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Affective Computing

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

WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
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Technology for Women’s Health

Technology for Women’s Health
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
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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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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Space Enabled

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

Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Supportive? Addictive? Abusive? How AI companions affect our mental health

Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.
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Early methods for studying affective use and emotional well-being in ChatGPT: An OpenAI and MIT Media Lab Research collaboration in the news

News coverage of a research collaboration with OpenAI investigating how chatbots affect users' social and emotional wellbeing
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ChatGPT may be making us lonelier

New research raises concerns that emotional reliance on AI chatbots could deepen social isolation for some users.
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OpenAI Study Finds Links Between ChatGPT Use and Loneliness

Higher use of chatbots like ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness and less time spent socializing with other people
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Do AI companies really care about safety?

Or are they kidding us into thinking they are looking out for our interests?
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How chatbots could spark the next big mental health crisis

New research from the Media Lab and OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization.
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Heavy ChatGPT users tend to be more lonely, suggests research

Studies show those who engage emotionally with bot rely on it more and have fewer real-life relationships
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OpenAI says ChatGPT might be making its most frequent users more lonely

The results are nuanced, since feelings of loneliness and social isolation often fluctuate and can be influenced by various factors.
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ChatGPT might be making its most frequent users more lonely, study by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab suggests

A new pair of studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found that frequent chatbot users experience more loneliness and emotional dependence.
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New research shows link between ChatGPT use and loneliness

New research from OpenAI and MIT finds that ChatGPT could be linked to loneliness for some frequent users.
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OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being

We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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2025 Technology Leadership Circle

The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
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Cultivating a Supportive Sphere: Digital tools for social support amongst current and former foster-involved youth

Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
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Sleep++

Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…
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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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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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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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In-Vivo Networking: Powering and communicating with tiny battery-free devices inside the body

In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
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RF-EATS: Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
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Frisson

Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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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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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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BrightBeat: Effortlessly influencing breathing for cultivating calmness and focus

The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can als…
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Emotion/wellbeing x skincare cosmetics

The project aims to investigate the relationships between emotion, wellbeing, skin, and skincare cosmetics. In our first study, we mea…
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How AI Chatbots Affect Our Social and Emotional Wellbeing: New Research Findings

People use AI chatbots like ChatGPT in many ways—asking questions, sparking creativity, solving problems, and even for personal interaction…
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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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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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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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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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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
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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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parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response a…
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Pandemic Response CoLab

Pandemic Response CoLab will help individuals and groups work together to solve practical problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic. By lev…
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Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …
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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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conformable Ultrasound Patch (cUSP) For Cavitation-Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery

Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Member Collaboration Story—At World Mental Health Day, Samsung + MIT Media Lab Highlight Sleep’s Impact on Mental Health

In honor of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is emphasizing its collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to explore the mind-body connection, a…
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Theme | Health + Wellness

An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
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Theme | Health + Wellbeing

We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
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Living Memories: AI-generated characters as interactive digital mementos

In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…