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Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to ...
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily...
Advancing Wellbeing
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...
Transforming data into knowledge
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban...
Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rh...
Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...
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
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...
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...
People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six d...