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Commalla: Communication for All

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ChainFORM

ChainFORM is a modular hardware system for designing linear shape-changing interfaces. Each module is developed based on a servo motor with…
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Bio-Digital Wearables for Space Health Enhancement

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
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What leaders need to know about spatial computing

The Harvard Business Review dives into a technology that Media Lab alum Simon Greenwold named in his 2003 master's thesis.
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How Under 30 company Augmental is creating tongue-controlled mouse pads–with just over $1 million in funding

Augmental co-founders have been recognized in the Social Impact category of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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Wearable Device-assisted Emotional Wellbeing Intervention with a Social Robot

Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
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Placebo effect shapes how we see AI

Research from the Fluid Interfaces group finds that users' perceptions of an AI chatbot influence their interactions with the technology.
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The assumptions you bring into conversation with an AI bot influence what it says

In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.
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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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Illuminate

Gallery of images of the interactive art installation: Illuminate.Artwork by Chelsi Alise Cocking of the Future Sketches group. Photography…
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Pat Pataranutaporn on exploring the intersection of humans and artificial intelligence

Pat Pataranutaporn discusses the inspiration behind his research at the intersection of biological systems and digital technology.
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MACH: My Automated Conversation coacH

MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of a…
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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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BeWell Biomarkers

Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
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FOSTERING WELL-BEING: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth

Kumar, I. K. (2023). FOSTERING WELL-BEING: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth (thesis).
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2013 Affective Computing paper receives UbiComp 10-Year Impact Award

A paper led by Ehsan Hoque, alum of the Affective Computing group, receives UbiComp's 10-Years Impact Award.
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OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
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Conversation Theme Sorting

We further explore conversation visualization as a method of extracting and translating meaning for third party audiences who wish to bette…
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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CyberBiome

CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…
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Latent Lab: Legacy

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
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Influencing human–AI interaction by priming beliefs about AI can increase perceived trustworthiness, empathy, and effectiveness

AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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Facilimate

During facilitated small-group conversations,  facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
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JoyBranch

The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment.  Animal agency—contr…
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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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Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
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Is AI in the eye of the beholder?

Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
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Bringing design justice to the classroom and workplace

Project shares ways to create community around design equity, ethics, and justice.
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SenseMate: an AI-based platform to support qualitative coding

Many community organizations want to engage in conversations with their constituents but lack the support they need to analyze feedback. Mo…
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The future of intelligence (artificial and otherwise)

Media Lab Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum discuss the future of intelligence.
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Robots are already with us—how we treat them tells us a lot about ourselves, here's why

For BBC Science Focus, Media Lab research scientist Dr. Kate Darling considers the potential harms of mistreating robots.
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Ghost in the machine

With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,
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Making life friendlier with personal robots

Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
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The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
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Multi-Party Human-Robot Conversation Interactions

With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
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KALM: BCI Systems for Managing Anxiety and Stress

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…
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Understanding the 15 Minute City

City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …
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3 Voices: A Soft-Robotic Opera Transposing Singing Experience Across the Audience

3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
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Voice Your Choice: Creating a Community Engagement Process for New Magnet Programs in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools

Effective community engagement is critical in diverse organizations, such as school districts. However, current methods, including surveys,…
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Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
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SpaceHuman 2.0

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratizati…
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Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy

​Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
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Large Language Models for Automated Sensemaking

In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
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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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The Stranger - .... . ... - .-. .- -. --. . .-.

​Can you ever be what you say and say what you are?Can your speech genuinely represent yourself and convey your thoughts and meaning?Does y…
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Prismo - Transformable floor lamp based on prismatic structure

Prismo lamp is designed and constructed based on a classical example of the prismatic structure. It takes advantage of the periodic and spa…
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Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
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Co-Design of Social Robots with Older Adults

Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
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Tools to investigate societal impacts of robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
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Kate Darling, robot expert: "We shouldn’t laugh at people who fall in love with a machine. It’s going to be all of us"

Dr. Kate Darling, a research scientist with the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, talks to El País about human relationships to tech.
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ACM ByteCast: Pattie Maes

On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.
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A deep dive into deepfakes

On BBC’s The Forum, host Iszi Lawrence tries a tool developed by Media Lab researchers that tests users' ability to detect deepfakes.
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John Maeda: A Life of Tech, Design and Computational Thinking

Former Media Lab Professor John Maeda talks to Danielle Newnham about computational thinking and what it takes to cultivate curiosity.
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Crafting the technology of the future: Irmandy Wicaksono

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks to Society of Craft about his work, which blends engineering with fabric arts.
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What Pringles and audio filters can teach us about our brains

In a study presented at CHI 2023, Media Lab alumni used Pringles & audio filters to explore the intersection of sound, flavor, & perception.
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Kate Darling on the In Her Ellement podcast

Kate Darling discusses the work she's done to be seen as an expert within human-robot interaction and how to pass that power onto others.
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TRANSFORM

TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of data …