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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#robotics #design #social networks +41 more
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Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#social networks #art #artificial intelligence +33 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #computer vision +47 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +26 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

City Science Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#design #architecture #data +12 more
Research
Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +23 more
Research
Scalable Cooperation

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

#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development

#robotics #design #virtual reality +21 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Ultimate Media

Ultimate Media

#communications #data #networks +1 more
Research
Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +17 more
Project Research

Big Ocean, Big Data

More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Neil Gaikwad
#data #environment #machine learning +3 more
Research
Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #art +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

The Process of Making Lasting Memories: Mostafa (Neo) Mohsenvand and Hannah Campbell at TEDxYouth@CEHS

Neo Mohsenvand and filmmaker/singer/songwriter Hannah Campbell contemplate memory, data, and the future at TEDxYouth@CEHS.

via TEDx Talks · Jan. 9, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #data
Research
Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +35 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...

in ML Learning
Lydia Guterman · Katherine McConachie +3 more
#agriculture #data #learning +3 more
Research
ML Learning

ML Learning

#virtual reality #agriculture #cognition +15 more
Article Research

What the California wildfires can teach us about data sharing

The 2017 and 2018 fires in California were the air quality equivalent of the Daiichi nuclear disaster.

via Wired · Dec. 11, 2018
in Director's Office
#crowdsourcing #data #environment
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

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

in City Science
Guadalupe Babio Fernandez · Ariel Noyman +6 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Article Research

What tech will look like in 2039

We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.

via PC Magazine · Jan. 3, 2019
in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
#communications #data #networks +1 more
Article Research

Give way to droids, bots, and drones: the driverless city will look like this

An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles.

via The Daily Beast · Dec. 31, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation · City Science
#design #architecture #civic technology +4 more
Project Research

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...

in Collective Learning
Cesar A. Hidalgo · Kevin Zeng Hu +2 more
#data
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#design #architecture #art +15 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

What is the Optimal Way to Diversify an Economy?

One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...

in Collective Learning
#data #economy #social science
Project Research

The role of industry, occupation, and location-specific knowledge in the survival of new firms

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and ...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Ignacio Jara Figueroa · Bogang Jun +1 more
#data #economy
Research
Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +30 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +25 more
Project Research

City Science Lab Aalto

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Kent Larson +2 more
#architecture #data #transportation +2 more
Research
Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +22 more
Accepting Applicants
Post Research

Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we beli...

April 4, 2017
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #data #environment +4 more
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Babak Babakinejad +7 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +10 more
Research
Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

#design #art #bioengineering +6 more
Project Research

Future of Work: Automation, Labor & Cities

As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...

in Scalable Cooperation
Manuel Cebrian · Morgan Ryan Frank +3 more
#artificial intelligence #data #economy +3 more
Publication Research

Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture

Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham

Proceedings, Oct. 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#robotics #agriculture #data +1 more
Project Research

Artificial Listener with Social Intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
Project Research

The Constant Atlas

An interactive atlas of census data for direct consumption by individual citizens.

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Jia Zhang
#civic media #data #mapping +1 more
Publication Research

The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems

Castelló Ferrer E. (2019) The Blockchain: A New Framework for Robotic Swarm Systems. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham

Academic Paper, Aug. 2016
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #data #security +1 more
Project Research

cityIO

Cloud-Based Urban Data PlatformcityIO (input/output) is a cloud- and database-driven platform which allows remote participation, database...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman
#data #urban planning
Project Research

The laws of forgetting II: How death and exogenous events shape our collective memory

In order to understand how exogenous shocks, like death, impact memorability by remembering, we use a data-set of biographies from Wikipe...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Esteban Candia Vallejos · Cristian Ignacio Jara Figueroa +1 more
#data
Project Research

Managing Travel Demand: Location recommendation for system efficiency

Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordin...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Yan Leng
#data #transportation #urban planning
Project Research

CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...

in City Science · City Science Network
Kent Larson · Ariel Noyman +1 more
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +5 more
Project Research

Immersion

The current interface of emails is designed around time and messages, pushing people to focus on what is more recent rather than importan...

in Collective Learning
Cesar A. Hidalgo · Daniel Smilkov +1 more
#data
Project Research

Human-Robot Trust

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +6 more
Archived
Project Research

Panorama

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

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 ou...

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

FiftyNifty

This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...

in Viral Communications
Britney Johnson · Andrew Lippman +4 more
#communications #data #government +2 more
Project Research

Quantizer: Sonification Platform for High-Energy Physics Data

Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...

Joseph A. Paradiso · Juliana Cherston
#data #music #networks +1 more
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 c...

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +6 more
Article Research

Diana Orghian – The Optimism Bias

Growing up in a foreign country, the optimism-mystique connection and making data digestible.

via GLiMPSE · Aug. 8, 2018
in Collective Learning
#data #social science #data visualization
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...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Eduardo Castello Ferrer
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +11 more
Post Research

Skillscape: How skills affect your job trajectory, and their implications for automation by AI

This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances ...

July 18, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #economy
Project Research

DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Bjarke Felbo +1 more
#communications #data #social media +2 more
Project Research

Talking Machines: Democratizing the design of voice-based agents for the home

Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +4 more
Project Research

Dynamic Traffic Prediction in Andorra: a Bayesian Network Approach

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...

in City Science
Ronan Doorley · Kent Larson +2 more
#data #networks #engineering
Project Research

Andorra | Innovation

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +5 more
#data #kids #learning +3 more
Project Research

DIVE

DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...

in Collective Learning
Kevin Zeng Hu · Cesar A. Hidalgo
#data #human-machine interaction #interfaces +1 more
Project Research

The LearningGraph

Content and curriculum lie at the heart of every educational system, learning environment, and learning technology. Yet the infrastructur...

Jennifer Groff
#data #learning
Archived
Project Research

RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, & Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...

in ML Learning · Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Kristy Johnson
#robotics #cognition #data +7 more
Project Research

Reversed Urbanism

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...

in City Science Network · City Science
Ariel Noyman · Ronan Doorley +4 more
#data #networks #urban planning +1 more
Project Research

Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...

in Personal Robots
Mirko Gelsomini · Hae Won Park +2 more
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
Project Research

Predicting Trust Between People

Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree ...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Rosalind W. Picard +1 more
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +5 more
Project Research

P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children as Storytellers and Listeners in Peer-to-Peer Interactions

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #data #kids +5 more
Publication Research

RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction

Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Ognjen Rudovic, Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland, “RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction” eTELEMED 2018.

Academic Paper, Feb. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #data #health +3 more
Article Research

Networks of robots and blockchains: here's how they will transform our lives

Networks of robots and blockchains: here's how they will transform our lives

via The daily prosper · March 28, 2018
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #data #blockchain
Project Research

BayesDB

BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...

in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #data #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

QuantifyMe

Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to ...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Akane Sano +3 more
#data #wearable computing #behavioral science +2 more
Project Research

DataBasic

DataBasic is a suite of web-based tools that give people fun and relevant ways learn how to work with data. Existing tools focus on opera...

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Catherine D'Ignazio +1 more
#data #data visualization
Project Research

Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Anushka Shah +4 more
#civic media #data #social media +1 more
Center for Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman
#robotics #design #computer vision +39 more
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