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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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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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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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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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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.media.mit.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-pri…
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

Haar Horowitz, Adam, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes. "Dormio: Interfacing with dreams." In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-10. 2018.
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Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
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"Picture the Audience" Exploring Private AR Face Filters for Online Public Speaking

This work will be presented  at the upcoming ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajv…
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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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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
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AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning

This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is  a  device, in the  form factor of a pair of gla…
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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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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Latent Lab: Landscape

Latent Lab is an AI-driven knowledge exploration system designed to navigate through the 4,000+ research projects within the Media Lab. Uti…
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Theme | Attention, Memory + Optimal Performance

Multiple projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and optimal performance.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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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Theme | Learning + Creativity

Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
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Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
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Investigating the Use of Synthetic Media and Real-Time Virtual Camera Filters for Supporting Communication and Creativity

Leong, Joanne. Investigating the Use of Synthetic Media and Real-Time Virtual Camera Filters for Supporting Communication and Creativity. 2021. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS Thesis.
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Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity

Leong, Joanne, et al. "Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
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Synthetic Self-Perception

Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
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Frisson: Leveraging Metasomatic Interactions for Generating Aesthetic Chills

Jain, A., Schoeller, F., Zhang, E., & Maes, P. (2022, November). Frisson: Leveraging Metasomatic Interactions for Generating Aesthetic Chills. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 148-158).
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Modulating Interoceptive Signals for Influencing the Conscious Experience
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Adaptive Virtual Neuroarchitecture

Jain, A., Maes, P., Sra, M. (2023). Adaptive Virtual Neuroarchitecture. In: Simeone, A., Weyers, B., Bialkova, S., Lindeman, R.W. (eds) Everyday Virtual and Augmented Reality. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05804-2_9
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Aesthetic chills cause an emotional drift in valence and arousal

Jain A, Schoeller F, Horowitz A, Hu X, Yan G, Salomon R and Maes P (2023) Aesthetic chills cause an emotional drift in valence and arousal. Front. Neurosci. 16:1013117. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1013117
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Wearable Device-assisted Emotional Wellbeing Intervention with a Social Robot

Emotional Well-being is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional well-being can equally adversely affect one's over…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Prismo - Transformable floor lamp based on prismatic structure

Prismo lamp is designed and constructed based on a classical example of the prismatic structure. It takes advantage of the periodic and spa…
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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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Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives

The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
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Program teaches US Air Force personnel the fundamentals of AI

Cynthia Breazeal led an MIT Open Learning pilot program to deliver a customized AI training program for users with varied backgrounds.
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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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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Denting the future at San Diego Comic-Con 2022

Dent the Future organizes annual 2022 science and tech panels featuring Sana Sharma.
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Latent Lab

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
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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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Brown, MIT researchers validate new methodology for wireless muscle tracking

Two research papers published by Brown and MIT researchers focus on the possibility of employing improved muscle tracking technology.
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Voice Your Choice: Creating a Community Engagement Process for New Magnet Programs in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools

Effective community engagement is critical in diverse organizations, such as school districts. However, current methods, including surveys,…
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Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
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Let's Chance: Playful Probabilistic Programming for Children

Probabilistic thinking has been one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science, and it is rapidly gaining even more relevance as …
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SenseMate: an AI-based platform to support qualitative coding

Many community organizations want to engage in conversations with their constituents but lack the support they need to analyze feedback. Mo…
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Predicting Driver Self-Reported Stress by Analyzing the Road Scene

Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and sel…
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Conversational Agents for Supporting Social Connectivity

Imagine a personal AI agent that you can converse with naturally about your friends and family, helping you remember previous topics you’ve…
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Large Language Models for Automated Sensemaking

In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data so…
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Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significant…
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Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) approac…
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Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and m…
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Facilimate

During facilitated small-group conversations,  facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
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Wemoji

This project was produced as part of the   2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…