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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #computer vision +47 more
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Affective Computing

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

#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #cognition +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

City Science Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#design #architecture #data +12 more
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Scalable Cooperation

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

#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Rhythm: Open measurement and feedback tools for human interaction

Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rh...

in Human Dynamics
Dan Calacci · Oren Lederman +1 more
#communications #social science #behavioral science +1 more
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Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #art +50 more
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +35 more
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +25 more
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +22 more
Accepting Applicants
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 c...

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +6 more
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Multi-SPRING

OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...

in Affective Computing · ML Learning
Kristy Johnson
#cognition #learning #wearable computing +4 more
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Project Research

SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, & Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...

in ML Learning · Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Kristy Johnson
#robotics #cognition #data +7 more
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Memento

Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Stephen S. Intille
#architecture #interfaces #behavioral science
Archived
Project Research

QuantifyMe

Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to ...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Akane Sano +3 more
#data #wearable computing #behavioral science +2 more
Center for Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman
#robotics #design #computer vision +39 more
Publication Research

Agent-based simulation in management and organizational studies: a survey

Article, Oct. 2017
in Collective Learning
#behavioral science
Project Research

Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...

in Human Dynamics
Hossein Rahnama
#data #social science #machine learning +2 more
Project Research

Personalized Animated Movies

Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...

in Affective Computing
Fengjiao Peng · Rosalind W. Picard
#art #human-machine interaction #behavioral science +1 more
Project Research

Andorra Living Lab

The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban...

in Changing Places
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +11 more
#data #transportation #urban planning +2 more
Project Research

Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Abdullah M. Almaatouq
#data #economy #politics +4 more
Project Research

The Ripple Effect: You Are More Influential Than You Think

The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Esteban Moro Egido +2 more
#data #social science #machine learning +1 more
Publication Research

The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change

Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A. and Shmueli, E., 2016 The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, pp.33-41

Chapter
in Human Dynamics
#networks #wearable computing #social science +1 more
Publication Research

Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A., & Shmueli, E. (2016). Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change. PloS one, 11(3), e0151588. Chicago

Academic Paper
in Human Dynamics
#health #networks #wearable computing +3 more
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.

#robotics #architecture #art +17 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Friendship Reciprocity and Behavioral Change

When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we fou...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Abdullah M. Almaatouq
#health #networks #wearable computing +3 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Crowdsourcing Search: The Red Balloon Challenge

In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, w...

in Scalable Cooperation
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#crowdsourcing #social media #social science +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Emotive Materials

The design process is no longer limited to one group of individuals, as number, level, and cost make tools ever more accessible. As we mo...

in Object-Based Media
V. Michael Bove · Bianca Datta
#design #interfaces #behavioral science
Archived
Project Research

Crowdsourcing a Manhunt

People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six d...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Sohan Dsouza
#crowdsourcing #social media #social science +2 more
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