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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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Opera of the Future

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

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

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Human Dynamics

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

Do you hear the sound of a breath, or an ocean wave? A heartbeat, or thunder? Journey through a universe of shifting sonic identities …
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ORGANOLOGY: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis

Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
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Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
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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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"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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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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Andorra | Energy + Environment
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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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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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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Essence

The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We p…
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Predicting Bonding in Conversations

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…
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PerForm

PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a deformable tool can allow for interaction based on …
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Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance

Judith Amores and Pattie Maes. 2017. Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, Denver, CO, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026004
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Andorra | Innovation

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and national…
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Haptic Footprint

We only perceive a tiny sliver of the world around us. We are constrained by what our senses can process. These senses evolved to react to …
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Magic Robot Interaction

Can a magician and a robot collaborate on stage to create a believable, evocative performance?We are studying how the …
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Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems

Elisa Celis, Peter Krafft, and Nathan Kobe. (2016). Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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Center for Future Banking
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Music Visualization via Musical Information Retrieval

In a study of human perception of music in relation to different representations of video graphics, this project explores the automatic syn…