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Transforming data into knowledge
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...
Creating technology for social change
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Chowdhury, S. K. (2018). Pintail: A Travel Companion for Guided Storytelling.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Dan Novy, MIT Media Lab engineer, is a strong advocate of bridging this gap, especially in media innovation.
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
We present Norman, world's first psychopath AI. Norman was inspired by the fact that the data used to teach a machine learning algorithm ...
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.
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).
Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate ...
Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer.
New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.
Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachuset...
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations–a...
Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
Jin Joo Lee. A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
HW Park, M Gelsomini, JJ Lee, T Zhu, and C Breazeal (2017). Backchannel Opportunity Prediction for Social Robot Listeners. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
The news is probably one of the first things people check in the morning, but how much does what you know and understand about the world ...
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Children’s oral language skills in preschool can predict their academic success later in life. Helping children improve their language an...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
A transgenic chicken commercial for ovulating womenEsgtrogen Farms is a fictional company that raises genetically modified chickens that ...
The MIT Scratch Team is exploring ways to make it easier for newcomers to get started creating with coding. We are designing "microworlds...
Pillow-Talk is a set of connected objects intended to assist in the capture and recall digitally stored dreams and memories via natural a...
For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people try to innovate ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotio...
The use of data-driven methods to examine dynamic spaces, relationships, and mechanisms within an urban environment frames the city as a ...
CE 2.0
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
Pintail is a travel companion app for guided storytelling. It will start by capturing your travel plan so that it can nudge you with pers...