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Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have...
Suffering for art took on frigid new meaning for composer Tod Machover while creating his new symphony for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Open Ocean
Creating technology for social change
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate ...
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
“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).
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
This app allows Philadelphia users to make recordings and submit them for the City Symphonies project.
An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
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.
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
Animated GIFs are widely used on the Internet to express emotions, but automatic analysis of their content is largel...
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...