People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

Video has evolved from an esoteric production to the default means of online and broadcast communication. We accept a wrong or lengthy vide…

This project delivers a series of Github-signal based metrics that would be useful to both the layman and investor, helping look beyond the…

Media filter bubbles sacrifice shared reality amongst US citizens. We aim to burst these echo chambers by presenting short, automatically s…

Climate change and the domino effect it creates will require coordination at scales we haven’t seen and new forms of organization to addres…

NewsMaker decouples news snippets from multiple news sources, and challenges you to re-create an objective news article using them. Once yo…

In "We saw a game!" we expose the different perspectives in TV sports and news in order to build broadcasting systems that u…

How are people's interests related? By exploring people's interests from LinkedIn profiles, we have created an interest graph to understand…

T(ether) is a novel spatially aware display that supports intuitive interaction with volumetric data. The display acts as a window affordin…

Line of Sound shows how data can be used to deliver sound information only in the direction in which one looks. The demonstration is done u…

Peddl creates a localized, perfect market. All offers are broadcasts, allowing users to spot trends, bargains, and opportunities. With GPS-…

Reach merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop data from services users already us…

We are exploring the impact of mobile phones on the future of credit card usage and payments. We are attempting to reinvent the payment pro…

Social Transactions is an application that allows communities of consumers to collaboratively sense the market from mobile devices, enablin…

SonicLink is a fully decentralized, proximal communication framework for personal devices to seamlessly discover, connect, and interact wit…

SnapN'Share, the first sample application that makes use of the Comm.unity platform, runs on wireless mobile devices and stationary compute…

Following the 2016 election, the entirety of the nation became conscious of its polarization. According to a study by the National Bureau o…

An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from all…

A large portion of popular media is remixed: existing media content is spliced and re-ordered in a manner that serves a specific narrative.…

Bitcoin generates net-new value from "mining" in a distributed network. In this work, we explore solar micro-mining rigs that transform exc…

Recording your reaction to a short video is becoming the new gossip; famous watchers get as many as 750,000 views. We attempt to transform …

NewsClouds presents a visual exploration of how the news reporting of an event evolves over time. Each "cloud" represents a publication and…

Recast is a media curation and distribution platform that enables anyone to create and distribute "news programs" that represent their view…

QUANTIFY is a generalized framework and JavaScript library to allow rapid multi-dimensional "measurement" of subjective qualities of media.…

Plethora creates simultaneous, localized, personal broadcasting networks that allow audiences to form on-the-fly and build their own media …

Wearable devices and ambient displays need to atomize video to evocative excerpts as glanceable as a still image. Glyph is a web-based tool…

Invisible Ink is a certified mail application that demonstrates the utility of the blockchain for maintaining a public ledger of transactio…

Ethos is a decentralized, Bitcoin-like network for storing and sharing valuable information. We provide transparency, control, and ownershi…

Many of us who enjoy what we do were motivated by an event or person that inspired us to learn, challenge, and question. We are building ap…

A physical interface designed for simultaneous social interaction with visual material. We built a hemispherical, multi-person, interactive…

We present two scalable ways to explore and distribute media in all forms: video, text, and graphics; published and conversational. The fir…

Major political campaigns and nonprofit organizations use bespoke systems to organize, inform, and solicit members. These top-down systems …

Increasingly in the US, people have to take responsibility for their health information.  Simultaneously, medical providers must make …

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, channe…

An animated GIF is a magical thing. It has the power to compactly convey emotion, empathy, and context in a subtle way that text or emotico…

Leveraging sneaker culture to influence civic engagement. Marginalized groups have influence on digital platforms but are often unhear…

QR Websites serves websites without the need for an Internet connection. The approach uses a minified site, encoded as a Data URI on a QR c…

Let's play: Waste at MIT is a game about trash; it’s also a game about understanding civic infrastructure. This project explores the use of…

Only 40% of the eligible population votes in the typical US midterm election, and among young people turnout is even lower. In this experim…

A web browser extension that reveals less well-known aspects of corporate public behavior such as environmental respect and political bias.…

To help prevent the mindless sharing of content and promote the sharing of thoughtful content, a socially acceptable “stamp of approval” wa…

A tapestry where each pixel represents a pledge by an individual to vote. Anyone can participate and watch the growing and changing image t…

8K Time into Space is a user interface for a video exploration system with an 8K display. 8K is an ultra high-definition video system and i…

Helios provides an automatic way of socializing one's video interactions. It is a Chrome browser plug-in that records user's encounters wit…

Collaborating and media creation are difficult tasks, both for people and for network architectures. CoCam is a self-organizing network for…

Graffiti Codes transform the space around you into a mobile-readable environment. Anyone can draw a simple shape on anything, like graffi…

AudioFile overlays imperceptible tones on standard audio tracks to embed digital information that can be decoded by standard mobile devices…

Air Mobs creates a local mobile community to allow users to freely share Internet access among diverse carrier 3G and 4G data accounts. We …

CoSync builds the ability to create and act jointly into mobile devices. This mirrors the way we as a society act both individually and in …

We are exploring techniques to integrate digital codes into physical objects. Spanning both the hard and the soft, this work entails incorp…