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Our project develops adaptive intervention systems for social media platforms where younger generations now spend an average of more than 2…
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…
Can AI Predict Human Happiness? Researchers Simulate Well-Being for 64,000 Individuals WorldwideA new study reveals both promise and peril …
What does it take to get a group of strangers to open up?DisCourse is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers int…
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
Re-Imaginando La Costanera
This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
People use AI chatbots like ChatGPT in many ways—asking questions, sparking creativity, solving problems, and even for personal interaction…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …
IntroductionThe typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, as developed by Geels and Schot, provides a theoretical foundation for und…
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
Science is not just about discovery; it’s an art of communication too.In this project, we are exploring how complex scientific topics can b…
FlowIO is the first fully-integrated and truly general-purpose, miniature pneumatics development platform for control, actuation, and sensi…
Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. …
As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…
We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in cities …
Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…
Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. Wo…
Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to make …
To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …
An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to a…