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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +61 more
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Project Research

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 wa...

in Object-Based Media
#artificial intelligence #entertainment #gaming +4 more
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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...

in Object-Based Media
#artificial intelligence #natural language processing #data science
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Research
Affective Computing

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

#robotics #social networks #computer vision +44 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Project Research

Migratable AI

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...

in Personal Robots
Ravi Tejwani · Sooyeon Jeong +2 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #machine learning +1 more
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Project Research

UncNet: Modeling uncertainty in deep learning for inherently subjective tasks

Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Rosalind W. Picard
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +4 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Szymon Fedor +1 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +7 more
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Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +29 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Liquid Movies

Video has evolved from an esoteric production to the default means of communication both online and as broadcast. We accept a bad or leng...

in Viral Communications
JS Tan
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #communications +1 more
Project Research

Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development), is a series of vocal portraits of freedom around the world. Currently, it features over 100 samples of pe...

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

A Counting

A Counting is a series of vocal and gestural portraits of the linguistic and ethnic diversity in US cities. Currently, it features counts...

in Poetic Justice
Ekene Ijeoma
#design #art #data +6 more
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#social networks #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +27 more
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School Reviews

Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on sc...

in Social Machines
Nabeel Gillani · Eric Chu +2 more
#kids #learning #machine learning +1 more
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ELSA: Empathy learning, socially-aware agents

What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form...

in Affective Computing
Natasha Jaques · Asma Ghandeharioun +5 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +4 more
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Publication Research

LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking

Jiang, Hang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Prithviraj Sen, Yunyao Li, and Alexander Gray. "LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking." ACL (2021).

Proceedings, Aug. 2021
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #natural language processing
Project Research

Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ pri...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Robert Lewis
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +4 more
Project Research

Enlightened: Broaden Your Views

Media filter bubbles sacrifice shared reality amongst US citizens. We aim to burst these echo chambers by presenting short, automatically...

in Viral Communications
Mike Hao Jiang · Andrew Lippman
#storytelling #computer science #natural language processing
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

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
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Project Research

Voter Education through Network Analytics

In “normal” times, the process of voting can be confusing enough for many Americans -- from whether and where they’re registered, to abse...

in Social Machines
Russell Stevens · Brandon C. Roy +5 more
#social networks #civic technology #networks +1 more
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Article Research

Americans speak more than 1,300 languages. This artist wants to capture them all

People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.

via Fast Company · Sept. 16, 2020
in Poetic Justice
#art #data #natural language processing +1 more
Post Research

Ishwarya Ananthabhotla and Jaya Narain among 2020 Apple Scholars in AI/ML

Each Scholar was chosen based on their innovative research and demonstrated leadership within their respective fields.

July 13, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #health #machine learning +2 more
Project Research

Wearable Wisdom

Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pe...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Tomas Vega Galvez +1 more
#human-computer interaction #extended intelligence #wearable computing +4 more
Project Research

RadioTalk

The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 2...

in Social Machines
William Brannon · Deb Roy +1 more
#civic media #networks #politics +5 more
Publication Research

RadioTalk: a large-scale corpus of talk radio transcripts

Doug Beeferman, William Brannon, and Deb Roy. (2019). RadioTalk: A large-scale corpus of talk radio transcripts. In Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2019). Graz, Austria.

Academic Paper, Sept. 2019
in Social Machines
#natural language processing
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Project Research

Bias by us

Bias by us envisions a future of media diversity by understanding the bias of today.Our work seeks to understand how the US media ec...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Orestis Papakyriakopoulos
#civic media #politics #social media +2 more
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