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AI Interplay: Designing gamificiation with AI

AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…

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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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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…

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.

E - LIG

We introduce E-LIG, a laser-enabled, additive fabrication method for flexible, double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with integrated f…

AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI

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…

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.

Technology for Youth Wellbeing: Fostering emotional self-expression and social connectedness

We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced developmental trauma, or chronic stres…

NeuroChat

NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a personalized, dynamic learning experi…

Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

'@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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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people

Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

Signal Kinetics

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

Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

Opera of the Future

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

Multisensory Intelligence

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

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

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

Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation

City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

Affective Computing

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

Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future

Cyber Subin: Human-AI Co-Dancing

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

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…

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…

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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Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.

City Science Network

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

ConceptualTales

ConceptualTales uses generative AI to explain concepts through fiction-inspired analogies. Education, particularly in STEM and social …

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.

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…

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…

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.

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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sAIpien

Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks

Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience

Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

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

Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

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

Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity

Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing

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…

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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