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Sound is a powerful force, capable of enriching our lives and disrupting them in equal measure. Unwanted sonic interference intrudes upon o…
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…
We present Large Language Model for Mixed Reality (LLMR), a framework for the real-time creation and modification of interactive Mixed Real…
Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …
Communication skills are critical for all. We design and develop systems to help people with communication issues, fostering more emp…
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
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We are currently in an AI revolution. Big AI models are writing entire books, and generating art sold worth millions. Soon content made fro…
Ultrasound can be used to image soft tissues in vivo for early diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression. However, conventional ultra…
Analogia is a game for sharing honest and sometimes challenging stories using a combination of talking prompts and absurd images. The cards…
We recently introduced Ophiuchus, a novel deep learning architecture for modeling protein structures. Ophiuchus is the first autoencod…
Be My Guest! is currently on display at the Vantaa Art Museum, Finland until December 3, 2023 as part of their "SYSTEMS" exhibition.At the …
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Door-to-door drone package deliveries are taking off across the US. In this work we expose and study a newly emerging privacy is…
Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
Fostering students' interests in learning is considered to have many positive downstream effects. Large language models have opened up new …
Empathy is a driving force in our connection to others, our mental well-being, and our resilience to challenges. The human capacity for emp…
Despite living in an increasingly connected world, loneliness and social isolation are prevalent issues today. While social robots have bee…
Dealing with rapidly spreading wildfires is a complex task that involves the coordination of multiple government agencies and on-site crews…
Deciding Across Scales emerges as a cutting-edge approach to decision-making, aiming to influence various sectors and societal levels…
Zero Robotics is an educational program that hosts tournaments to teach middle and high school students to write code and program with robo…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has elicited a global health crisis of catastrophic proportions. With on…
A world in which thousands of people can construct and release autonomous biological agents is unlikely to flourishProfessor Kevin Esvelt, …
We propose sanitizer, a framework for secure and task-agnostic data release. While releasing datasets continues to make a big impact in var…
Current methods to assess depression and select appropriate treatments have many limitations and need improvement. Diagnosis is usually bas…
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…
Liquid handling robots are key components of modern biotechnology labs, but they largely function to spare humans from laborious or re…
Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change bro…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Smartglasses are increasingly popular because the face is an ideal location for continuously monitoring environmental and physiological sig…
A Framework For Designing Augmented Human-Flora Interaction.
Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses CO2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.
With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with in…
We tackle the question of how to benchmark reconstruction of inputs from deep neural networks representations. This inverse problem is of g…
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
Although lidar is widely used for mapping the 3D geometry of surfaces, the technology has historically been challenged by specular, or mirr…
Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make n…
During facilitated small-group conversations, facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
We are building an intelligent musical partner that play duets with you and teaches music. This research teaches us how to design mor…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
Community-scale profiling sensor node for ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities.
A Conversation with the Sun is an artistic exploration by acclaimed Thai auteur and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration…
Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
This work is recently submitted as a Full Paper to ACM CHI 2023.Corsetto is a full stack system design and platform for upper-body haptics…
In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations. Access…
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desig…
How are our phones and email devices altering our ability to engage deeply in our daily tasks? How important is it to spend time deep…
The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…
Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…
Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …
Say hello to FutureYou!*This project is oriented towards young people*Inspired by studies showing how increased "future self-continuity"—th…
We present a novel video compression pipeline, called Txt2Vid, which dramatically reduces data transmission rates by compressing webcam vid…
X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…
The "dream" has historically been conceived in the West as internal, entirely private, impossibly personal. This is at odds with much of th…
Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&nb…
Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces a …
Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object det…
With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever befor…
This extended abstract was presented at the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2022.In the past few years, th…
We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
This work was presented at the ACM CHI 2023 conference. By Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and…
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
The Atlas of Opportunity is a platform that allows communities to derive insights from their own data. The tool was created in collabo…
Point clouds are an increasingly ubiquitous input modality and the raw signal can be efficiently processed with recent progress in deep lea…
Image-based virtual try-on involves synthesizing perceptually convincing images of a model wearing a particular garment and has garnered si…
By predicting sparse shadow cues, our physics-inspired machine learning algorithm can reconstruct the underlying 3D scene. Abstract. W…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
The City Science group uses simulations and visualizations to explain to stakeholders, including citizens, the various "what if" scenarios …
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Existing upper extremity prosthesis controllers have limited functionality and place high cognitive demands on users, both of which contrib…
Teddy is a cutting edge data collection platform available for both Android and iOS that lets you collect data from study participants in a…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
In January 2023, a team led by MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Center…
While some Human-Computer Integration (HInt) systems have successfully demonstrated that humans and technology can be physically and functi…
With the expansion of intelligent and ubiquitous computers everywhere, we have in many ways become cognitive cyborgs: most of us are insepa…
The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…
When people listen to stories, the words are colored with emotions conveyed through prosodic features beyond the text alone. Visual font d…
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …
Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…
The social robot intelligence benchmark is a large-scale multimodal dataset comprising many diverse contexts, tasks, and environments to ev…
Emotional wellbeing is an important indicator of overall health and poor emotional wellbeing can equally adversely affect one's overal…
Fostering students’ interest in learning has many positive downstream effects. It can make students more persistent and impact student…
Generating customized, memorable visuals and stories to support memory. Mnemonics are strategies used to remember information better (…
The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects that lie outside the camera’s field of view. We use two-bounce light to pe…
ImmerScope City is a tool designed to help people visualize complex urban designs in a more engaging and accessible way. It goes beyond the…
In a Proof-of-Work blockchain such as Bitcoin mining hashrate is increasing in the block reward. An increase in hashrate reduces network vu…
Latent Lab - Navigating Innovation: Interactive Data Exploration & InspirationLatent Lab is an AI-driven, graphical knowledge expl…
The Generative Land Use project aims to revolutionize urban planning by developing a cutting-edge algorithm that generates the ideal land u…
Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…
We seek to empower everyone to become conscientious consumers, ethical engineers, creative problem solvers, and informed advocates for resp…
How can we make embodied agents have multimodal conversation with individual and group users that is not only natural, but also relational,…
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
We create and employ ethical design frameworks to work towards equitable and inclusive HRI research and technologies.
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
We are building autonomous agents that are socially and emotionally saturated in single-person (child-robot) or multi-party (child-parent-r…
The Ddog project features a Spot robot from Boston Dynamics and a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system powered by AttentivU, a pair of wi…
Press: - MIT News: Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
Social robots equipped with AI and designed with users’ social, emotional, and relational interactions in mind are increasingly being highl…
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…
In a series of design workshops, the HRI Equitable Design framework from previous work (see Ostrowski et al. 2022) was expanded to a worksh…
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
A modular, membrane protein design based biomimetic sensing system named RESENSA (Receptor S-layer Electrical Nano Sens…
CircuitScout is a DIY probe system designed to simplify the process of testing PCBs, by automatically probing desired signals. Through an i…
Understanding the link between urban planning and commuting flows is crucial for guiding urban development and policymaking. This research,…
