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Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.
News coverage of a research collaboration with OpenAI investigating how chatbots affect users' social and emotional wellbeing
New research raises concerns that emotional reliance on AI chatbots could deepen social isolation for some users.
Higher use of chatbots like ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness and less time spent socializing with other people
Or are they kidding us into thinking they are looking out for our interests?
New research from the Media Lab and OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization.
Studies show those who engage emotionally with bot rely on it more and have fewer real-life relationships
The results are nuanced, since feelings of loneliness and social isolation often fluctuate and can be influenced by various factors.
A new pair of studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found that frequent chatbot users experience more loneliness and emotional dependence.
New research from OpenAI and MIT finds that ChatGPT could be linked to loneliness for some frequent users.
We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.
Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
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…
Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can als…
The project aims to investigate the relationships between emotion, wellbeing, skin, and skincare cosmetics. In our first study, we mea…
People use AI chatbots like ChatGPT in many ways—asking questions, sparking creativity, solving problems, and even for personal interaction…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response a…
Pandemic Response CoLab will help individuals and groups work together to solve practical problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic. By lev…
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
Technology for Women’s Health
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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…
In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
By establishing correlations between sleep parameters and wellbeing indicators, our project hopes to further understanding of fluctuations …
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology