LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionThe finding that there are few, if any, cases of war between democratic states has generated a gr…
Almaatouq, Abdullah, Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Abdulrahman Alotaibi, P. M. Krafft, Mehdi Moussaid, and Alex Pentland. "Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2020, 201917687; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1917687117.
How does better information lead to different policy decisions?
Former Research Scientist
Pataranutaporn, P., Vega Gálvez, T., Yoo, L., Chhetri, A., & Maes, P. (2020, April). Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and Advice. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (pp. 1-8).
Former Research Scientist
Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions seeks to promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.
Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pers…
Katlyn Turner will speak at the workshop “Racism and the Origins of the Atomic Bomb.”
False assumptions about election malfeasance could create a “death spiral” for democracy — but also provide some hope for bipartisan repair.
Dr. Canan Dagdeviren has been invited to speak at a panel entitled “Women in Science and Diplomacy for Sustaining Peace and Development” at…
Matthew Groh, Ziv Epstein, Chaz Firestone, Rosalind Picard. "Deepfake detection by human crowds, machines, and machine-informed crowds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2022, 119 (1) e2110013119; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110013119
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn this welcome return to the Media Lab, Bill Moggridge will introduce some of the innovators in …
Braley, A., Lenz, G.S., Adjodah, D. et al. Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01594-w
Pearls of Wisdom (PoW) is a suite of computational tools and activities designed to engage learners in intentional reflection on their lear…
The LA Times talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Xin Liu about her art project Living Distance.
Creative and productive information interchange in organizations is often stymied by a perverse incentive setting among the members. We tra…
US elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.
Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island
The fifty-seventh session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space will be held at…
Reed, David Colby. "Designing for voice in the vacuum : property in citizenship for democratic equality for future spacefarers," September 2020.
The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey pl…
Chapman, R. "Pearls of Wisdom: Technology for Intentional Reflection and Learning in Constructionist Cooperatives"
Prof. Wood is invited for a third time to serve as a Private Sector Advisor to the US government delegation to this UN space policy forum
Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.
Tune in for the first event of this spring, featuring John Akomfrah and Garrett Bradley, on February 23 at 1pm.
David Colby Reed speaks at an event hosted by the New School.
Senior Research Scientist
Groh, Matthew, Caleb Harris, Roxana Daneshjou, Omar Badri, and Arash Koochek. "Towards transparency in dermatology image datasets with skin tone annotations by experts, crowds, and an algorithm." CSCW (2022).
DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…
This strand of work seeks to develop new interventions to reduce the spread of information, and deploy those interventions towards a crowds…
How best to govern society and promote cooperation is a centuries-old debate: is cooperation best maintained by a central authority, or is …
Dontcheva M., Rob Morris, Brandt J., Gerber E.
Robert R. Morris, Mira Dontcheva, Adam Finkelstein, Elizabeth Gerber
Noyman, Sakai, Larson 2018. CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform. CHI 2018, 4,2007
Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.
Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon and Iyad Rahwan (2020). Crowdsourcing Moral Machines. Communications of the ACM (48—55). 63(3).
Former Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Former AT&T Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Robert R. Morris, Daniel McDuff
Former Research Assistant
Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.
Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.
Saldias-Fuentes, B., Protopapas, P., & Pichara, K. (2019, May). A Full Probabilistic Model for Yes/No Type Crowdsourcing in Multi-Class Classification. Proceedings of the 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) (pp. 756-764). SIAM.
Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platform …
Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus
A tool developed in collaboration with nonprofit worker groups, allowing app-based delivery workers to track and share aggregate pay data.
The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.
Chernova, S., DePalma, N., Breazeal, C.
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
C. Breazeal, N. DePalma, J. Orkin, S. Chernova, M. Jung
The Internet has unleashed the capacity for planetary-scale collective problem solving (also known as crowdsourcing). However, the very ope…
V. Naroditskiy, I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian, N. R. Jennings
Hayden, K. "AnnoTool: Crowdsourcing for Natural Language Corpus Creation"
Henry Lieberman, Karthik Dinakar, Birago Jones
Chiu, C., Xiao, X., and Chi, P.