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Project Research

Theme | Communication + Collaboration

Communication skills are critical for all. We  design and develop systems to help people with communication issues, e.g., more empathi…

in Fluid Interfaces · Affective Computing
Pattie Maes · Utkarsh Sarawgi +3 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +7 more
Project Research

Liquid News

Liquid News aims to help people better understand and interact with the news by providing machine-learning-based analysis and semantic…

in Viral Communications
Dagmawi Haile · Andrew Lippman
#artificial intelligence #communications #entertainment
Project Research

AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +4 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +2 more
Project Research

CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Social Machines
Hang Jiang
#social networks #artificial intelligence #civic media +4 more
Project Research

Liquid Movies

Video has evolved from an esoteric production to the default means of online and broadcast communication. We accept a wrong or lengthy vide…

in Viral Communications
JS Tan
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #communications +1 more
Project Research

Wemoji

This project was produced as part of the   2021 Snap Creative Challenge, focused on "The Future of Co-located Social AR."Wem…

in Fluid Interfaces
Joanne Leong · Pattie Maes +1 more
#human-computer interaction #augmented reality #communications
Project Research

Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.

in Viral Communications
Kevin Dunnell
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +4 more
Project Research

Designing Generative Dialogue Spaces

Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou
#design #human-computer interaction #communications
Project Research

Participatory Sensemaking

How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou · Maggie Hughes
#design #civic technology #communications
Project Research

Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…

in Biomechatronics
Matthew Handford · Matthew Carney +4 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +17 more
Project Research

AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…

in Fluid Interfaces
Arnav Kapur · Eric Wadkins +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

iNonymize: Empathetic Anonymity in Tele-Mental Health Using AI Generated Avatars

This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health pla…

in Fluid Interfaces
Joanne Leong · Pat Pataranutaporn +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +3 more
Project Research

Battery-Free Subsea Internet-of-Things

We present Piezo-Acoustic Backscatter (PAB), the first technology that enables backscatter networking in underwater environments. PAB relie…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Sayed Afzal +4 more
#communications #data #energy +9 more
Project Research

Scalable and Ultra-Low Power Ocean IoT

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT.  At the…

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Sayed Afzal +2 more
#communications #data #energy +6 more
Project Research

Safe Paths

Papers from SafePaths: https://github.com/PrivateKit/PrivacyDocumentsSafe Paths is an MIT-led, free, open source technology that …

in Camera Culture · Sculpting Evolution
Ramesh Raskar · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +1 more
#artificial intelligence #communications #data +7 more
Project Research

Wireless communication from underwater to the air

Did you know that submarines today still cannot wirelessly communicate with airplanes? For decades, communicating between underwater and th…

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Reza Ghaffarivardavagh +1 more
#robotics #communications #networks +3 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 ca…

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

CocoVerse: A playground for co-creation and communication in virtual reality

Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality 

in Fluid Interfaces
Hisham Bedri · Pattie Maes +3 more
#virtual reality #communications
Project Research

Rhythm: Open measurement and feedback tools for human interaction

Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rhyt…

in Human Dynamics
Dan Calacci · Oren Lederman +1 more
#communications #sensors #social science +4 more
Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#communications #ecology #environment +4 more
Project Research

Captions++

Modern web presentations such as Youtube feature videos with commentary appended at the bottom. In our new imagining of Videotext, we put t…

in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Tomer Weller
#communications #social media
Project Research

DbDb

DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimental …

in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Travis Rich
#communications #networks

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