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Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
Technology for Women’s Health
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Pattie Maes + Pat Pataranutaporn explore how AI companions shape us—and how to design them to support human wellbeing.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
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…
Enhancing human physical capability
This research explores how acoustic environments can elicit awe and wonder emotions, and how such experiences can contribute to restoration…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
The PhD research of alum Guillermo Bernal (Fluid Interfaces group), with current Affective Computing group researcher Nelson Hida…
This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
Future You, developed by Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
In honor of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is emphasizing its collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to explore the mind-body connection, a…
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
Dr. Alaa Algargoosh received the award for her research on how acoustic experiences can affect wellbeing.
Rosalind Picard’s unique technology is revolutionizing digital health.
Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases
Pat Pataranutaporn discusses the inspiration behind his research at the intersection of biological systems and digital technology.
CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
In an interview recorded at VivaTech, Media Lab Director Dava Newman talks about the Media Lab's mission to enhance the human experience.
This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We p…
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity fo…
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…