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Project Research

3 Voices: A Soft-Robotic Opera Transposing Singing Experience Across the Audience

3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deepe...

in Tangible Media
Ozgun Kilic Afsar
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +2 more
Project Research

Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optica...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

Voice Privacy Preservation

Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various information about emotions, feelings, and excitation throu...

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Wonjune Kang · Deb Roy
#artificial intelligence #machine learning
Project Research

Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

Check out our publications in PNAS, a workshop at IJCAI, and pre-print on arXiv. How do you spot a DeepFake? How good are DeepF...

in Affective Computing
Matthew Groh · Ziv Epstein +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +3 more
Project Research

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah · Francis Kendall
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA),  have develo...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #health #pharmaceuticals +7 more
Project Research

Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Project Research

School Reviews

Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on sc...

in Social Machines
Nabeel Gillani · Eric Chu +2 more
#kids #learning #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

Commalla: Communication for All

​Interested in learning more about the Commalla project?  Fill out this form! 

in Fluid Interfaces · Affective Computing
Jaya Narain · Kristy Johnson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #machine learning +2 more
Project Research

Blockchain: A new framework for robotic swarm systems

Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Eduardo Castello Ferrer
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +12 more
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 +15 more
Project Research

PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...

Mina Khan · Glenn Fernandes +3 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +5 more
Project Research

Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ pri...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Robert Lewis
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #extended intelligence +4 more
Project Research

Scaling Science: Using Data to Find “Hidden Gem” Research

The current system of scientific recognition and funding has significant bias towards work published in the top few percent of journ...

in Molecular Machines
James Weis
#artificial intelligence #networks #machine learning
Project Research

parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response...

in Fluid Interfaces
Utkarsh Sarawgi · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +5 more
Project Research

RF-Grasp: Robotic Grasping of Hidden Objects

 Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as ...

in Signal Kinetics
Tara Boroushaki · Junshan Leng +2 more
#robotics #computer vision #artificial intelligence +4 more
Project Research

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...

in Human Dynamics
Hossein Rahnama
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +3 more
Project Research

FedML: A Research Library and Benchmark for Federated Machine Learning

In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algo...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma · Abhishek Singh +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +2 more
Project Research

dementAI

 dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through ...

Utkarsh Sarawgi · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +5 more
Project Research

DAMS: Differentially Private Sketching Data Structures

We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact tr...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #data +6 more
Project Research

Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significa...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +7 more
Project Research

Machine Learning from Biomarker Signatures and Correlation to Systemic Health Conditions

Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automat...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
Project Research

Machine Learning and Automated Segmentation of Oral Diseases Using Biomarker Images

We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #health #imaging +3 more
Project Research

Machine Learning for Combined Classification of Fluorescent Biomarkers and Expert Annotations Using White Light Images

Biomarker imaging provides non-invasive indicators of disease and is used by human experts to augment disease diagnosis. It is, however, ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#health #imaging #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

Digital Clinical Trials with Novel Machine Learning and AI Architectures

Dr. Shah was an invited speaker and a contributor at The National Cancer Policy Forum developed workshop series at the The National Acade...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #synthetic biology #machine learning +5 more
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

Split Learning: Distributed and collaborative learning

Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: ...

in Camera Culture
Praneeth Vepakomma · Ramesh Raskar
#data #privacy #machine learning +4 more
Project Research

Splintering with distributions: A stochastic decoy scheme for private computation

We present a stochastic scheme for splitting the client data into privatized shares that are transmitted to the server in such settings. ...

in Camera Culture
Ramesh Raskar · Praneeth Vepakomma
#artificial intelligence #privacy #security +1 more
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
Project Research

Active Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making

Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from auto...

in Human Dynamics
Alejandro Noriega Campero · Michiel Bakker +1 more
#machine learning
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

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #health +8 more
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

AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...

in Personal Robots
Daniella DiPaola · Blakeley H. Payne +1 more
#design #artificial intelligence #gaming +6 more
Project Research

Personalized Robot Storytelling Companion

Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? ...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Xiajie (Brayden) Zhang +9 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +10 more
Project Research

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

INSPIRE

INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing fro...

in Social Machines
Belen Saldias Fuentes · Sneha Priscilla Makini +4 more
#learning #networks #storytelling +1 more
Project Research

Lensing: Cardiolinguistics for Atypical Angina

Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people roman...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Rosalind W. Picard · Karthik Dinakar
#artificial intelligence #health #machine learning +3 more
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
Project Research

Improving wellbeing prediction performance using temporal machine learning models

This project aims to improve the prediction accuracy of wellbeing (stress, mood, and health levels) using temporal machine learning model...

in Affective Computing
Terumi Umematsu · Akane Sano +2 more
#machine learning #affective computing #wellbeing
Project Research

SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-fun...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Akane Sano · Sara Taylor +9 more
#health #wearable computing #machine learning +2 more
Project Research

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...

in Social Machines
Deb Roy · Russell Stevens +8 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #data +6 more
Project Research

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...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Esteban Moro Egido +2 more
#data #social science #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

RoboChain: A secure data-sharing framework for human-robot interaction

A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic +1 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #data +10 more
Project Research

Recurrent neural network in context-free next-location prediction

Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Yan Leng
#data #transportation #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

Unspoken News

How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of...

in Viral Communications
Veronika Eickhoff · Mike Hao Jiang +1 more
#machine learning
Project Research

Evolutron: Deep Learning for Protein Design

Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more th...

in Molecular Machines
Thrasyvoulos Karydis · Kfir Schreiber +1 more
#synthetic biology #machine learning
Project Research

RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potent...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#artificial intelligence #food #health +8 more
Project Research

Calibration Invariant Imaging

Object Classification through Scattering Media with Deep LearningA method for classifying objects hidden behind a scattering layer w...

in Camera Culture
Guy Satat · Otkrist Gupta +2 more
#human-machine interaction #machine learning
Project Research

CityMatrix

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...

in City Science
Yan Zhang · Kent Larson +2 more
#architecture #artificial intelligence #civic technology +8 more
Project Research

The Story Learning Machine

The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models wi...

in Social Machines
Eric Chu · Deb Roy +3 more
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #entertainment +3 more
Project Research

Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Mirko Gelsomini +2 more
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
Project Research

ShapeBlocks

ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As pl...

in Social Machines
Deb Roy · Nazmus Saquib
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #kids +2 more
Project Research

SIDR: Deep Learning-Based Real-Time Speaker Identification

Consider each of our individual voices as a flashlight to illuminate how we project ourselves in society and how much sonic space we give...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Rebecca Kleinberger
#machine learning

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