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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +49 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +36 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Migratable AI

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...

in Personal Robots
Ravi Tejwani · Sooyeon Jeong +2 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #machine learning +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanationsvia Concept Traversals

One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and c...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Rosalind W. Picard
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +2 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

UncNet: Modeling uncertainty in deep learning for inherently subjective tasks

Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Rosalind W. Picard
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +4 more
Archived
Project Research

Learning via Social Awareness: Improving sketch representations with facial feedback

In the quest towards general artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have explored developing loss functions that act as intrinsic moti...

in Affective Computing
Natasha Jaques · Rosalind W. Picard
#artificial intelligence #machine learning #affective computing
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Szymon Fedor +1 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +7 more
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Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +29 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis

#robotics #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +15 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +44 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology

#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +18 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

AI-generated characters are here, they’re just not evenly distributed

The Fluid Interfaces group + NTT DATA hosted Virtual Beings + Being Virtual, a workshop exploring positive uses of AI-generated characters

via Forbes · April 15, 2022
in Fluid Interfaces
#virtual reality #artificial intelligence #member company +1 more
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optica...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Research
Health 0.0

Health 0.0

#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #communications +23 more
Project Research

What can we learn from predicting shadows?

By predicting sparse shadow cues, our physics-inspired machine learning algorithm can reconstruct the underlying 3D scene. Abstract....

in Camera Culture
Kushagra Tiwary · Tzofi Klinghoffer +1 more
#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence
Project Research

Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me

Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by sh...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +1 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +3 more
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +39 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +38 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Voice Privacy Preservation

Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various information about emotions, feelings, and excitation throu...

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Wonjune Kang · Deb Roy
#artificial intelligence #machine learning
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +66 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Designing Personalized AI Agents to Foster Human-Human Connections

Research MotivationCan we become more socially connected with one another through the facilitation of a socially embodied agent? What typ...

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Huili Chen +3 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +1 more
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +26 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +61 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

MIT Chalk Radio: AI Literacy for All with Prof. Cynthia Breazeal

Social robotics pioneer Prof. Cynthia Breazeal discusses artificial intelligence in our lives, digital citizenship, and AI education for all

via Chalk Radio podcast from MIT OpenCourseWare · March 30, 2022
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #artificial intelligence #learning +2 more
Project Research

Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Check out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-print on arXiv. How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepF...

in Affective Computing
Matthew Groh · Ziv Epstein +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +3 more
Project Research

Theme | Human AI Co-reasoning

Increasingly, seminal decisions affecting personal and societal futures are made by people assisted by Artificial Intelligence (AI) ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +3 more
#artificial intelligence
Project Research

Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students l...

in Personal Robots
Safinah Arshad Ali · Daniella DiPaola +1 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Project Research

Multi-Party Human-Robot Conversation Interactions

With the emergence of social robots in people’s daily lives, their interactions with people need to consider not only engaging with ...

in Personal Robots
Pedro Colon-Hernandez · Sharifa Alghowinem +2 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence
Project Research

Dyadic Affect in Multimodal Interaction - Parent to Child (DAMI-P2C) Dataset

Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...

in Personal Robots
Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang · Sharifa Alghowinem +2 more
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +2 more
Article Research

Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake?

New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.

via Scientific American · March 15, 2022
in Affective Computing · Human Dynamics
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #machine learning
Archived
Project Research

Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Archived
Project Research

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pilot Simulator

With the advent of real-time photorealism (RTPR), virtual environments are now able to achieve higher degrees of engagement than ever bef...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Fiducial Marker-Based Navigation for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Depending on the operational environment of an autonomous system, a great deal of perceptual uncertainty may be introduced to an object d...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +1 more
Project Research

Domain Randomization & Synthetic Data Generation for AUAVs - Reducing Perceptual Uncertainty of Sim2Real Navigation

Navigation for autonomous UAVS (unmanned aerial vehicles) is a complex problem and physical field testing of associated tasks introduces ...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Project Research

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAVs (AUAVs)

Many tasks are not easily defined and/or too complex for supervised machine learning approaches. For these reasons, a technique known as&...

in Personal Robots
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 more
Research
Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

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 C...

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Sinclair Target · Wonjune Kang +14 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +5 more
Article Research

Some Bostonians feel largely unheard. With MIT’s ‘Real Talk’ portal now public, here’s a chance to really listen

A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.

via The Boston Globe · Oct. 25, 2021
in Media Lab Spinoffs · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +5 more
Research
MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#social networks #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +25 more
Project Research

AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is r...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Valdemar Danry +4 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +2 more
Research
RAISE

RAISE

#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +10 more
Project Research

How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, studen...

in Personal Robots
Blakeley H. Payne · Safinah Arshad Ali +3 more
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +3 more
Article Research

A guide to cyberarts: From bots to glitch, an annotated glossary for an age of augmented reality

Check out this list of cyberart projects compiled by The Boston Globe, which includes work by alum Alexander Reben and Prof. Ekene Ijeoma.

via The Boston Globe · Jan. 27, 2022
in Responsive Environments · Poetic Justice
#robotics #art #artificial intelligence +4 more
Article Research

Deploying machine learning to improve mental health

MIT scientist Rosalind Picard collaborates with clinicians to develop tools for mental health care delivery.

via MIT News · Jan. 26, 2022
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #health #machine learning +2 more
Post Research

MAS.S64. Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies

MAS.S64 Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies - Fall 2020 Online CourseWhen: Tuesdays, 3-...

Aug. 24, 2020
in Health 0.0
#artificial intelligence #genetics #social science +4 more
Article Research

Could humanlike behavior make smart devices more engaging? MIT researchers think so

A new study by researchers from the Personal Robots group and collaborators assesses how families interact with voice-user interfaces.

via TechCrunch · Jan. 18, 2022
in Personal Robots
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Project Research

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah · Francis Kendall
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +11 more
Research
Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.

via McKinsey & Company · Jan. 13, 2022
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +5 more
Research
Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

“Hey, Alexa! Are you trustworthy?”

The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and think it competent.

via MIT News · Jan. 14, 2022
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Project Research

Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  have develo...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #health #pharmaceuticals +7 more
Project Research

Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Project Research

Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Article Research

Are humans better than AI at detecting deepfakes? It’s complicated.

PhD student Matt Groh speaks with Input Magazine’s Annie Rauwerda about his team's recent research on deepfake detection.

via Input Magazine · Jan. 11, 2022
in Affective Computing
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #social science +1 more
Article Research

The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence explored at TEDxMIT event

MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.

via MIT News · Jan. 11, 2022
in Camera Culture
#artificial intelligence #data #health +6 more
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +63 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts

#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #genetics +15 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...

in Fluid Interfaces
Camilo Rojas · Gaurav Patekar +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #banking and finance +6 more
Post Research

Dentsu collaboration with Affective Computing group

Member company Dentsu and the Affective Computing research group have been collaborating on a research project to use smartphone and...

Dec. 15, 2021
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #wellbeing
Article Research

Characters for good, created by artificial intelligence

Researchers encourage positive use cases of AI-generated characters for education and well-being.

via MIT News · Dec. 16, 2021
in Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence
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