Event

Brad LeVeck: The Democratic Peace and the Wisdom of Crowds

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionThe finding that there are few, if any, cases of war between democratic states has generated a gr…

Tuesday
December 8, 2015
Publication

Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds

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.

Event

SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

How does better information lead to different policy decisions?

Thursday
July 9, 2020
10:00am — 11:30am ET
Person

Brian Bradley

Person

William Bradshaw

Former Research Scientist

Publication

Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and Advice

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).

Person

Kipp Bradford

Former Research Scientist

Video

SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions seeks to promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies.

Project

Wearable Wisdom

Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pers…

Event

Katlyn Turner Invited to Speak at 61st Strategy for Peace Conference: Disrupting the History of Racism in Peace and Security

Katlyn Turner will speak at the workshop “Racism and the Origins of the Atomic Bomb.”

Tuesday — Friday
April 19, 2022 —
April 22, 2022
Article

Facing up to democratic distrust

False assumptions about election malfeasance could create a “death spiral” for democracy — but also provide some hope for bipartisan repair.

Event

United Nations Talk: Women in Science and Diplomacy for Sustaining Peace and Development

Dr. Canan Dagdeviren has been invited to speak at a panel entitled “Women in Science and Diplomacy for Sustaining Peace and Development” at…

Friday
February 9, 2018
10:00am — 1:00pm ET
Publication

Deepfake detection by human crowds, machines, and machine-informed crowds

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

Event

Bill Moggridge: "Social Media and Crowds"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn this welcome return to the Media Lab, Bill Moggridge will introduce some of the innovators in …

Wednesday
March 23, 2011
Publication

Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding

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

Project

Pearls of Wisdom

Pearls of Wisdom (PoW) is a suite of computational tools and activities designed to engage learners in intentional reflection on their lear…

Article

Why artist and engineer Xin Liu sent her wisdom tooth into outer space

The LA Times talks to Fluid Interfaces alum Xin Liu about her art project Living Distance.

Project

Barter: A Market-Incented Wisdom Exchange

Creative and productive information interchange in organizations is often stymied by a perverse incentive setting among the members. We tra…

Article

Study uses physics to explain democratic elections

US elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.

Article

Peace workshop, concert connect experts, youth on Jeju Island

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island

Event

Danielle Wood Speaks at Meeting of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

The fifty-seventh session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space will be held at…

Thursday
February 6, 2020
10:00am — 1:00pm ET
Publication

Designing for voice in the vacuum : property in citizenship for democratic equality for future spacefarers

Reed, David Colby. "Designing for voice in the vacuum : property in citizenship for democratic equality for future spacefarers," September 2020.

Project

Honest Crowds

The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey pl…

Publication

Pearls of Wisdom: Technology for Intentional Reflection and Learning in Constructionist Cooperatives

Chapman, R. "Pearls of Wisdom: Technology for Intentional Reflection and Learning in Constructionist Cooperatives"

Post

Danielle Wood Presents to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna

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

Publication

Climate change may speed democratic turnover

Publication

Crowd Guilds: Worker-led Reputation and Feedback on Crowdsourcing Platforms

Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.

Event

Black Mobility and Safety Seminar: Black Progress with John Akomfrah and Garrett Bradley

Tune in for the first event of this spring, featuring John Akomfrah and Garrett Bradley, on February 23 at 1pm.

Tuesday
February 23, 2021
1:00pm — 2:30pm ET
Publication

Designing a Constitution for a Self-Governing Crowdsourcing Marketplace

Event

David Colby Reed Presents Hidden Features: Designing for Democratic Equality Among Future Spacefarers

David Colby Reed speaks at an event hosted by the New School.

Thursday
March 11, 2021
7:00pm — 9:00pm ET
Person

Andrew Lippman

Senior Research Scientist

Publication

Towards Transparency in Dermatology Image Datasets with Skin Tone Annotations by Experts, Crowds, and an Algorithm

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).

Video

Robert Morris on Crowdsourcing Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being

DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…

Project

Crowdsourcing the detection and evaluation of misinformation

This strand of work seeks to develop new interventions to reduce the spread of information, and deploy those interventions towards a crowds…

Project

Corruption-Resistant Cooperation: Institutions vs. Crowds

How best to govern society and promote cooperation is a centuries-old debate: is cooperation best maintained by a central authority, or is …

Publication

Combining Crowdsourcing and Learning to Improve Engagement and Performance.

Dontcheva M., Rob Morris, Brandt J., Gerber E.

Publication

Affect and Creative Performance on Crowdsourcing Platforms

Robert R. Morris, Mira Dontcheva, Adam Finkelstein, Elizabeth Gerber

Publication

CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform

Noyman, Sakai, Larson 2018. CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform. CHI 2018, 4,2007

Publication

Daemo: A Self-Governed Crowdsourcing Marketplace

Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.

Publication

Crowdsourcing Moral Machines

Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon and Iyad Rahwan (2020). Crowdsourcing Moral Machines. Communications of the ACM (48—55). 63(3).

Person

Iyad Rahwan

Former Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Former AT&T Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Publication

Crowdsourcing Techniques for Affective Computing.

Robert R. Morris, Daniel McDuff

Person

Tomas Vega Galvez

Former Research Assistant

Publication

Prototype Tasks: Improving Crowdsourcing Results through Rapid, Iterative Task Design

Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.

Publication

Boomerang: Rebounding the Consequences of Reputation Feedback on Crowdsourcing Platforms

Gaikwad, S. with Crowd Research Collective Members.

Publication

A Full Probabilistic Model for Yes/No Type Crowdsourcing in Multi-Class Classification

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.

Project

Informality Crowdsourced Database

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platform …

Person

David Kobia

Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus

Video

The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

A tool developed in collaboration with nonprofit worker groups, allowing app-based delivery workers to track and share aggregate pay data.

Post

Prathima Muniyappa and Alexandra Rieger among 2024 cohort of MIT MAD Design Fellows

The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.

Publication

Crowdsourcing Real World Human-Robot Dialog and Teamwork through Online Multiplayer Games.

Chernova, S., DePalma, N., Breazeal, C.

Project

The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…

Publication

Crowdsourcing Human-Robot Interaction: New Methods and System Evaluation in a Public Environment

C. Breazeal, N. DePalma, J. Orkin, S. Chernova, M. Jung

Article

How Crowdsourcing and Machine Learning Will Change the Way We Design Cities

Project

DARPA Shredder Challenge: Crowdsourcing under attack

The Internet has unleashed the capacity for planetary-scale collective problem solving (also known as crowdsourcing). However, the very ope…

Publication

Verification in Referral-Based Crowdsourcing

V. Naroditskiy, I. Rahwan, M. Cebrian, N. R. Jennings

Publication

AnnoTool: Crowdsourcing for Natural Language Corpus Creation

Hayden, K. "AnnoTool: Crowdsourcing for Natural Language Corpus Creation"

Publication

Crowdsourced Ethics With Personalized Story Matching

Henry Lieberman, Karthik Dinakar, Birago Jones

Publication

Stress OutSourced: A Haptic Social Network via Crowdsourcing

Chiu, C., Xiao, X., and Chi, P.