LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-274 (East Lab) DescriptionCognitive domains of processing speed, reaction time, vigilance and working memory are…

L. Barsalou, C. Breazeal, L. Smith

Supported by the Space Exploration Initiative, the student-run HUMANS project aims to increase global representation in space.

Addressing Bias in Physician-Machine PartnershipsThis research program addresses how AI assistance can enhance physician decision-making on…

The Human Speechome Project is an effort to observe and computationally model the longitudinal language development of a single child at an…

Deb Roy, Rupal Patel, Philip DeCamp, Rony Kubat, Michael Fleischman, Brandon Roy, Nikolaos Mavridis, Stefanie Tellex, Alexia Salata, Jethran Guinness, Michael Levit, Peter Gorniak

The MicroPsi project explores broad models of cognition, built on a motivational system that gives rise to autonomous social and cognitive …

Boulanger, A. "Autism, New Music Technologies and Cognition"

Media Lab alum Matt Groh discusses a study finding that AI can help doctors diagnose dermatological conditions across different skin tones.a

The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon.

LocationCornell University, Ithaca NY Description

BlitzScribe is a new approach to speech transcription driven by the demands of today's massive multimedia corpora. High-quality annotations…

What is the relationship between the input children hear and the words they acquire? We are investigating the role of variables such as inp…

HeadLock is a semi-automated system for head pose annotation that explores how human-computer interfaces can be combined with computer visi…

As we move towards an increasingly IoT-enabled ecosystem, we find that it is easier than ever before to capture vast amounts of audio data.…

Kye Shimizu, Naoto Ienaga, Kazuma Takada, Maki Sugimoto, and Shunichi Kasahara. 2022. Human Latent Metrics: Perceptual and Cognitive Response Correlates to Distance in GAN Latent Space for Facial Images. In ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2022 (SAP '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 3, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548814.3551460

Studying physiological signals and how they change gives us a window into ourselves and how we can enhance our health and well-being.

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion.

C. Breazeal, J. Gray, M. Berlin

At MIT, the Open Dance Lab is exploring how to preserve an ancient dance form with the help of artificial intelligence.

This class explores how future personal digital devices could help us with issues such as memory, attention, and emotion regulation

Haar, A.J.H., Jain, A., Schoeller, F. et al. Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition. Sci Rep 10, 21603 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77951-w

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …

Cynthia Breazeal, Wang A., Rosalind W. Picard

Former Advisory Council Member

Human 2.0 will cover the principles underlying current and future technologies for cognitive, emotional, social, and physical augmentation.

The Human Dynamics group uses the tools of computational social science to ask how we can better organize society, government, and companie…

Breazeal, C., Wang, A., Picard, R.

AHA Symposium 2025 will be live-streamed here on April 10, 2025Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) is a multi-faculty research program…

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., choice of words,…

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Former Research Assistant

Experts warn AI-powered military systems may eventually push battlefield decision-making beyond the limits of human cognition

MemPal was selected in the Health category.

Advances in machine learning have recently enabled the synthesis of text, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as Generativ…

Former Research Affiliate

Github Repository - https://github.com/aidecentralized/sonar/Documentation - https://aidecentralized.github.io/sonar/Web Interface - Coming…

Former Research Affiliate

Schoeller, F., Haar, A. J. H., Jain, A., & Maes, P. (2019). Enhancing human emotions with interoceptive technologies. Physics of life reviews.

Nature × Humanity, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), features a range of projects from the Mediated Matter group.

The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity

Project Octopus is a new way to make collaborative Scratch projects.Based on technologies developed for the Scratch programming language, P…

The exhibition includes work from several Media Lab researchers and groups, including Neri Oxman, Joy Buolamwini, and the OpenAg Initiative.

Final projects created in  MAS.S66 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures, taught in Fall 20…

S. Sharma, N. Klop-Packel, A. Ekblaw, “The Astronaut Ethnography Web Project: Insights from First-Person Accounts of Space.” AC-22,E1,9,19,x68611, 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France, 18-22 September 2022.

Perspective aware AI enables the creation of specialized Human-Ai agent surrogates.

The Green Book Project is a work-in-progress series of publications and interactive installations that reimagine the Negro Motorist Green B…

Ashish Kapoor, S. Mota, Rosalind W. Picard