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How can we add the missing 'T' and 'E' in preschool STEAM education?
CityMatrix: An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThesis CitationZhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decisi...
Inventing the next-generation mobile device—highly personalized, wearable, and immersive—to support our unique needs and goals
Machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring engagement of children with autismEngageME is a project aimed at building a new techno...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
The first use-case for programmable droplets is a kind of automated painters' palette.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Looking beyond smart cities
Our dream is a sci-fi future, where dreams are controllable. We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mi...
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Space Exploration Initiative
Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...
We present CAPS, wearable on-body capsules which produce repulsive odor to deter sexual abuse. The capsules can be triggered by self...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B., Picard, R. "Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy," Pre-print on arXiv. Feb 2018.
AlterEgo is a closed-loop, non-invasive, wearable system that allows humans to converse in high-bandwidth natural language with mach...
Can we sonfiy calming breathing and passively influence a state of calm?Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart...
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
Electrodes on the face and jaw pick up otherwise undetectable neuromuscular signals triggered by internal verbalizations.
A NEW device being developed by scientists at America’s MIT will allow you to talk to your computer without speaking out loud.
We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
Open Ocean
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...
A. Kapur, S. Kapur, and P. Maes, "AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface." 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2018), pp 43-53, March 5, 2018.
Sang-won Leigh, et al. "Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Physically Reconfigurable Wearables." TEI 18, pp 11-18, March 3, 2018.
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Components ...
Zhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
Tangible interactive matrix for real-time computation and 3D projection mappingThe Tactile Matrix is a system for an illuminated, machine...
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
We are conducting EEG studies to identify the musical features and musical interaction patterns that universally impact measures of arous...
Advancing Wellbeing
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
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI), a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with huma...
Jacob W. Crandall, Mayada Oudah, Tennom, Fatimah Ishowo-Oloko, Sherief Abdallah, Jean-François Bonnefon, Manuel Cebrian, Azim Shariff, Michael A. Goodrich , Iyad Rahwan . Nature Communications, 2018.
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
Hae Won Park, Mirko Gelsomini, Jin Joo Lee, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2017. Telling Stories to Robots: The Effect of Backchanneling on a Child's Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17).
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...
Transforming data into knowledge
They are reading to kids, singing lullabies to them and even taking naps with them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) toys are coming into our...
It’s cute when a kid asks, “Alexa, did you farted?,” but as the realm of smart technology quickly evolves from household voice assistants...
Sleep is perhaps the most critical human activity for well-being, but seldom receives the priority it deserves. We get less rest than we ...
When I brought the robot home from the Apple Store, I knew I was inviting a new kind of strangeness into our lives. My wife worried ...
Proceeding CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages 3669-3680 Denver, Colorado, USA — May 06 - 11, 2017 ACM New York, NY, USA ©2017
Can we enable social connectivity between astronauts and people on Earth through an embodied agent?Astronauts actively communicate with t...
Can a magician and a robot collaborate on stage to create a believable, evocative performance?We are studying how th...
Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!
Presenting RFind, a new technology that allows us to locate almost any object with extreme accuracy by transforming low-cost, battery-fre...
A large portion of the chemical and biological processes underlying our everyday experience remains imperceptible to us. Be it the conten...
This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...
Recent advances in artificial limbs have resulted in the provision of powered ankle and knee function for lower extremity amputees and po...
Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a si...
Vast regions of the world are unmapped by commercial services, and communities living there are digitally invisible. Visible Communities...
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voices!
E Short, K Swift-Spong, J Greczek, A Ramachandran, A Litoiu, E Grigore, D Feil- Seifer, S Shuster, JJ Lee, et al (2014). "How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Edinburgh, UK).