Research — MIT Media Lab

MACH: My Automated Conversation coacH

MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of...

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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

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A breakthrough device that combines mind and machine

In the first live public demo of his new technology, TED Fellow Arnav Kapur introduces AlterEgo.

Evergreen Blues

Evergreen Blues is a suite of interactive songs that together provide a collaborative musical narrative experience in the form of a multi...

Seasons Change Together

Seasons Change Together is a collaborative song construction experience for multiple simultaneous participants. It represents a firs...

Deep Reality: An underwater VR experience to promote relaxation by unconscious HR, EDA and brain activity biofeedback

We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We mon...

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Media Lab research at CHI 2019

The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019

Byte.it

Discreet Teeth Gestures for Mobile Device InteractionByte.it is a miniaturized, discreet interface that uses teeth gestures for hands-fre...

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Cyborg Botany wins the 2019 Golden Mouse Award at CHI

The Golden Mouse is a “Best of Show” award that recognizes the best overall submission to the CHI Video Showcase.

Cyborg Botany: Augmented plants as sensors, displays, and actuators

Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communicati...

PopBots: An early childhood AI curriculum

How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?

Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

Fluid Interfaces

Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement

Wearable Wisdom

Having good mentors and role models is important for personal growth. Knowledge, advice, and inspiration from people a person admires can...

[BIKE] SWARM

Demo video coming soon. As bikes navigate city streets in the darkness of evening, they are often equipped with lights. The li...

LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modula...

User needs for augmentative communication interfaces

We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...

PerForm

PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a shape-changing tool can allow for different forms...

Designing robots in mixed reality

This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...

Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

Tools to investigate societal impacts of robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...

LinkedOut: Codesigning societal reentry with returning citizens

LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with t...

Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

Gallery Research

Micronauts Interactive Exhibit

Besides the interactive projection, the exhibit at the 'All Hands on Deck' event displayed microscopic imagery and artwork inspired by satel

Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

Sleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a third of our ...

The Science of AI Research

We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...

CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...

Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

FindingPlaces

What is FindingPlaces?In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Ma...

Responsive Environments

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

Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

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 significa...

Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...

Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better

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Human-computer Interaction for Hybrid Carving

Amit Zoran, Roy Shilkrot, Joseph A. Paradiso

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Masque

When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...

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Programmable Droplets

State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...

LuminAR

LuminAR reinvents the traditional incandescent bulb and desk lamp, evolving them into a new category of robotic, digital information devi...

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Engagement with Voice-User Interface Agents

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...

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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

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Can artificial intelligence create art?

Click looks at whether AI could ever create an artistic masterpiece.

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This device makes people find others more attractive by playing fake breathing sounds

Masque induces psychological changes by altering how users perceive their breathing.

CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., ElKatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2018, July). Cityscope: a data-driven interactive simulation tool for urban design. Use case volpe. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 253-261). Springer, Cham.

Assessment of Nerve Regeneration through a Novel Microchannel Array

B. Maimon, A. N. Zorzos, K. W. Song, R. Bendell, R. Riso, H. M. Herr

CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism

Rudovic, O., Utsumi, Y., Lee, J., Hernandez, J., Castello Ferrer, E., Schuller, B., Picard, R. "CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018).

Council on Extended Intelligence

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on ...

CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization

Arnaud Grignard, Núria Macià, Luis Alonso Pastor, Ariel Noyman, Yan Zhang, and Kent Larson. 2018. CityScope Andorra: A Multi-level Interactive and Tangible Agent-based Visualization. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 1939-1940.