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Article Research

Building a Better Economy

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.

via TEDxMIT · May 1, 2020
in Human Dynamics
#data #government #social science +3 more
Article Research

At Mass STEM Week kickoff, MIT RAISE announces Day of AI

Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”

via MIT News · Oct. 20, 2021
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +6 more
Project Research

Research resiliency through lean labs

Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely while …

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · David Sadat
#design #bioengineering #health +6 more
Article Research

Lockdowns reveal inequities in opportunities for walking activities

Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.

via MIT News · July 19, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#social networks #behavioral science #community +4 more
Article Research

This Toronto-based nonprofit provides creative education to over 2,000 children in rural India

Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.

via SocialStory · Aug. 31, 2021
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning + teaching #creativity +2 more
Article Research

Building Our Muscle for Democracy (Prof. Ceasar McDowell)

In this podcast episode, Ceasar McDowell talks about designing better, more equitable public conversations.

via Chalk Radio podcast from MIT OpenCourseWare · June 3, 2021
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#politics #community #social change
Article Research

‘Living’ space as the newest frontier: MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw to focus on self-assembling space architecture and habitats in CLS

Ariel Ekblaw spoke at the Chautauqua Institution about her novel space architecture ideas and a call for more dialogue on space ethics.

via The Chautauquan Daily · July 8, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#architecture #environment #ethics +3 more
Article Research

Driving commuters toward sustainable options

How data from Access MIT informs flexible, sustainable commutes as staff returns to campus.

via MIT News · July 13, 2021
in City Science
#data #environment #transportation +3 more
Article Research

Stopping by with Ekene Ijeoma

Ekene Ijeoma talks about his artistic influences and new editions of his latest projects, including A Counting and Freedom Radio.

via Poetry Society of America · May 26, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#art #creativity #community
Article Research

Kent Larson on Resilient Communities and Sustainability | "On Cities" Masterclass Series

Kent Larson considers the societal stressors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and those that the world will face post-pandemic.

via Norman Foster Foundation · April 21, 2021
in City Science
#environment #urban planning #community +1 more
Article Research

A portrait of US linguistic diversity, in sound and sign

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to The New York Times about “A Counting,” a participatory art project

via The New York Times · March 25, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#art #community #natural language processing +1 more
Article Research

Remote Learning: Proactive preparation & student outreach

How Canan Dagdeviren helped her students and members of the Conformable Decoders group adjust to working remotely

via MIT Open Learning · Jan. 12, 2021
in Conformable Decoders
#community #wellbeing #covid19
Article Research

STEM Week event encourages students to see themselves in science and technology careers

MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.

via MIT News · Nov. 17, 2020
in Personal Robots · Space Enabled
#government #kids #learning + teaching +4 more
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Project Research

Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…

in Human Dynamics
Dan Calacci
#design #human-computer interaction #civic technology +7 more
Publication Research

Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation

Berke A., Nawyn J., Lengeling T.S., Larson K. (2020) Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1229. Springer, Cham

Academic Paper, July 2020
in City Science
#human-computer interaction #privacy #wearable computing +2 more
Article Research

Building a Bridge for Learning | Jaylen Brown + David Kong @ TEDxBeaconStreet

Director's fellow Jaylen Brown and Labber David Kong on Jaylen's educational journey and their new learning and leadership initiative.

via TEDxBeaconStreet · Jan. 16, 2020
in Community Biotechnology · Director's Fellows Program
#learning + teaching #sports and fitness #community +1 more
Article Research

Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight

Like too many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the aerospace sector in the US is populated mainly by white people.

via Quartz · June 10, 2020
in Space Enabled
#design #space #community +3 more
Article Research

MIT professor wants to shift power to the people by building local data collectives

"Building the New Economy" envisions data co-ops to make it easier for people to control and analyze their own financial and health data.

via TechRepublic · June 5, 2020
in Human Dynamics
#data #government #privacy +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Let's Talk Privacy: Exploring how privacy and data governance policies translate into practice

Let’s Talk Privacy explores how the implementation of privacy and data governance policies might impact a variety of fields.Project Let’s T…

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Dennis Jen · Stephanie Nguyen
#design #data #government +3 more
Archived
Post Research

From legislation to implementation: Exploring how to prototype privacy bills through human-centered policymaking + design

The rise of data privacy breaches and a look into policies that address these challenges

June 1, 2020
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#design #data #government +3 more
Post Research

Tales from Virtuality – Research under quarantine at the MIT Media Lab

Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.

May 18, 2020
in Responsive Environments
#human-computer interaction #learning + teaching #music +3 more
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #health +8 more
Project Research

DoppelLab: Experiencing multimodal sensor data

Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensive …

Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton +1 more
#human-computer interaction #learning + teaching #music +3 more
Article Research

(Re)Building the Economy | Alex (Sandy) Pentland | TEDxMIT

With each major crisis, be it pandemic, war, or major new technology, there has been the need to reinvent our society.

via TEDxTalks · May 13, 2020
in Human Dynamics
#economy #social science #community +2 more
Article Research

Episode 46: Pioneer through the pandemic with professor + innovator, Dr. Hugh Herr

Biomechatronics head Hugh Herr discusses his research with the No Barriers USA podcast.

via No Barriers USA Podcast · May 6, 2020
in Biomechatronics
#creativity #community #technology +1 more
Post Research

Lesson of a Pandemic for a Connected World

Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.

May 4, 2020
in Viral Communications
#communications #data #government +8 more
Post Research

Awkwardly Mobile: Meet the New Ambulatory ArtCube

Because the walls and halls of E14 and E15 are subject to building codes and approvals, we decided to create our own walls.

Dec. 19, 2018
in Civic Media
#art #community
Article Research

Foster innovation, ethical tech with diverse teams

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.

via The Wall Street Journal · Jan. 13, 2020
in Civic Media
#ethics #community #technology +2 more
Project Research

Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…

in Personal Robots
Jon Ferguson · Hae Won Park +2 more
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +14 more
Article Research

Ring’s hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to…

via Gizmodo · Dec. 9, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#networks #privacy #security +2 more
Project Research

Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …

in Human Dynamics
Takeo Nishikata · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
#social networks #wearable computing #social science +4 more
Article Research

A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.

via Quartz · Dec. 17, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#social networks #wearable computing #community +1 more
Article Research

Innovator in chief

Moinina David Sengeh, PhD ’16, is trying to bring innovation into “the heart of government.”

via MIT Technology Review · Oct. 24, 2019
in Biomechatronics
#government #learning + teaching #community +2 more
Article Research

Opinion | The fast-evolving ethical conundrums of biotechnology

Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late

via Livemint · Nov. 11, 2019
in Community Biotechnology
#learning + teaching #privacy #community +2 more
Publication Research

Bike Swarm

Berke, A., Sanchez Lengeling, T., Nawyn, J., & Larson, K. (2019, November). Bike Swarm. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1-4). ACM.

Academic Paper, Nov. 2019
in City Science
#human-computer interaction #art #transportation +1 more
Post Research

A Counting—Poetic Justice group call for multilingual speakers

Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.

Nov. 8, 2019
in Poetic Justice
#art #language learning #community
Article Research

Designs on the sky

Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow Prathima Muniyappa uses the transformative power of design to empower marginalized indigenous communities.

via SPAN · Sept. 1, 2019
in Space Enabled
#design #art #space +3 more
Article Research

EduTrends: Ep. 3 - Philipp Schmidt

José “Pepe“ Escamilla, from the Observatory of Educational Innovation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, talks to ML Learning head Philipp Schmidt

via EduTrends · Oct. 30, 2019
in ML Learning
#learning + teaching #community
Article Research

BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?

Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.

via BBC News · Oct. 16, 2019
in Affective Computing
#community #social change #women
Article Research

HubWeek 2019 celebrates five years of connecting MIT, Boston, and the world

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

via MIT News · Sept. 27, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #community #technology
Article Research

A community-guided genome editing project can fight Lyme disease

Kevin Esvelt writes about the Sculpting Evolution group’s project to immunize mice against Lyme disease through gene editing.

via STAT · Aug. 22, 2019
in Sculpting Evolution
#genetics #health #community +1 more
Project Research

Symphony for the Koreas

Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#music #politics #community +1 more
Article Research

Peace workshop, concert connect experts, youth on Jeju Island

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island

via The Korea Times · Aug. 11, 2019
in Opera of the Future
#music #politics #community
Article Research

Episode 85: Innovation at the Edge

David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.

via Mass Cultural Council · July 30, 2019
in Community Biotechnology
#art #learning + teaching #community +1 more
Article Research

E14 Fund helps Media Lab community deploy startups

“First and foremost we’re a community-builder,” says Habib Haddad, a managing partner of the venture fund.

via MIT News · July 25, 2019
in Director's Office · Media Lab Spinoffs
#member company #community #alumni +1 more
Article Research

For the women of McCormick, a new space in which to create

MIT’s residence hall for women and women-identifying students opens a craft studio to promote creativity and belonging.

via MIT News · May 31, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#art #community #gender studies +1 more

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