Deb Roy

Emergence, when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, is an awe inducing phenomenon seen within na...

Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on sc...

Wunderbolt is a new take on summer camp developed by the Lab for Social Machines in the MIT Media Lab that remotely connects children age...

Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.T...

See ACL 2020 video here!See in its GitHub repoSharing personal narratives is a fundamental aspect of human social behavior as it hel...

INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing fro...

The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...

An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to...

The ability to automatically understand and infer characters' goals and their emotional states is key towards better narrative comprehens...

Loneliness is becoming a global epidemic. As many as 33 percent of Americans report being chronically lonely, with similar percentages be...

What is Cortico and the Local Voices Network?Cortico, a non-profit 501(c)(3) in cooperation with MIT’s Laboratory for Social Machines, se...

Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have...

Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. ...

The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...

FlipFeed is a Google Chrome Extension that enables Twitter users to replace their own feed with that of another real Twitter user. Powere...

The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...

While there are a number of literacy technology solutions developed for individuals, the role of social—or networked—literacy learning is...