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aSpire: Clippable, Mobile Pneumatic-Haptic Device for Breathing Rate Regulation via Personalizable Tactile Feedback

We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
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NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences

Baradari, Dünya, Nataliya Kosmyna, Oscar Petrov, Rebecah Kaplun, and Pattie Maes. 2025. “NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences.” arXiv [Cs.HC]. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07599.
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Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs

Alirezaie, Marjan, Hossein Rahnama, and Alex Pentland. "Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs." Proceedings of the AAAI. 2024.
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'@artbhot' - Towards a Creative Partner on Social Media

@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations.  Access…
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Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Future You: An Interactive Digital Twin System for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth

​Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
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Understanding impacts of companion chatbots on loneliness and socialization

Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
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New platform lets anyone rapidly prototype large, sturdy interactive structures

The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
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ConceptualTales

ConceptualTales uses generative AI to explain concepts through fiction-inspired analogies. Education, particularly in STEM and social …
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Beyond Imagination: Leveraging Generative AI to Enhance Learning Through Story World Analogies

Baradari, Dünya, Harry Han, Julia Xia, and Carey Ann Strelecki. 2024. “Beyond Imagination: Leveraging Generative AI to Enhance Learning through Story World Analogies.” In 2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1–8. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/fie61694.2024.10892813.
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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…
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Crowdsourcing purchase histories

We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…
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Measuring risks inherent to our digital economies using Amazon purchase histories from US consumers

Berke, A., Larson, K., Pentland, S. and Calacci, D., 2025. Measuring risks inherent to our digital economies using Amazon purchase histories from US consumers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.18774.
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Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative

Su, D. (2019). Massively Multiplayer Operas: Interactive Systems for Collaborative Musical Narrative. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Decentralized Social Systems

A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
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Theme | Attention, Memory & Learning

Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant

​People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
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Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives

The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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Wearable Sanitizer: Open-source, On-body Sanitizer

Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and diso…
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parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response a…
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Predicting Driver Self-Reported Stress by Analyzing the Road Scene

Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and sel…
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Zero-knowledge (ZK) Tax

zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
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MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population

We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
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MeMic only has ears for you

MeMic is a wearable recording device developed in the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group.
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MeMic: Socially Acceptable Audio Recording Wearable

MeMicWearables that record audio all the time pose privacy concerns. We want to allow the myriad use cases these wearables allow without th…
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Legal Storytelling

"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling

Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, Daniel Kessler, Eric Ma, Tal August, Irene Li, Alex Pentland, Yoon Kim, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. 2024. Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7194–7219, Bangkok, Thailand.
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KnitworkVR

KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
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KnitworkVR: Dual-reality Experience through Distributed Sensor-Actuator Networks in the Living Knitwork Pavilion

Wicaksono, I., Blanchard, L., Chin, S., Colon, C., and Paradiso, J., 2024. KnitworkVR: Dual-reality Experience through Distributed Sensor-Actuator Networks in the Living Knitwork Pavilion. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
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A model of virtuosity

Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Dyadic Affect in Multimodal Interaction - Parent to Child (DAMI-P2C) Dataset

Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
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Latent Lab

Latent Lab - Navigating Innovation: Interactive Data Exploration & InspirationLatent Lab is an AI-driven, graphical knowledge expl…
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Brain Switch

The Brain Switch is a real-time, closed-loop brain-computer system allowing for real-time correspondence of simple user needs to a caretake…
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Living Knitwork Pavilion

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
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Whither BCIs?

Researcher Nataliya Kosmyna and other experts discuss the potential of and safeguards needed for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
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AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choices

Future You, developed by Dr. ​​Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
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Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use

Alex Berke, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland, Kent Larson, and Dana Calacci. 2024. Insights from an experiment crowdsourcing data from thousands of US Amazon users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 466 (November 2024), 48 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687005
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Co-designing Generative AI for Healthy Aging

The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
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Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental and Visuospatial Workload in Virtual Reality Environments

Bernal, Guillermo, Hahrin Jung, Ismail Emir Yassi, Nelson Hidalgo, Yodahe Alemu, Tyler Barnes-Diana, and Pattie Maes. 2024. "Unraveling the Dynamics of Mental and Visuospatial Workload in Virtual Reality Environments" Computers 13, no. 10: 246. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers13100246
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Theme | Health + Wellbeing

We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
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WearVibe

Specifically crafted sensory stimulation can influence brain function and potentially improve cognition. In this project, we developed soft…
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Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization

Wicaksono, I., Maheshwari, A., Haddad, D.D., Paradiso, J., and Danielescu, A., 2024. Design and Fabrication of Multifunctional E-Textiles by Upcycling Waste Cotton Fabrics through Carbonization. In Proc. ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT) 8, 2, Article 45 (June 2024), 31 pages.
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AI Systems that Use Questioning to Improve Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
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WearVibe WearOS App

Source code for smartwatch app for improving attention via haptic rhythmic stimuli (WearOS)
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AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self

By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
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Tara Boroushaki receives 2024 Paul Baran Young Scholar Award

This award recognizes and celebrates innovative research conducted by young scientists and engineers.