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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

Looking beyond smart cities

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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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Open Ocean

Post Research

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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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

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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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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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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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Affective Computing

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

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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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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

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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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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

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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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OPEN TrialChain

In this project, we are motivated to address clinical trials issues using Blockchain technology. We propose, OPEN TrialChain, a privacy-p...

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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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City Science 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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Large User Interface with Gesture and Voice Feedback

LUI is a new human-computer interface for interactive media on large screens and AR/VR platforms. It utilizes voice and gestures to natur...

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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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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...

Thesis Research

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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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...

Article Research

Diana Orghian – The Optimism Bias

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

Publication Research

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.

Project Research

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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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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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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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...

Center for Civic Media

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ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.

Publication Research

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.

Publication Research

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.

Publication Research

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).

Publication Research

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).

Project Research

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...

Article Research

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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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

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DataUSA

DataUSA is the most comprehensive site visualizing public data for the United States. Through interactive profiles, DataUSA makes availab...

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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...