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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

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +64 more
Article Research

AI and Accountability: Who is responsible for managing AI?

On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.

via Emerson Collective · Aug. 4, 2023
in Affective Computing · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
#artificial intelligence #machine learning #ethics +2 more
Article Research

Making life friendlier with personal robots

Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.

via MIT News · Sept. 10, 2023
in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +6 more
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in

#robotics #design #social networks +74 more
Article Research

Dava Newman on the Selected podcast

In an interview recorded at VivaTech, Media Lab Director Dava Newman talks about the Media Lab's mission to enhance the human experience.

via Selected · June 20, 2023
in Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
#artificial intelligence #creativity #space +5 more
Research
Affective Computing

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

#robotics #design #social networks +58 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Personal Robots

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +73 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Leveraging artificial intelligence for the assessment of severity of depressive symptoms

This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Darian Bhathena
#artificial intelligence #wearable computing #machine learning +4 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 +14 more

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