Buchthal, J., Chory, E.J., Hill, Z. et al. Heritable immunization of mice against Lyme disease enables ecological disease prevention. Nat Commun (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71757-6

Danry, V., Pataranutaporn, P., Groh, M., & Epstein, Z. (2025, April). Deceptive explanations by large language models lead people to change their beliefs about misinformation more often than honest explanations. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-31).

Danry, V., Pataranutaporn, P., Cui, C., Hung, J. T., Blanchard, L., Buçinca, Z., ... & Maes, P. (2025, April). Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning: Improving Human Reflective and Critical Thinking with Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).

Zaidi, A., Karanika, A., Cheng, T. C., Chiang, Y. S., Cobb, C., Gupta, I., & Karahalios, K. (2026). Control in Context: How Smart Home Users Navigate Proxy-based Schemes.

Wazeer Zulfikar, Yasith Samaradivakara, Paul Pu Liang, and Pattie Maes. 2026. Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Com- puting Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages.

Anku Rani, Valdemar Danry, Paul Pu Liang, Andrew Lippman, and Pattie Maes. 2026. Dialogues with AI Reduce Beliefs in Misinformation but Build No Lasting Discernment Skills. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 792, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790656

Saetbyeol LeeYouk, Sergio Mutis, Yuxiang Cheng, and Behnaz Farahi. 2026. Portable Somatic Wearable: AI-Assisted Reflection Through Gaze-Derived Somatic Markers. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799134

Saetbyeol LeeYouk, Yanchen Shen, Yuqiao Liao, and Behnaz Farahi. 2026. Cry for AI: A Moss-Controlled AI Wearable for Resource-Aware Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799109

Nelson Hidalgo Julia, Robert Lewis, Craig Ferguson, Joshua Angulo Lopez, Hahrin Jung, Rosalind Picard, Simon Goldberg, Raquel Tatar, Wendy S.-Y. Lau, Caroline Swords, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, Gabriela Valdivia, Molly Schaefer, and Richard Davidson. 2026. Designing an Affective Mobile Probe to Measure Smile Dynamics in Depression. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in

Shivam Raval, Kevin Dunnell, and Andrew Lippman. 2026. Latent manipulator: using concept-guided embedding manipulation to steer embedding visualizations. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 425, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798816

Suyash Pradeep Fulay, Prerna Ravi, Om Gokhale, Eugene Yi, Michiel A. Bakker, and Deb Roy. 2026. Agora: Teaching the Skill of Consensus-Finding with AI Personas Grounded in Human Voice. In CHI EA ’26: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Article 80, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798888

Om Gokhale, Chayapatr Archiwaranguprok, Rachel Poonsiriwong, Pattie Maes, and Pat Pataranutaporn. 2026. Anthology. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 91, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799062

CHI 2026 - Research Paper

Song, H., Herrera-Arcos, G., Friedman, G.N. et al. A myoneural actuator with engineered biophysics for implantable biohybrid systems. Nat Commun 17, 2584 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70626-6

Karny, S., Baez, A., & Pataranutaporn, P. (2026). Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AI. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 868–884. doi:10.1145/3742413.3789120

O. K. Afsar et al., "Electrofluidic fiber muscles." Sci. Robot. 11, eady6438 (2026). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.ady6438

Danry, V*., Billa, J. G.*, Samaradivakara, Y.*, Liang, P. P., Maes, P. (2026, March). Mind Mapper: Modeling and Predicting Behavioral Patterns from Everyday Conversations with Wearable AI Systems and LLMs. In Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Cohen, J. A., Shimizu, K., Song, A., Bharath, V., Maes, P., & Larson, K. (2026, March). Do Robots Need Body Language? Comparing Communication Modalities for Legible Motion Intent in Human-Shared Spaces. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 322-326).

Wolf, E., Samaradivakara, Y., Gokhale, O., Ahmed, S., Wang, Y., Pataranutaporn, P., & Maes, P. (2026). Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived Reality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798358

Shuvo, I.I., Flores-Hernandez, D.R., Smith, G. et al. Breaking the thermal limit of atmospheric water harvesting technologies. Nat. Rev. Clean Technol. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44359-026-00154-5

Izquierdo, L., Nawyn, J. & Larson, K. "Comparative assessment of women’s safety and mobility research methods in informal neighborhoods." npj Urban Sustain (2026).

Coronas Sala, Laia, and Parfait Atchade-Adelomou. "QMProt: A Comprehensive Dataset of Quantum Properties for Proteins." Electronics 14.14 (2025): 2825.

Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene Hauptmann. (2026). NeuroSkill™: Proactive Real-Time Agentic System Capable of Modeling Human State of Mind (Version 0.0.1) [Software]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03212

Buchthal, Joanna et al. "Non-invasive ovulation tracking enables genetic engineering in wild rodents." Cell Reports Methods, Volume 6, Issue 2, 101311

Islam, M. S., Kuwayama, Y., Entekhabi, D., Turner, K. M., Lu, C., Castillo, F. M., ... & Wood, D. (2026). A subnational social vulnerability index for use in drought decision support systems. Environmental Science & Policy, 178, 104349.

Rico, A., Izquierdo, L., Delgado, E. et al. The challenges, methods, and opportunities of understanding informal urbanism: a case study in Lomas del Centinela, Mexico. npj Urban Sustain 6, 35 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-026-00360-x

Contributors: Kaustubh Dhavse, Chief Advisor to CM, Maharashtra; Dr. Praveen Gedam, Divisional Commissioner, Nashik; Shekhar Singh, Commissioner of Kumbh Mela, Nashik; Dr. Ramesh Raskar, MIT and Project Nanda; Dr. Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services; Mahesh Lambe, Project NANDA; Saurabh Sakalkar, Project NANDA; Ankur Shinde, Project NANDA; Gurusha Raskar, Project NANDA

Jisung Shin, Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie, and Hossein Rahnama

Daniel Platnick, Marjan Alirezaie, Hossein Rahnama

Dan Aronoff and Neha Narula, et al. "The Hidden Plumbing of Stablecoins: Financial and Technological Risks in the GENIUS Act Era," Digital Currency Initiative, February 2026, https://dci.mit.edu/projects/hidden-plumbing-stablecoins

Manuel Cherep, Chengtian Ma, Abigail Xu, Maya Shaked, Pattie Maes, and Nikhil Singh. "A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Nikhil Singh*, Manuel Cherep*, and Pattie Maes "Discovering and Steering Interpretable Concepts in Large Generative Music Models." International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Ornellas, S. B., Kizilaslan, B., Shah, A., Hou, J. F., Shin, Y., Moyers, A. H., Lozano, C., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Ultrasound in Women's Health: Mechanisms, Applications, and Emerging Opportunities”, Advanced Materials, 0:e20454, 2026. [“Women in Materials Science” Special Issue]

Marcus, C.*, Nayeem, M. O. G.*, Shah, A., Hou, J., Viswanath, S., Eusebio, M., Sadat, D., Chandrakasan, A. P., Ozmen, T., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Imaging with an Ultra-Sparse, Low Power Architecture”, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 0:e05310, 2026

Kushagra Tiwary et al. ,What if eye...? Computationally recreating vision evolution. Sci. Adv. 11, eady2888 (2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ady2888

Carty, Matthew J.; Fernandez, Michael F.; Sullivan, Corey L.; Chiao, Rachael; Berger, Lori; Sparling, Tawnee L.; Souza, Jason M.; Potter, Benjamin K.; Beltran, Luis; Herr, Hugh M. Human Implementation of Upper-Extremity Amputation Incorporating Agonist-Antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) Construction. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, December 12, 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000012642

Chambers, L., Connolly, R., Kirk, M. S., Fischer, H., Aranda, A., Bowden, M. L., Cass, M., Cominsky, L. R., Czajkowski, K. P., Edson, L. B., Gardner-Vandy, K., Higdon, R., Holland, A., Keller, J. M., Kohl, H., Leavell, C., MacDonald, E., McCarthy, C., Mead, C., … White, V. (2025). Uniting Under the Eclipse: A Mega-Collaboration to Activate Science Learning Across the Penumbra and Beyond. Bulletin

Sanchez, N. C., & Larson, K. (2025). Understanding demand for shared autonomous micro-mobility. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 149, 105018.

Poster NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2025

Proceedings of the Media Architecture Biennale 2025 (MAB 25), Bangkok, Thailand — accepted for publication.

Thasin, M., Baradari, D., Mykhaylychenko, D., & Mhungu, C. (2025, November 9). A(I)nimism: Re-enchanting the World Through AI-Mediated Object Interaction. The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Creative AI Track: Humanity.

Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, and Pattie Maes. "Behavioral Systems Require Behavioral Tests." NeurIPS Workshop on Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning and Planning (LAW)