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Research
Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +49 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +29 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +44 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Publication Research

Social Capital Accounting

T. Nishikata, T. Hardjono and A. Pentland, Social Capital Accounting, October 2018.

White Paper/Memo, Oct. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#social science #data science
Research
Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Health 0.0

Health 0.0

#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #communications +23 more
Archived
Research
Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +39 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +66 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Publication Research

The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good

Calacci, Dan, Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland. "The tradeoff between the utility and risk of location data and implications for public good." Presented at the Oxford & London School of Economics Connected Life conference. (2019). https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09350

Academic Paper, May 2019
in Human Dynamics · City Science
#social networks #privacy #security +3 more
Project Research

Private Location Data for the Public Good and Urban Understanding

There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Esteban Moro Egido +2 more
#civic technology #privacy #security +2 more
Publication Research

Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread

Doorley, R., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L., Ribó, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(1), pp.183-193.

Academic Paper, Feb. 2021
in City Science
#data #government #public health +1 more
Project Research

Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Alex Berke +3 more
#data #government #public health +2 more
Publication Research

Privacy Limitations Of Interest-based Advertising On The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis Of Google’s FLoC

Berke, Alex, and Dan Calacci. "Privacy Limitations Of Interest-based Advertising On The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis Of Google's FLoC." arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.13402 (2022).

Academic Paper, Feb. 2022
in City Science
#civic technology #privacy #computer science +1 more
Publication Research

The privacy-welfare trade-off: Effects of differential privacy on influence & welfare in social choice

Ibrahim Suat Evren, Praneeth Vepakomma, Ramesh Raskar

Article, Jan. 2022
in Camera Culture
#privacy #data science
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Research Area | Rapid Fabrication and Integration of Medical Devices and Technologies

Dr. Shah and his research lab at MIT has significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the labo...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#bioengineering #developing countries #sensors +7 more
Project Research

Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  have develo...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Article Research

EV Charge Point Operators Gain a New Tool for Siting Decisions

Jamie Schiel and Rohan Puri, who met in the Camera Culture group, talk to MIT Startup Exchange about their startup, Stable Auto.

via MIT Startup Exchange · Oct. 5, 2021
in Camera Culture · Media Lab Spinoffs
#data #machine learning #startup +1 more
Project Research

Vida Decision Support System for COVID-19

Vida OverviewThe Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab is leading a US-based team of innovators from East Carolina University...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood
#public health #data science #covid19
Project Research

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +18 more
Article Research

Building a Better Economy

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.

via TEDxMIT · May 1, 2020
in Human Dynamics
#data #government #social science +3 more
Publication Research

Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms

E. C. Ferrer, T. Hardjono, A. S. Pentland, M. Dorigo, Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms. Sci. Robot. 6, eabf1538 (2021).

Academic Paper, July 2021
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #security #blockchain +1 more
Project Research

Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Eduardo Castello Ferrer
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +12 more
Article Research

How Valencia crushed Covid with AI

By leveraging algorithms and unorthodox data sources, an MIT researcher has made Valencia a Covid-19 data pioneer

via Wired UK · Sept. 8, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#artificial intelligence #data #technology +3 more
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +15 more
Publication Research

Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities

Moro, E., Calacci, D., Dong, X. et al. Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities. Nat Commun 12, 4633 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24899-8

Academic Paper, July 2021
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #urban planning #social science +3 more
Project Research

The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +2 more
#civic technology #economy #urban planning +4 more
Archived
Project Research

Large Interactive Laser Light-Field Installation ~ LILLI

LILLI is an immersive, volumetric, reflective lightfield display using a hybrid of video and laser projection to visualize marine wildlif...

in Object-Based Media · Open Ocean
Tyler Schoeppner · Daniel Novy +1 more
#holography #interfaces #ocean +1 more
Archived
Project Research

PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...

Mina Khan · Glenn Fernandes +3 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +5 more
Publication Research

Diverse data selection via combinatorial quasi-concavity of distance covariance: A polynomial time global minimax algorithm

Diverse data selection via combinatorial quasi-concavity of distance covariance: A polynomial time global minimax algorithm, Praneeth Vepakomma, Yulia Kempner

Proceedings, July 2019
in Camera Culture
#machine learning #data science
Post Research

Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping, KDD 2020

Neil Gaikwad from the Space Enabled research group is co-organizing the KDD Workshop on Humanitarian Mapping.

Aug. 24, 2020
in Space Enabled
#artificial intelligence #machine learning #data science +1 more
Project Research

Voyage Viewer

Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Isabella Loaiza-Saa
#social science #social change #data science
Project Research

Split Learning: Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma · Ramesh Raskar
#data #privacy #machine learning +4 more
Project Research

Let's Chance: Playful Probabilistic Programming for Children

Probabilistic thinking has been one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science, and it is rapidly gaining even more relevance a...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Manuj Dhariwal · Shruti Dhariwal
#human-computer interaction #art #interfaces +2 more
Research
Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #social networks +64 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

The universal decay of collective memory and attention

Collective memory and attention are sustained by two channels: oral communication (communicative memory) and the physical recording of in...

in Collective Learning
Cristian Esteban Candia Vallejos · Cesar A. Hidalgo +1 more
#art #communications #entertainment +5 more
Archived
Thesis Research

From Private Location Data to Public Good

Berke, A. (2020). From private location data to public good. (Masters thesis). MIT Media Lab.

Thesis, Aug. 2020
in City Science
#privacy #computer science #data science
Archived
Research
Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +13 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, chan...

in Viral Communications
Tejal Wakchoure · Mike Hao Jiang +1 more
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +6 more
Archived
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

Assessing Disease Exposure Risk With Location Histories And Protecting Privacy

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease,...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Dan Calacci +5 more
#privacy #security #computer science +1 more
Thesis Research

Founders’ Dynamics – Interpersonal Relationships and Between-Team Interaction in Early Startups

Thesis, June 2019
in Human Dynamics
#sensors #social science #collective intelligence +1 more
Publication Research

Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being

Nosakhare, E., Picard, R. W. Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being," ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’19), August 4–8, 2019, Anchorage, AK, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3330738

Proceedings, Aug. 2019
in Affective Computing
#machine learning #computer science #wellbeing +1 more
Project Research

Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...

in Human Dynamics
Takeo Nishikata · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
#social networks #wearable computing #social science +4 more
Project Research

RadioTalk

The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...

in Social Machines
William Brannon · Deb Roy +1 more
#civic media #networks #politics +5 more
Archived
Project Research

Bias by us

Bias by us envisions a future of media diversity by understanding the bias of today.Our work seeks to understand how the US media ec...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Orestis Papakyriakopoulos
#civic media #politics #social media +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Data for Refugees

Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research group...

in Human Dynamics
Michiel Bakker · Alfredo Morales-Guzman +4 more
#social science #civic action #data science
Project Research

Common sense for artificial intelligence

ConceptNet, or Open Mind Common Sense, is a long-standing project designed to help computers understand the meanings of words that people...

in Object-Based Media
#artificial intelligence #natural language processing #data science
Project Research

Conversational Characters: AI agents for entertainment

We want to create immersive, personalized, and scalable digital experiences. In order to do that, we need to fundamentally rethink the wa...

in Object-Based Media
#artificial intelligence #entertainment #gaming +4 more
Project Research

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...

in Human Dynamics
Kent Larson · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

Rhythm: Open measurement and feedback tools for human interaction

Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rh...

in Human Dynamics
Dan Calacci · Oren Lederman +1 more
#communications #sensors #social science +4 more
Article Research

Give way to droids, bots, and drones: the driverless city will look like this

An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles.

via The Daily Beast · Dec. 31, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation · City Science
#design #architecture #civic technology +4 more
Post Research

César Hidalgo wins the 2018 Lagrange Prize

César Hidalgo, head of the Collective Learning research group, was chosen as the sole recipient of the 2018 Lagrange Prize.

Nov. 6, 2018
in Collective Learning
#systems #data science
Project Research

Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Yi-Cheng Jiang +6 more
#design #architecture #civic technology +7 more

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