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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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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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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 Re…
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Camera Culture

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

Looking beyond smart cities
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Commuting Flow Generation

Individual mobility, both within cities and across cities, significantly impacts various societal aspects, such as well-being, the spread o…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
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Affective Computing

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

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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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 financia…
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Life-Nanomachine Synergism

For more details and recent updates visit:  https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
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Voyage Viewer

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

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
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Effects of Privacy-Inducing Noise on Welfare and Influence of Referendum Systems

Suat Evren, Praneeth Vepakomma
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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 t…
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Tiny ‘Rover’ explores cells without harming them

Professor Deblina Sarkar discusses a miniature antenna that can transmit data from inside cells without using damaging microwaves.
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Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
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What would true diversity sound like?

Ekene Ijeoma uses audio of people counting from 1 to 100 in a variety of languages to capture the full diversity of voices across the US.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Global Fintech, edited by David L. Shrier and Prof. Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, wins Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice, 2022

Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.
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Health 0.0

Health 0.0
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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 labora…
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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 develope…
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Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
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Privacy Limitations Of Interest-based Advertising On The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis Of Google’s FLoC

Alex Berke and Dan Calacci. 2022. Privacy Limitations of Interest-based Advertising on The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis of Google’s FLoC. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22), November 7–11, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560626
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking, 1st Worksop at the ACM SIGKDD 2020

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

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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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 way …
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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 u…
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Social Capital Accounting

T. Nishikata, T. Hardjono and A. Pentland, Social Capital Accounting, October 2018.
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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
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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 f…
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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.
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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 MIT …
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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.
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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 (…
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Building a Better Economy

Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.
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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).
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How Valencia crushed Covid with AI

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

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
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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 wildlife …
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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 mult…
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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
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Split Learning: Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: C…
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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 info…
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Thesis Research

From Private Location Data to Public Good

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

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…
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SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, channe…
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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, n…
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Founders’ Dynamics – Interpersonal Relationships and Between-Team Interaction in Early Startups
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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
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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 capital …