Event

P. Murali Doraiswamy: "The Human Cognition Project"

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

Friday
May 10, 2013
Project

Diagnosing Diagnosis in Dermatology

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

Article

With the HUMANS project, a message that space is for everyone

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

Publication

Cognition as Coordinated Non-Cognition

L. Barsalou, C. Breazeal, L. Smith

Project

Human Speechome Project

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

Article

What happens when we give doctors an AI assistant?

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

Publication

The Human Speechome Project

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

Project

MicroPsi: An Architecture for Motivated Cognition

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

Article

MIT HUMANS project breaks down borders, empowering global voices to reach for the stars

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

Project

BlitzScribe: Speech Transcription for the Human Speechome Project

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

Event

Tod Machover @ Cornell's Music: Cognition, Technology, Society

LocationCornell University, Ithaca NY Description

Friday
May 11, 2012
Project

Study of Child Language Acquisition in the Human Speechome Project

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

Project

HeadLock: Video Analysis for the Human Speechome Project

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

Project

Cognition-Driven Audio Summarization

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.…

Event

EmotiBit: Internal Context and the Future of Augmented Cognition

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

Wednesday
September 25, 2019
10:30am — 11:30am ET
Video

Research Group Overview: Human Dynamics

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

Publication

An Embodied Cognition Approach to Mindreading Skills for Socially Intelligent Robots

C. Breazeal, J. Gray, M. Berlin

Course

Augmented Cognition Fall 2017

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

Publication

Augmenting aesthetic chills using a wearable prosthesis improves their downstream effects on reward and social cognition

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

Publication

Experiments with a Robotic Computer Body Affect and Cognition Interactions

Cynthia Breazeal, Wang A., Rosalind W. Picard

Publication

Autism, New Music Technologies and Cognition

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

Group

Affective Computing

The Affective Computing group creates and evaluates new ways of bringing together Emotion AI and other affective technologies in order to m…

Person

Howard Gardner

Former Advisory Council Member

Project

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h - ABM)

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

Course

Human 2.0

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

Publication

Dissertation: Cyborg Psychology: The Art & Science of Designing Human-AI Systems that Support Human Flourishing

Publication

Experiments with a robotic computer: body, affect and cognition interactions

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

Group

Human Dynamics

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

Project

Project Us

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

Person

David P. Cavallo

Former Research Scientist

Person

David Ramsay

Former Research Assistant

Person

Xuhai Xu

Former Research Assistant

Gallery

RoboChain Project Figures

Person

Anmol P. Madan

Former Research Affiliate

Publication

Enhancing human emotions with interoceptive technologies delivering controlled somatosensory stimulation

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

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Designing humanity’s future in space

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

Project

Project Octopus

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

Post

City Sci-fi Fall '23: Student Projects

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

Event

SFMOMA Exhibition: Nature × Humanity

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

Saturday — Sunday
February 19, 2022 —
May 15, 2022
Publication

The Astronaut Ethnography Web Project: Insights from first-person accounts of space

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.

Event

AI: More than Human

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

Person

Judith Amores Fernandez

Research Affiliate

Publication

Project Us: A Wearable for Enhancing Empathy

Rojas, Camilo, et al. "Project Us: A Wearable for Enhancing Empathy." ACM DIS 2020 Conference (July 6, 2020).

Publication

Towards a Learning Companion that Recognizes Affect Emotional and Intelligence II: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition

Ashish Kapoor, S. Mota, Rosalind W. Picard

Project

Theme | Human-AI Collaboration & Decision Making

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

Project

Project Prometheus

Most of the underwater world remains far off the map. For many of the most exciting exploration challenges—from Maya cenotes to urban aquif…

Gallery

RAISE AI Playground Projects

Collection of AI projects built with the RAISE AI Playground.

Publication

Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)

Utsumi, Y., Rudovic, O., Peterson, K., Guerrero, R., Picard, R. "Personalized Gaussian Processes for Forecasting of Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognition Sub-Scale (ADAS-Cog13)." The 40th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). May 2018.

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On-orbit livestream events for two Media Lab research projects | Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2)

Q+A sessions on two research projects with contributors from MIT and the Media Lab will be livestreamed from the ISS on May 26 and May 28.