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Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, auditory…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
In El País, researchers from Fluid Interfaces discuss their study that found users' beliefs about a chatbot influenced their interactions.
Looking beyond smart cities
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and captu…
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Participate in the experiment at https://detectfakes.kellogg.northwestern.eduCheck out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, …
Enhancing human physical capability
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Space Exploration Initiative
Designing for, with, and by nature
Research from the Fluid Interfaces group finds that users' perceptions of an AI chatbot influence their interactions with the technology.
In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
Former Media Lab Professor John Maeda talks to Danielle Newnham about computational thinking and what it takes to cultivate curiosity.
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.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
Magnetomicrometry has exciting prospects for the control of wearable robotics, including prostheses and exoskeletons.
Transforming data into knowledge
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
Health 0.0
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) approac…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have develope…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ priva…
PCB debugging can be tricky sometimes. Normally we should check which signal we want to measure in the schematic, switch to PCB layout to s…
“Power Props” is a sensor and actuator platform for Live Action Role Playing (LARP), immersive theater, theme park, and other transmedia ex…
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Open Ocean
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the bo…
We present CAPS, wearable on-body capsules which produce repulsive odor to deter sexual abuse. The capsules can be triggered by self-a…
Virtual and augmented reality headsets are unique as they have access to our facial area, an area that presents an excellent opportunity fo…
One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and can…
Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of e…
Can we sonfiy calming breathing and passively influence a state of calm?Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart, …
The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evolv…
Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, how …
In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depressi…
We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict w…
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a projec…
We are conducting EEG studies to identify the musical features and musical interaction patterns that universally impact measures of arousal…
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optimiz…
This project examines how the expression granted by new musical interfaces can be harnessed to create positive changes in health and wellbe…
Using OmniFiber technology, we fabricated a type of undergarment that singers can wear to monitor and play back the movement of respiratory…