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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +38 more
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +66 more
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Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Eyal Perry · Adam Haar Horowitz +5 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +16 more
Project Research

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...

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +18 more
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +32 more
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Digital Currency Initiative

#banking and finance #cryptocurrency #economy +17 more
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothenburgsort in Hamburg, Germany. Th...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Margaret Church +3 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #civic technology +3 more
Project Research

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 ...

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +15 more
Project Research

Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #data +4 more
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ML Learning

ML Learning

#design #virtual reality #cognition +22 more
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Unbreakout

Unbreakout (beta) is a tool for participatory Zoom breakout rooms. Let your meeting attendees propose their own breakout discussion topic...

in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Katherine McConachie · J. Philipp Schmidt
#learning #open source
Project Research

Wearable Sanitizer: Open-source, On-body Sanitizer

Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and di...

in Fluid Interfaces · Responsive Environments
Pat Pataranutaporn · Ali Shtarbanov +4 more
#human-computer interaction #consumer electronics #open source +3 more
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Open Leadership Camp

The Open Leadership Camp (OLC) is a new type of professional development program for senior leaders of nonprofit and public sector organi...

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
J. Philipp Schmidt · Katherine McConachie +1 more
#learning #open source #open access
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Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Project Research

Digital Academic Credentials

Building on earlier work done at the Media Lab, MIT has formed the Digital Credentials Consortium an international network of universitie...

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
J. Philipp Schmidt · Juliana Nazare +3 more
#cryptocurrency #open source
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Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #social networks +64 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Unhangout

Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online.Each event has a landing page, which we ca...

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
J. Philipp Schmidt · Katherine McConachie +2 more
#learning #open source
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
Archived
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAgâ„¢ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +3 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +13 more
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Project Research

Crypto Voting + US Elections: Reality and Science Fiction

This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptogr...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson
#open source #politics #security +1 more
Post Research

Introducing the Open Leadership Camp

A new type of leadership development for the social sector.

July 20, 2017
in ML Learning
#learning #open source #open access
Project Research

CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Ariel Noyman +1 more
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +5 more
Project Research

Cognimates: Collaborative creative learning with embodied intelligent agents

Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...

in Personal Robots
Stefania Druga · Cynthia Breazeal
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +7 more
Publication Research

Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics

Lederman, O., Calacci, D., MacMullen, A., Fehder, D. C., Murray, F. E., & Pentland, A. ". (2016). Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics, 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation , Washington DC, USA, June 28-July 1, 2016.

Academic Paper, March 2016
in Human Dynamics
#open source #social science
Publication Research

Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture

Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham

Proceedings, Oct. 2018
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#robotics #agriculture #data +1 more
Archived
Project Research

GeoBits

This is an open source geospatial exploration tool. Using various public APIs including Open Street Map and the United States Census, we ...

in City Science
Nina Lutz · Kent Larson +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Singapore Pedestrian Accessibility

This project focused on pedestrian accessibility in collaboration with Singapore Centre for Liveable Cities. Researchers and planners cam...

in City Science
Nina Lutz · J. Ira Winder +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

GSK Places Initiative

This project is part of a parallel research endeavor with GSK Manufacturing. By simulating how scientists at the Upper Providence site in...

in City Science
Nina Lutz · J. Ira Winder +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

GSK Manufacturing Initiative

This project is the first of two projects in collaboration with GSK. We are developing a computational simulation that allows a human use...

in City Science
J. Ira Winder · Nina Lutz +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

CityScope Riyadh

We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope plat...

in City Science
J. Ira Winder · Mohammad Hadhrawi +1 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Archived
Post Research

"Bits and Bricks" Wins Best Demo Award at IEEE Future Technologies Conference

Ira Winder and the Tactile Matrix won the award for best demonstration at the IEEE Future Technologies Conference.

Dec. 2, 2017
in City Science
#computer vision #augmented reality #open source +1 more
Article Research

MIT Libraries Host Grand Challenges Summit

Experts in information science and scholarly communication convene at MIT to set research agenda.

via MIT News · March 30, 2018
in Director's Office
#civic media #open source
Project Research

GUI3D

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Compone...

J. Ira Winder
#gaming #human-machine interaction #open source +2 more
Project Research

Last Mile Logistics

Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a si...

in City Science
Kent Larson · J. Ira Winder
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +7 more
Archived
Project Research

Open Source Estrogen

Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender ...

in Design Fiction
Sputniko! · Mary Tsang
#art #civic technology #open source +2 more
Archived
Article Research

The High-Tech Future of Farming

Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.

via The Atlantic · Dec. 12, 2016
in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
#agriculture #food #open source
Archived
Project Research

Open Gender Tracker

Open Gender Tracker is a suite of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy for newsrooms and media monitors to collect metrics and ga...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias
#civic media #open source
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