Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes thi...

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...

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better

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

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

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

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

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

Transforming data into knowledge

Creating technology for social change

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...

As advances in robotics and artificial intelligence revive concerns about the impact of automation on jobs, a question looms: How will au...

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an ...

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

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.

O. Rudovic, J. Lee, M. Dai, B. Schuller, R. W. Picard, Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy. Sci. Robot. 3, eaao6760 (2018).

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...

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!

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 ...

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.

TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. ...

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

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, 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 ...

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.

Iyad Rahwan on the trust gap between people and autonomous vehicles.