• Login
  • Register

Work for a Member company and need a Member Portal account? Register here with your company email address.

Project Research

Collective Echos

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Publication Research

Co-designing Generative AI Technologies with Older Adults to Support Daily Tasks

Chan, S. W. T., Liu, A. R., Ostrowski, A. K., Vaidya, M., Brady, S., Yoquinto, L., D’Ambrosio, L., Zulfikar, W., Maniar, N., Patskanick, T., Leong, J., Kosmyna, N., Coughlin, J., & Maes, P. (2024). Co-designing Generative AI Technologies with Older Adults to Support Daily Tasks. An MIT Exploration of Generative AI. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.4f2a95fc
Project Research

Generative AI-Enabled Context Personalization for Vocabulary Learning

Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
Project Research

Analogia

Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Project Research

Data Provenance for AI

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Post Research

Data Provenance for AI receives 2024 Infrastructure Fund award

The project purpose is to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of datasets in AI.
Research
Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Research
Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Project Research

Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
Post Research

Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
Project Research

Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
Publication Research

Human detection of political speech deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video

Groh, M., Sankaranarayanan, A., Singh, N. et al. Human detection of political speech deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video. Nat Commun 15, 7629 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51998-z
Article Research

First AI + Education Summit is an international push for “AI fluency”

The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries.
Project Research

App Inventor

App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
Research
Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Publication Research

A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI

Longpre, S., Mahari, R., Chen, A. et al. A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI. Nat Mach Intell 6, 975–987 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00878-8
Archived
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Project Research

AI-Implanted False Memories

Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness InterviewsThis study examines the impact of AI on hu…
Article Research

Study: Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models

Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
Publication Research

Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness Interviews

Chan, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Suri, A., Zulfikar, W., Maes, P., & Loftus, E. F. (2024). Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness Interviews. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04681.
Project Research

Cyborg Psychology: The Art + Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing

This research aims to address the timely and timeless challenge of human-computer interaction by focusing on designing and studying human-A…
Thesis Research

Dissertation: Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing
Project Research

👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Project Research

Dual Energy-Climate Challenge

Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
Project Research

AstroAnt

"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Project Research

Tomorrow's Typography

This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
Project Research

The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell

The Machine Ghost in the Human Shell by Kawita Vatanajyankur and Pat Pataranutaporn is set to premier at the 11th Asia Pacific Tr…
Publication Research

Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification

Lu, C.*, Yu, Y.*, Karimireddy, S. P., Jordan, M. I., & Raskar, R. (2023). Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification. Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)
Select 2024-08-08T13:14:28-04:00 xmp.iid:565619d5-1530-42fc-81ef-2b7d2ef7ec86 xmp.did:565619d5-1530-42fc-81ef-2b7d2ef7ec86 xmp.did:565619d5-1530-42fc-81ef-2b7d2ef7ec86 saved xmp.iid:565619d5-1530-42fc-81ef-2b7d2ef7ec86 2024-08-08T13:14:28-04:00 Adobe Bridge 2024 /metadata
Research
RAISE

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Select 2024-08-08T13:14:28-04:00 xmp.iid:9ef1ef01-cc05-4016-9dc4-d6c007b63815 xmp.did:9ef1ef01-cc05-4016-9dc4-d6c007b63815 xmp.did:9ef1ef01-cc05-4016-9dc4-d6c007b63815 saved xmp.iid:9ef1ef01-cc05-4016-9dc4-d6c007b63815 2024-08-08T13:14:28-04:00 Adobe Bridge 2024 /metadata
Research
Community Biotechnology

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Article Research

Grow with Google launches a new generative AI course for educators in collaboration with MIT RAISE

The course is designed to help educators use AI tools and develop their skills with this emerging technology.
Article Research

Q&A: Ramesh Srinivasan talks new podcast ‘Utopias,’ future of media technology

Media Lab alum Ramesh Srinivasan, now a professor at UCLA, talks to the Daily Bruin about his new podcast, Utopias.
Project Research

🎲 Little Language Models: Empowering Children to be Future AI Modelers

Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within our CoCo platform. It is especially de…
Post Research

New Faculty Appointments: Fall 2024

The MIT Media Lab is excited to welcome two new visionary faculty members starting September 2024: Behnaz Farahi and Paul Liang. Both will …
Post Research

CoCo and MIT RAISE among 2023-2024 Tools Competition winners

Their awards aim to support and prepare students to navigate the changing world.
Publication Research

A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming

Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), arXiv:2403.04893 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2403.04893v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.04893 | Shayne Longpre* 1 Sayash Kapoor** 2 Kevin Klyman** 3 Ashwin Ramaswami 4 Rishi Bommasani 3 Borhane Blili-Hamelin 5 Yangsibo Huang 2 Aviya Skowron 6 Zheng-Xin Yong 7 Suhas Kotha 8 Yi Zeng 9 Weiyan Shi 10 Xianjun Yang 11 Reid Southen Alexander Robey
Project Research

Future You: An Interactive Digital Twin System for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth

Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—th…
Project Research

City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Research
Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Article Research

We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’

The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.
Post Research

Professor Sandy Pentland and alum Catherine D'Ignazio receive inaugural SERC seed grants

These grants aim to inspire MIT researchers to make a meaningful contribution to responsible technology development and deployment.
Publication Research

Monitoring Changes in Depression Severity Using Wearable and Mobile Sensors

Pedrelli, P., Fedor, S., Ghandeharioun, A., Howe, E., Ionescu, D. F., Bhathena, D., ... & Picard, R. W. (2020). Monitoring changes in depression severity using wearable and mobile sensors. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 1413.
Archived
Project Research

SpaceShoe

With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Archived
Project Research

Intentional Community Building from Local to Global

​IntroductionThe typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, as developed by Geels and Schot, provides a theoretical foundation for und…
Project Research

AI Audit: AI Ethics Literacy

An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …
Article Research

MIT program fosters early AI education for future workforce

In a special edition of Government Technology magazine focused on AI, executive editor Noelle Knell highlights the work of Cynthia Breazeal.
Article Research

“We offer another place for knowledge”

Jospin Hassan has drawn on curriculum developed by MIT RAISE and the Personal Robots group to build + share data science and AI skill sets.
Article Research

AI and Textiles: It’s already here

In an interview with Textile Technology Source, Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about the use of AI in the textiles industry.
Article Research

Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve

Spinoff company Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder that empowers domain experts to build solutions without writing code.
Article Research

How AI will shape the future of education with Hal Abelson

Hal Abelson, co-director of MIT RAISE, talks to Kara Miller about the impact of AI on education.
Article Research

What happens when we give doctors an AI assistant?

Media Lab alum Matt Groh discusses a study finding that AI can help doctors diagnose dermatological conditions across different skin tones.a
Article Research

How data collaboration platforms can help companies build better AI

Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland and other experts explore the potential of customized AI models trained with organization-specific data.
Project Research

Empowering K12 Educators: Fostering Collaborative Intelligence with Generative AI

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
Project Research

Cyber Subin: Human-AI Co-Dancing

Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
Post Research

Tzofi Klinghoffer selected for Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (DoD NDSEG)

Tzofi was selected in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Project Research

Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Archived
Project Research

PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar

3D reconstruction from a single-view is challenging because of the ambiguity from monocular cues and lack of information about occluded reg…
Archived
Publication Research

PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar

Klinghoffer, Tzofi, et al. "PlatoNeRF: 3D Reconstruction in Plato's Cave via Single-View Two-Bounce Lidar." IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2024).
Article Research

Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view

This technique could lead to safer autonomous vehicles, more efficient AR/VR headsets, or faster warehouse robots.
Publication Research

Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Cherep*, M., Singh*, N., & Shand, J. (2024, July). Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
Project Research

Designing Personalized AI Agents to Foster Human-Human Connections

Research OverviewAs artificial intelligence (AI) devices become more common in our homes, concerns about their potential harm to human-huma…
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Article Research

Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers

The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
Publication Research

Memoro: Using Large Language Models to Realize a Concise Interface for Real-Time Memory Augmentation

Wazeer Deen Zulfikar, Samantha Chan, and Pattie Maes. 2024. Memoro: Using Large Language Models to Realize a Concise Interface for Real-Time Memory Augmentation. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 450, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642450
Article Research

Building AI agents with Semantic Kernel

In the 1990s, Professor Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, helped pioneer the concept of software agents.
Article Research

Cynthia Breazeal is making AI fun and educational for kids

In Success Magazine, Professor Cynthia Breazeal talks about how people can use AI technologies to enhance human abilities.