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Humanized Cryptoassets

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

layer decentralizes recommendation systems. Layer intersects third-party recommendations with your locally stored, personal information t...
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+nudge

+nudge helps people to become their imagined future self one nudge and a time.Distracted by all of the demands on our time from...
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Search Intent Optimization

Search Intent Optimization unwinds SEO by externalizing intent. Users select their intent a search’s initiation.  We offer a set of ...
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Self-Advertising

Self Advertising reclaims and repurposes attention from advertising media online. As we use the internet we often fee...
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Lensing: Cardiolinguistics for Atypical Angina

Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people roman...
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Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Epilepsy

We are performing long-term measurements of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity on patients with epilepsy. In certain cases, autonomi...
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Measuring Arousal During Therapy for Children with Autism and ADHD

Physiological arousal is an important part of occupational therapy for children with autism and ADHD, but therapists do not have a way to...
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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Theme | Decentralized Systems

Here we include a suite of projects that migrate information to personal devices and systems instead of centralizes silos. In part this t...
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SpaceSkin: Aerospace-grade electronic textiles for distributed sensing on persistent orbital structures

The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. Simultane...
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Enlightened: Broaden Your Views

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

How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of...
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Atmopragmascope

We are surrounded by displays and technologies whose mechanisms are hidden from view. This work is an exploration of revealing the underl...
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Defacto: Decentralized crowdsourced news verification system

Despite recent efforts, current fact-checking organizations cannot keep up with the amount of information that is produced and spread thr...
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Broadercasting

Ditch the truck. Live, collaborative broadcasting through mixed reality.
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Unspoken News

How something is presented can be as important as the message itself. We use various artificial intelligence techniques to model the "sub...
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Theme | Ultimate Media

We concentrate on media that informs, unifies, and defines society such as news, sports, and public events. These are characterized by si...
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CivicLink

CivicLink is an online organization in a box. A leader or moderator plugs it in, invites members, and the tools needed to build community...
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SpeechBlocks

SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...
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Boycott!

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

The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment.  Animal agency—con...
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YouTune

 Seemingly an old TV box which turns out to offer an abundance of control over content selection: each aspect of news can be selecte...
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RelatiVotey

Many people think their vote doesn't count—that a single vote would not change an election's outcome—and they stay home on Election Day. ...
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Theme | Viral Civic Action

Friends don’t let friends vote alone. 2018 featured a suite of grassroots mobilization ideas for voting; 2019 generalizes that theme for ...
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News Graph

This project aims to show a different picture of the data behind the news, looking at how we analyze, represent, and interact with it.&nb...
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Micronauts

Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
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PerForm

PerForm explores the intuitive meanings associated with the shape of objects, and how a shape-changing tool can allow for different forms...
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Freedom Simulator

"The sense of freedom…entails not simply the absence of frustration but the absence of obstacles to possible choices and activities—absen...
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Conversation Trees

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

Only 40% of the eligible population votes in the typical US midterm election, and among young people turnout is even lower. In this exper...
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Theme | Changing Places

Changing Places researchers are developing scalable strategies for creating hyper-efficient, technology-enabled spaces that can help mak...
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Schoenberg in Hollywood: A new opera by Tod Machover

“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” ...
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Intrinsic Social Motivation via Causal Influence in Multi-Agent RL

Jaques, N., Lazaridou, A., Hughes, E., Gulcehre, C., Ortega, P. A., Strouse, D. J., Leibo, J. Z., and de Freitas, N. "Intrinsic Social Motivation via Causal Influence in Multi-Agent RL," International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR), New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2019 (submitted).
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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8K Time into Space

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...
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SpeechBlocks: A Constructionist Early Literacy App

Ivan Sysoev, Anneli Hershman, Susan Fine, Claire Traweek, and Deb Roy. (2017). SpeechBlocks: A Constructionist Early Literacy App. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children
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votoMosaic

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

The Language Simplification project is developing automatic methods to simplify complex texts to be more easily read and understood by a ...
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User needs for augmentative communication interfaces

We are creating new communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological...
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NeverMind: Using AR for memorization

NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
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Mathland: Play with math in mixed reality

Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert u...
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HandsOn: A gestural system for remote collaboration using augmented reality

2D screens, even stereoscopic ones, limit our ability to interact with and collaborate on 3D data. We believe that an augmented reality s...
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Electrostatic Playground: A multi-user virtual reality physics learning experience

Room-scale virtual reality opens up exciting new possibilities for exploratory learning. Phenomena that otherwise cannot be experienced d...
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CocoVerse: A playground for co-creation and communication in virtual reality

Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality 
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Using the voice as a tool for self-reflection

Our voice is an important part of our individuality. From the voices of others, we understand a wealth of non-linguistic information, suc...
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Spaces that Perform Themselves

As we generally experience on earth, there is no space without sound and there is no sound without space. Building on the understanding o...
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Sonic enrichment at the zoo

This project is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the San Diego Zoo to design and build interactive sonic enrichment systems ...
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Empathy and the future of experience

Nothing is more important in today's troubled world than the process of eliminating prejudice and misunderstanding, and replacing them wi...
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City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...
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Ambisonic surround-sound audio compression

Traditional music production and studio engineering depends on dynamic range compression audio signal processors that precisely and dynam...
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Chronosonogy: Sonic sensory time shifting

Chronosonogy was born through extending the neuroscience research of Teki Et Al, which reveals "Distinct Neural Substrates of Duration-Ba...
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…but not simpler…

This collection of Tod Machover’s music focuses on chamber and orchestral music composed during the last decade, both with and without el...
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Human-machine cooperation (HMC) for lightweight autonomous robots

Facilitating coexistence, trust-building, and collaboration among people and machines.New modes of 21st century urban transportation are ...
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Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
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Service deployment simulation and optimization for mixed-use delivery fleets

Forecasting the supply of fleets to meet emerging travel demands and service needs in citiesThe availability of vehicles is a critical fa...
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Dynamic Traffic Prediction in Andorra: a Bayesian network approach

Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...
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Affinity: Deep Learning API for Molecular Geometry

Affinity is a high-level machine learning API (Application Programming Interface) dedicated exclusively to molecular geometry. Affinity i...
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Evolutron: Deep Learning for Protein Design

Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more th...
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TRANSFORM: Adaptive and dynamic furniture

Introducing TRANSFORM, a shape-changing desk. TRANSFORM is an exploration of how shape display technology can be integrated into our ever...
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TRANSFORM

TRANSFORM fuses technology and design to celebrate its transformation from still furniture to a dynamic machine driven by a stream of dat...
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Printflatables: Printing human-scale, functional, and dynamic inflatable objects

Printflatables is a design and fabrication system for human-scale, functional and dynamic inflatable objects. The user begins with specif...
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Liquid resin fabrication in microgravity

The future of human life outside of Earth will heavily depend on the ability to fabricate and manufacture things. Yet fabrication in spac...
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jamSheets: Interacting with thin stiffness-changing material

This project introduces layer jamming as an enabling technology for designing deformable, stiffness-tunable, thin sheet interfaces. Inter...
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Circuit Robots: Mass manufacturing of self-actuating robots

Integrating sensors and actuators using flexible electronicsCurrently, the manufacturing of self-actuating and self-sensing robots requir...
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What is the optimal way to diversify an economy?

One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
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The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...
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Volitional control of a powered ankle-foot prosthesis

This project focuses on giving transtibial amputees volitional control over their prostheses by combining electromyographic (EMG) activit...