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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 +41 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Space Enabled

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

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +52 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 +51 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +65 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +30 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +68 more
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +67 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +30 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium

#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #social networks +68 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Doing the work to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Media Lab

#social change #racial justice #diversity
Project Research

A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…

in Poetic Justice
Ekene Ijeoma
#robotics #design #art +11 more
Project Research

Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…

in Poetic Justice
Nina Lutz · Justin Blinder +1 more
#art #data #creativity +5 more
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Jaleesa Trapp · Natalie Rusk +3 more
#human-computer interaction #learning #technology +2 more
Article Research

Why Are Prosthetics So Expensive? Researchers Are Working to Change That

"No one would ever expect people to build their own heart valves at home"-- Francesca Riccio-Ackerman on inequity in the prosthetic field.

via Teen Vogue | Disability (In)Justice Series · Sept. 22, 2022
in Biomechatronics
#design #health #public health +1 more
Research
MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +36 more
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Accepting Applicants
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Research
ML Learning

ML Learning

#design #virtual reality #cognition +22 more
Archived
Research
Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +32 more
Archived
Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +54 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Inaugural Day of AI brings new digital literacy to classrooms worldwide

Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.

via MIT News · June 1, 2022
in RAISE
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +11 more
Archived
Project Research

PAL: Project on Affinities + Language

The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with their …

in Affective Computing
Kristy Johnson
#learning #neurobiology #language learning +3 more
Archived
Article Research

Designing the change: Black designers on equity and representation in the industry

Chelsi Cocking shares her thoughts on how the design industry can better foster, support, and grow design talent in the Black community.

via Fortune Magazine · Feb. 15, 2022
in Future Sketches
#design #ethics #social change +3 more
Article Research

Eddie Glaude Jr.: “We must run toward our fears”

Annual MLK celebration at MIT features call to confront America’s history of racism in order to move forward.

via MIT News · Feb. 15, 2022
in Space Enabled
#ethics #community #social change +3 more
Research
RAISE

RAISE

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +19 more
Article Research

The promise and pitfalls of artificial intelligence explored at TEDxMIT event

MIT scientists discuss the future of AI with applications across many sectors, as a tool that can be both beneficial and harmful.

via MIT News · Jan. 11, 2022
in Camera Culture
#artificial intelligence #data #health +6 more
Article Research

At Mass STEM Week kickoff, MIT RAISE announces Day of AI

Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”

via MIT News · Oct. 20, 2021
in Personal Robots · RAISE
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +6 more
Post Research

Danielle Wood named as principal investigator (PI) for Zero Robotics

Under Dr. Wood's leadership, the program will move forward with the NASA Astrobee robotic system as its new in-space robotic platform.

Sept. 22, 2021
in Space Enabled
#robotics #learning #space +1 more
Article Research

With the HUMANS project, a message that space is for everyone

Supported by the Space Exploration Initiative, the student-run HUMANS project aims to increase global representation in space.

via MIT News · July 20, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#art #space #community +3 more
Article Research

Ekene Ijeoma reveals the revolutionary potential of data-based art

Ekene Ijeoma speaks with Document Journal about his interdisciplinary, data-based artworks and the intersectional issues they address.

via Document Journal · June 11, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#art #data #creativity +2 more
Publication Research

An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents

Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.

Article, Nov. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#social networks #trade #diversity
Research
Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +27 more
Article Research

Norman Foster launches 'On Cities' masterclass series

A new masterclass video series from the Norman Foster Foundation features leading experts in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and more.

via Archinect News · April 22, 2021
in City Science
#architecture #economy #urban planning +1 more
Article Research

Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse

Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio talk about The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook.

via VentureBeat · April 10, 2021
in Space Enabled
#artificial intelligence #ethics #racial justice +2 more
Article Research

Art is a bridge ‘between facts and feelings’ for MIT’s Ekene Ijeoma

Cate McQuaid talks to Ekene Ijeoma about his work, including the Black Mobility and Safety Seminar

via The Boston Globe · March 26, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#art #natural language processing #racial justice +1 more
Article Research

A portrait of US linguistic diversity, in sound and sign

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to The New York Times about “A Counting,” a participatory art project

via The New York Times · March 25, 2021
in Poetic Justice
#art #community #natural language processing +1 more
Article Research

3 Questions: Claude Grunitzky MBA '12 on launching TRUE Africa University

CIS research affiliate describes his goals in creating a webinar series exploring sustainable development in Africa.

via MIT News · March 9, 2021
in Human Dynamics
#environment #learning #social media +4 more
Article Research

Study shows online school reviews reflect school demographics more than effectiveness

Language analysis reveals possible reinforcement of race- and income-based achievement gap.

via MIT News · March 3, 2021
in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#kids #learning #machine learning +2 more
Post Research

MIT Space Policy Compendium

Read the new MIT Space Policy Compendium led by Dava Newman with co-authors including Ariel Ekblaw and Danielle Wood.

March 1, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative · Space Enabled
#environment #politics #space +2 more
Article Research

Career Girls Role Models: Jaleesa Trapp

Jaleesa Trapp talks about her career path, how technology encodes the values of its designers, and the importance of play.

via Career Girls · Oct. 21, 2020
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning #computer science +3 more
Project Research

Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …

in Space Exploration Initiative
Mehak Sarang · Ariel Ekblaw
#architecture #environment #health +9 more
Article Research

Why this deep-sea explorer thinks diversity is so important for science

To oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, the seas’ uncharted depths are full of opportunities to engage women and people of color in science.

via National Geographic · Nov. 5, 2020
in Open Ocean
#environment #ocean #water +2 more
Article Research

Embracing neurodiversity to better understand autism

Using personalized, naturalistic experiments, the Gabrieli lab is pioneering new approaches to neurodevelopmental differences.

via MIT McGovern Institute · March 2, 2020
in Affective Computing
#learning #neurobiology #affective computing +1 more
Article Research

Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight

Like too many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the aerospace sector in the US is populated mainly by white people.

via Quartz · June 10, 2020
in Space Enabled
#design #space #community +3 more
Article Research

Foster innovation, ethical tech with diverse teams

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.

via The Wall Street Journal · Jan. 13, 2020
in Civic Media
#ethics #community #technology +2 more
Project Research

Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…

in Personal Robots
Jon Ferguson · Hae Won Park +2 more
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +11 more
Article Research

Neurodiverse curiosity, with Kristy Johnson

“To really understand curiosity, we need new metrics, or new ways of thinking, or both."

via Choose to Be Curious · Dec. 11, 2019
in ML Learning · Affective Computing
#learning #neurobiology #diversity
Article Research

How to foster innovation in your workplace

Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change

via Fast Company · Nov. 26, 2019
in City Science
#social networks #technology #industry +1 more
Article Research

Opinion | The fast-evolving ethical conundrums of biotechnology

Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late

via Livemint · Nov. 11, 2019
in Community Biotechnology
#learning #privacy #community +2 more
Article Research

Jaleesa Trapp shakes things up in the classroom and in computing

The PhD student and former high school teacher aims to study the ways young people of color interact with technology.

via MIT News · Nov. 14, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#human-computer interaction #learning #technology +2 more
Article Research

The Root 100 2019

The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.

via The Root · Nov. 1, 2019
in Civic Media
#social change #diversity
Article Research

Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

In an interview with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, Rosalind Picard discusses affective computing, privacy, diversity in tech, and more

via Artificial Intelligence podcast at MIT · June 17, 2019
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #privacy #affective computing +1 more

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