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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…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
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, …
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…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of gla…
Latent Lab is an AI-driven knowledge exploration system designed to navigate through the 4,000+ research projects within the Media Lab. Uti…
Multiple projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and optimal performance.
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
Emotional Well-being is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional well-being can equally adversely affect one's over…
Prismo lamp is designed and constructed based on a classical example of the prismatic structure. It takes advantage of the periodic and spa…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
Probabilistic thinking has been one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science, and it is rapidly gaining even more relevance as …
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…
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…
During facilitated small-group conversations, facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
This project was produced as part of the 2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bioin…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
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…
PCB debugging can be tricky sometimes. Normally we should check which signal we want to measure in the schematic, switch to PCB layout to s…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…
The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make n…
by Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng*, Joanne Leong, Jack Forman, Sven Koenig*, and Hiroshi Ishii*Collaborators at the Unive…
Patchbots are sheet-form robots that are programmable on-the-fly by direct manipulation through bodily movements. The integrated …
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratizati…
Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What types…
City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
OverviewDefeXtiles are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensiv…
An exploration of how advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the heart …
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Emotional arousal influences focus, attention, and decision-making, which are critical when driving. To help promote an optimal arousal lev…
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
MetaSense: Integrating Sensing Capabilities into Mechanical Metamaterial. J. Gong*, O. Seow*, C. Honnet*, J. Forman, S…
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way to …
Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously e…
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast walk…
Amputation, muscle weakness, and nerve damage can make it difficult to perform simple daily tasks. In this project, we are developing a mi…
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…