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Lesson of a Pandemic for a Connected World

Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.

May 4, 2020
in Viral Communications
#communications #data #government +8 more
Digital Life
#robotics #human-computer interaction #architecture +26 more
Archived
Post Research

Dizzying Decisions

It’s not about your wireless or cable bill, it’s about your right to learn.

June 20, 2018
in Viral Communications
#communications #economy
Article Research

Phones could track the spread of Covid-19. Is it a good idea?

China, South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.

via Wired · March 15, 2020
in Camera Culture
#communications #data #privacy +3 more
Article Research

Underwater energy harvesting with a data-link twist

A novel acoustic-based backscatter design offers an innovative scheme for underwater energy harvesting and data transmission.

via EE Times · Feb. 4, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#communications #networks #sensors +4 more
Article Research

A holographic meeting platform for collaborating from anywhere

"There's got to be a better way to share space and work together remotely—but computers or phones may not be the right tools."

via TED Salon: Brightline Initiative · Nov. 1, 2019
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#virtual reality #communications #interfaces +2 more
Archived
Research
Ultimate Media

Ultimate Media

#communications #data #networks +1 more
Article Research

Watch this device translate silent thoughts into speech

For people who can’t speak out loud due to illness or injury, AlterEgo might return their ability to communicate in real time.

via Fast Company · May 16, 2019
in Fluid Interfaces
#communications #wearable computing #interfaces +1 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

CocoVerse: A playground for co-creation and communication in virtual reality

Real-time collaborative self-expression in virtual reality 

in Fluid Interfaces
Hisham Bedri · Pattie Maes +3 more
#virtual reality #communications
Article Research

Seven ways to create entertainment with impact

Communicating a message through entertainment can be difficult, because you have to be careful not to preach to the audience.

via IDR · March 14, 2019
in Civic Media
#communications #entertainment #social change
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
Article Research

How we’ll forget John Lennon

César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.

via Nautilus · Jan. 10, 2019
in Collective Learning
#art #communications #entertainment +4 more
Article Research

What tech will look like in 2039

We asked futurists, tech execs, academics, researchers, and a sci-fi writer to imagine our tech-driven society in 20 years.

via PC Magazine · Jan. 3, 2019
in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
#communications #data #networks +1 more
Post Research

Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.

Dec. 19, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #communications #networks +3 more
Archived
Research
Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

#design #human-computer interaction #art +16 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Post Research

TARF in the News

BBC: New tech lets submarines 'email' planesFox News: Submarine breakthrough: MIT develops wireless system to let subs communicate with pla…

Aug. 30, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#communications
Archived
Project Research

FaceSense: Affective-Cognitive State Inference from Facial Video

People express and communicate their mental states–such as emotions, thoughts, and desires–through facial expressions, vocal nuances, gestu…

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Matthew S. Goodwin +2 more
#cognition #communications #gesture interface
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Thesis Research

Collaborative Scientific Publishing: A New Research Ecosystem

Travis Rich, MIT PhD Thesis, 2017

Thesis, May 2017
in Viral Communications
#communications #networks
Project Research

Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#communications #ecology #environment +4 more
Post Research

The FiftyNifty challenge

FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.

Feb. 15, 2017
in Viral Communications
#communications #data #government +2 more
Publication Research

Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems

Elisa Celis, Peter Krafft, and Nathan Kobe. (2016). Sequential Voting Promotes Collective Discovery in Social Recommendation Systems. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).

Academic Paper, March 2016
in Human Dynamics
#communications #perception #social science
Publication Research

Critical size of ego communication networks

Wang, Q., Gao, J., Zhou, T., Hu, Z., & Tian, H. (2016). Critical size of ego communication networks. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 114(5), 58004.

Academic Paper, June 2016
in Collective Learning
#communications #networks
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Captions++

Modern web presentations such as Youtube feature videos with commentary appended at the bottom. In our new imagining of Videotext, we put t…

in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Tomer Weller
#communications #social media
Archived
Project Research

Reach

Reach merges inherently local communications with user requests or offers of services. It is built atop data from services users already us…

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman
#communications #social media #wellbeing
Archived
Project Research

DbDb

DbDb (pronounced DubDub) is a collaborative, visually based analysis and simulation platform. We promote open distribution of experimental …

in Ultimate Media · Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Travis Rich
#communications #networks
Project Research

Comm.unity

Comm.unity is a platform that implements a wireless, device-to-device information system that bypasses the need for any centralized servers…

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Nadav Aharony
#communications #networks #social media +1 more
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