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Affective Computing

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

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Theme | Communications & Collaboration

Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...
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Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me

Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...
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Predicting Driver Self-Reported Stress by Analyzing the Road Scene

Different approaches and models have been used to detect driver’s stress and affective states, using physiology, facial expression, and s...
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Machinoia, Machine of Multiple Me: Integrating with Past, Future, and Alternative Selves

Pataranutaporn, Pat, Valdemar Danry, and Pattie Maes. "Machinoia, Machine of Multiple Me: Integrating with Past, Future and Alternative Selves." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
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Signal Kinetics

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

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...
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Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI)

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
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Space Enabled

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

Looking beyond smart cities
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepFake videos? How well can ordinary people tell the difference between a video manipulated by...
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ELSA: Empathy learning, socially-aware agents

What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form...
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WiStress: Contactless Stress Monitoring

WiStress is a system that can monitor a user’s stress passively using wireless signals. WiStress can be installed on a desk or near a cou...
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Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
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RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning

Tara Boroushaki, Isaac Perper, Mergen Nachin, Alberto Rodriguez, Fadel Adib. "RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning." ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems 2021.
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RFusion: Robotic Grasping via RF-Visual Sensing and Learning

RFusion is a robotic system that can search for and retrieve items in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and fully occluded settings. It c...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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How Valencia crushed Covid with AI

By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer
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LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking

Jiang, Hang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Prithviraj Sen, Yunyao Li, and Alexander Gray. "LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking." ACL (2021).
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Bringing precision to musculoskeletal health

Figur8, founded by alum Nan-Wei Gong, offers a wearable sensor system to improve the diagnosis and treatment of muscle injuries.
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
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Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
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India's first AI art solo opens in Kolkata

In this new show, AI artist Harshit Agrawal uses machine intelligence to talk about social justice and empathy.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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When AI Recognizes Emotion, with Rosalind Picard

John Ellis talks to Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard about making AI and computers more emotionally intelligent.
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Deepfakes are like Hollywood body doubles

Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes and researcher Pat Pataranutaporn discuss the ethical implications of deepfake technology.
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Emerging Interfaces for Human Augmentation

Pattie Maes talks about optimizing technology to be used by people, through fluid, interactive, immersive, and wearable systems.
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Dyadic Affect in Multimodal Interaction - Parent to Child (DAMI-P2C) Dataset

Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...
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Real-time assessment of suicidal thoughts and behaviors

Depression correlated with anxiety is one of the key factors leading to suicidal behavior, and is among the leading causes of death world...
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Responsive Environments

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

Enhancing human physical capability
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Monitoring Changes in Depression Severity Using Wearable and Mobile Sensors

Pedrelli, P., Fedor, S., Ghandeharioun, A., Howe, E., Ionescu, D. F., Bhathena, D., ... & Picard, R. W. (2020). Monitoring changes in depression severity using wearable and mobile sensors. Frontiers in psychiatry, 11, 1413.
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TuringBox: Democratizing the study of AI

TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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RetroGAN

Retrofitting is a technique used to move word vectors closer together or further apart in their space to reflect their relationships in a...
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Horizons 2021 - The Calm Before the Storm: The Transformational Impact of Al on Education

Cynthia Breazeal and others discuss the impact of AI on education, and how it might be applied in intentional ways to improve learning.
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BayesDB

BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
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AI and Global Governance

Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...
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CivilServant: User-led randomized trials online

The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
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A robot that finds your lost stuff and more AI-enabled gadgets to come

The WSJ covers research from the Signal Kinetics group and other labs, universities, and companies working on AI-enabled devices.
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative use of E...
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Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research in our laboratory reduces dependence on specialized medical imaging devices, biological and chemical processes and creates new p...
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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MAS.S72. How to Write Academic Grant Proposals and Research Manuscripts

Description: Designed for grant proposal and research publication student writers, this course presents a general overview as well a...
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FIGUR8 Raises $12 Million To Take The Guesswork Out Of Musculoskeletal Diagnostics

Forbes highlights spinoff Figur8 and its most recent funding round, which raised $12 million.
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PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...
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Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ pri...
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DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanationsvia Concept Traversals

One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and c...
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Scaling Science: Using Data to Find “Hidden Gem” Research

The current system of scientific recognition and funding has significant bias towards work published in the top few percent of journ...
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Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...
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parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response...
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RAISE

RAISE
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Helping students of all ages flourish in the era of artificial intelligence

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) seeks to empower more people to participate in, and benefit from, AI.
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Using machine learning to predict high-impact research

DELPHI can give an “early-alert” signal for future key technologies by learning from patterns gleaned from previous publications.
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Learning on knowledge graph dynamics provides an early warning of impactful research

Weis, J.W., Jacobson, J.M. Learning on knowledge graph dynamics provides an early warning of impactful research. Nat Biotechnol (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00907-6
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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MAS.S64. Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies

MAS.S64 Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies - Fall 2020 Online CourseWhen: Tuesdays, 3-...