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Measuring and reducing social segregation in cities

We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
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Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
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On social media platforms, more sharing means less caring about accuracy

An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
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Let’s fight global tax dodgers with cutting-edge data science

Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Creating a sense of feeling

Biomedical engineer and dancer Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20 explores connections between the human body and the outside world.
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Using game engines and “twins” to co-create stories of climate futures

Ceasar McDowell, among others, spoke to participants at the WORLDING workshop on “Land-Use Planning and Authorship."
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Election Misinformation Symposium: Fighting misinfo through fact-checking and deepfake detection

Discussion on fact-checking and deepfake detection at the Election Misinformation Symposium 2022.
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Crypto Decoded

From Bitcoin to NFTs, crypto is making headlines. But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
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How to Save Democracy: A new study gives clues for how to fix America’s political culture

Of 25 proposed interventions for democracy tested, one developed by Human Dynamics researchers was among the most effective.
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Robot companions are on their way, but don’t worry, they won’t replace humans

Media Lab researcher Kate Darling looks at the current state of household robots and considers how we may interact with them in the future.
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“Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air”: On growing up Muslim in America

Six MIT students, including Biomechatronics student Ayse Guvenilir, share their thoughts on belonging, identity, love, and MIT itself.
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The Astronaut Ethnography Web Project: Insights from first-person accounts of space

S. Sharma, N. Klop-Packel, A. Ekblaw, “The Astronaut Ethnography Web Project: Insights from First-Person Accounts of Space.” AC-22,E1,9,19,x68611, 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France, 18-22 September 2022.
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Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, and Colin DoyleTwenty-seven prominent  researchers from MIT,  Harvard, Princeton, NYU, …
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student at the Media Lab, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute Award presented annually to one MI…
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ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…
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Civic Entertainment

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
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Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…
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"An Ethics, Equity, and Justice Audit and Reimagination of Engineering Education" receives seed funding from MIT IDSS and SSRC program

The IDSS/SSRC Combatting Systemic Racism Seed Fund Program supports innovative, early-stage cross-disciplinary research projects.
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Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a projec…
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Social Capital Accounting

T. Nishikata, T. Hardjono and A. Pentland, Social Capital Accounting, October 2018.
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From modeling quantum devices to political systems

MIT senior Sihao Huang describes his experience working with Alex Siegenfeld towards the emerging field of complex systems science.
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MAS.S64. Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies

MAS.S64 Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies - Fall 2020 Online CourseWhen: Tuesdays, 3-4 …
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Waze for our Pandemic Journey

Ramesh Raskar discuses potential approaches to creating apps that can leverage citizen engagement to improve government responses to crises.
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Could humanlike behavior make smart devices more engaging? MIT researchers think so

A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.
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“Hey, Alexa! Are you trustworthy?”

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.
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Are humans better than AI at detecting deepfakes? It’s complicated.

PhD student Matt Groh speaks with Input Magazine’s Annie Rauwerda about his team's recent research on deepfake detection.
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Future bright: SA data scientist awarded scholarship to study at MIT in Massachusetts

Lynn Cameron highlights Human Dynamics student Tobin South and his path from the University of Adelaide to the Media Lab.
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When two heads aren’t better than one

Leaders often have to decide whether to delegate projects to individuals or a group. According to a new study, it should depend on the task.
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Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
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Building a Better Economy

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.
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Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI)

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
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Study: More people walked during the pandemic, but how much depended on their income level

Boston.com reports on research conducted by Human Dynamics head Sandy Pentland, visiting professor Esteban Moro, and collaborators.
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Ekene Ijeoma on ‘Trying to Portray Hidden Things’

Professor Ijeoma, spoke with Evan Moffitt from Frieze about his recent group exhibition at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha.
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Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities

Moro, E., Calacci, D., Dong, X. et al. Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities. Nat Commun 12, 4633 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24899-8
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The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
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TuringBox: Democratizing the study of AI

TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. It…
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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CivilServant: User-led randomized trials online

The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial beha…
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Decolonial Pathways: Our Manifesto for a Decolonizing Agenda in HCI Research and Design

Alvarado García, Adriana, Juan F. Maestre, Manuhuia Barcham, Marilyn Iriarte, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Oscar A. Lemus, Palak Dudani, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Ruotong Wang, and Teresa Cerrato Pargman. "Decolonial Pathways: Our Manifesto for a Decolonizing Agenda in HCI Research and Design" In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Preprint.
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Engagement with Voice-User Interface Agents

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
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Achieving Grassroots Innovation Through Multi-Lateral Collaborations: Evidence from the Field

Guzmán, Silvia Buitrago, and Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar. "Achieving grassroots innovation through multi-lateral collaborations: evidence from the field." (2020).
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National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards two grants to MIT

MIT received two Convergence Accelerator grants from the NSF—one of which is for the Smart Oceans 2020 conference co-hosted by the Media Lab
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
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Tools for mapping the molecular architecture and wiring of the brain

Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNAs,…
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How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences

Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded.…
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What is the optimal way to diversify an economy?

One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should tar…
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The Design of Pseudo-Participation

Victoria Palacin, Matti Nelimarkka, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and Christoph Becker. 2020. The Design of Pseudo-Participation. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2 (PDC '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 40–44.
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Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of Participatory Design

Becker, C., Light, A., Frauenberger, C., Walker, D., Palacin, V., Ahmed, S. I., ... & Nemer, D. (2020, June). Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020-Participation (s) Otherwise-Volume 2 (pp. 181-184).
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Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This for…
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Machine Behavior

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …
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AI, Automation, Labor, and Cities: How to map the future of work

Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. But …
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Honest Crowds

The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey pl…
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DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an in…
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Evolution of the Social Contract

Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutions…
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Identifying the human impacts of climate change

Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these potenti…
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Global Cooperation

Measuring Cooperation at Scale
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Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…
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Kicks x Cliques

Leveraging sneaker culture to influence civic engagement. Marginalized groups have influence on digital platforms but are often unhear…
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SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, channe…
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(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.
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MIT Sloan research shows adaptive networks promote better collective intelligence

Study cautions against using static org charts during COVID-19 crisis.