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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +67 more
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +39 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 #social networks +68 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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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +54 more
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Project Research

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +18 more
Project Research

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 t…

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Eduardo Castello Ferrer
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +12 more
Project Research

Ocean Cultures

The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as rā…

in Open Ocean · Responsive Environments
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#developing countries #environment #genetics +2 more
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 membe…

in Human Dynamics
Hossein Rahnama
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +3 more
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Publication Research

Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation

Berke A., Nawyn J., Lengeling T.S., Larson K. (2020) Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1229. Springer, Cham

Academic Paper, July 2020
in City Science
#human-computer interaction #privacy #wearable computing +2 more
Project Research

Opinion Aggregation

Opinion aggregation on social media uses various mechanisms, such as "Likes" or thumbs-up/-down, which handle a single item at a time. In …

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Edmond Awad
#artificial intelligence #collective intelligence
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Evolution of the Social Contract

Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutions…

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Manuel Cebrian
#politics #social science #collective intelligence
Archived
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
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Thesis Research

Founders’ Dynamics – Interpersonal Relationships and Between-Team Interaction in Early Startups

Thesis, June 2019
in Human Dynamics
#sensors #social science #collective intelligence +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes this …

in Scalable Cooperation
Ziv Epstein · Niccolo Pescetelli +5 more
#social networks #crowdsourcing #networks +4 more
Archived
Project Research

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality o…

in Human Dynamics
Kent Larson · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

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. Rhyt…

in Human Dynamics
Dan Calacci · Oren Lederman +1 more
#communications #sensors #social science +4 more
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Project Research

Panorama

An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from all…

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Yasmine (Jasmin) Rubinovitz
#design #crowdsourcing #data +4 more
Archived
Project Research

CityMatrix

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…

in City Science
Yan Zhang · Kent Larson +2 more
#architecture #artificial intelligence #civic technology +8 more
Article Research

Collective Learning Summit 2018 Keynote

via DML Research Hub | YouTube · Aug. 1, 2018
in Director's Office · Director's Fellows Program
#learning #collective intelligence
Thesis Research

CityMatrix: An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence

Zhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.

Thesis, Sept. 2017
in City Science
#architecture #artificial intelligence #data +5 more
Archived
Project Research

Ant-Based Modeling

Ant-Based Modeling explores the possibility of implementing agent-based modeling with living ants and external stimuli such as el…

Carson Smuts · Javier Hernandez +2 more
#data #systems #urban planning +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Collective Debate

On Collective Debate, users take a test of their morality, then debate an artificial agent regarding a controversial claim: that …

in Social Machines
Ann Yuan
#civic media #collective intelligence
Publication Research

Ant-Based Modeling: Agent-Based City Simulation with Ants

Ho, P. H., Smuts, C., Kayser, M. A., Hernandez, J. 2017. Ant-Based Modeling: Agent-Based City Simulation with Ants. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘17).

Proceedings, May 2017
in Civic Media
#data #systems #collective intelligence
Publication Research

Emergent Collective Sensing in Human Groups

Peter Krafft, Robert Hawkins, Alex Pentland, Noah Goodman, and Joshua Tenenbaum. (2015). Emergent Collective Sensing in Human Groups. Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).

Academic Paper, March 2015
in Human Dynamics
#collective intelligence
Archived
Project Research

Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And wh…

Jian Gao · Bogang Jun +1 more
#developing countries #economy #learning +2 more
Archived
Publication Research

Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking

Peter Krafft, Kaitlyn Zhou, Isabelle Edwards, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro. (2017). Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Academic Paper, March 2017
in Human Dynamics
#social media #social science #collective intelligence
Publication Research

Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference

Peter Krafft, Julia Zheng, Wei Pan, Nicolás Della Penna, Yaniv Altshuler, Erez Shmueli, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Alex Pentland. (2016). Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference. arXiv:1608.01987.

Academic Paper, Aug. 2016
in Human Dynamics
#social science #collective intelligence
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, wid…

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

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