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People often remember visuals but struggle to put them into words—creating a gap between what we see and what we can describe.Modern image …
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
Large language models are increasingly used for ideation, yet most interactions with them occur through linear GUI-based chat interfaces th…
Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
More details: iceberg.mit.eduFurther research: media.mit.edu/projects/ai-lpm/overviewAbstractArtificial Intelligence is reshaping Amer…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
📚 Full paper (open access)NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a person…
This research, recently presented at the AAAI 2026 conference in Singapore by Elinor Poole-Dayan, finds that leading AI models perform…
LLMs are being set loose in complex, real-world environments involving sequential decision-making and tool use. Often, this involves making…
Environments built for people are increasingly operated by a new class of economic actors: LLM-powered software agents making decisions on …
The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to h…
The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models…
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAi) can shape the future of eXtended Reality (XR)
This project is no longer active, but has been rolled over into MIT RAISE and Day of AI's free curriculum for ages 11 to 18.How to Train Yo…
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Learning robust audio representations currently demands extensive datasets of real-world sound recordings. By applying artificial transfor…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Memoro is a wearable AI memory assistant that continuously captures audio through a bone conduction headset, transforming everyday convers…
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
Professor Tod Machover conducted the world premiere of FLOW Symphony at Seoul Arts Center. Scored for string orchestra and electronics, FLO…
Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evolv…
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project aims to develop new methods fo…
We evolve artificial embodied agents inside video-game worlds to replay millions of years of evolution and create new forms of artificial a…
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
The Anemoia Device is a scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances.Guided by a generative AI models an…
To facilitate real-world applications of personal sensing such as, triggering a mobile intervention or detecting early depression ons…
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
Can AI Predict Human Happiness? Researchers Simulate Well-Being for 64,000 Individuals WorldwideA new study reveals both promise and peril …
Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
🥵 Reconstruction of perceived images from the brain is currently a hot topic in brain imaging space. 💸💸💸 However, previous approaches have …
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Finding Your Voice investigates the complexities of self-voice recognition and agency, focusing on the neurological processes that shape ho…
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and bus…
Latent Lab reimagines how people interact with unstructured information by turning documents, images, and media into explorable semantic la…
The emergence of AI companion applications has created novel forms of intimate human-AI relationships, yet empirical research on these comm…
This research aims to address the timely and timeless challenge of human-computer interaction by focusing on designing and studying human-A…
The Student Voices in AI program empowers students to lead conversations about how AI should be used in their schools. Over 12 weeks, stude…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Pat Pataranutaporn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USANattavudh Powdthavee, Nanyang Technological Universi…
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
We present three interconnected studies examining how artificial intelligence technologies can induce and amplify false memories in human s…
Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
This project presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated …
As generative AI tools become increasingly present in classrooms, schools face difficult questions about how to guide their use. This proje…
CyberBiome is a programmable bio-digital organ, a wearable biosynthesis platform for personalized, on-demand production of therapeutics and…
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
Foundation models have become invaluable in advancing the medical field. Despite their promise, the strategic deployment of LLMs for effect…
Little Language Models is a co-creative AI education microworld for children (ages 8–16) within the CoCo platform. It is especially de…
Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
Technology for Women’s Health
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…