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Project Research

Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #data +4 more
Project Research

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Publication Research

Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints

Doorley, R., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., Maciá, N. and Larson, K., 2020, September. Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints. In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Article, Sept. 2020
in City Science
#data #urban planning #data visualization
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +63 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +47 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#design #architecture #art +20 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Personal Robots

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +60 more
Accepting Applicants
Post Research

Ariel Noyman's work on CityScope selected for the Young Talent exhibition at Hebei International Industrial Design Week (HIDW)

The “HIDW Young Talent” exhibition addressed three topics: Manufacturing of Tomorrow, Future Craft, and City Catalyst.

Oct. 16, 2020
in City Science
#design #artificial intelligence #urban planning
Project Research

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Research
Camera Culture

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

#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +32 more
Accepting Applicants
Publication Research

CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform

Noyman, Sakai, Larson 2018. CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform. CHI 2018, 4,2007

Proceedings, April 2018
in City Science
#urban planning
Research
Human Dynamics

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

#robotics #design #social networks +63 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Research
Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

#design #social networks #virtual reality +39 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Streetchange

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

in Camera Culture · Collective Learning
Ramesh Raskar · Nikhil Naik +1 more
#computer vision #civic technology #urban planning +1 more
Archived
Research
Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#agriculture #bioengineering #civic technology +23 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Post Research

City Science team wins Best Student Paper Award at Computing Conference 2020

Congratulations to City Science researchers Alex Berke, Jason Nawyn, Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, and group head Kent Larson!

July 29, 2020
in City Science
#civic technology #transportation #urban planning +1 more
Archived
Research
Scalable Cooperation

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

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Reversed Urbanism

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Ronan Doorley +4 more
#data #networks #urban planning +1 more
Archived
Project Research

AI, Automation, Labor, and Cities: How to map the future of work

Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. Bu...

in Scalable Cooperation
Alex Rutherford · Iyad Rahwan +5 more
#artificial intelligence #data #economy +3 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

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...

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +13 more
Archived
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

ChampScope

Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Arnaud Grignard +3 more
#architecture #civic technology #transportation +1 more
Archived
Research
Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
Project Research

CityScope Champs-Élysées

An interactive  platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs ÉlyséesCityScope Champs-Élysée is a ...

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Nicolas Ayoub +5 more
#urban planning
Publication Research

Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management

A. L. Alfeo et al., "Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management," 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 4233-4240.

Academic Paper, Oct. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#robotics #networks #urban planning
Project Research

The Deep Image of the City

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Kent Larson
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +4 more
Project Research

City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology tha...

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +10 more
#human-computer interaction #data #urban planning +1 more
Project Research

CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Yan Zhang +3 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #transportation +2 more
Project Research

City Science Lab Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothenburgsort in Hamburg, Germany. Th...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Margaret Church +3 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #civic technology +3 more
Project Research

Aalto Campus-as-a-Service Simulations

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources...

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Ariel Noyman +3 more
#urban planning #data visualization
Publication Research

Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data

Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019). Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), 1480–1498. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319840668

Academic Paper, Sept. 2019
in City Science
#data #urban planning
Project Research

City Science Lab Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +12 more
Project Research

BASIC: Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In or...

in City Science · Human Dynamics
Arnaud Grignard · Eduardo Castello Ferrer +3 more
#urban planning #blockchain #autonomous vehicles
Project Research

MoCho: Mobility choices and societal impacts

MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pr...

in City Science
Ronan Doorley · Ariel Noyman +1 more
#architecture #transportation #urban planning +3 more
Publication Research

What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform

Doorley, Ronan & Noyman, Ariel & Sakai, Yasushi & Larson, Kent. (2019). What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform. UrbComp SIGKDD 2019

Academic Paper, Aug. 2019
in City Science
#urban planning #machine learning #data visualization
Project Research

City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosy...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#ecology #learning #storytelling +3 more
Project Research

City Science Lab Aalto

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Kent Larson +2 more
#architecture #data #transportation +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14...

in Sculpting Evolution · Open Ocean
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#ecology #learning #storytelling +4 more
Archived
Article Research

Home

How the home will be disrupted and transformed by radical technological change.

via BBC Radio 4’s FutureProofing podcast · April 20, 2019
in City Science
#urban planning #technology
Project Research

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 citie...

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Xiaowen Dong +1 more
#urban planning #social science #social change
Project Research

CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Ariel Noyman +1 more
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +5 more
Publication Research

Finding Places: HCI Platform for Public Participation in Refugees’ Accommodation Process

Finding Places: HCI Platform for Public Participation in Refugees’ Accommodation Process. Ariel Noyman , Tobias Holtz, Johannes Kröger, Jörg Rainer Noennig, Kent Larson. a Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Changing Places Group, Cambridge MA, b HafenCity University Hamburg, CityScienceLab, c HafenCity University Hamburg, Lab for Geoinformatics & Geovisualization

Academic Paper, Aug. 2017
in City Science
#urban planning
Article Research

City Science Lab Taipei

NTUT, MIT sign ‘smart’ development agreement

via Taipei Times · March 30, 2017
in City Science
#transportation #urban planning
Publication Research

Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

Frank, Morgan R., David Autor, James E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J. Deming, Maryann Feldman, et al. “Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 25, 2019, 201900949. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900949116.

Article, March 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #data #economy +3 more
Project Research

The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +2 more
#civic technology #economy #urban planning +4 more
Project Research

Urban Swarms

Modern cities have to respond to the growing demands of more efficient and sustainable urban development, as well as an increased quality...

in Human Dynamics
Kent Larson · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +3 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Post Research

This city is a classroom

Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.

Jan. 28, 2019
in Sculpting Evolution
#ecology #learning #storytelling +3 more
Project Research

FindingPlaces

What is FindingPlaces?In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Ma...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Ariel Noyman
#human-computer interaction #architecture #government +1 more
Project Research

Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar +2 more
#ecology #environment #kids +5 more
Article Research

Give way to droids, bots, and drones: the driverless city will look like this

An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles.

via The Daily Beast · Dec. 31, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation · City Science
#design #architecture #civic technology +4 more
Archived
Research
Social Computing

Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments

#design #art #environment +8 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Future Storytelling
#robotics #architecture #art +21 more
Archived
Project Research

City Science Lab Toronto

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.  It  started in 2018 and is...

in City Science
Hossein Rahnama
#urban planning
Project Research

Andorra | Energy + Environment

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Juanita Devis +3 more
#architecture #energy #environment +6 more
Project Research

cityIO

Cloud-Based Urban Data PlatformcityIO (input/output) is a cloud- and database-driven platform which allows remote participation, database...

in City Science
Ariel Noyman
#data #urban planning
Project Research

Managing Travel Demand: Location recommendation for system efficiency

Growth in leisure travel has become increasingly significant economically, socially, and environmentally. However, flexible but uncoordin...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Yan Leng
#data #transportation #urban planning
Article Research

AR is transforming tech. What can it do for cities?

Cities need to work to ensure that AR makes the leap from “cool experience,” to a technology that improves residents’ lives.

via CityLab · Aug. 3, 2018
in City Science
#augmented reality #civic technology #urban planning
Project Research

Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Yi-Cheng Jiang +6 more
#design #architecture #civic technology +7 more
Post Research

10+ years of Human 2.0

Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.

May 9, 2018
in Social Machines · Affective Computing · Opera of the Future +3 more
#robotics #architecture #health +4 more