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Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
Open Ocean
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating technology for social change
What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largel...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
The 2017 and 2018 fires in California were the air quality equivalent of the Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have...
An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
The morality of preschoolers, trolleys, cookie-eating squirrels, and attempting to define “the consensus” with the Moral Machine Project.
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
The Safecast has revolutionized citizen science.
Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate ...
“Shelley” is an artificial intelligence bot who writes stories inspired by a subreddit of aspiring horror writers.
Sometimes the scariest place to be is your own mind. Or Reddit at night.Shelley is an AI program that generates the beginnings of horror ...
Shelley's artificial neural network takes turns with humans in collaborative storytelling.
With its increasingly humanlike design, artificial intelligence gives many people the creeps—though usually not intentionally. But a new ...
An artificial intelligence is creating worlds where possessed dolls and other creatures chase after frightened, helpless h...
With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.
Ho, P. H., Miller, G. A., Wang M. Y., Haleftiras, N., Zuckerman, E. 2017. Mission Wildlife: An Augmented Reality Approach to Engaging People About Threats to Endangered Species at a Zoo. In proceedings of Unobtrusive User Experiences with Technology in Nature (NatureCHI'17) at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI'17).
This app allows Philadelphia users to make recordings and submit them for the City Symphonies project.
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Kevin Esvelt has emerged as a leader in the debate about the ethics and politics of releasing genetically engineered animals.
For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people try to innovate ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotio...
In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, w...
People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six d...