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"Psychological roadblocks" for self-driving cars

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

Reimagining the way society organizes, cooperates, and governs itself
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Designing Social Robots for Elders

The increasing geographical separation and the technological divide has made it more difficult for elders to interact with their families. ...
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Social Machines

Understanding and empowering human networks
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Space Enabled

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

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now that natural language processing is becoming an increasi...
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Human-Robot Trust

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.
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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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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Viral Communications

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Personal Robots

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

www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
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EU2017 .EE

Digital single market conference on the free movement of data (see Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland from minute 36)The priorities of the E...
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Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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CivilServant: User-Led Randomized Trials Online

The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
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How I'm fighting bias in algorithms

Joy Buolamwini's TED Talk
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The FiftyNifty challenge

FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.
Thesis Research

Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines

Awad, Edmond (2017). Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines (Master's Thesis).
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The surprising secret of workplace creativity

Sandy Pentland explains the single activity that characterizes creative workplace—and it's probably something that you love doing.
Article Research

Facial recognition technology is both biased and understudied

Algorithms used by the police are better at identifying some racial groups than others. Why is hardly anyone studying this?
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Identifying the Human Impacts of Climate Change

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...
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Identity swap

Creating “swappable identities” for a bot, allowing a user to pose questions to an assortment of AI personae.
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Andorra Living Lab

The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban...
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Augmented Eternity & Swappable Identities

Have you ever wondered what would a friend do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family member might ...
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Rhythm: Open measurement and feedback tools for human interaction

Rhythm is a collection of open-source tools to make it easier for researchers to examine, analyze, and augment human interaction. Rh...
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Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
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The Ripple Effect: You Are More Influential Than You Think

The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited numbe...
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The Electome: Measuring Responsiveness in the 2016 Election

The Electome: Where AI Meets Political JournalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...
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.
Publication Research

Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment

Almaatouq, A., Prieto-Castrillo, F. and Pentland, A., 2016, November. Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment. In International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 407-418). Springer International Publishing.
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Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems

Elisa Celis, Peter Krafft, and Nathan Kobe. (2016). Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).
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FiftyNifty

This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...
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AI Ethics and Governance

This project will support social scientists, philosophers, and policy and legal scholars who undertake research that aims to impact how a...
Publication Research

Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking

Peter Krafft, Kaitlyn Zhou, Isabelle Edwards, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro. (2017). Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
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Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination

Krafft, Peter M., Chris L. Baker, Alex "Sandy" Pentland, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2016). Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination. The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
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Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference

Peter Krafft, Julia Zheng, Wei Pan, Nicolás Della Penna, Yaniv Altshuler, Erez Shmueli, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Alex Pentland. (2016). Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference. arXiv:1608.01987.
Thesis Research

Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market

Almaatouq, A. (2016). Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08562. Chicago
Publication Research

Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam

Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science. ACM, 2014.
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The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change

Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A. and Shmueli, E., 2016 The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, pp.33-41
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Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change

Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A., & Shmueli, E. (2016). Are You Your Friends’ Friend? Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Behavioral Change. PloS one, 11(3), e0151588. Chicago
Project Research

Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents, but some inevitable ...
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Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems—the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offl...
Center for Civic Media
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Friendship Reciprocity and Behavioral Change

When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we fou...
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Crowdsourcing Search: The Red Balloon Challenge

In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, w...
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Civic Crowdfunding Research Project

The Civic Crowdfunding project is an initiative to collect data and advance social research into the emerging field of civic crowdfunding...
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Crowdsourcing a Manhunt

People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six d...
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