, Nelson Hidalgo, Yodahe Alemu, Tyler Barnes-Diana, and Pattie Maes. 2024. "Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental and Visuospatial Workload in Virtual Reality Environments" Computers 13, no. 10: 246. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13100246
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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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Theme | Attention, Memory + Learning

Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
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Theme | Health + Wellbeing

We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
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WearVibe

Specifically crafted sensory stimulation can influence brain function and potentially improve cognition. In this project, we developed soft…
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Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant

​People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
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Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization

Wicaksono, I., Maheshwari, A., Haddad, D.D., Paradiso, J., and Danielescu, A., 2024. Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization. In Proc. ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 8, 2, Article 45 (June 2024), 31 pages.
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AI Systems that Use Questioning to Improve Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
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WearVibe WearOS App

Source code for smartwatch app for improving attention via haptic rhythmic stimuli (WearOS)
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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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MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population

We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
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AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self

By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
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Tara Boroushaki receives 2024 Paul Baran Young Scholar Award

This award recognizes and celebrates innovative research conducted by young scientists and engineers.
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Living Memories: AI-generated characters as interactive digital mementos

In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
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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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‘Brain-computer interface’ allows user to move objects with mind

Professor Pattie Maes and research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna demonstrate a wearable brain-computer interface called AttentivU.
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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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Paul Liang joins MIT Media Lab Media Arts + Science Program + EECS/Schwarzman College of Computing as Asst. Professor, AI + Human Experience

Paul Liang joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing with a shar…
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

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.
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Collective Echos

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
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Co-designing Generative AI Technologies with Older Adults to Support Daily Tasks

Chan, S. W. T., Liu, A. R., Ostrowski, A. K., Vaidya, M., Brady, S., Yoquinto, L., D’Ambrosio, L., Zulfikar, W., Maniar, N., Patskanick, T., Leong, J., Kosmyna, N., Coughlin, J., & Maes, P. (2024). Co-designing Generative AI Technologies with Older Adults to Support Daily Tasks. An MIT Exploration of Generative AI. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.4f2a95fc
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Generative AI-Enabled Context Personalization for Vocabulary Learning

Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
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Beyond-the-Ice

Lee, Cassandra. Beyond-the-Ice: Designing Games for Facilitating Deeper Conversations. 2024. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Master's thesis.
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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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Data Provenance for AI

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Regional Technology Co-Creation and Transfer Ecosystems in Latin America

Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…
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Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Mental Health

As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
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First AI + Education Summit is an international push for “AI fluency”

The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
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App Inventor

App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
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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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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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Study: Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models

Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
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Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness Interviews

Chan, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Suri, A., Zulfikar, W., Maes, P., & Loftus, E. F. (2024). Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness Interviews. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04681.
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Cyborg Psychology: The Art + Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing

This research aims to address the timely and timeless challenge of human-computer interaction by focusing on designing and studying human-A…
Thesis Research

Dissertation: Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing