Event

MLTalks: Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin and Cameron Kerry

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin in conversation with Cameron Kerry.

Friday
February 27, 2015
Video

MLTalks: Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin and Cameron Kerry

Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin in conversation with Cameron Kerry.

Person

Cameron Kerry

Former Visiting Scholar

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POSTPONED Media Lab Conversations Series: Geetha Narayanan

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium Description This talk has been postponed. We look forward to following Geetha Narayanan later in …

Friday
March 15, 2013
Event

Media Lab Conversations Series: Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor

Damien Echols and Shaka Senghor in conversation on injustice, compassion, and redemption in relation to their prison memoirs.

Thursday
May 16, 2013
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: JJ Abrams

Nov. 26, 2012
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: Carroll Bogert

Sept. 10, 2012
Video

Media Lab Conversations Series: Guts and Genius

David Sun Kong, Kevin Slavin, and special guests in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Person

Isabelle Chong

Research Assistant

Article

Cameron Kerry Joins MIT Media Lab As Visiting Scholar

Project

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…

Post

Recordings: Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Part of a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma

Publication

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775

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Leading Conversations in AI: Extended intelligence & humans with machines

Kate Darling, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes of the Media Lab join Patricia Henderson for a conversation about extended intelligence.

Friday
October 8, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Project

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …

Article

Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness | Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.

Publication

Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations

Jaques, N., Kim, Y. L., and Picard, R. W. "Personality, Attitudes, and Bonding in Conversations," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.

Project

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece s…

Event

Tod Machover @ Composing Conversations, Dallas

LocationThe Dallas Opera, Hamon Hall Winspear Opera House Description

Tuesday
September 18, 2012
Project

Predicting Bonding in Conversations

We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict w…

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Building Trust and Fostering Long-Term Engagement in Conversations

 DescriptionMeaningful conversations and genuine engagement rely on trust that goes beyond just words. In participatory dialogue, trus…

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Catalyst Conversations: Tod Machover and Kevin Esvelt

LocationMIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater DescriptionIn a world capable of destroying itself, composer Tod Machover and evolutionary biologist …

Monday
March 28, 2016
Event

Catalyst Conversations: The Transformative Power of Fiber

Catalyst Conversations in partnership with The Foundry presentsThe Transformative Power of FiberResearcher: Irmandy WicaksonoArtist: Cori C…

Wednesday
November 2, 2022
6:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Event

Media Lab Perspectives Speaker Series

Faculty Perspectives is a new series inviting thoughtful speakers and innovators to inspire the Media Lab community and beyond.

Thursday
April 14, 2022
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Publication

MultiPar-T: Multiparty-Transformer for Capturing Contingent Behaviors in Group Conversations

Lee, D. W., Kim, Y., Picard, R., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2023). Multipar-T: Multiparty-Transformer for Capturing Contingent Behaviors in Group Conversations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12204.

Article

New Episode Tonight! Cambridge Nights: Conversations about a Life in Science

Publication

Common Sense Conversations: Understanding Casual Conversation using a Common Sense Database

Nathan Eagle, Push Singh, Alex Pentland

Publication

Proto-conversations with an anthropomorphic robot

C. Breazeal

Video

Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience (4/19/22)

Watch the recording of Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience, hosted by the Biomechatronics group

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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

The Challenge: To harness AI for humanity's leap forwardMachines are becoming more intelligent and more powerful every day. But, like all t…

Article

Climate Conversations, S2E3: How will Human Beings Adapt to a Changing Climate?

How well have humans adapted to the current climate, and how will we adapt to new climate complexities?This week, the Climate Conversations…

Publication

Automated Coach to Practice Conversations

M. Ehsan Hoque, Rosalind W. Picard

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MLTalks Series

Learn more about our MLTalks series, including upcoming events.

Event

Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Listening to DisruptIn this session of the Media Lab Perspectives series, Deb Roy will engage his collaborator Kathy Cramer in co…

Thursday
May 27, 2021
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Publication

Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language

Jaques, N., McDuff, D., Kim, Y. K., and Picard, R. W. "Understanding and Predicting Bonding in Conversations Using Thin Slices of Facial Expressions and Body Language," In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, California, USA, September 2016.

Video

Media Lab Perspectives: Listening to Disrupt with Katherine Cramer

Thursday May 27, 2021 …

Article

India has been able to manage complex conversations better than US: Tenzin Priyadarshi

Priyadarshi talks to Malini Goyal on a broad range of issues.

Event

Media Lab @ 2023 Cambridge Science Festival

Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM)

Post

Media Lab research response to COVID-19

The Media Lab community brings creativity, expertise, and research to the pandemic

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Media Lab @ 2022 Lake Nona Impact Forum

"A conversation. Not a conference."

Publication

Conversational Scene Analysis

Basu, S. "Conversational Scene Analysis"

Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: NTT DATA

6月26日(土)4:00-5:00pm(日本)NTTデータ + Personal Robots + Signal Kinetics「JiboとRFID技術で実現する“親しみのある”IT服薬サポート」発表者:吉田 英嗣 (NTT DATA) 、大杉 直樹博士 (NTT DATA)…

Saturday
June 26, 2021
Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Toppan-Figur8

6月25日(金)4:00-5:00pm (日本)凸版印刷株式会社 + Figur8 (MIT スピンアウト)「身体動作評価に基くエビデンス・ベースのパーソナル・ケア・サービスの開発」発表者:鈴木剛史(Toppan) 、田邉 集 (Toppan)キーワード: ウェルビーイング、ヘ…

Friday
June 25, 2021
Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Shima Seiki

Friday, June 25 at 20:00-21:00 (JST) / 7:00-8:00 (EDT)Shima Seiki Mfg, Ltd. 「ゼロ・ロス・ファッション〜未来のためのものづくり」6月25日(金)8:00-9:00pm (日本)// 7:00-8:00a…

Friday
June 25, 2021
Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Panasonic

【合計で4つの物理的セッションの開催をいたします】Saturday, June 26 at 10:00am-12:30pm (JST) and 2:00-5:00pm (JST)Sunday, June 27 at 10:00am-12:30pm (JST) and 2:00-…

Saturday — Sunday
June 26, 2021 —
June 27, 2021
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Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Nakagaki

6月26日(土)9:00-10:00pm(日本)// 8:00-9:00am (ボストン)MIT特別セッション III「Mens et Manus -心と手-:好奇心駆動で自らの手で未来を創り続けること」発表者:中垣 拳(MIT Media Lab 博士後期課程) キーワード:…

Saturday
June 26, 2021
Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Ishii

6月19日(土)5:00-6:00pm (日本)MIT特別セッション I:「海外雄飛・他流試合・異文化協創」発表者:石井裕 (MIT Media Lab 副所長)キーワード: 異文化体験、国際化、自己実現、研究者セッション:聴講型(講演30分+Q&A 20分)言語:日本…

Saturday
June 19, 2021
Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Sakai

6月19日(土)9:00-10:00pm(日本)// 8:00-9:00am (ボストン)MIT特別セッション II 「 (都市に) 最終的なゴールはありません」発表者:酒井康史(MIT Media Lab 博士後期課程) キーワード: 集団的合意形成、リミックス、デザインセッ…

Saturday
June 19, 2021
Project

A Conversation with the Sun

​A Conversation with the Sun is an artistic exploration by acclaimed Thai auteur and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration…

Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Speaker Review

Session 1 (6/18): Kioxia, NHK, SynthNeuro

Friday — Sunday
June 18, 2021 —
June 27, 2021
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…

Project

Conversation Dynamics

Making visible dynamics within conversations enables us to see conversation quality, dynamics between participants, the impact of facilitat…

Article

Who sparks more UNcivil conversations on Twitter - Trump or Clinton?

Event

Conversations that Matter: The Importance of Education in the Amputee Experience—A Critical Element of Comprehensive Care

Leslie E. Green will join the Biomechatronics group to discuss pre-surgical education for patients facing amputation.

Tuesday
April 19, 2022
12:30pm — 2:00pm ET
Project

Conversation Chains

Using natural language processing and machine learning, we discover emergent themes and patterns within our dialogue data set. Exploring ho…

Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021

​Media Lab Summer Camp in Japan「将来、MITで学びたい・教えたい? 世界を舞台にコラボしたい?」メディアラボでは、この夏、業界を超えたコラボレーションを通して社会課題に取り組んだ活動や経験を中高生達に共有するセッションを開催します。セッションは、…

Friday — Sunday
June 18, 2021 —
June 27, 2021
Post

Media Lab spinoff Xander honored at CES 2023

Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.

Event

Conformable Decoders Group presents on New Health at the Media Lab Focus series for July 2021

The July edition of the Media Lab Focus series for member companies starts next week! The theme is New Health,  and wil…

Event

Media Lab @ NeurIPS | 2020

The following Media Lab community members participated in the thirty-fourth virtual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

Article

Rude Awakening Who sparks more UNcivil conversations on Twitter — Trump or Clinton?

Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Pathable Instruction

Event Platform - Pathable: Instructionこの度は、Media Lab Summer Camp 2021 にご登録を下さり、誠にありがとうございます。Event Platform (Pathable: パサブル)からの招待メールを受領いただ…

Friday — Sunday
June 18, 2021 —
June 27, 2021
Event

Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: NEC-Affective Computing

6月19日(土)3:00-4:00pm (日本)日本電気株式会社 + Affective Computing (MIT)「ウェルビーイングの向上〜明日のストレス、健康度、幸福度の予想〜」発表者:梅松旭美 (NEC)、ロザリンド・ピカード教授(MIT)、サイモン・フェダー博士 (…

Saturday
June 19, 2021