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Space Exploration Initiative
Looking beyond smart cities
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mu...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
The Guardians Project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile games to help people form beneficial long-term habits an...
Sparking conversations through artwork and envisioning future values for a spacefaring society
Studying group dynamics in space environments with virtual reality simulations to inform the design of future governance systems
The Space Governance Collaborative is an interdisciplinary group of researchers based at the MIT Media Lab with a growing network of...
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Transforming data into knowledge
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and ...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...
The design process is no longer limited to one group of individuals, as number, level, and cost make tools ever more accessible. As we mo...
Collect cute monsters and make your brain feel better.
Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at t...
The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...
Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Advancing Wellbeing
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...
Nelson Alfonso Gómez-Cruz, Isabella Loaiza Saa, Francisco Fernando Ortega Hurtado, (2017) "Agent-based simulation in management and organizational studies: a survey", European Journal of Management and Business Economics, Vol. 26 Issue: 3, pp.313-328, https://doi.org/10.1108/EJMBE-10-2017-018
Rahwan, Iyad, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, et al. “Machine Behaviour.” Nature 568, no. 7753 (April 2019): 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y.
A new paper frames the emerging interdisciplinary field of machine behavior
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...
Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rh...
Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily...
Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to ...
The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban...
Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A. and Shmueli, E., 2016 The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, pp.33-41
Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A., & Shmueli, E. (2016). Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change. PloS one, 11(3), e0151588. Chicago
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.
When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we fou...
In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, w...
People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six d...