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Media Lab researchers take second place in MIT AI Pitch Competition

The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.
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Fluid Interfaces group research featured as cover story of Computers special issue

The PhD research of alum Guillermo Bernal (Fluid Interfaces group), with current Affective Computing group researcher Nelson Hida…
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The World at MIT: Pattie Maes

Professor Pattie Maes chose a career in computer science for practical reasons, but was drawn to the amazing research being done at MIT.
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Whither BCIs?

Researcher Nataliya Kosmyna and other experts discuss the potential of and safeguards needed for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
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AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choices

Future You, developed by Dr. ​​Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
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How new science fiction could help us improve AI

In Scientific American, Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn and others consider the ways that art shapes our understanding of and interactions with AI.
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2024 MIT Prize for Open Data: Media Lab honorees

Media Lab students and alums are among the winners and honorees for the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data.
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Member Collaboration Story—At World Mental Health Day, Samsung + MIT Media Lab Highlight Sleep’s Impact on Mental Health

In honor of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is emphasizing its collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to explore the mind-body connection, a…
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Connected Mind + Body: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies

Imagine what cutting-edge technologies can achieve in transforming women's health + wellbeing.Every day at the MIT Media Lab, we harne…
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AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self

By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
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AI Assistive Technology Offers Potential to Support Older Adults with Independent Living

Developed by MIT Media Lab, MemPal was co-designed with older adults, enabling them to shape a future where they can age comfortably at home
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‘Brain-computer interface’ allows user to move objects with mind

Professor Pattie Maes and research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna demonstrate a wearable brain-computer interface called AttentivU.
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Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize 2024: Media Lab honorable mentions

Media Labbers Dünya Baradari, Alvin Harvey, and Cassandra Lee each received honorable mentions.
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Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
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SXSW 2025 PanelPicker Proposals

Explore the Media Lab community’s PanelPicker proposals!
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We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’

The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.
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Six Media Lab students receive MIT Presidential Fellowship awards

Congratulations to the six fellowship recipients!
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Manuel Cherep selected for 2024 "la Caixa" Fellowship

Manuel Cherep has been selected for the prestigious 2024-2026 "la Caixa" Fellowship competitively awarded to students from Spain
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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers

The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
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Space Headband

On Saturday, June 8, 2024, the "Galactic 07" flight took place in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s spaceship was converted into a suborbital s…
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Building AI agents with Semantic Kernel

In the 1990s, Professor Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, helped pioneer the concept of software agents.
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Cathy Fang selected for 2024 Angela Leong Fellowship

This award is given to students from Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China who have demonstrated academic prowess and community involvement.
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Memoro and App Inventor Foundation named among Fast Company's World Changing Ideas 2024

They were honored in the Students and Education categories respectively.
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Three Media Lab papers selected for honorable mentions at CHI 2024

Authors include researchers from the Fluid Interfaces, Future Sketches, and Tangible Media research groups.
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Caitlin Morris among 2024 cohort of MIT MAD Design Fellows

Caitlin is an artist, researcher, and educator creating and researching around themes of perception and the human-environment relationship.
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Research at Scale 2024

A one-month residency in Shenzhen to scale research with mass manufacturing for affordability or unprecedented magnitudes
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Tangible Media paper most cited of ACM SIGCHI

The paper authored by Professor Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer is from CHI '97.
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2024: A Leap Forward in Creative Innovation

The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
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Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI

A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
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Xin Liu wins inaugural K11 Artist Prize

Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.
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"AI Comes Out of the Closet" seeks to merge AI and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a way as innovative as it is necessary

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
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Make Magazine: Make Your Own Dream Incubator

First things first. Make sure you have your PCB, solder, soldering iron, flux pen, and electronic components ready to go.
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Trusting ChatGPT helps to improve it

In El País, researchers from Fluid Interfaces discuss their study that found users' beliefs about a chatbot influenced their interactions.
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How should AI-generated content be labeled?

In a new working paper, researchers consider the most effective ways to label online content as AI-generated, misleading, or both.
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How Under 30 company Augmental is creating tongue-controlled mouse pads–with just over $1 million in funding

Augmental co-founders have been recognized in the Social Impact category of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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Researchers studying electrical signals in human brains are getting a little closer to reading our minds

On The World by PRX and WGBH, researcher Nataliya Kosmyna talks about advances in and potential applications for brain-computer interfaces.
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Horse sense about AI

In Psychology Today, author William Poundstone considers research from the Fluid Interfaces group in light of the Clever Hans effect.
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MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation
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Augmental wins Best Pitch at CES 2024

Media Lab spinoff Augmental was recognized for their work on the MouthPad^, a smart oral splint.
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Placebo effect shapes how we see AI

Research from the Fluid Interfaces group finds that users' perceptions of an AI chatbot influence their interactions with the technology.
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The assumptions you bring into conversation with an AI bot influence what it says

In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.
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Media Lab research highlighted by MIT News in its wrap-ups of 2023 press coverage

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
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Pat Pataranutaporn on exploring the intersection of humans and artificial intelligence

Pat Pataranutaporn discusses the inspiration behind his research at the intersection of biological systems and digital technology.
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Samantha Chan and collaborators win Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2023

Postdoctoral fellow Samantha Chan (Fluid Interfaces) and collaborators win Distinguished Paper Award at UbiComp 2023.
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Research Group Overview: Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive support
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Joanne Leong and colleagues awarded MITili grant

Joanne Leong, research assistant in the Fluid Interfaces group, and her colleagues won an MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) grant.
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Chinese artist Xin Liu takes us inside her lab-like London studio, where engineering and creativity converge.

Xin Liu, an alum of the Fluid Interfaces group and collaborator with the Space Exploration Initiative, talks to Artnet about her practice.
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Alumni Xin Liu and Nan Zhao collaborate on "Lycorises"

The series was initially inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel.
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Is AI in the eye of the beholder?

Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
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Quick catnaps may spark creativity

The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
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Ghost in the machine

With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,
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Want to be more creative? Try dream-hacking while you sleep

The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
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The ethics and tech of dream seeding

In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
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Does dream inception work?

Using Dormio, a project from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces research group, poet Will Dowd set out to pioneer a new reading experience.
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ACM ByteCast: Pattie Maes

On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.
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"Dream glove" boosts creativity during sleep

In a new study, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School find that brief naps can enhance creativity
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Here's how to use dreams for creative inspiration

Researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School find that brief naps appear to enhance creativity.
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Want to control your electronics with your tongue? This company is making that happen

Media Lab alum Tomás Vega talks to ZDNet about MouthPad, a Bluetooth-enabled mouthpiece that enables hands-free control of digital devices.
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Virtual reality system lets you stop and smell the roses

Media Lab alum Judith Amores talks to Scientific American about a lightweight, wireless interface to deliver scents to VR users.