Fluid Interfaces

May the Force be with you! A throwback to one of our demos led by our research scientist @nataliyakosmyna to control a #BB8 robot from @starwars universe using your brain 🧠 !

In an interview with @BW, Media Lab Prof. Pattie Maes (@fluidinterfaces) warns that AI assistants may improve performance in the short term while weakening critical thinking over time. To combat this risk, Prof. Maes argues they should not always provide immediate answers. Instead, she suggests, AI should sometimes introduce productive friction — asking questions, prompting reflection, and supporting deeper engagement. The goal is not to replace human judgment, but to design systems that strengthen it. bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

@thinkymachines @YasithSam7 Mirai: A Wearable Proactive AI
"Inner-Voice" for Contextual Nudging Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.02370 Video: youtu.be/2Sgs4KYIZyo

really cool to see the latest demos from @thinkymachines we did this almost identical scenario for Mirai a year ago where a wearable AI contextually responds to your behavior to provide just-in-time nudges x.com/thecatfangs/st… @YasithSam7

In @MIT_Spectrum, Media Lab Professors Pattie Maes (@fluidinterfaces) and @patpat_mit discuss their work with @AHA_medialab, which aims to steer AI systems in a direction that enhances human lives and experiences, rather than disrupting them. betterworld.mit.edu/spectrum/issue…

Public demos of the project @BosChildMuseum @bostoncyberarts @cambridgepl and @CambSciCarnival : media.mit.edu/events/neurafu…

May the Force be with you! A throwback to one of our demos led by our research scientist @nataliyakosmyna to control a #BB8 robot from @starwars universe using your brain 🧠 !

Great work by the Human Operator team! Developed at our first HARD MODE hackathon ⚙️

Meet Human Operator from MIT Media Lab: a wearable that lets AI temporarily take control of your hand using electrical muscle stimulation. Watch it crush piano, draw perfectly, and mix cocktails like a pro — all from a simple voice command. “I gave an AI a body.” This isn’t sci-fi. This is tomorrow. #HumanOperator #MITMediaLab

On Tuesday, April 28, join @aha_medialab for a free livestream of the 2026 AHA Symposium, “Raised by AI?” During this all-day event, speakers and panelists will consider the question: How do we ensure the first generation growing up with AI thrives? media.mit.edu/events/aha-sym…

Adam Haar Horowitz, an alum of the Media Lab’s @fluidinterfaces research group, is a cognitive scientist whose work focuses on exploring the hypnagogic state between sleep and waking for creative, artistic, and even collaborative experiences. designboom.com/technology/ada…

New paper is out!

Work done by Michelle Kim, Daniel Low, David Lafond, Eugene Shim, Michelle Han, Mohanad Kandil, Chenyu Zhang, Theo Kitsberg, Chelsea Boccagno, @pliang279 and Pattie Maes #CHI2026 #HCI #BehaviorChange #mentalhealth @medialab

Check the paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37…

How can we design systems that build people's capacity to break negative cycles—not just recognize them? This year at CHI @acm_chi we presented: "Breaking Negative Cycles: A Reflection-to-Action System for Adaptive Change." Motivation?