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Affective Computing

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

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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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 ...
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Whispers Of The Mountain

Whispers Of The Mountain is a voice activated sensor fusion system mounted on downhill snow skis. The system can record 6 axis accelerati...
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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 financ...
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Physiophone: Electrophysiology Sonification

The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the hear...
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Tune Field

Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously...
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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 ...
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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology tha...
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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 restaura...
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Pandemic Pulse

An application that drains your computer's resources at the rate of COVID-19 infections and deaths in your state. It exhausts your CPU po...
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Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...
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Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints

Doorley, R., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., Maciá, N. and Larson, K., 2020, September. Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints. In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning & Collaboration Studio
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Large-scale EEG-Based User-Identification Using Self-supervised Learning

EEG-based biometrics (user identification) has been explored on small datasets of no more than 157 subjects. Here we show that the accura...
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ML Learning

ML Learning
Center for Civic Media
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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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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, ra...
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
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SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories

Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.
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VizML: A Machine Learning Approach to Visualization Recommendation

Visualization recommender systems aim to lower the barrier to exploring basic visualizations by automatically generating results for anal...
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VizNet: Towards A Large-Scale Visualization Learning and Benchmarking Repository

Researchers currently rely on ad hoc datasets to train automated visualization tools and evaluate the effectiveness of visualization desi...
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DIVE

DIVE is a web-based data exploration system that lets non-technical users create stories from their data without writing code. DIVE ...
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DataUSA

Visit DataUSADataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA ...
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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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 c...
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Proxymix: Influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration

Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at t...
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Micronauts

Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
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LUI: Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a scalable, multimodal web-interface that uses a custom framework of nondiscrete, free-handed gestures and voice to control modula...
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CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...
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Aalto Campus-as-a-Service Simulations

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources...
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Scratch BlockArt

Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exi...
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Flower: EEG visualization with the aid of machine learning

Flower is a new visualization tool for in-depth study of multi-sensor recordings in the time domain. It has been released for public down...
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CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., ElKatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2018, July). Cityscope: a data-driven interactive simulation tool for urban design. Use case volpe. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 253-261). Springer, Cham.
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Income, Race, Bikes

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-sha...
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MoCho: Mobility choices and societal impacts

MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pr...
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What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform

Doorley, Ronan & Noyman, Ariel & Sakai, Yasushi & Larson, Kent. (2019). What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform. UrbComp SIGKDD 2019
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Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...
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votoMosaic

A tapestry where each pixel represents a pledge by an individual to vote. Anyone can participate and watch the growing and changing image...
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Conversation Trees

An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to...
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RelatiVotey

Many people think their vote doesn't count—that a single vote would not change an election's outcome—and they stay home on Election Day. ...
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Radio Days

Following the 2016 election, the entirety of the nation became conscious of its polarization. According to a study by the National Bureau...
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Visualizing Scissors Congruence wins a Vizzy

Visualizing Scissors Congruence was selected as one of the Experts' Choice Winners in the 2018 Visualization Challenge (the Vizzies).
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Visualizing Scissors Congruence

The remarkable Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwein theorem states that any simple polygon can be cut into finite pieces and rearranged to form any oth...
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Scratch Memories

Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch...
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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Diana Orghian – The Optimism Bias

Growing up in a foreign country, the optimism-mystique connection and making data digestible.
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Andorra | Innovation

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...
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DataBasic

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...
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ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
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ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality

Fuste, Anna, and Chris Schmandt. "ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
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Data Sculptures as a Playful and Low-Tech Introduction to Working with Data

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.
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DataBasic: Design Principles, Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners

D’Ignazio, C., & Bhargava, R. (2016). DataBasic: Design Principles, Tools and Activities for Data Literacy Learners. The Journal of Community Informatics, 12(3).
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Data Murals: Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy

Bhargava, R., Kadouaki, R., Bhargava, E., Castro, G., & D’Ignazio, C. (2016). Data Murals: Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy. The Journal of Community Informatics, 12(3).
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Haptic Footprint

We only perceive a tiny sliver of the world around us. We are constrained by what our senses can process. These senses evolved to react t...
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Feminist data visualization with Catherine D’Ignazio

We have Catherine D’Ignazio on the show this week to talk about feminist data visualization. Catherine is Assistant Profes...
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Data Therapy

As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their o...