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Project Research

Ant-Based Modeling

Ant-Based Modeling explores the possibility of implementing agent-based modeling with living ants and external stimuli such as ...

Carson Smuts · Javier Hernandez +2 more
#data #systems #urban planning +1 more
Archived
Project Research

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

P2PSTORY Dataset Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of i...

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

CityMatrix

CityMatrix: An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThesis CitationZhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decisi...

in City Science
Yan Zhang · Kent Larson +2 more
#architecture #artificial intelligence #civic technology +7 more
Publication Research

The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems

Eduardo Castello Ferrer, “The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems,” arXiv Prepr. arXiv1608.00695, 2016.

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

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

Academic Paper, Feb. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #data #health +3 more
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 #data #networks +5 more
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

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 Network · City Science
Kent Larson · Ariel Noyman +5 more
#design #computer vision #architecture +15 more
Research
Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +43 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#design #computer vision #architecture +23 more
Accepting Applicants
Publication Research

P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children Storytelling and Listening in Peer-to-Peer Interactions

Nikhita Singh, Jin Joo Lee, Ishaan Grover, and Cynthia Breazeal (2018). P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children Storytelling and Listening in Peer-to-Peer Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Academic Paper, April 2018
in Personal Robots
#robotics #data #learning +1 more
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 +6 more
#data #urban planning
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +24 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.

in Living Mobile
Chris Schmandt · Anna Fuste
#augmented reality #data #fashion +2 more
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#design #art #data +6 more
Accepting Applicants
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...

#robotics #data #health +5 more
Publication Research

Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas

Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.

Academic Paper, April 2018
in Collective Learning
#data #economy #social science
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
Research
Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +17 more
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
Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#design #computer vision #artificial intelligence +34 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #agriculture #data +12 more
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
Research
Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

#design #art #bioengineering +5 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
Thesis Research

CityMatrix - An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence

Zhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.

Thesis, Sept. 2017
in City Science
#architecture #artificial intelligence #data +5 more
Project Research

The Constant Atlas

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

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

Tactile Matrix

Tangible interactive matrix for real-time computation and 3D projection mappingThe Tactile Matrix is a system for an illuminated, machine...

Kent Larson · J. Ira Winder
#computer vision #architecture #civic technology +6 more
Research
Scalable Cooperation

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

#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +18 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #architecture +24 more
Publication Research

Small cities face greater impact from automation

Small cities face greater impact from automation Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun, Manuel Cebrian, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan J. R. Soc. Interface 2018 15 20170946; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0946. Published 7 February 2018

Academic Paper, Feb. 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #human-machine interaction #social science
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
Morgan Ryan Frank · Iyad Rahwan
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +2 more
Research
Personal Robots

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

#robotics #design #architecture +20 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...

in Human Dynamics
Hossein Rahnama
#data #social science #machine learning +2 more
Article Research

Microfluidics for the masses

New open-source website features blueprints for lab-on-a-chip devices.

via MIT News · June 13, 2017
in Community Biotechnology
#data
Publication Research

Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data

Bhargava, R., & D’Ignazio, C. (2017). Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data. Presented at the Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Proceedings, June 2017
in Civic Media
#data #data visualization
Publication Research

Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy

D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2015). Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy. In Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2015. New York, NY, USA.

Proceedings, Sept. 2015
in Civic Media
#data #learning
Publication Research

The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends

Platt, E. L., Bhargava, R., & Zuckerman, E. (2015). The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends.

Academic Paper, May 2015
in Civic Media
#data #networks
Publication Research

CLIFF-CLAVIN: Determining Geographic Focus for News Articles

D’Ignazio, C., Bhargava, R., Zuckerman, E., & Beck, L. (2014). CLIFF-CLAVIN: Determining geographic focus for news. In NewsKDD: Data Science for News Publishing, at KDD 2014. New York, NY, USA.

Academic Paper, Aug. 2014
in Civic Media
#data
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 Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Kristy Johnson
#robotics #cognition #data +7 more
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
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
Thesis Research

POWERSTRUCTURES : the urban form of regulations

POWERSTRUCTURES : the urban form of regulations, Noyman, Ariel, Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.; Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-236).

Thesis, May 2015
in City Science Network · City Science
#architecture #civic technology #data +1 more
Research
Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #augmented reality #bioengineering +22 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #architecture +18 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Shelley: Human-AI Collaborated Horror Stories

Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate ...

in Scalable Cooperation
Pinar Yanardag · Manuel Cebrian +1 more
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +3 more
Research
Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#virtual reality #computer vision #artificial intelligence +23 more
Accepting Applicants
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 +5 more
Article Research

Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?

With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.

via MIT News · Oct. 27, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #data +2 more
Publication Research

Ant-Based Modeling: Agent-Based City Simulation with Ants

Ho, P. H., Smuts, C., Kayser, M. A., Hernandez, J. 2017. Ant-Based Modeling: Agent-Based City Simulation with Ants. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘17).

Proceedings, May 2017
in Civic Media
#data #systems #collective intelligence
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 +9 more
#design #architecture #data +9 more
Archived
Project Research

Mapping Higher Education Option Space

The mismatch between the supply of graduates’ skills and the needs of the labor market has become increasingly obvious and problematic ov...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Esteban Candia Vallejos · Cesar A. Hidalgo +1 more
#data #networks
Archived
Project Research

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

Events are able to trigger our remembers and make us go deeper in our memories. When the event affects a group of people, we can say that...

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

Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a si...

in City Science
Kent Larson · J. Ira Winder
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +7 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

Intentional Inference of Emotions

Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #kids +6 more
Thesis Research

Modeling the Dynamics of Nonverbal Behavior on Interpersonal Trust for Human-Robot Interactions

Jin Joo Lee. Modeling the Dynamics of Nonverbal Behavior on Interpersonal Trust for Human-Robot Interactions. Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011.

Thesis, Sept. 2011
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +5 more
Project Research

Predicting Trust Between People

Machine learning model outperforms human judgement!

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

A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions

Jin Joo Lee. A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.

Thesis, June 2017
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #data #kids +6 more
Project Research

Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voices!

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

Algorithmically Supported Moderation in Children’s Online Communities

Tan, Flora. Algorithmically Supported Moderation in Children’s Online Communities. Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.

Thesis, Feb. 2017
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#data #kids #machine learning
Project Research

City Science Lab Aalto

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

in City Science · City Science Network
Ariel Noyman · Kent Larson +2 more
#architecture #data #transportation +2 more
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
#data #social media #social science +1 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 #agriculture #data +5 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
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 · Britney Johnson +1 more
#design #crowdsourcing #data +4 more
Article Research

A new program wants to help more people in news orgs — beyond journalists — get literate with data

News organizations these days are spending a lot of time and energy making sure that data plays a central role in their newsrooms. But fe...

via NiemanLab · July 26, 2017
in Center for Civic Media
#civic media #data
Article Research

An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter

Understanding sarcasm could help AI fight racism, abuse, and harassment.

via Technology Review · Aug. 3, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #social media
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