Awards

• Lifetime Research Award: Pattie Maes, Germeshausen Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and head of the Fluid Interfaces research group, has been awarded the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award.
• Best Paper: "Synthetic Human Memories: AI-Edited Images and Videos can implant false memories and distort recollection,” by Fluid Interfaces researchers Pat Pataranutaporn and Samantha Chan, Professor Pattie Maes, and other collaborators. 
• Honorable Mention: "Deceptive Explanations by Large Language Models Lead People to Change their Beliefs About Misinformation More Often than Honest Explanations,” by Fluid Interfaces researchers Valdemar Danry and Pat Pataranutaporn, Media Lab alums Matthew Groh and Ziv Epstein, and Professor Pattie Maes.
• Honorable Mention: "eaSEL: Promoting Social-Emotional Learning and Parent-Child Interaction through AI-Mediated Content Consumption," by Personal Robots researcher Jocelyn Shen and collaborators from Apple. 
• Honorable Mention: "Co-designing Large Language Model Tools for Project-Based Learning with K12 Educators," by Personal Robots affiliate Matt Taylor, alum Anastasia Ostrowski, and Professor Cynthia Breazeal, among other collaborators. 

Papers

• "Large Language Models in Qualitative Research: Uses, Tensions, and Intentions," a full paper by MIT Center for Constructive Communication researcher Hope Schroeder and authors from Cornell University and the University of Michigan.
• "Leveraging AI-Generated Emotional Self-Voice to Nudge People towards their Ideal Selves," a full paper by Fluid Interfaces researchers Cathy Fang, Samantha Chan, and Joanne Leong; Professor Pattie Maes, and other collaborators. 
• "Paratrouper: Exploratory Creation of Character Cast Visuals Using Generative AI," a full paper by Fluid Interfaces researcher Joanne Leong and collaborators from the University of Toronto and Autodesk Research.
• "Realism Drives Interpersonal Reciprocity but Yields to AI-Assisted Egocentrism in a Coordination Experiment," a full paper by Fluid Interfaces researcher Kye Shimizu and authors from Carnegie Mellon, Yale, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.
• "ReMirrorFugue: Examining the Emotional Experience of Presence and (Illusory) Communications Across Time," a full paper by Media Lab alum Xiao Xiao; Tangible Media researchers Lucy Li and Alaa Algargoosh; Professor Hiroshi Ishii; and other collaborators from the University of Oxford, the Leonardo de Vinci University Center, and the Hasso Plattner Institute.
• "Talk to the Hand: an LLM-powered Chatbot with Visual Pointer as Proactive Companion for On-Screen Tasks," a full paper by Fluid Interfaces researcher Pat Pataranutaporn, Professor Pattie Maes, and collaborators from KBTG.
  
• "Voxel Invention Kit: Reconfigurable Building Blocks for Prototyping Interactive Electronic Structures," a full paper co-authored by Tangible Media researcher and MIT Center for Bits + Atoms affiliate Jack Forman, Professor Neil Gershenfeld, and other MIT researchers.

Workshops, Panels, Courses, and Special Interest Groups

• "Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning: Improving Human Reflective and Critical Thinking with Artificial Intelligence," a workshop by Fluid Interfaces researchers Valdemar Danry and Pat Pataranutaporn, Response Environments researcher Lancelot Blanchard, Professor Pattie Maes, and other collaborators.
  
• "Multimodal AI for Human Sensing and Interaction," a course co-presented by Professor Paul Pu Liang.

Late-Breaking Work

• "Interactive Sketchpad: A Multimodal Tutoring System for Collaborative, Visual Problem-Solving," by Multisensory Intelligence researchers Jimin Lee and Steven-Shine Chen.
• "Fits like a Flex-Glove: Automatic Design of Personalized FPCB-Based Tactile Sensing Gloves," by Multisensory Intelligence researcher Devin Murphy.
• "Co-Creating Cultural Heritage: User Interaction Design for AI-Mediated Traditional Dance Generation," by Fluid Interfaces researcher Pat Pataranutaporn, Professor Pattie Maes, and other collaborators. 
• "Data-Driven AI Avatars for Valuation in Dating Scenarios," by Fluid Interfaces researcher Dünya Baradari, Professor Pattie Maes, and collaborators from Harvard University.
• "Forage: Understanding RAG-based Sensemaking for Community Conversations," by MIT Center for Constructive Communication researchers Hope Schroeder, Doug Beeferman, Maya Detwiller, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, and Professor Deb Roy.
• "Mirai: A Wearable Proactive AI "Inner-Voice" for Contextual Nudging," by Fluid Interfaces researchers Cathy Fang, Professor Pattie Maes, and collaborators from the National University of Singapore.
• "Navigating Emotions Through Art: Recommendations for Designing Art-Therapy Based Chatbots for Trauma-Impacted Youth," by Affective Computing researcher Ila Kumar, Professor Rosalind Picard, and other MIT collaborators. 
• "Possible You: Designing and Evaluating an AI-Generated Virtual Selves System for Career Exploration," by Fluid Interfaces researcher Pat Pataranutaporn; Professor Pattie Maes; and collaborators from KBTG, Harvard University, and UCLA.

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