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ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests

Abstract data visualizations for enhancing social interactions through clothing and augmented reality.
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ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through 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.
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B., Picard, R. "Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy," Pre-print on arXiv. Feb 2018.
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas

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.
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What is the optimal way to diversify an economy?

One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should t...
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TuringBox: Democratizing the study of AI

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

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab that explores the intersection of civic engagement wi...
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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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 ...
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GUI3D

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

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

Advancing Wellbeing
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Small cities face greater impact from automation

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
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Future of Work: Automation, Labor & Cities

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

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family mem...
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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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Rhythm: A Unified Measurement Platform for Human Organizations
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Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?

Pinheiro, Flávio L., et al. "Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?" arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05352 (2018).
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P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children as Storytellers and Listeners in Peer-to-Peer Interactions

P2PSTORY Dataset Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of i...
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Detecting the Trustworthiness of Novel Partners in Economic Exchange

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.
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Honest Crowds

The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey ...
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Validating Bayesian truth serum in large-scale online human experiments

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.
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Global Cooperation

Measuring Cooperation at Scale
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Detecting reciprocity at a global 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.
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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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Tangible Media

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

Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
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Evolution of the Social Contract

Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutio...
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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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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Emotionally Aware Robot Teammates

Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!
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Weather impacts expressed sentiment

Weather impacts expressed sentiment. Patrick Baylis, Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Lorenzo Coviello, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, James H. Fowler. arXiv:1709.00071v1 [stat.AP]
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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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Artificial Listener with Social Intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!
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Intentional Inference of Emotions

Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
Thesis Research

Modeling the Dynamics of Nonverbal Behavior on Interpersonal Trust for Human-Robot Interactions

Jin Joo Lee. Modeling the Dynamics of Nonverbal Behavior on Interpersonal Trust for Human-Robot Interactions. Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011.
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Computationally Modeling Interpersonal Trust

JJ Lee, WB Knox, JB Wormwood, C Breazeal, D DeSteno (2013). Computationally Modeling Interpersonal Trust. Frontiers in Psychology.
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Predicting Trust Between People

Machine learning model outperforms human judgement!
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A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions

Jin Joo Lee. A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
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Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voices!
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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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Do countries benefit from jumping into unrelated varieties?

It is well established that countries, regions and institutions tend to develop towards related activities. This implies that, for instan...
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DeepMoji

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

Emerging Worlds
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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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EngageME

Machine Learning and Humanoid Robots for Measuring Engagement of Children with AutismEngageME is a project aimed at building a new techno...
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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...
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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.
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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.