Former Research Assistant
SmileTracker is a system designed to capture naturally occurring instances of positive emotion during the course of normal interaction with…
Natasha Jaques*, Weixuan 'Vincent' Chen*, Rosalind W. Picard
Former Research Assistant
LocationMIT Media Lab Description"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main…."–John D…
Network Computing Systems (aka: NeCSys) develops and maintains the Media Lab's advanced network and computing infrastructure. We create and…
A breakthrough in wireless technology.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor Description
Recent years have witnessed a surge in online digital storytelling tools, enabling users to more easily create engaging multimedia narrativ…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Postdoc Associate, Tarik Roukny, investigates how the size of financial markets can be reduced while satisfying individual net positions an…
A crucial part of Montessori education is observation of the students, so teachers can assist individuals and structure the environment as …
We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ne…
The Duct Tape Network (DTN) is a series of fun, hands-on maker clubs that encourage young children (ages 7-10) to use cardboard, tape, wood…
Wang, P., Feng, L., Chen, G., Xu, C., Wu, Y., Xu, K., ... & Liu, X. (2020, April). Renovating road signs for infrastructure-to-vehicle networking: a visible light backscatter communication and networking approach. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (pp. 1-13).
Yuan, Y., Jahani, E., Zhao, S. et al. Implications of COVID-19 vaccination heterogeneity in mobility networks. Commun Phys 6, 206 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01325-7
What motivates people? What changes do people want in the world? We approach questions of this kind by mining goals and plans from text-bas…
Underwater Backscatter Networking. JunSu Jang and Fadel Adib. ACM SIGCOMM 2019
The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities
LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionThe main conference on the scientific analysis of mobile phone datasets.
LocationE14-493 DescriptionSocial networks in many on-line applications encode a mixture of positive (friendly) and negative (antagonistic)…
The festival is now a major event in the fields of image generation, technological creation and exploration, attracting both professional a…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 DescriptionSocial networks have become extremely popular in the last few years. By bringing different media …
Berke, A., Lee, N., Chwalek, P. (2021). Private Delivery Networks: Extended Abstract. Presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Obfuscation, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 7 May.
Cloud based machine learning inference is an emerging paradigm where users query with their data to a service provider who runs a ML model …
Analogy is a powerful comparison mechanism, commonly thought to be central to human problem solving. Analogies like "an atom is like the so…
LocationUCSF Mission Bay Conference Center DescriptionYears ago, when building technology to measure emotion, Rosalind Picard quickly reali…
LocationHilton Garden Inn, Colorado, 500 N IH 35 Description
LocationMIT Museum DescriptionThis exhibition of over 20 internationally created holograms is opening at the start of the 9th International…
LocationIndian Institute of Science Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) Information Ecology
Locationde Rothschild Room (E15-283) DescriptionSocial network sites such as Facebook and MySpace have become increasingly important Intern…
Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have pr…
Networked Playscapes will be presented as part of Territorio Urbano - a branch of Design Week Mexico - dedicated to reactivate Public Space…
In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, and…
Aline Eid, Jack Rademacher, Waleed Akbar, Purui Wang, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib. 2023. Enabling Long-Range Underwater Backscatter via Van Atta Acoustic Networks. In ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference (ACM SIGCOMM ’23), September 10, 2023, New York, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages
The Affective Computing group creates and evaluates new ways of bringing together Emotion AI and other affective technologies in order to m…
The last couple of years have seen a torrent of innovation focused on the creation of blockchain technologies and protocols.
At its heart, documentary cinema has always been an experimental medium. Its evolution has been driven on the one hand by the creativity an…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Berke, A., Truitt, W., Larson, K. (2023). Is access to public bike-share networks equitable? A multiyear spatial analysis across 5 U.S. Cities. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 114, 2024, 103759, ISSN 0966-6923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103759.
We have developed tightly coupled sensor network that tries to mimic some of the sensory characteristics of a natural skin. Developed in a …
DescriptionJoseph Paradiso: "Sensor Networks for Linking Virtual and Real Worlds"; 1:30 PM-2:30 PM; Fiatech Annual Meeting; Hyatt Regency H…
A collection of tutorials to introduce computer protocols for sharing data between computers and over the internet, for artistic purposes…
Don Derek Haddad, Gershon Dublon, Brian Mayton, Spencer Russell, Xiao Xiao, Ken Perlin, Joseph A. Paradiso
Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.
"The Future of Science" is based on five themes: The Future of Artificial Intelligence, The Future of Media and Art, The Future of Entrepre…
LocationJapan Society, NYC Description
LocationWiesner Room, 2nd Floor, MIT Media Lab DescriptionNetworks and graphs have become essential for understanding the online world, wit…
Kai-yuh Hsiao, Peter Gorniak, Deb Roy
LocationWeb 2.0 Expo, NY Description
LocationMIT (E51-376) DescriptionMore details and registration at:http://www.necsi.edu/events/upcomingevents.html
Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have m…
The goal of the June meeting was to discuss the latest Vida DSS prototypes and analyses related to COVID-19. Speakers from MIT and Blue …
The goal of the April meeting was to discuss the topic of environmental analyses related to COVID-19. Speakers from Chile and the U…
Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…
Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.
Somin, S., Altshuler, Y., Gordon, G., Pentland, A., Shmueli, E. (2020).Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem. Scientific Reports 10, 4587, pp.1-10.
Zhao, R., Wang, P., Ma, Y., Zhang, P., Liu, H. H., Lin, X., ... & Zhang, M. (2020, July). Nfc+ breaking nfc networking limits through resonance engineering. In Proceedings of the Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication (pp. 694-707).
This project seeks to examine the determinants of economic growth by using large-scale urban mobility networks. Leveraging the fine-grained…
The Vida Decision Support System project will hold its third international meeting to discuss the topic of public health analyses.
Vida Decision Support System International Network has its first meeting with collaborators from Angola, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, & Mexico.
Time Out is an experimental user interface system for addressing cyberbullying on social networks. A Reflective User Interface (RUI) is a n…
MIT has developed an extension that allows knowing the emotional impact caused by the content that everyone creates and consumes on Twitter.
A basketball net incorporates segments of conductive fiber whose resistance changes with degree of stretch. By measuring this resistance ov…
Tricorder Net is a handheld sensor-network interface inspired by Star Trek's tricorder, a device that provided Science Officer Spock with i…
There is a wide cultural belief in the power of the Internet and social media as enablers of collective intelligence. They help us spread i…
Networked Playscapes re-imagines outdoor play by merging the flexibility of the digital world with the tangible, sensorial properties of ph…
Liang, B., Wang, P., Zhao, R., Guo, H., Zhang, P., Guo, J., ... & Xu, C. (2022). RF-CHORD: Towards Deployable RFID Localization System for Logistics Network. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00272.