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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +67 more
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Signal Kinetics

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

#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +23 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Inigo Martinez Lopez +1 more
#robotics #design #data +7 more
Project Research

Can autonomy make bike-sharing more sustainable?

Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +1 more
#environment #transportation #urban planning +1 more
Project Research

Emotion Navigation

Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change bro…

in Affective Computing
Neska Elhaouij · Rosalind W. Picard +10 more
#interfaces #affective computing #autonomous vehicles
Article Research

MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera

The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.

via MIT News · Sept. 26, 2022
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #sensors #imaging +5 more
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +40 more
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Research
Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

#robotics #design #virtual reality +52 more
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Project Research

Bounce-Flash Lidar

In photography, illuminating a subject directly using an on-camera flash can result in unflattering photos. To avoid this, photographers o…

in Camera Culture
Connor Henley
#robotics #computer vision #augmented reality +1 more
Archived
Project Research

The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…

in City Science
Naroa Coretti Sánchez
#robotics #design #energy +9 more
Archived
Research
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

#artificial intelligence #government #health +10 more
Publication Research

Autonomous Bicycles: A New Approach To Bicycle-Sharing Systems

Sanchez, Naroa Coretti, Luis Alonso Pastor, and Kent Larson. "Autonomous Bicycles: A New Approach To Bicycle-Sharing Systems." 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE, 2020.

Academic Paper, Sept. 2020
in City Science
#transportation #autonomous vehicles
Project Research

Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #environment #health +8 more
Article Research

An underwater navigation system powered by sound

New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to aquaculture.

via MIT News · Nov. 2, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #environment #sensors +4 more
Archived
Project Research

Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +13 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modular …

in Object-Based Media
Vik Parth
#virtual reality #human-computer interaction #augmented reality +3 more
Archived
Archived
Research
Ethics

Ethics Initiative

#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +12 more
Archived
Project Research

Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving, …

in Ethics · Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Edmond Awad +1 more
#artificial intelligence #cryptocurrency #social science +3 more
Archived
Article Research

From 3D-printed limbs to semi-autonomous race cars

Envisioning the future (and challenges) of designing affordable technology-enabled mobility devices.

via MIT News · Nov. 1, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#robotics #3d printing #technology +2 more
Project Research

BASIC: Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In orde…

in City Science · Human Dynamics
Arnaud Grignard · Eduardo Castello Ferrer +3 more
#urban planning #blockchain #autonomous vehicles
Article Research

Optimus Ride’s autonomous system makes self-driving vehicles a reality

MIT startup’s unique approach to improving human mobility is helping it gain traction in a competitive landscape.

via MIT News · Aug. 9, 2019
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#autonomous vehicles
Publication Research

BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities

Marrocco, L., Ferrer, E. C., Bucchiarone, A., Grignard, A., Alonso, L., Larson, K., & Pentland, A. (2018, July). BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities. In International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems (pp. 144-162). Springer, Cham.

Academic Paper, May 2019
in City Science
#blockchain #autonomous vehicles
Article Research

Your (future) car’s moral compass

How does the public think autonomous vehicles should resolve moral trade-offs? Can we use their responses to build a new moral compass?

via Behavioral Scientist · Feb. 11, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #ethics #technology +1 more
Post Research

A Future-Forward Proposal for a System of Streets and Autonomous Vehicles

ABSTRACT   The impending introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) has posed regulatory and ethical questions regarding how they …

Jan. 1, 2019
in City Science
#systems #technology #visualization +1 more
Article Research

A study on driverless-car ethics offers a troubling look into our values

Scientists seek to learn the decisions human drivers make in collision situations to help predict how autonomous vehicles should respond.

via The New Yorker · Jan. 24, 2019
in Ethics · Scalable Cooperation
#ethics #autonomous vehicles
Article Research

Sohan Dsouza discusses ethics and self-driving vehicles

Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.

via CGTN America · Nov. 8, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#ethics #technology #autonomous vehicles
Project Research

RFly: Drones that find missing objects using battery-free RFIDs

Can drones find missing items? Every year, companies lose billions of dollars due to misplaced items and faulty inventory records in their …

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Yunfei Ma +1 more
#systems #networking #autonomous vehicles
Article Research

Clearly Complex

A report from the Symposium on Trust and Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles (STEAV).

via Berkman Klein Center | Medium · June 21, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #autonomous vehicles

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