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Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Looking beyond smart cities
Lee works on multimodal social agents with a focus on developing machine learning methods and evaluation for social intelligence
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Environments built for people are increasingly operated by a new class of economic actors: LLM-powered software agents making decisions on …
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Wonjune Kang and Deb Roy. "Prompting Large Language Models with Audio for General-Purpose Speech Summarization." In Proc. Interspeech, pp. 1955-1959. 2024.
Wonjune Kang and Deb Roy. "Expressive Speech Retrieval using Natural Language Descriptions of Speaking Style." In IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), IEEE, 2025.
LLMs are being set loose in complex, real-world environments involving sequential decision-making and tool use. Often, this involves making…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
The fidelity with which neural networks can now generate content such as music presents a scientific opportunity: these systems appear to h…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
By establishing correlations between sleep parameters and wellbeing indicators, our project hopes to further understanding of fluctuations …
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Cherep*, M., Singh*, N., & Shand, J. (2024, July). Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
Researchers from Fluid Interfaces receive 2024 Amazon Research Award for work in AWS AI research area.
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, from…
With computation, it's easy to create systems that have a vast number of variations, but it's sometimes difficult to explore those systems.…
Mobility Choices is used to predict transportation mode choices of students at the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) within the Guadalajara …
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
Lu, Charles, et al. "Federated conformal predictors for distributed uncertainty quantification." International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). PMLR, 2023.
Lu, Charles, et al. "Data Acquisition via Experimental Design for Data Markets." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 37 (2024): 118086-118118.
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
Learning robust audio representations currently demands extensive datasets of real-world sound recordings. By applying artificial transfor…
Would you train for a tennis match in chaotic outdoor conditions from day one, or would you first perfect your fundamentals in a controlled…
For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people try to innovate ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotion …
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Luke Mo*, Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, Quinn Langford, and Pattie Maes. Articulatory Synthesis of Speech and Diverse Vocal Sounds via Optimization. In Audio Imagination: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop AI-Driven Speech, Music, and Sound Generation.
The current system of scientific recognition and funding has significant bias towards work published in the top few percent of journal…
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response a…
Sometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
The acquisition of training data is crucial for machine learning applications. Data markets can increase the supply of data, particularly i…
Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
