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Liquid Movies

Video has evolved from an esoteric production to the default means of online and broadcast communication. We accept a wrong or lengthy vide…
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality

Joanne Leong, Olivia Seow, Cathy Mengying Fang, Benny J. Tang, Rajan Vaish, and Pattie Maes. 2022. Wemoji: Towards Designing Complementary Communication Systems in Augmented Reality. In The Adjunct Publication of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’22 Adjunct), October 29-November 2, 2022, Bend, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3 pages.
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera

The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Human Dynamics

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

Liquid News aims to help people better understand and interact with the news by providing machine-learning-based analysis and semantic…
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AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models

Hang Jiang, Doug Beeferman, Brandon Roy, and Deb Roy. 2022. CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 6818–6826, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Wemoji

This project was produced as part of the   2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…
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TangiBel Soundscapes

Words are fleeting. Moments come and go, and what we vocalize “disappears into thin air."In this project, TangiBel Soundscapes, we propose …
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Jelani Cobb and Deb Roy Join Knight Institute Board

The Knight Institute was established by Columbia University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in 2016.
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Can Technology Help Humans Listen?

Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, discusses his research and how technology can be used for social good.
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Scalable Cooperation

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

Open Ocean
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

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

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…
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Study: Digital literacy doesn’t stop the spread of misinformation

Digital literacy helps people identify misinformation — but it doesn’t necessarily stop them from spreading it.
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The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
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Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
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Deb Roy named to Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder

The Commission's members are drawn from government, research and academia, civil society, public service, and private industry.
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Designing Generative Dialogue Spaces

Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
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Participatory Sensemaking

How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
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Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
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MAS.S72. How to Write Academic Grant Proposals and Research Manuscripts

Description: Designed for grant proposal and research publication student writers, this course presents a general overview as well as …
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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
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iNonymize: Empathetic Anonymity in Tele-Mental Health Using AI Generated Avatars

This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health pla…
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The Best Inventions of 2020 | A New Kind of Interface: MIT Media Lab AlterEgo

Congrats to Fluid Interfaces PhD student Arnav Kapur and collaborators on the selection of AlterEgo by ⁦Time Magazine for this recognition.
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Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…
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Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…
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How to send underwater messages without batteries

A new device extracts energy from ambient noise
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Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …
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The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of info…
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Pantheon

What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting, …
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PubPub

PubPub reinvents publication to align with the way the web was designed: collaborative, evolving, and open. PubPub uses a graphical format …
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U.S. Postal Stamp features research from Biomechatronics group

For the robotics category of the innovation series, the USPS chose the bionic prosthesis designed by Media Lab PhD graduate Matt Carney
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The Amazing Disappearing Election

Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?
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New US postage stamp highlights MIT research

The stamp is part of a new USPS series on innovation, representing computing, biomedicine, genome sequencing, robotics, and solar technology
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DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an in…
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Wireless communication from underwater to the air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and th…
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SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, channe…
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Virtual meetings are about to turn the art of management into a scalable science

Quartz at Work looks at ways that online meetings, with tools like those developed by certain spinoffs, can improve management decisions.
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LeakyPhones

LeakyPhones is a public/private headset that was designed to encourage face-to-face interactions, curiosity, and healthier s…
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Informing Covid-19 preparedness in Sierra Leone

MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.
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The perfect privacy storm

New issues in privacy debate with technology and contact-tracing.
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Lesson of a Pandemic for a Connected World

Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.
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Dizzying Decisions

It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.
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Phones could track the spread of Covid-19. Is it a good idea?

China, South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.
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Underwater energy harvesting with a data-link twist

A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.
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A holographic meeting platform for collaborating from anywhere

"There's got to be a better way to share space and work together remotely—but computers or phones may not be the right tools."
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Ultimate Media

Ultimate Media
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Watch this device translate silent thoughts into speech

For people who can’t speak out loud due to illness or injury, AlterEgo might return their ability to communicate in real time.
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FiftyNifty

This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ca…
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CocoVerse: A playground for co-creation and communication in virtual reality

Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality 
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Seven ways to create entertainment with impact

Communicating a message through entertainment can be difficult, because you have to be careful not to preach to the audience.
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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. Rhyt…
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How we’ll forget John Lennon

César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.