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Article Research

AI and Accountability: Who is responsible for managing AI?

On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.

via Emerson Collective · Aug. 4, 2023
in Affective Computing · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
#artificial intelligence #machine learning #ethics +2 more
Article Research

Social media is rewriting the banking playbook

In Scientific American, Dr. Alex Lipton and Media Lab Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland call for the creation of new banking regulations.

via Scientific American · Aug. 2, 2023
in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
#artificial intelligence #banking and finance #economy +1 more
Article Research

The future of intelligence (artificial and otherwise)

Media Lab Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum discuss the future of intelligence.

via YouTube · May 16, 2023
in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #economy +1 more
Research
Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +66 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI

The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.

via MIT News · Sept. 18, 2023
in Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#artificial intelligence #politics #social science +5 more
Article Research

Robots are already with us—how we treat them tells us a lot about ourselves, here's why

For BBC Science Focus, Media Lab research scientist Dr. Kate Darling considers the potential harms of mistreating robots.

via BBC Science Focus · July 15, 2023
in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +2 more
Research
Space Enabled

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

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +57 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Voice Anonymization

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

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Wonjune Kang · Deb Roy
#artificial intelligence #machine learning
Research
Camera Culture

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

#robotics #computer vision #human-computer interaction +45 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +40 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.

via MIT Technology Review · Feb. 21, 2023
in Center for Civic Media · Affective Computing · Responsive Environments +4 more
#robotics #design #art +2 more
Post Research

StoryLine: Exploring the intersection of visual storytelling and machine learning

McKinsey & Co. and LSM ask: Can we understand, and even predict, the relationship between video story content and audience consumption?

July 11, 2018
in Social Machines
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #entertainment +2 more
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +31 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +73 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Ghost in the machine

With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,

via UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Department · June 29, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +2 more
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Kathleen Esfahany · Eyal Perry +6 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +19 more
Article Research

Build your skills with MIT’s women engineers

Explore MIT Open Learning resources, including interviews with Media Lab Director Dava Newman, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, and more.

via Medium · June 22, 2023
in Center for Civic Media · Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds +1 more
#artificial intelligence #space #alumni +3 more
Article Research

Making life friendlier with personal robots

Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.

via MIT News · Sept. 10, 2023
in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +6 more
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#design #human-computer interaction #art +32 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Sleep and Epilepsy: Demystifying the thousand-year-long conundrum

According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…

in Affective Computing · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Boyu Zhang · Neska Elhaouij
#artificial intelligence #data #health +3 more
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +46 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people

#robotics #social networks #human-computer interaction +20 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +63 more
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in

#robotics #design #social networks +74 more
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
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Project Research

OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…

in Tangible Media · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hila Mor +5 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +10 more
Archived
Project Research

Liquid News

The landscape in which society interacts with news has evolved due to the advent of the internet and modern communication platforms. Althou…

in Viral Communications · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Dagmawi Haile · Andrew Lippman
#artificial intelligence #communications #entertainment
Project Research

Latent Lab

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.

in Viral Communications · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Andrew Lippman · Kevin Dunnell
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Voyage Viewer

Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.

in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Isabella Loaiza-Saa
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +5 more
Project Research

CommunityLM

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

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Social Machines · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +2 more
Hang Jiang
#social networks #artificial intelligence #civic media +4 more
Project Research

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Theme | Learning + Creativity

Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #augmented reality +6 more
Project Research

MAIA

Low-cost, modular, open source, and portable bio-reactor for urban bio-sensor development.

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Andres Rico · Eyal Perry +2 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors
Project Research

Chameleon

Chameleon is a machine learning enhanced sensor system that uses CO2 and PIR sensors to classify room occupancy and use.

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Andres Rico · Carson Smuts +1 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors
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…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Pedro Colon-Hernandez · Sharifa Alghowinem +2 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence
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 Cen…

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Sinclair Target · Wonjune Kang +14 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +5 more
Project Research

Latent Lab: LLMs for Knowledge Exploration

​Latent Lab is an AI-driven knowledge exploration system designed to navigate through the 4,000+ research projects within the Media Lab. Ut…

in Viral Communications · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Kevin Dunnell · Andrew Lippman
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #art +22 more
Article Research

Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law

Postdoc Ziv Epstein, PhD student Robert Mahari, & Harvard Law lecturer Jessica Fjeld consider the issues of generative AI and copyright law.

via The Conversation · June 15, 2023
in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#art #artificial intelligence #ethics +1 more
Article Research

Dava Newman on the Selected podcast

In an interview recorded at VivaTech, Media Lab Director Dava Newman talks about the Media Lab's mission to enhance the human experience.

via Selected · June 20, 2023
in Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
#artificial intelligence #creativity #space +5 more
Project Research

Theme | Augmented Reasoning

We explore how AI-systems can effectively assist human reasoning processes by building and evaluating combined human+AI information process…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Valdemar Danry · Pat Pataranutaporn +2 more
#artificial intelligence
Project Research

Ocean Logger: A Community-scale Ocean Profiling Sensor Node

Community-scale profiling sensor node for  ocean monitoring and community coordination of fishing activities. 

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Andres Rico · Fadel Adib +2 more
#artificial intelligence #sensors
Project Research

A Conversation with the Sun

​A Conversation with the Sun is an artistic exploration by acclaimed Thai auteur and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Pat Pataranutaporn
#artificial intelligence
Project Research

Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy

​Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Pat Pataranutaporn
#virtual reality #human-computer interaction #art +4 more
Project Research

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…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Hope Schroeder
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #natural language processing
Project Research

Conversational Agents for Supporting Social Connectivity

Imagine a personal AI agent that you can converse with naturally about your friends and family, helping you remember previous topics you’ve…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Ruby Liu · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence
Project Research

SenseMate: an AI-based platform to support qualitative coding

Many community organizations want to engage in conversations with their constituents but lack the support they need to analyze feedback. Mo…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Cassandra Overney · Belen Saldias Fuentes +2 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence
Project Research

'@artbhot' - Towards a Creative Partner on Social Media

@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations.  Access…

in Viral Communications · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Amy Smith
#social networks #human-computer interaction #art +1 more
Project Research

AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…

in Human Dynamics · MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Ziv Epstein · Hope Schroeder
#art #artificial intelligence #environment +4 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&nb…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 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 a …

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +2 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 det…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +1 more
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 befor…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Stephen Kaputsos
#robotics #virtual reality #artificial intelligence +1 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. W…

in Camera Culture · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Kushagra Tiwary · Tzofi Klinghoffer +1 more
#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence
Research
Signal Kinetics

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

#robotics #virtual reality #computer vision +28 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Co-crafting your career with AI

Media Lab PhD student Isabella Loaiza is building data-driven tools to help people all over the world navigate the future of work.

via TED · May 22, 2023
in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#artificial intelligence #data #technology +2 more
Article Research

Does AI hold the same values as we do?

During TEDxBentleyU, Belén C. Saldías Fuentes invited the audience to consider the cultural biases built into tools like ChatGPT.

via TED · June 7, 2023
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#artificial intelligence #social science #machine learning +3 more
Project Research

Don't Just Tell Me, Ask Me

Critical thinking is an essential human skill. Despite the importance of critical thinking, research reveals that our reasoning ability suf…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Valdemar Danry · Pat Pataranutaporn +1 more
#artificial intelligence #technology #cognitive science
Project Research

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…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Belen Saldias Fuentes · Maggie Hughes +3 more
#artificial intelligence #data #extended intelligence +1 more
Project Research

Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives

The most meaningful connections between people are often formed through expression of shared vulnerability and emotional experiences. Despi…

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Jocelyn Shen
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence
Project Research

Machine learning approach to design acoustic experiences

Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …

in Signal Kinetics · Opera of the Future · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Ahmed Allam · Nikhil Singh
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +1 more
Project Research

AI Audit: AI Ethics Literacy

An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …

in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Safinah Arshad Ali
#artificial intelligence #learning + teaching
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