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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Fluid Interfaces

Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
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ML Learning

ML Learning
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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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Making new (robot) friends

Understanding children's relationships with social robots
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Some amazing facts about your unbelievable brain

Why was Einstein’s brain so good at some things and not others? Why is yours?
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Relational AI

Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots. Many of our current projects explore the use of s...
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Making new (robot) friends: Further reading

For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post,  Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Tools for Mapping the Molecular Structure of the Brain

Brain circuits are large, 3D structures. However, the building blocks—proteins, signaling complexes, synapses—are or...
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's needs.
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Center for Civic Media
Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Communications Futures Program
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How everything from interface agents to toys can be designed to respond with human-like, full-body linguistic and social competencies.
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How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such as dogs.
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eRationality

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 give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

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Things That Think
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
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How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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Spatial Imaging
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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SIMPLICITY
Architecture Machine Group
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences. Walter Bender is currently on leave.
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
Future Storytelling
How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How to give computers "common sense"�the ability to think about the everyday world as people do.
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How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
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NEXT
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
Center for Future Banking
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Digital Life
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e-markets
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