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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. Check out a video from the Election Misinfo…

in Affective Computing
Matthew Groh · Ziv Epstein +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #data +7 more
Project Research

SEI Analog Environments Study: Adaptation, Collaboration, and Resilience in Extreme Environments

SEI Analog Environments StudyProject OverviewThe way humans engage with space has changed rapidly over the past 60 years, moving from a mod…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sanjana Sharma · Maggie Coblentz +1 more
#design #environment #social science +1 more
Project Research

Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology Framework

One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…

in Space Enabled
Jack Reid
#social science #engineering
Project Research

Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…

in Personal Robots
Raechel Walker · Anastasia Ostrowski +1 more
#design #social science #social change +1 more
Project Research

Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI)

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…

in Biomechatronics
Gabriel Friedman · Roman Stolyarov +14 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +17 more
Project Research

Astronaut Ethnography

Our journeys off-world have taught us just as much about humanity as the harsh environment of space. For the past 20 years, we have had a c…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sanjana Sharma · Ariel Ekblaw +1 more
#design #architecture #social science +2 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 restaurant…

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +2 more
#civic technology #economy #urban planning +5 more
Project Research

Engagement with Voice-User Interface Agents

Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Hae Won Park +1 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +5 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 membe…

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

Voyage Viewer

Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Isabella Loaiza-Saa
#social science #social change #data science
Project Research

Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This for…

Ethan Zuckerman · Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +11 more
Project Research

Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…

in Personal Robots
Jon Ferguson · Hae Won Park +2 more
#robotics #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …

in Human Dynamics
Takeo Nishikata · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
#social networks #wearable computing #social science +4 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 fo…

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

RadioTalk

The RadioTalk corpus includes speech recognition transcripts sampled from talk radio broadcasts in the United States between October of 201…

in Social Machines
William Brannon · Deb Roy +1 more
#civic media #networks #politics +5 more
Project Research

P2PSTORY: Dataset of children as storytellers and listeners in peer-to-peer interactions

Understanding social-emotional behaviors in storytelling interactions plays a critical role in the development of interactive and education…

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #data #kids +5 more
Project Research

Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microgra…

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Christine Joseph
#environment #health #politics +8 more
Project Research

Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individuals …

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Abdullah M. Almaatouq
#data #economy #politics +4 more
Project Research

FiftyNifty

This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ca…

in Viral Communications
Britney Johnson · Andrew Lippman +4 more
#communications #data #government +2 more
Project Research

Designing social robots for older adults

Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limitati…

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Nikhita Singh +2 more
#robotics #design #human-machine interaction +5 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 and…

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 number …

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

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

Data for Refugees

Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research groups …

in Human Dynamics
Michiel Bakker · Alfredo Morales-Guzman +4 more
#social science #civic action #data science
Project Research

Tools to investigate societal impacts of robots and AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of our…

in Personal Robots
Anastasia Ostrowski · Hae Won Park +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +3 more
Project Research

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. Rhyt…

in Human Dynamics
Dan Calacci · Oren Lederman +1 more
#communications #sensors #social science +4 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 some…

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

Personalized Interaction for Language Learning

The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language. …

in Personal Robots
Huili Chen · Samuel Spaulding +2 more
#interfaces #social science #social robotics
Project Research

GUI3D

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Component…

J. Ira Winder
#gaming #human-machine interaction #open source +2 more
Project Research

Andorra Living Lab

The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban p…

in Changing Places
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +11 more
#data #transportation #urban planning +2 more

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