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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +63 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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 +12 more
Research
Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

#banking and finance #cryptocurrency #economy +17 more
Article Research

Episode 3: Time for a New Antitrust Era (Mahari, Lera & Pentland)

Thibault Schrepel discusses a new paper on roads to improve antitrust law with co-authors from the Human Dynamics group.

via Stanford Computational Antitrust · May 3, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#data #government #trust
Research
Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #social networks +64 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
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
Rosalind W. Picard · Cynthia Breazeal +1 more
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +5 more
Archived
Archived
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

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

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...

in Human Dynamics
Kent Larson · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

OPAL 4 Health

Open Algorithms (OPAL)

in Human Dynamics
Jose Balsa Barreiro · Abdulrahman Alotaibi +3 more
#health #privacy #trust
Publication Research

Detecting the Trustworthiness of Novel Partners in Economic Exchange

D DeSteno, C Breazeal, R Frank, D Pizarro, J Baumann, L Dickens, JJ Lee (2012). Detecting the Trustworthiness of Novel Partners in Economic Exchange. Psychological Science.

Academic Paper, Nov. 2012
in Personal Robots
#social science #social robotics #nonverbal behavior +1 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
Publication Research

Computationally Modeling Interpersonal Trust

JJ Lee, WB Knox, JB Wormwood, C Breazeal, D DeSteno (2013). Computationally Modeling Interpersonal Trust. Frontiers in Psychology.

Academic Paper, Dec. 2013
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #social science #machine learning +3 more
Project Research

Secure Sharing of Wildlife Data

Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, s...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Remo Frey
#ecology #networks #privacy +5 more

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