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Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement

#robotics #design #virtual reality +59 more
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +63 more
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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
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Signal Kinetics

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

#robotics #data #environment +12 more
Accepting Applicants
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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 ba...

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #environment #sensors +4 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
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Object-Based Media

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
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The MIT Autonomous Bicycle Project

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

in City Science
Naroa Sanchez
#robotics #design #energy +6 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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Moral Machine

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

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +13 more
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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 modula...

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

Ethics Initiative

#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +12 more
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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
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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
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Emotion Navigation

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

in Affective Computing
Neska Elhaouij · Rosalind W. Picard +10 more
#interfaces #affective computing #autonomous vehicles
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

#artificial intelligence #government #health +10 more
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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 or...

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 the...

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 thei...

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