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Social Evolution: Modeling Opinions and Behaviors in Face-to-Face Networks

LocationE14-633 DescriptionThe exposure to new information and opinions, and their diffusion within social networks, are important question…

Wednesday
March 17, 2010
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Social Evolution: Modeling Opinions and Behaviors in Face-to-Face Networks

Madan, A. "Social Evolution: Modeling Opinions and Behaviors in Face-to-Face Networks"

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Pervasive Sensing to Model Political Opinion in Face-to-Face Networks

A. Madan, K. Farrahi,, D. Gatica-Perez, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

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Social Sensing: Obesity, Unhealthy Eating and Exercise in Face-to-Face Networks

A. Madan, S. Moturu, D. Cebrian, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

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Mobile Sensing to Model the Evolution of Political Opinions

Anmol Madan, David Lazer, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

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Modeling the Co-evolution of Behaviors and Social Relationships Using Mobile Phone Data

Wen Dong, Bruno Lepri, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

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Modeling Face-to-Face Communication Using the Sociometer

Tanzeem Choudhury, Alex Pentland

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Positivity Resonates: Effects of face-to-face social connection on human wellbeing

Special lecture by psychologist Barbara FredricksonAre the moments of positive interpersonal connection we experience positive health behav…

Monday
October 1, 2018
2:00pm — 3:00pm ET
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Mining Face-to-Face Interaction Networks using Sociometric Badges: Predicting Productivity in an IT Configuration Task (December

Lynn Wu, Benjamin N. Waber, Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland.

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Real Time Tracking and Modeling of Faces: An EKF-based Analysis by Synthesis Approach

Jacob Strom, Tony Jebara, Sumit Basu, Alex Pentland

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Sensing and Modeling Human Networks

Choudhury, T. "Sensing and Modeling Human Networks"

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Modeling Co-Evolution of Behavior and Social Relationships Using Mobile Phone Data

Wen Dong, Bruno Lepri, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

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Modeling, Tracking and Interactive Animation of Faces and Heads using Input from Video

Irfan Essa, Sumit Basu, Trevor Darrell, Alex Pentland

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Novel Wearable Apparatus for Quantifying and Reliably Measuring Social-Emotional Expression Recognition in Natural Face-to-Face Interaction

Alea Teeters, Rana Kaliouby, Matthew Goodwin, Shandell M., Rosalind W. Picard

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Sensing and Modeling Human Networks using the Sociometer

Tanzeem Choudhury, Alex Pentland

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Linking Individual and Collective Behavior in Adaptive Social Networks

Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. C., & Pacheco, J. M. (2016). Linking individual and collective behavior in adaptive social networks. Physical review letters, 116(12), 128702. Chicago

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Collective Behavior over Social Networks with Data-driven and Machine Learning Models

Leng, Yan. Collective Behavior over Social Networks with Data-driven and Machine Learning Models. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.

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Self-Supervised Learning of Face Representations for Video Face Clustering

Vivek Sharma, Makarand Tapaswi, M. Saquib Sarfraz, and Rainer Stiefelhagen. In IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), 2019

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Modeling Social Diffusion Phenomena using Reality Mining

Anmol Madan, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

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Interactive-Time Vision: Face Recognition as a Visual Behavior

Matthew A. Turk

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Optogenetic and pharmacological suppression of spatial clusters of face neurons reveal their causal role in face gender discrimination

Afraz, A., Boyden, E. S., DiCarlo, J. J. (2015) Optogenetic and pharmacological suppression of spatial clusters of face neurons reveal their causal role in face gender discrimination, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(21):6730-5.

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On-Face Olfactory Interfaces

We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or masks,…

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Video Face Clustering with Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Vivek Sharma, Makarand Tapaswi, M. Saquib Sarfraz, and Rainer Stiefelhagen. In IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM), 2019.

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A conformable sensory face mask for decoding biological and environmental signals

Kim, J., Marcus, C., Ono, R., Sadat, D., Mirzazadeh, A., Jens, M., Fernandez S. V., Zheng, S., Durak, T., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask for Decoding Biological and Environmental Signals”, Nature Electronics, 5, 794–807, 2022. [Cover Image]

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Social Studies: Using Cell Phones and Wearable Sensors to Research Nonverbal Signals, Information Flow, and the Value of Face-to-Face Conversation

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SocialCircuits, The Art of Using Mobile Phones for Modeling Personal Interactions

Iolanthe Chronis, Anmol Madan, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

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Faces of MIT: Abisola Okuk

Abisola Okuk, who began her career at MIT as an admin in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, talks to MIT News about finding her passion.

Article

Faces of MIT: Mary Niskala

Mary Niskala, a senior administrative assistant, talks to MIT News about her proudest moments at the Institute.

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Social networks: Emotions on Twitter

MIT has developed an extension that allows knowing the emotional impact caused by the content that everyone creates and consumes on Twitter.

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Intermediate Levels of Network Heterogeneity Provide the Best Evolutionary Outcomes

Pinheiro, Flávio L., and Dominik Hartmann. "Intermediate Levels of Network Heterogeneity Provide the Best Evolutionary Outcomes." Scientific Reports 7.1 (2017): 15242.

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Just Making Faces? Animatronics, Children and Computation

Sempere, A. "Just Making Faces? Animatronics, Children and Computation"

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A Scalable Solution for Signaling Face Touches to Reduce the Spread of Surface-based Pathogens

Camilo Rojas, Niels Poulsen, Mileva Van Tuyl, Daniel Vargas, Zipporah Cohen, Joe Paradiso, Pattie Maes, Kevin Esvelt, and Fadel Adib. 2021. A Scalable Solution for Signaling Face Touches to Reduce the Spread of Surface-based Pathogens.. Proc. ACM IMWUT

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Affect Reflection Technology in Face-to-Face Service Encounters

Kim, K. "Affect Reflection Technology in Face-to-Face Service Encounters"

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Modeling Contingent Behaviors in Multiparty Conversations

Recognizing and interpreting group behaviors is much more challenging than that of individual behaviors. Firstly, the system must perform w…

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Television Meets Facebook: Social Networking through Consumer Electronics

Baca, M. "Television Meets Facebook: Social Networking through Consumer Electronics"

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Sculpting Evolution

Evolution gave rise to every living thing and all of human culture, but evolved systems are very different from those designed by huma…

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Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Toshiba Professor

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Parametrized Structure from Motion for 3D Adaptive Feedback Tracking of Faces

Tony S. Jebara, Alex Pentland

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Face Interface

The Face Interface system allows users to select facial gestures to control the Windows interface without a keyboard or mouse. The system r…

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Television Meets Facebook: Social Networking via Consumer Electronics

This project explores how merging ubiquitous consumer electronics and the sociable Web can improve the user experience of these devices, in…

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The Benefits of Synchronized Genuine Smiles in Face-to-Face Service Encounters

K. Kim, M. Eckhardt, N. Bugg, Rosalind W. Picard

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An Automatic System for Model-Based Coding of Faces

Baback Moghaddam, Alex Pentland

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Folk Computing: Designing Technology to Support Face-to-Face Community Building

Borovoy, R. "Folk Computing: Designing Technology to Support Face-to-Face Community Building"

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Face Recognition for Smart Environments

Alex Pentland, Tanzeem Choudhury

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"Picture the Audience...": Exploring Private AR Face Filters for Online Public Speaking

Joanne Leong, Florian Perteneder, Muhender Raj Rajvee, and Pattie Maes. 2023. “Picture the Audience...”: Exploring Private AR Face Filters for Online Public Speaking. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581039

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Active Face Tracking and Pose Estimation in an Interactive Room

T. Darrell, B. Moghaddam, A. Pentland

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Human Dynamics work recognized for 10 years of impact

For the paper "Modeling the Co-evolution of Behaviors and Social Relationships Using Mobile Phone Data"

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MIT engineers develop sensors for face masks that help gauge fit

The system measures biological and environmental changes, and detects contact between the mask and the wearer’s skin.

Video

Research Group Overview: Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering.

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View-Based and Modular Eigenspaces for Face Recognition

Alex Pentland, Baback Moghaddam, Thad Starner

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Proximity and the Evolution of Collaboration Networks: Evidence from R&D Projects within the GNSS Industry

Balland, P.A. (2012) Proximity and the Evolution of Collaboration Networks: Evidence from Research and Development Projects within the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Industry, Regional Studies, 46 (6): 741-756

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The value in the links: networks and the evolution of organizations

CA Hidalgo

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Face recognition using view-based and modular eigenspaces

Baback Moghaddam, Alex Pentland

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Deep Learning Models for Engagement Estimation from Face Images (Python)

A package for building generalized and culturalized deep models to estimate engagement levels from face images of autistic children

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'If you have a face, you have a place in the conversation about AI,' expert says

On NPR’s Fresh Air, alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (Civic Media) talks about the social implications of artificial intelligence.

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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

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Digital Stylometry: Linking Profiles Across Social Networks

Soroush Vosoughi, Helen Zhou, Deb Roy

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Face the Facts-Experimental Embodied Data Visualization

The, R. "Face the Facts-Experimental Embodied Data Visualization"

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Personalized Federated Deep Learning for Pain Estimation From Face Images

O. Rudovic, N. Tobis, S. Kaltwang, B. Schuller, D. Rueckert, JF Cohn & Picard R.W. (2021). Personalized Federated Deep Learning for Pain Estimation From Face Images. arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.04800.