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Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a project aimed ...
Transforming data into knowledge
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B., Picard, R. "Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy" .
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Creating technology for social change
Emerging Worlds
Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...
Graeff, Erhardt (2018). Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Academics, economists, and AI researchers often undervalue the role of intuition in science. Here's why they're wrong.
Liberals and conservatives alike love—and fear—the idea of giving free money to everyone. But we have to try it anyway.
The increasing geographical separation and the technological divide has made it more difficult for elders to interact with their families. ...
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree ...
Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and educati...
Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!
A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language...
Baylis P, Obradovich N, Kryvasheyeu Y, Chen H, Coviello L, et al. (2018) Weather impacts expressed sentiment. PLOS ONE 13(4): e0195750.
Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents, but some inevitable ...
www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Compone...
One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
Fuste, Anna, and Chris Schmandt. "ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...
This project will support social scientists, philosophers, and policy and legal scholars who undertake research that aims to impact how a...
Advancing Wellbeing
Small cities face greater impact from automation Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun, Manuel Cebrian, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan J. R. Soc. Interface 2018 15 20170946; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0946. Published 7 February 2018
As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
Pinheiro, Flávio L., et al. "Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?" arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05352 (2018).
Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. (2018). Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems, forthcoming Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)
D DeSteno, C Breazeal, R Frank, D Pizarro, J Baumann, L Dickens, JJ Lee (2012). Detecting the Trustworthiness of Novel Partners in Economic Exchange. Psychological Science.
The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey ...
Frank, M. R., Cebrian, M., Pickard, G., & Rahwan, I. (2017). Validating Bayesian truth serum in large-scale online human experiments. PloS one, 12(5), e0177385.
Measuring Cooperation at Scale
Frank, M. R., Obradovich, N., Sun, L., Woon, W. L., LeVeck, B. L., & Rahwan, I. (2018). Detecting reciprocity at a global scale. Science Advances, 4(1), eaao5348.
Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutio...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
Jin Joo Lee. Modeling the Dynamics of Nonverbal Behavior on Interpersonal Trust for Human-Robot Interactions. Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011.
JJ Lee, WB Knox, JB Wormwood, C Breazeal, D DeSteno (2013). Computationally Modeling Interpersonal Trust. Frontiers in Psychology.
Jin Joo Lee. A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...
It is well established that countries, regions and institutions tend to develop towards related activities. This implies that, for instan...
Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...
Iyad Rahwan on the trust gap between people and autonomous vehicles.
Digital single market conference on the free movement of data (see Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland from minute 36)The priorities of the E...
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Joy Buolamwini's TED Talk
FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.
Awad, Edmond (2017). Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines (Master's Thesis).
Sandy Pentland explains the single activity that characterizes creative workplace—and it's probably something that you love doing.