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Creating technology for social change
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
Communicating a message through entertainment can be difficult, because you have to be careful not to preach to the audience.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Open Ocean
LeakyPhones is a public/private headset that was designed to encourage face-to-face interactions, curiosity, and healthier ...
Space Exploration Initiative
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Ultimate Media
Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rh...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
Transforming data into knowledge
We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.
Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
Knowledge Futures
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...
Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
BBC: New tech lets submarines 'email' planesFox News: Submarine breakthrough: MIT develops wireless system to let subs communicate with p...
Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and ...
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.
PubPub reinvents publication to align with the way the web was designed: collaborative, evolving, and open. PubPub uses a graphical forma...
People express and communicate their mental states–such as emotions, thoughts, and desires–through facial expressions, vocal nuances, ges...
Travis Rich, MIT PhD Thesis, 2017
Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.
Elisa Celis, Peter Krafft, and Nathan Kobe. (2016). Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
Wang, Q., Gao, J., Zhou, T., Hu, Z., & Tian, H. (2016). Critical size of ego communication networks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 114(5), 58004.
Modern web presentations such as Youtube feature videos with commentary appended at the bottom. In our new imagining of Videotext, we put...
Reach merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop data from services users already ...
DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimenta...
Comm.unity is a platform that implements a wireless, device-to-device information system that bypasses the need for any centralized serve...