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In January 2023, a team led by, MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant, Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Cent…
Low-cost, modular, open source, and portable bio reactor for urban bio-sensor development.
Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses co2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.
Community-scale profiling sensor node for ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities.
JettSen is an open source mobile sensor system that enables citizens, urban planners, and city officials to collectively address urba…
Whispers Of The Mountain is a sensor system mounted on snow skis. The system allows for crowdsourcing environmental data of mou…
TerMITes are a wireless environmental sensor platform that enables designers and researchers with the necessary tools to capture envir…
Check out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-print on arXiv. Check out a video from the Election Misinfo…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
Liquid News aims to help people better understand and interact with the news by providing machine-learning-based analysis and semantic…
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various information about emotions, feelings, and excitation through…
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. In the U.S., 1.2% of the national population reported active epilepsy in …
Many community organizations want to engage in conversations with their constituents but lack the support they need to analyze feedback. Mo…
Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and sel…
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
Imagine a personal AI agent that you can converse with naturally about your friends and family, helping you remember previous topics you’ve…
In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Communication skills are critical for all. We design and develop systems to help people with communication issues, eg more empa…
The full text of our paper is available here.Sometimes the thing that we want to see is hidden behind something else. A neighboring vehicl…
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
A Conversation with the Sun is an artistic exploration by acclaimed Thai auteur and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration…
By predicting sparse shadow cues, our physics-inspired machine learning algorithm can reconstruct the underlying 3D scene. Abstract. W…
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…
Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What types…
As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…
Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object det…
Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …
Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, students…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the heart …
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
RFusion is a robotic system that can search for and retrieve items in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and fully occluded settings. It con…
Depression correlated with anxiety is one of the key factors leading to suicidal behavior, and is among the leading causes of death worldwi…
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mult…
The current system of scientific recognition and funding has significant bias towards work published in the top few percent of journal…
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response a…
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as th…
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
This video interview is a part of Media Lab X.0: Anthology of Tomorrows.In 2020, first-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab were tas…
In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algori…
This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health pla…
Check out the project site here. The pursuit of justice in AI requires more than just tweaking the numbers. It requires us to “study up”—t…
EEG-based biometrics (user identification) has been explored on small datasets of no more than 157 subjects. Here we show that the accuracy…
dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through a …
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact trac…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …
We present a stochastic scheme for splitting the client data into privatized shares that are transmitted to the server in such settings. Th…
Skip Norm is a new and flexible building block for Deep Learning that serves as a skip connection and normalization block simultaneously. I…
www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This for…