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Awad, Edmond (2017). Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines (Master's Thesis).
Opinion aggregation on social media uses various mechanisms, such as "Likes" or thumbs-up/-down, which handle a single item at a time. I...
Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Creating technology for social change
Reimagining the way society organizes, cooperates, and governs itself
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots. Many of our current projects explore the use of s...
Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with head of the Affective Computing group Rosalind Picard
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance...
What do children think about machines that think?
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Social robots take an active role in the inference process by producing social cues to elicit nonverbal responses from children to better...
Understanding and empowering human networks
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Transforming data into knowledge
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Advancing Wellbeing
This project aims to bridge the current gap between controlled-environment agriculture and the computer vision and robotics fields. The i...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
A growth mindset and curiosity have significant impact on children's academic and social achievements. We are developing and evaluating a...
There is a deep fear that human jobs will be replaced by AI. Rather than racing against the machines, our aim is to show that a human-AI ...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
This exciting concept exhibition which is the 4th concept exhibition of the imaginarium of technology series will explore the practical p...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
This project will support social scientists, philosophers, and policy and legal scholars who undertake research that aims to impact how a...
Hae Won Park, Rinat Rosenberg-Kima, Maor Rosenberg, Goren Gordon, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2017. Growing Growth Mindset with a Social Robot Peer. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17). ACM, New York
Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ...
Graeff, E. 2013. ‘What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future.’ Presented at Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media, MIT, Cambridge, May 5.
For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people try to innovate ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotio...
CE 2.0
How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences. Walter Bender is currently on leave.
How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As pl...