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Video has evolved from an esoteric production to the default means of online and broadcast communication. We accept a wrong or lengthy vide…
Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.media.mit.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-pri…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…
The MIT City Science team will work with the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and Mubil Fundazioa on a new collaboration to create the City Sci…
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
ImmerScope is a Generative Design Tool for Urban Settings that offers new ways of visualizing complex urban designs. It generates rend…
Walking is the most natural form of mobility. The significance of safe mobility in urban environments cannot be understated, as it directly…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Press: - MIT News: Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…
This project explores a few computational approaches to use the shape of a knitted garment as input for its pattern.This experiment combin…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
OctoStudio transforms how children use mobile phones and tablets, enabling them to create their own stories and games anytime anywhere…
🚨Application to the 2022 Co-Design Experience here bit.ly/codesign2022 🚨Historically, technology transfer has been associate…
A Framework For Designing Augmented Human-Flora Interaction.
NeuraLiminal: Choose Your Reality NeuraLiminal is an immersive art exhibition that celebrates the union between human and machine, sh…
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touch …
The MIT City Science team will work with the Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CChC), Corporación Ciudades, and the Biobío regional govern…
Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
This paper introduces VR Haptics at Home, a method of repurposing everyday objects in the home to provide casual and on-demand haptic exper…
Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…
InExChange is comprised of a series of research studies and mixed-reality experienced designed to explore the impacts of shared physical se…
When people listen to stories, the words are colored with emotions conveyed through prosodic features beyond the text alone. Visual font d…
This work is recently submitted as a Full Paper to ACM CHI 2023.Corsetto, is a full stack system design and platform for upper-body haptic…
This work will be presented at the upcoming ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajv…
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
Situated VR: Towards a Congruent Hybrid RealityThe vision of Extended Reality (XR) systems is living in a hybrid reality or "Metaverse" wh…
While some Human-Computer Integration (HInt) systems have successfully demonstrated that humans and technology can be physically and functi…
This project explores a computational method to use light as a medium for illustration. I experiment with a process to transform pixels int…
Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
We present the "MicroPET" mission, consisting of an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully program…
What is the real impact of your smartphone on your ability to deeply engage in your daily activities?David Ramsay sets out to answer that q…
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
Rectifying the damage caused by buildings requires an ideological shift, one that involves working with invisible microscopic systems. The …
We've designed a health system strengthening model to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
The Generative Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ideal land u…
Communication skills are critical for all. We design and develop systems to help people with communication issues, e.g., more empathi…
Ddog project features Spot robot from Boston Dynamics and a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system, powered by AttentivU, a pair of wireles…
Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures art installation features devices known as Brain-Computer Inter…
The Brain Switch is a real-time, closed-loop brain-computer system allowing for real-time correspondence of simple user needs to a caretake…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of gla…
A principal vulnerability of a proof-of-work ("PoW") blockchain is that an attacker can rewrite the history of transactions by forking a pr…
We are building autonomous agents that are socially and emotionally saturated in single-person (child-robot) or multi-party (child-parent-r…
We create and employ ethical design frameworks to work towards equitable and inclusive HRI research and technologies.
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
How can we make embodied agents have multimodal conversation with individual and group users that is not only natural, but also relational,…
Latent Lab is an AI-driven knowledge exploration system designed to navigate through the 4,000+ research projects within the Media Lab. Uti…
We seek to empower everyone to become conscientious consumers, ethical engineers, creative problem solvers, and informed advocates for resp…
The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects that lie outside the camera’s field of view. We use two-bounce light to pe…
Multiple projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and optimal performance.
Bitcoin’s (un)common goodDigital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab Launches New Bitcoin Software and Security Effort with Industry L…
On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of the …
The DCI houses key Bitcoin Core developers and maintainers, who conduct Bitcoin Core code review and project maintenance, maintain a long-t…
We are building an intelligent musical partner that play duets with you and teaches music. This research teaches us how to design mor…