Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future

Cyborg Psychology

Inventing, investigating, and inspiring human-AI systems for human flourishing

Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation

Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

Human Dynamics

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

Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

Center For Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society

Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing

Nano Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis

Opera OF The Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

Social Algorithms

Creating reliable, resilient, and convivial infrastructures grounded in human agency, safety, and dignity

Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people

Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop

Aha

Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)

Community Bio

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology

Digital Currency Initiative Dci

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems

Raise

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12

Space Exploration

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future

Whx

WHx Program: Unlocking women's health through transformative technologies

Saipien

Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks (sAIpien)

State of AI & Human Flourishing

Bullet Time (Online): Reconstructing of the bullet time scene back to CGI

Indoor Human Tracking and Scene Reconstruction

Theme | Sleep + Dream Engineering

Targeted Dream Incubation

Automatar: Intelligent AI Guitar

LIMITER: the Microtonal Arcade Machine

👋 CoCo — A New Real-Time Co-Creative Platform for Young People

Brainstorming Agents

Personal UI

> After AGI: The Techno-Apocalypse Musical Exploring Human AI Co-Creative Practice

Affective Mobile Probe

Ohara

MyFeed

AHA Seminar Series

Seeing Is Not Believing

The Music Camera

Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories

Urban Access Analyzer

VoiceTrace

Coin selection by Random Draw according to the Boltzmann distribution

Interaction Quality in Peer and AI Learning

NeuroSkill™

Water production from air with piezoelectric ultrasound and functional polymers

Data from Facilitated Typing: What Can It Tell Us about Interpersonal Dynamics?

Control in Context: How Smart Home Users Navigate Proxy-based Schemes

Zaidi, A., Karanika, A., Cheng, T. C., Chiang, Y. S., Cobb, C., Gupta, I., & Karahalios, K. (2026). Control in Context: How Smart Home Users Navigate Proxy-based Schemes.

Mnemonic Tracing

Wazeer Zulfikar, Yasith Samaradivakara, Paul Pu Liang, and Pattie Maes. 2026. Mnemonic Tracing: Using Eye Gaze to Search for Visual Memories. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Com- puting Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages.

Dialogues with AI Reduce Beliefs in Misinformation but Build No Lasting Discernment Skills

Anku Rani, Valdemar Danry, Paul Pu Liang, Andrew Lippman, and Pattie Maes. 2026. Dialogues with AI Reduce Beliefs in Misinformation but Build No Lasting Discernment Skills. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 792, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790656

Portable Somatic Wearable: AI-Assisted Reflection Through Gaze-Derived Somatic Markers

Saetbyeol LeeYouk, Sergio Mutis, Yuxiang Cheng, and Behnaz Farahi. 2026. Portable Somatic Wearable: AI-Assisted Reflection Through Gaze-Derived Somatic Markers. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799134

Cry for AI: A Moss-Controlled AI Wearable for Resource-Aware Interaction

Saetbyeol LeeYouk, Yanchen Shen, Yuqiao Liao, and Behnaz Farahi. 2026. Cry for AI: A Moss-Controlled AI Wearable for Resource-Aware Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26), April 13–17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799109

Designing an Affective Mobile Probe to Measure Smile Dynamics in Depression

Nelson Hidalgo Julia, Robert Lewis, Craig Ferguson, Joshua Angulo Lopez, Hahrin Jung, Rosalind Picard, Simon Goldberg, Raquel Tatar, Wendy S.-Y. Lau, Caroline Swords, Christine D. Wilson-Mendenhall, Gabriela Valdivia, Molly Schaefer, and Richard Davidson. 2026. Designing an Affective Mobile Probe to Measure Smile Dynamics in Depression. In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in

Latent manipulator: using concept-guided embedding manipulation to steer embedding visualizations

Shivam Raval, Kevin Dunnell, and Andrew Lippman. 2026. Latent manipulator: using concept-guided embedding manipulation to steer embedding visualizations. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 425, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798816

InSituWear: On-body Fabrication of Custom-fitWearable Structures using Melt-drawn PCL Filaments

CHI 2026 - Research Paper

A myoneural actuator with engineered biophysics for implantable biohybrid systems

Song, H., Herrera-Arcos, G., Friedman, G.N. et al. A myoneural actuator with engineered biophysics for implantable biohybrid systems. Nat Commun 17, 2584 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70626-6

Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AI

Karny, S., Baez, A., & Pataranutaporn, P. (2026). Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AI. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 868–884. doi:10.1145/3742413.3789120

Electrofluidic fiber muscles

O. K. Afsar et al., "Electrofluidic fiber muscles." Sci. Robot. 11, eady6438 (2026). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.ady6438

Mind Mapper: Modeling and Predicting Behavioral Patterns from Everyday Conversations with Wearable AI Systems and LLMs

Danry, V*., Billa, J. G.*, Samaradivakara, Y.*, Liang, P. P., Maes, P. (2026, March). Mind Mapper: Modeling and Predicting Behavioral Patterns from Everyday Conversations with Wearable AI Systems and LLMs. In Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Simulating "Neural Integration" of Human and AI through Mechanistic Interpretability as Design Provocation

Do Robots Need Body Language? Comparing Communication Modalities for Legible Motion Intent in Human-Shared Spaces

Cohen, J. A., Shimizu, K., Song, A., Bharath, V., Maes, P., & Larson, K. (2026, March). Do Robots Need Body Language? Comparing Communication Modalities for Legible Motion Intent in Human-Shared Spaces. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 322-326).

Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived Reality

Wolf, E., Samaradivakara, Y., Gokhale, O., Ahmed, S., Wang, Y., Pataranutaporn, P., & Maes, P. (2026). Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived Reality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3798358

Breaking the thermal limit of atmospheric water harvesting technologies

Shuvo, I.I., Flores-Hernandez, D.R., Smith, G. et al. Breaking the thermal limit of atmospheric water harvesting technologies. Nat. Rev. Clean Technol. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44359-026-00154-5

Comparative assessment of women’s safety and mobility research methods in informal neighborhoods

Izquierdo, L., Nawyn, J. & Larson, K. "Comparative assessment of women’s safety and mobility research methods in informal neighborhoods." npj Urban Sustain (2026).

BirdWatch: Acoustic Drone Detection (winner of MIT's MERE research exhibition)

QMProt: A Comprehensive Dataset of Quantum Properties for Proteins

Coronas Sala, Laia, and Parfait Atchade-Adelomou. "QMProt: A Comprehensive Dataset of Quantum Properties for Proteins." Electronics 14.14 (2025): 2825.

NeuroSkill™: Proactive Real-Time Agentic System Capable of Modeling Human State of Mind

Nataliya Kosmyna, Eugene Hauptmann. (2026). NeuroSkill™: Proactive Real-Time Agentic System Capable of Modeling Human State of Mind (Version 0.0.1) [Software]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03212

Non-invasive ovulation tracking enables genetic engineering in wild rodents

Buchthal, Joanna et al. "Non-invasive ovulation tracking enables genetic engineering in wild rodents." Cell Reports Methods, Volume 6, Issue 2, 101311

A subnational social vulnerability index for use in drought decision support systems

Islam, M. S., Kuwayama, Y., Entekhabi, D., Turner, K. M., Lu, C., Castillo, F. M., ... & Wood, D. (2026). A subnational social vulnerability index for use in drought decision support systems. Environmental Science & Policy, 178, 104349.

The Challenges, Methods, and Opportunities of Understanding Informal Urbanism: A Case Study in Lomas del Centinela, Mexico

Rico, A., Izquierdo, L., Delgado, E. et al. The challenges, methods, and opportunities of understanding informal urbanism: a case study in Lomas del Centinela, Mexico. npj Urban Sustain 6, 35 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-026-00360-x