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How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and ...
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
ML Learning
Looking beyond smart cities
The 2017 and 2018 fires in California were the air quality equivalent of the Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Advancing Wellbeing
Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban...
Open Ocean
One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
Community Biotechnology
Transforming data into knowledge
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...
Creating technology for social change
Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
An interactive atlas of census data for direct consumption by individual citizens.
Castelló Ferrer E. (2019) The Blockchain: A New Framework for Robotic Swarm Systems. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham
Cloud-Based Urban Data PlatformcityIO (input/output) is a cloud- and database-driven platform which allows remote participation, database...
In order to understand how exogenous shocks, like death, impact memorability by remembering, we use a data-set of biographies from Wikipe...
Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordin...
This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
The current interface of emails is designed around time and messages, pushing people to focus on what is more recent rather than importan...
Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...
Inspired by previous work in the field of data sonification, we built a data-driven composition platform that enables users to map collis...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...
Growing up in a foreign country, the optimism-mystique connection and making data digestible.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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 ...
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...
Data Fusion for Dynamic Traffic PredictionTraffic congestion has huge negative impacts on the productivity, health and personal live...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.