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The study, co-authored by Ed Boyden, finds stimulating key brain rhythms with light + sound could drive clearance of an Alzheimer’s protein.
The new imaging method is based on expansion microscopy, which was developed in Professor Ed Boyden’s lab in 2015.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.
A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep, especially when guided to dream about a topic.
Researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School find that brief naps appear to enhance creativity.
The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
“The potential for misuse of these technologies is as ominous as it is obvious.”
In a new study, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School find that brief naps can enhance creativity
The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz discusses using “dream engineering” techniques to give people more control over their dreams.
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
This project is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the San Diego Zoo to design and build interactive sonic enrichment systems fo…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
On The World by PRX and WGBH, researcher Nataliya Kosmyna talks about advances in and potential applications for brain-computer interfaces.
In Psychology Today, author William Poundstone considers research from the Fluid Interfaces group in light of the Clever Hans effect.
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/For understanding the brain structure, it is neces…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of gla…
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…
The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment. Animal agency—contr…
Alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses her work at the intersection of new technology, animal-computer interaction, and the sonic environment.
Media Lab Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum discuss the future of intelligence.
Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.
In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
Using Dormio, a project from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group, poet Will Dowd set out to pioneer a new reading experience.
Media Lab alum Judith Amores talks to Scientific American about a lightweight, wireless interface to deliver scents to VR users.
A new study suggests that experiencing aesthetic chills, or goosebumps, during stimuli like music and films can lead to increased emotions.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments
Researchers from Fluid Interfaces presented this research at the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Nataliya Kosmyna, Alexandra Gross and Pattie Maes. “The Thinking Cap 2.0”: Preliminary Study on Fostering Growth Mindset of Children by means of Electroencephalography and Perceived Magic using Artifacts from Fictional Sci-Fi Universes. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 761–767.
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
MIT uses affective computing in efforts to improve human mental health.
Separating densely packed molecules before imaging allows them to become visible for the first time.
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
AttentivU smart glasses designed to help wearers tune into a task and tune out the world.
Seli is an assistant professor at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and also an artist. He uses Dormio to tap into hypnagogia.
Perchance to dream engineer: on new research into our sleeping minds
In the April issue, Michael W. Clune writes about the profound insights offered by the Dormio: "Can technology shape our dreams?"
Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks
"We can see the waves forming a tsunami that will come, but most people are just sleeping on a beach unaware"
This is the actual stuff of nightmares.
Sleep and dream researchers are urging for an advance tightening of advertising law to nip all this in the bud before it starts in earnest.
After Coors sought to steer unconscious minds to thoughts of beer, scientists have called for curbs on ‘targeted dream incubation.’
In this work we suggest to harness the power of knowledge-seeking positive experiences, engagement, and curiosity that objects perceived as…
Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group and elsewhere are hoping to learn more about how and why dreams are generated, and their effects.
Dormio is the result of several year's worth of research conducted by the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.
Vega and his colleagues tested Dormio on group of 50 people this summer. Read about their results.
Guided dreaming could be used to boost creativity or to confront sources of stress and trauma.
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast time…
