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The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
Sound is a powerful force, capable of enriching our lives and disrupting them in equal measure. Unwanted sonic interference intrudes upon o…
SleepSoundly is smart pillow case interface that aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain during deep sleep.We are studying i…
Specifically crafted sensory stimulation can influence brain function and potentially improve cognition. In this project, we developed soft…
Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
Immersive Scope is an immersive environment designed to help people visualize complex urban designs in a more engaging and accessible …
The Ddog project features a Spot robot from Boston Dynamics and a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system powered by AttentivU, a pair of wi…
Millions of learners worldwide lack access to personalized education. Generative AI offers a potential solution, but a key challenge for AI…
Children today are more digitally connected than ever before, with increasing exposure to tablets, social media, and smartphones. As techno…
We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…
Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…
Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality through a Wearable AI AssistantWe present "Wearable Reasoner," a proof-of-concep…
The EMPATHICSTORIES++ dataset is collected from a month-long in-the-wild deployment of 41 participants (across 269 sessions with 53 hours o…
Background: Empathy is a driving force in our connection to others, our mental well-being, and resilience to challenges. With the rise of…
In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
Empathy serves as a cornerstone in enabling prosocial behaviors, and can be evoked through sharing of personal experiences in stories.…
The MindCube is an interactive device designed for studying emotions. Resembling a fidget cube toy commonly used for stress and anxiety rel…
CityFlow is a versatile tool that allows users to design, evaluate, and visualize urban solutions through an llm-integrated, case-based sys…
An LLM-enabled system that integrates physiological data from wearables and contextual information to offer personalized, real-time health …
Language models (LMs) are revolutionizing knowledge retrieval and processing in academia. However, concerns regarding their misuse and erro…
Our research group designs various hardware and software platforms that can be used to do scientific experiments or implement a particular …
Ceramics are ubiquitous, found in household items like toilets and planters, as well as in electronic components such as capacitors and hig…
ocularium is a tiny sensor platform designed to be flown on kites to monitor atmospheric conditions. This project is a collaboration with C…
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
In recent years, Generative AI technology has risen in popularity and has been promoted for its creative potential. However, applications o…
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…
Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
I made three cloud lights for an exhibition at Artechouse as part of Zach Lieberman's show Future Sketches / Code Poems as part …
Composed by Kimaya Lecamwasam and performed by Jessica Shand and Charlie Lovell-Jones on April 3, 2023. A preliminary d…
This project compares the security of Proof of Work (e.g., Bitcoin) versus Proof of Stake (e.g., Ethereum 2) protocols along several dimens…
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
In "A HeARTfelt Robot", we designed a social robot interaction for children age 7-11 that helped them practice their social-emotional learn…
The MIT Space Exploration Initiative explores Lunar analog sites on Spain’s Canary Island of Lanzarote.During a 10-day field program in Feb…
This project seeks to improve the use of satellite-based Earth Observation as an input to a Drought Decision Support System to inform the r…
Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
This project aimed at enhancing the social-emotional and educational experiences of Arabic-speaking refugee children. The project leverages…
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
A CNC machine built from scratch for milling Chinese seals and software for computationally generated seal designs.
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone, even those with no prior coding experience, to build ful…
This project explores a computational method to create controlled cuastics. I experiment with a process to transform pixels into caustic im…
I have been thinking about all the time I spend on the computer and how much the interfaces that we use feel so familiar to us. I thought t…
Tap To Remember is a wearable memory prosthesis. We are testing whether laboratory techniques for enhancing memory—such as targeted m…
Do you hear the sound of a breath, or an ocean wave? A heartbeat, or thunder? Journey through a universe of shifting sonic identities …
Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness InterviewsThis study examines the impact of AI on hu…
This research aims to address the timely and timeless challenge of human-computer interaction by focusing on designing and studying human-A…
Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for …