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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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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: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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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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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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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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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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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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Conversation Theme Sorting

We further explore conversation visualization as a method of extracting and translating meaning for third party audiences who wish to bette…
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Who Owns the Truth? | CCC at Ars Electronica 2023

The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
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Collective Echos

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
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Enlightened: Broaden Your Views

Media filter bubbles sacrifice shared reality amongst US citizens. We aim to burst these echo chambers by presenting short, automatically s…
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CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
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A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
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Large Language Models for Automated Sensemaking

In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
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Does AI hold the same values as we do?

During TEDxBentleyU, Belén C. Saldías Fuentes invited the audience to consider the cultural biases built into tools like ChatGPT.
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering

Kumar, B.*, Lu, C.*, Gupta, G., Palepu, A., Bellamy, D., Raskar, R., & Beam, A. "Conformal Prediction with Large Language Models for Multi-Choice Question Answering." Neural Conversational AI Workshop at ICML 2023.
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Liquid Movies

Video has evolved from an esoteric production to the default means of online and broadcast communication. We accept a wrong or lengthy vide…
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Amazon MARS 2022: Day 2 Keynote

Be inspired by Rohit Prasad, SVP and Head Scientist, Alexa AI, Amazon, Tye Brady, Chief Technologist, Amazon Robotics, Dilip Kumar, VP, Phy…
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Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
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Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ priva…
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Conversational Characters: AI agents for entertainment

We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the way …
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Common sense for artificial intelligence

ConceptNet, or Open Mind Common Sense, is a long-standing project designed to help computers understand the meanings of words that people u…
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Migratable AI

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart speake…
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UncNet: Modeling uncertainty in deep learning for inherently subjective tasks

Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of e…
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Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depressi…
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School Reviews

Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on scho…
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ELSA: Empathy learning, socially-aware agents

What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form o…
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LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking

Jiang, Hang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Prithviraj Sen, Yunyao Li, and Alexander Gray. "LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking." ACL (2021).
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Art is a bridge ‘between facts and feelings’ for MIT’s Ekene Ijeoma

Cate McQuaid talks to Ekene Ijeoma about his work, including the Black Mobility and Safety Seminar
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A portrait of US linguistic diversity, in sound and sign

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to The New York Times about “A Counting,” a participatory art project
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Study shows online school reviews reflect school demographics more than effectiveness

Language analysis reveals possible reinforcement of race- and income-based achievement gap.
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Voter Education through Network Analytics

In “normal” times, the process of voting can be confusing enough for many Americans -- from whether and where they’re registered, to absent…
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Americans speak more than 1,300 languages. This artist wants to capture them all

People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.
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Ishwarya Ananthabhotla and Jaya Narain among 2020 Apple Scholars in AI/ML

Each Scholar was chosen based on their innovative research and demonstrated leadership within their respective fields.
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Wearable Wisdom

Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pers…
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RadioTalk

The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 201…
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RadioTalk: a large-scale corpus of talk radio transcripts

Doug Beeferman, William Brannon, and Deb Roy. (2019). RadioTalk: A large-scale corpus of talk radio transcripts. In Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2019). Graz, Austria.
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Bias by us

Bias by us envisions a future of media diversity by understanding the bias of today.Our work seeks to understand how the US media ecos…
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