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This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...
An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
Creating art for social transformation
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Looking beyond smart cities
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
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ML Learning
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Creating technology for social change
Transforming data into knowledge
Growing up in a foreign country, the optimism-mystique connection and making data digestible.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...
This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances ...
Community Biotechnology
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
Open Ocean
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View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
Content and curriculum lie at the heart of every educational system, learning environment, and learning technology. Yet the infrastructur...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree ...
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...
Eduardo Castello Ferrer, Ognjen Rudovic, Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland, “RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction” eTELEMED 2018.
Networks of robots and blockchains: here's how they will transform our lives
BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to ...
DataBasic is a suite of web-based tools that give people fun and relevant ways learn how to work with data. Existing tools focus on opera...
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
An interactive atlas of census data for direct consumption by individual citizens.
Nikhita Singh, Jin Joo Lee, Ishaan Grover, and Cynthia Breazeal (2018). P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children Storytelling and Listening in Peer-to-Peer Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Zhang, Yan. “CityMatrix – An Urban Decision Support System Augmented by Artificial Intelligence.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
Ant-Based Modeling explores the possibility of implementing agent-based modeling with living ants and external stimuli such as ...
Eduardo Castello Ferrer, “The blockchain: a new framework for robotic swarm systems,” arXiv Prepr. arXiv1608.00695, 2016.
One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.
OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we beli...
Tangible interactive matrix for real-time computation and 3D projection mappingThe Tactile Matrix is a system for an illuminated, machine...
Advancing Wellbeing
Small cities face greater impact from automation Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun, Manuel Cebrian, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan J. R. Soc. Interface 2018 15 20170946; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0946. Published 7 February 2018
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
New open-source website features blueprints for lab-on-a-chip devices.
Bhargava, R., & D’Ignazio, C. (2017). Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data. Presented at the Designing Interactive Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland.
D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2015). Approaches to Building Big Data Literacy. In Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange 2015. New York, NY, USA.
Platt, E. L., Bhargava, R., & Zuckerman, E. (2015). The International Affiliation Network of YouTube Trends.
D’Ignazio, C., Bhargava, R., Zuckerman, E., & Beck, L. (2014). CLIFF-CLAVIN: Determining geographic focus for news. In NewsKDD: Data Science for News Publishing, at KDD 2014. New York, NY, USA.
Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.