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Enhancing human physical capability
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Future You, developed by Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
Looking beyond smart cities
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rhyt…
Emerging Worlds
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Our journeys off-world have taught us just as much about humanity as the harsh environment of space. For the past 20 years, we have had a c…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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…
Beyond the Cradle
Understanding the link between urban planning and commuting flows is crucial for guiding urban development and policymaking. This research,…
In El País, researchers from Fluid Interfaces discuss their study that found users' beliefs about a chatbot influenced their interactions.
Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard and other experts discuss the opportunities and risks posed by rapid advances in AI.
On NPR’s Fresh Air, alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (Civic Media) talks about the social implications of artificial intelligence.
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
For The Atlantic, Professor Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, imagines a new kind of social network.
In Psychology Today, author William Poundstone considers research from the Fluid Interfaces group in light of the Clever Hans effect.
Research from the Fluid Interfaces group finds that users' perceptions of an AI chatbot influence their interactions with the technology.
In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
GeekWire reports on research that people were less likely to visit socioeconomically different areas while returning to pre-pandemic habits.
The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
SEI Analog Environments StudyProject OverviewThe way humans engage with space has changed rapidly over the past 60 years, moving from a mod…
During TEDxBentleyU, Belén C. Saldías Fuentes invited the audience to consider the cultural biases built into tools like ChatGPT.
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
Created by Media Lab PhD students Shruti Dhariwal and Manuj Dhariwal, CoCo is a digital learning platform that fosters collaboration.
In a new study, researchers from MIT and other universities show that personal mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't fully recovered.
Hawkins, R.D., Berdahl, A.M., Pentland, A.‘. et al. Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01682-x
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
Transforming data into knowledge