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The Music Camera

What if you could turn your favorite photograph into a beautiful piece of music?The Music Camera is an upcoming handheld device that genera…
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Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories

People often remember visuals but struggle to put them into words—creating a gap between what we see and what we can describe.Modern image …
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Designing an Affective Mobile Probe to Measure Smile Dynamics in Depression

Nelson Hidalgo Julia, Robert Lewis, Craig Ferguson, Joshua Angulo Lopez, Hahrin Jung, Rosalind Picard, Simon Goldberg, Raquel Tatar, Wendy S.-Y. Lau, Caroline Swords, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, Gabriela Valdivia, Molly Schaefer, and Richard Davidson. 2026. Designing an Affective Mobile Probe to Measure Smile Dynamics in Depression. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in
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Affective Mobile Probe

This study explores the feasibility of using smile and smirk expression dynamics, captured through our novel stimulus-based mobile aff…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
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Rather than Simply Making Machines Smarter, Media Lab Researchers Seek to Empower People

‘Advancing Humans with AI’ makes bettering lives the focus
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Investigating the Influence of Conversational AI Use on Emotional and Social Wellbeing

Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
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Adam Haar Horowitz crafts devices that turn sleep state into space for design and creativity

Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz, a cognitive scientist and CEO of DUST, treats sleep hours as a space to design and influence thought.
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InSituWear: On-body Robotic Fabrication of Textiles

What if clothing  and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
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From Remote Space to Remote Time (CHI'26 Panel)

From Remote Space to Remote TimeTuesday, April 14, 2026 (14:15 – 15:45 CEST)CHI 2026 Panel This panel explores a design vision that re…
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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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Facilimate

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

Looking beyond smart cities
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Myoneural Actuator

The myoneural actuator is a fatigue-resistant, implantable biohybrid actuator built from living skeletal muscle, engineered through a regen…
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Turning muscles into motors gives static organs new life

A new biohybrid system developed at MIT is the first living implant that uses rewired nerves to revive paralyzed organs.
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Space Enabled

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

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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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&nb…
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Media Lab researchers win Lasting Impact Award at ACM Augmented Humans conference

A collaboration between Responsive Environments and Fluid Interfaces wins the Lasting Impact Award at ACM Augmented Humans 2026.
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OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
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Designing Walkable Communities

Designing Walkable CommunitiesA tangible interface for exploring how the distribution of urban amenities shapes walkability, mobility, and …
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Heavy reliance on AI for advice may hinder emotional development

Pat Pataranutaporn shares with CBS News his findings on human-AI interaction.
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Theme | Consensus

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews

In The Guardian, Pat Pataranutaporn warns that missing AI disclaimers in health content can lead users to trust information too easily.
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Rethink... the promise of AI

Rosalind Picard, head of the Affective Computing group, is among the contributors featured in a recent episode of BBC Rethink.
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NeuroChat

📚 Full paper (open access)NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a person…
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Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users

This research, recently presented at the AAAI 2026 conference in Singapore by Elinor Poole-Dayan, finds that leading AI models perform…
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AI Agents Are Sensitive to Nudges

LLMs are being set loose in complex, real-world environments involving sequential decision-making and tool use. Often, this involves making…
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A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments

Environments built for people are increasingly operated by a new class of economic actors: LLM-powered software agents making decisions on …
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"Who I Met Today" podcast features Kye Shimizu of the Fluid Interfaces Group

In the latest episode of Who I Met Today, Kye Shimizu discusses the bold and varied projects emerging from MIT Media Lab.
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sAIpien

Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks (sAIpien)
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Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users

Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency,
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‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI

Rosalind Picard, head of Affective Computing group, comments on the growing emotional role of AI—and the risks it brings.
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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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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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Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
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Perspective-Aware AI at MIT Media Lab

Perspective-Aware AI (PAi) can shape the future of eXtended Reality (XR)
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Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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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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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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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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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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Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant

​Memoro is a wearable AI memory assistant that continuously captures audio through a bone conduction headset, transforming everyday convers…
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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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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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A new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items

“MorphoChrome,” developed at MIT, pairs software with a handheld device to make everyday objects iridescent.
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AI-driven "scent-memory machine" turns photographs into custom fragrances

MIT Media Lab has developed a prototype that uses generative AI to interpret and distil the contents of a photograph into a fragrance.
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Tulip raises $120M Series D at $1.3B valuation to scale AI for frontline manufacturing

Media Lab spinoff Tulip raises $120M at a $1.3B valuation to scale its AI platform for frontline manufacturing worldwide
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Video evidence and eye witness accounts: Why people see different things

Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain
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Stop Letting AI Run Your Social Life

How AI Became a Third Party in Our Relationships, According to the MIT Media Lab’s Cyborg Psychology Group.
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Empowering K12 Educators: Fostering Collaborative Intelligence with Generative AI

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
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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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Cyber Subin: Human-AI Co-Dancing

Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project aims to develop new methods fo…
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The Anemoia Device Turns Pixels Into Perfume

The Anemoia Device uses generative AI to mix custom scents that complement photographs and create synthetic memories.
Creating reliable, resilient, and convivial infrastructures grounded in human agency, safety, and dignity
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FiberCircuits

FiberCircuits: A Miniaturization Framework To Manufacture Fibers That Embed Integrated Circuits• Keywords:Embedded Systems, Wearables,…
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Alex Pentland: Shared Wisdom

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland talks to Alan Alda about human decision-making and curiosity.