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Cities That Feel: Modeling Emotional Interactions and Collective Behavior in Cityscapes

This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …
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Decentralized AI

As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h - ABM)

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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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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'@artbhot' - Towards a Creative Partner on Social Media

@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations.  Access…
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Responsive Environments

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

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

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Decentralized Social Systems

A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
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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
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
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Collective Echos

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
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RAISE

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
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Comments on Code

I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …
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Intentional Community Building from Local to Global

​IntroductionThe typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, as developed by Geels and Schot, provides a theoretical foundation for und…
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Mobile phones and their use to study dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic

Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Chapter 3 - Mobile phones and their use to study dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic, Editor(s): Rajkumar Rajendram, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel, Features, Transmission, Detection, and Case Studies in COVID-19, Academic Press, 2024, Pages 25-37, ISBN 9780323956468, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95646-8.00049-4
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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
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Remaking City by Community-based Social Innovation

The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
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VALIS: 2023 Production

Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
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Living Lab with CityScope using h-ABM

In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…
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Media Lab research highlighted by MIT News in its wrap-ups of 2023 press coverage

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
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Theme | Sleep + Dream Engineering

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
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First 100 days of pandemic; an interplay of pharmaceutical, behavioral and digital interventions - A study using agent based modeling

The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
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Exploring Science Communication Through Song and Dance

Science is not just about discovery; it’s an art of communication too.In this project, we are exploring how complex scientific topics can b…
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Gigaverse

Dan Calacci, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, talks about one of his projects that centers around the gig economy.
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Who Owns the Truth? | CCC at Ars Electronica 2023

The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
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Study shows how pandemic decreased income diversity of urban encounters, even after lockdowns

GeekWire reports on research that people were less likely to visit socioeconomically different areas while returning to pre-pandemic habits.
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Divergences in Following Patterns between Influential Twitter Users and their Audiences

Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. …
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Super Spreaders

As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…
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Americans have become less willing to explore their own cities

In a new study, researchers from MIT and other universities show that personal mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't fully recovered.
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Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable

Hawkins, R.D., Berdahl, A.M., Pentland, A.‘. et al. Flexible social inference facilitates targeted social learning when rewards are not observable. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01682-x
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Study: Covid-19 has reduced diverse urban interactions

Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.
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Measuring and reducing social segregation in cities

We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
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On Social Media, Sharing Mindset Makes People Worse at Judging Accuracy

Newly published research shows that a focus on sharing can make it harder for social media users to tell whether content is accurate.
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On social media platforms, more sharing means less caring about accuracy

An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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How to Save Democracy: A new study gives clues for how to fix America’s political culture

Of 25 proposed interventions for democracy tested, one developed by Human Dynamics researchers was among the most effective.
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CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models

Hang Jiang, Doug Beeferman, Brandon Roy, and Deb Roy. 2022. CommunityLM: Probing Partisan Worldviews from Language Models. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 6818–6826, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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Can Technology Help Humans Listen?

Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, discusses his research and how technology can be used for social good.
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Dust, costumes, weirdness — and science: Burning Man is back

Ziv Epstein talks about his latest research project, which will attempt to "map the networks of cooperation and serendipity at Burning Man."
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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The Internet Needs You-Are-Here Maps

In Wired, Deb Roy, director of the MIT CCC, and postdoc Nabeel Gillani make the case for "you-are-here" maps for the internet.
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Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…
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The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good

Calacci, Dan, Alex Berke, Kent Larson, Sandy Pentland. "The tradeoff between the utility and risk of location data and implications for public good." Presented at the Oxford & London School of Economics Connected Life conference. (2019). https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09350
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Future bright: SA data scientist awarded scholarship to study at MIT in Massachusetts

Lynn Cameron highlights Human Dynamics student Tobin South and his path from the University of Adelaide to the Media Lab.
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When two heads aren’t better than one

Leaders often have to decide whether to delegate projects to individuals or a group. According to a new study, it should depend on the task.
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Better democracy through technology

Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
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Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media

A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.