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Gaze to the Stars

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
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HyperCubes: Learning computational concepts in Augmented Reality

HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, from…
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Theme | Attention, Memory + Learning

Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
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MirrorFugue

MirrorFugue is an installation for a player piano that evokes the impression that the "reflection" of a disembodied pianist is playing the …
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TeleAbsence: Poetic encounters with the past

MIT researchers lay out design principles behind the TeleAbsence vision and how it could help people cope with loss
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Gaze to the Stars in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Earth Mission Control (EMC)

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

​There are currently  UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
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Perspective-Aware AI

Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
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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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Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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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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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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Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…
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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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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
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Domain Randomization & Synthetic Data Generation for AUAVs - Reducing Perceptual Uncertainty of Sim2Real Navigation

Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pilot Simulator

With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…
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Fluid Interfaces group research featured as cover story of Computers special issue

The PhD research of alum Guillermo Bernal (Fluid Interfaces group), with current Affective Computing group researcher Nelson Hida…
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Zero-Power Oceans Internet of Things

Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
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‘Brain-computer interface’ allows user to move objects with mind

Professor Pattie Maes and research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna demonstrate a wearable brain-computer interface called AttentivU.
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Paul Liang joins MIT Media Lab Media Arts + Science Program + EECS/Schwarzman College of Computing as Asst. Professor, AI + Human Experience

Paul Liang joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing with a shar…
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Startup’s displays engineer light to create immersive experiences without the headsets

“We are adding a new layer of control between the world of computers and what your eyes see,” says Barmak Heshmat, co-founder of Brelyon
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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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…
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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).
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▓▒░ TeleAbsence

People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
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Augmenting Communication & Fostering Social Connection

As computing blends into everyday environments, powerful opportunities open up for social connection. How can we leverage technology to enh…
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Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality

This project was produced as part of the   2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…
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Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity

Leong, Joanne, et al. "Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
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Synthetic Self-Perception

Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
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Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality

Joanne Leong, Olivia Seow, Cathy Mengying Fang, Benny J. Tang, Rajan Vaish, and Pattie Maes. 2022. Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality. In The Adjunct Publication of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’22 Adjunct), October 29-November 2, 2022, Bend, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages.
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"Picture the Audience" Exploring Private AR Face Filters for Online Public Speaking

This work was presented  at  the ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and…
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Investigating the Use of Synthetic Media and Real-Time Virtual Camera Filters for Supporting Communication and Creativity

Leong, Joanne. Investigating the Use of Synthetic Media and Real-Time Virtual Camera Filters for Supporting Communication and Creativity. 2021. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS Thesis.
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"Picture the Audience...": Exploring Private AR Face Filters for Online Public Speaking

Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and Pattie Maes. 2023. “Picture the Audience...”: Exploring Private AR Face Filters for Online Public Speaking. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581039
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Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
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Taking a line on a walk

Bauhaus artist Paul Klee considered a line to be  one of the atomic elements of art and architecture. He famously described a line dra…
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Augmented Reality Livecoding

Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…
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Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…
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Live-Coding, Performance, And Computational Art With Char Stiles

Arts in Tech Podcast based in Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University Interviews Char Stiles from Future Sketches
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Curiosity Unbounded Episode 4: Build your own superpower, then share it with the world

On Curiosity Unbounded, Professor Fadel Adib, head of the Signal Kinetics group, talks to MIT President Sally Kornbluth about his work.
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How x-ray vision is becoming a reality

Tara Boroushaki, a PhD student in the Signal Kinetics group, explains how she's combined AR and wireless signals to find hidden objects.
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Detecting and Mapping Transparent or Mirror-like Surfaces with Lidar

Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
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Bounce-Flash Lidar

In photography, illuminating a subject directly using an on-camera flash can result in unflattering photos. To avoid this, photographers o…
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Battery-free wireless underwater camera

More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
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Augmented Reality with X-Ray Vision

X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…
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Virtual reality system lets you stop and smell the roses

Media Lab alum Judith Amores talks to Scientific American about a lightweight, wireless interface to deliver scents to VR users.
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New research from the Signal Kinetics research group is featured on "Science Without the Gobbledygook"

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder discusses X-AR, the new research from the Media Lab’s Signal Kinetics group.