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Center for Constructive Communication

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Legal Storytelling

"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…
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Crossroads

Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
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Voice to Insights

​During constituency listening processes (CLPs; e.g., town halls), leaders hear directly from community members about their needs and inter…
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Empowering K12 Educators: Fostering Collaborative Intelligence with Generative AI

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
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Fora Data Set

This project collates and explores public data from 200+ facilitated dialogues that occurred through the Fora platform in the last several …
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Conversation Dynamics

Making visible dynamics within conversations enables us to see conversation quality, dynamics between participants, the impact of facilitat…
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The speed of news in Twitter versus radio

We examine whether and how the speed of spread and decay of news events differ between social media and broadcast media based on a sample o…
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Conversation Theme Sorting

We further explore conversation visualization as a method of extracting and translating meaning for third party audiences who wish to bette…
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Conversation Chains

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

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
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Analogia

Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
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Decentralized Social Systems

A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
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Data Provenance for AI

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
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Closer Worlds

Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…
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MIT–Chile Research Workshops | Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Data Visualization

In January 2023, a team led by MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Center…
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Large Language Models for Automated Sensemaking

In an effort to design alternatives to opinion-based discourse at scale online that exploded with polarization, toxicity, and misinformatio…
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Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT)

The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
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CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
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Voice Anonymization

Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various paralinguistic information such as emotion and prosody. In d…
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Facilimate

During facilitated small-group conversations,  facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
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Super Spreaders

As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…
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Divergences in Following Patterns between Influential Twitter Users and their Audiences

Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. …
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RealTalk for Change Boston

A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
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Designing Generative Dialogue Spaces

Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
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Participatory Sensemaking

How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
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School Diversity

Across most school districts in America, school attendance boundaries play an important role in determining which schools children are assi…