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Artificial listener with social intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
Archived
Project Research

Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Anushka Shah +4 more
#social networks #civic media #data +5 more
Project Research

P2PSTORY: Dataset of children as storytellers and listeners in peer-to-peer interactions

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #data #kids +5 more
Research
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

#artificial intelligence #government #health +10 more
Archived
Project Research

Empowerment-based design and evaluation of civic technology

Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Erhardt Graeff
#civic media #civic technology #politics +2 more
Archived
Archived
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +25 more
Article Research

The world is complex. Measuring charity has to be too

We must, however, make changes in the way we fund potential solutions so that it supports a diversity of disciplines and approaches.

via Wired · July 30, 2019
in Director's Office
#economy #politics #social science
Article Research

Algorithm using racist drug war data to determine Missourians’ freedom

Pretrial risk assessments draw from “deeply flawed data" generated from arrest and conviction records, say researchers.

via FilterMag · July 29, 2019
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #social science #racial justice
Project Research

Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microg...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Christine Joseph
#environment #health #politics +8 more
Publication Research

Understanding Socio-Technical Issues Affecting the Current Microgravity Research Marketplace

C. Joseph and D. Wood, "Understanding Socio-Technical Issues Affecting the Current Microgravity Research Marketplace," 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2019, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.1109/AERO.2019.8742202

Proceedings, June 2019
in Space Enabled
#social science
Archived
Project Research

Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...

in Scalable Cooperation
Ziv Epstein · Niccolo Pescetelli +5 more
#social networks #crowdsourcing #networks +4 more
Archived
Project Research

Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Abdullah M. Almaatouq
#data #economy #politics +4 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 ...

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

Footwear x Mental Health: A Collaboration

How do your kicks collaborate with mental health?

May 21, 2019
in Viral Communications
#health #social science
Project Research

Designing social robots for older adults

Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limita...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #design #human-machine interaction +5 more
Article Research

AI researchers want to study AI the same way social scientists study humans

Maybe we don’t need to look inside the black box after all. We just need to watch how machines behave, instead.

via MIT Technology Review · April 29, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #learning #social science +1 more
Article Research

Open or closed? The answer is both.

Joi Ito tells Reid Hoffman what he learned about management, diversity, and openness from being a DJ in Chicago in the ‘80s.

via Masters of Scale · May 1, 2019
in Director's Office
#social science #industry
Article Research

Understanding machine behaviour

CIFAR Fellows Hugo Larochelle and Matthew Jackson argue for a new scientific discipline to study the broad effects of AI.

via CIFAR · April 26, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #learning +1 more
Article Research

The Future's Coming: Why we need to prepare for sci-fi tomorrows today

Teleportation may have to wait.

via Space.com · March 17, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative · Beyond the Cradle
#social science #space #technology
Publication Research

Machine behaviour

Rahwan, Iyad, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, et al. “Machine Behaviour.” Nature 568, no. 7753 (April 2019): 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y.

Academic Paper, April 2019
in Human Dynamics · Personal Robots · Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #social science +2 more
Post Research

Studying the behavior of AI

A new paper frames the emerging interdisciplinary field of machine behavior

April 23, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #social science +2 more
Project Research

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 be...

in Civic Media · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
J Nathan Matias · Ethan Zuckerman
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +3 more
Project Research

The Electome: Measuring responsiveness in the 2016 election

The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...

in Social Machines
Deb Roy · Russell Stevens +8 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #data +6 more
Project Research

The Ripple Effect: You are more influential than you think

The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Esteban Moro Egido +2 more
#data #social science #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

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 citie...

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Xiaowen Dong +1 more
#urban planning #social science #social change
Project Research

Data for Refugees

Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research group...

in Human Dynamics
Michiel Bakker · Alfredo Morales-Guzman +4 more
#social science #civic action #data science
Project Research

Tools to investigate societal impacts of robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Hae Won Park +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Article Research

Grey Mirror #8 Kate Darling, MIT: A systemic view on regulation and gender roles in tech

Kate Darling and Rhys Lindmark discuss the balances in regulating tech , how her research has evolved, and other topics.

via Medium · March 28, 2019
in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
#social science #technology
Article Research

The death of curiosity

How your company is killing innovation.

via Medium · March 26, 2019
in Affective Computing
#learning #social science #industry
Publication Research

Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

Frank, Morgan R., David Autor, James E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J. Deming, Maryann Feldman, et al. “Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 25, 2019, 201900949. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900949116.

Article, March 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #data #economy +3 more
Article Research

‘Atlas of Inequality’ maps where rich, poor do and don’t mix

Visiting professor Esteban Moro talks to Next City about the Atlas of Inequality.

via Next City · March 22, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #social science
Article Research

'Atlas Of Inequality' shows income segregation around Boston

Esteban Moro talks to WBUR about the Human Dynamics group's Atlas of Inequality.

via WBUR · March 12, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #social science
Project Research

The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +2 more
#civic technology #economy #urban planning +4 more
Project Research

Civic Entertainment

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Anushka Shah · Ethan Zuckerman
#civic media #communications #entertainment +4 more
Article Research

Visualizing where rich and poor people really cross paths—or don’t

These maps show “place inequality"—or why people of different income levels are at different coffee shops.

via Fast Company · March 8, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #economy #social science
Article Research

The 'Atlas of Inequality' maps micro-level segregation

MIT Media Lab’s new interactive “Atlas of Inequality” shows that “segregation is not just about where you live, but what you do."

via CityLab · March 6, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #economy #social science +1 more
Article Research

Augmented Democracy: César Hidalgo at TED2018

A bold idea to replace politicians

via TED · March 5, 2019
in Collective Learning
#artificial intelligence #politics #social science
Article Research

Making a path to ethical, socially-beneficial artificial intelligence

Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.

via MIT News · March 5, 2019
in Director's Office
#art #artificial intelligence #social science +3 more
Publication Research

How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences

Jara-Figueroa C, Yu AZ, Hidalgo CA (2019) How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0205771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205771

Article, Feb. 2019
in Collective Learning
#social science #social change #history
Project Research

Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

in Affective Computing
Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic · Rosalind W. Picard
#robotics #human-computer interaction #health +9 more
Article Research

Artificial intelligence has a problem with gender and racial bias. Here’s how to solve it.

Joy Buolamwini’s essay is featured in the Optimists issue of Time, guest-edited by Ava DuVernay.

via TIME · Feb. 7, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #social science #racial justice
Project Research

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 imp...

in Civic Media
Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +8 more
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. Rh...

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

Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B. , Picard, R. W., " Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy," Science Robotics, June 2018.

Academic Paper, June 2018
in Affective Computing
#human-machine interaction #social science #machine learning +4 more
Publication Research

Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics

Lederman, O., Calacci, D., MacMullen, A., Fehder, D. C., Murray, F. E., & Pentland, A. ". (2016). Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics, 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation , Washington DC, USA, June 28-July 1, 2016.

Academic Paper, March 2016
in Human Dynamics
#open source #social science
Article Research

The paradox of universal basic income

Liberals and conservatives alike love—and fear—the idea of giving free money to everyone. But we have to try it anyway.

via Wired · March 29, 2018
in Director's Office
#politics #social science
Article Research

The limits of explainability

Academics, economists, and AI researchers often undervalue the role of intuition in science. Here's why they're wrong.

via Wired · March 1, 2018
in Director's Office
#artificial intelligence #social science
Article Research

The next great (digital) extinction

We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.

via Wired · Oct. 8, 2018
in Director's Office
#social networks #networks #social media +2 more
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Emerging Worlds

Emerging Worlds

#art #consumer electronics #entertainment +3 more
Post Research

Congratulations to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.

Nov. 13, 2018
in Center for Civic Media · Biomechatronics · Synthetic Neurobiology +2 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #neurobiology +4 more
Article Research

30 Under 30 In Enterprise Tech: Drone School, AI Accountability And Buying Cars From Home

Joy Buolamwini identifies bias in algorithms and develops practices for accountability during design.

via Forbes · Nov. 13, 2018
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #social science
Publication Research

Social Capital Accounting

T. Nishikata, T. Hardjono and A. Pentland, Social Capital Accounting, October 2018.

White Paper/Memo, Oct. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#social science #social change #data science
Archived
Project Research

A-pops

A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...

in ML Learning · Lifelong Kindergarten
Guillermo Bernal · Jennifer Groff +2 more
#kids #learning #interfaces +1 more
Archived
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Apops: Pilot Installation, Mexico City, December 2017

APOPS was presented at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab in Aug 2018. The slides from that presentation can be found below.

Oct. 17, 2018
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#learning #interfaces #social science
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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
#robotics #architecture #art +23 more
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

#design #human-computer interaction #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Diana Orghian – The Optimism Bias

Growing up in a foreign country, the optimism-mystique connection and making data digestible.

via GLiMPSE · Aug. 8, 2018
in Collective Learning
#data #social science #data visualization
Thesis Research

Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment

Graeff, Erhardt (2018). Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Thesis, May 2018
in Civic Media
#civic media #civic technology #politics +1 more
Project Research

Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Mirko Gelsomini +2 more
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
Project Research

Personalized Interaction for Language Learning

The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language...

in Personal Robots
Huili Chen · Samuel Spaulding +2 more
#interfaces #social science #social robotics
Publication Research

Weather impacts expressed sentiment

Baylis P, Obradovich N, Kryvasheyeu Y, Chen H, Coviello L, et al. (2018) Weather impacts expressed sentiment. PLOS ONE 13(4): e0195750.

Academic Paper, Aug. 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#social science
Project Research

Gender Shades

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

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Project Research

GUI3D

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Compone...

J. Ira Winder
#gaming #human-machine interaction #open source +2 more
Project Research

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.

in Living Mobile
Chris Schmandt · Anna Fuste
#augmented reality #data #fashion +2 more
Publication Research

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality

Fuste, Anna, and Chris Schmandt. "ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.

Media, May 2017
in Living Mobile
#augmented reality #social science #data visualization
Publication Research

Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas

Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.

Academic Paper, April 2018
in Collective Learning
#data #economy #social science
Publication Research

Small cities face greater impact from automation

Small cities face greater impact from automation Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun, Manuel Cebrian, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan J. R. Soc. Interface 2018 15 20170946; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0946. Published 7 February 2018

Academic Paper, Feb. 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #human-machine interaction #social science
Publication Research

Rhythm: A Unified Measurement Platform for Human Organizations

Academic Paper, Jan. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#consumer electronics #social science
Publication Research

Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?

Pinheiro, Flávio L., et al. "Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?" arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05352 (2018).

Article, Jan. 2018
in Collective Learning
#networks #social science
Publication Research

Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems

Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. (2018). Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems, forthcoming Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)

Article, May 2018
in Collective Learning
#networks #social science
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
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