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Spoken language is an information-rich medium that combines words with various information about emotions, feelings, and excitation through…
Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. In the U.S., 1.2% of the national population reported active epilepsy in …
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of gla…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …
Parents often select schools by relying on subjective assessments shared by other parents—which are increasingly becoming available on scho…
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Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mult…
The current system of scientific recognition and funding has significant bias towards work published in the top few percent of journal…
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response a…
Can robots find and grasp hidden objects?Robots are not capable of handling tasks as simple as restocking grocery store shelves as th…
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algori…
dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through a …
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact trac…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
Split Learning: Distributed deep learning without sharing raw data Project Page: https://splitlearning.github.io/Abstract: C…
We present a stochastic scheme for splitting the client data into privatized shares that are transmitted to the server in such settings. Th…
Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse beha…
Algorithmic FairnessSociety increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from automa…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
Could a social robot collaboratively exchange stories with children as a peer and help improve their linguistic and storytelling skills? We…
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily fo…
INSPIRE: Intelligence Never Seeks Perfection, Instead Requires Effort.Stories help us expand our sense of what's possible: by hearing from …
Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pred…
This project aims to improve the prediction accuracy of wellbeing (stress, mood, and health levels) using temporal machine learning models.…
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content and…
The well-known "small-world" phenomenon indicates that an individual can be connected with any other in the world through a limited number …
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at m…
Location prediction is a critical building block in many location-based services and transportation management. This project explores the i…
How something is presented can be as important as the message itself.In the age of political polarization and election meddling, it is of v…
Technological advances in the past decade have allowed us to take a close look at the proteomes of living organisms. As a result, more than…
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
Object Classification through Scattering Media with Deep LearningA method for classifying objects hidden behind a scattering layer wit…
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to some…
ShapeBlocks is a play analytics observatory that tracks, remembers, and aids players in building traditional LEGO-style structures. As play…
Consider each of our individual voices as a flashlight to illuminate how we project ourselves in society and how much sonic space we give o…