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Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
In mobility-on-demand services, fleet sizes are usually dictated by rush-hour demand, leaving many vehicles idle during off-peak times. Bu…
Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
If we want AI to engage with us naturally—in classrooms, therapy, eldercare, and beyond—it needs to understand us, with or without words.&n…
Education is inherently multimodal—we don’t just learn through words, but also through visuals, interactions, and hands-on experiences. Whi…
An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Emotions, shaped by past experiences, significantly influence decision-making and goal pursuit. Traditional cognitive-behavioral techniques…
ACM CHI 2025 · Research PublicationApril 2025In a randomized controlled trial study, “Deceptive Explanations by Large Language Models …
People often find it difficult to turn their intentions into real actions—a challenge that affects both personal growth and mental wellbein…
This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …
Walking is the most essential and human way to move through a city. When people feel safe doing so, streets come alive, communities connect…
Language models (LMs) are revolutionizing knowledge retrieval and processing in academia. However, concerns regarding their misuse and erro…
This project's vision is to unify sensors and signals from diverse domains, including physical, health, weather, and more, into a common la…
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
To facilitate real-world applications of personal sensing such as, triggering a mobile intervention or detecting early depression ons…
Indoor layout reconstruction has broad applications in various scenarios, such as smart homes and virtual reality. However, optical sensors…
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness InterviewsThis study examines the impact of AI on hu…
We are collaborating with NET Centers in Philadelphia, PA to identify opportunities to support youth in using digital technology …
EchoBLUE is an accurate, scalable, and low power system that enables full 3D localization of robots in complex, unstructured underwater env…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAi) can shape the future of eXtended Reality (XR)
We are organizing an innovative internship opportunity for youth in the Massachusetts child welfare system, starting in July 2025.This prog…
The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
The project starts with the goal of creating space habitats from pre-existing structures, specifically envisioning how to transform a stars…
Manuel Sánchez Castro is a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab leading an initiative focused on testing aerosolized oxidant agents as a…
Immersive Scope is an immersive environment designed to help people visualize complex urban designs in a more engaging and accessible …
MIT Media Lab Curates the World Economic Forum's Strategic Intelligence Map on Space
Deciding Across Scales emerges as a cutting-edge approach to decision-making, aiming to influence various sectors and societal levels…
Perspective Aware AI can improve the way we interact in office spaces, even if remotely.
What if Chronicles could help us enhance our travel experiences?
Tap To Remember is a wearable memory prosthesis. We are testing whether laboratory techniques for enhancing memory—such as targeted m…
Sleep++ aims to improve sleep quality by stimulating the brain to enter deep sleep. Currently, insufficient and poor quality sleep represen…
CARTOVIAJESVincular la experiencia literaria y urbana a través del tiempo y de los viajesLinking Literary and Urban Experience through Time…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
Wearable devices allow us to continuously and passively record elements of our physiology (e.g., electrodermal activity, skin temperature) …
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…
Large language models (LLMs) are capable of generating plausible explanations of how they arrived at an answer to a question. However, thes…
We imagine digital twins can be used in any number of ways to gain insights and enable interactions: imagine if you could engage with a tru…
Space stations serve as unique and isolated environments where astronauts must collaborate closely to achieve mission objectives. Effective…
Self-supervised representation learning (SSL) powers modern AI systems and enables the learning of information rich data representations fr…
Animations designed with the help of a pre-engineered GPT are coded further by the AI to connect with a wearable sensor. The r…
filescape is a next-generation file explorer designed to reimagine the way you interact with your personal files.Files are arrayed as …
Long-term and sustainable imaging of the underwater environments is crucial to marine sciences, sustainability, climatology, defense, robot…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
By unifying proprietary data with third-party and contextual data sources, customer-centric leaders in financial services can create e…
Advanced AI using Reason-Ready Graphs to facilitate machine reasoning or automated inferenceReason-Ready Graphs are cutting-edge frame…
Child and Robot Interactions
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
In collaboration with the Lurie Center for Autism, Massachusetts General Hospital, and MIT Lincoln Lab, the aim is to study, characterize a…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures …
Hossein Rahnama was interviewed for the Documentary - Artificial Immortality
Chronicles could help us to see any topic through the lens of others
Artificial Intelligence makes art, knows more than many humans and works faster than they do. But will people accept AI-controlled social r…
Global Cities, Local Solutions More than half the world’s population lives in urban areas which account for an estimated 76% of CO2 em…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
Human AI Agents capture and represent an entity's identity in a Chronicle learned from its data(E.g. Model employees, businesses, other soc…
Leveraging Others’ Personalized Models for Better Decision-Making Hossein Rahnama Visiting Professor, MIT Media Lab, Professor, Toront…
Fact-O-Meter is an AI-powered conversational system designed to enhance critical discernment of visual misinformation. It encourages you to…
PyTutor, is a collaborative initiative between MIT, Georgia State University (GSU), and Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) to leverage ge…
Perspective-Aware Computing is an emerging area of computational innovation in which users of the system can view and interact through each…