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Article Research

MIT professor wants to shift power to the people by building local data collectives

"Building the New Economy" envisions data co-ops to make it easier for people to control and analyze their own financial and health data.

via TechRepublic · June 5, 2020
in Human Dynamics
#data #government #privacy +2 more
Archived
Project Research

Let's Talk Privacy: Exploring how privacy and data governance policies translate into practice

Let’s Talk Privacy explores how the implementation of privacy and data governance policies might impact a variety of fields.Project Let’s T…

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Dennis Jen · Stephanie Nguyen
#design #data #government +3 more
Archived
Post Research

From legislation to implementation: Exploring how to prototype privacy bills through human-centered policymaking + design

The rise of data privacy breaches and a look into policies that address these challenges

June 1, 2020
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#design #data #government +3 more
Post Research

Tales from Virtuality – Research under quarantine at the MIT Media Lab

Joe Paradiso shares his experience running the Responsive Environments group, teaching classes, among other things during the Covid-19 era.

May 18, 2020
in Responsive Environments
#human-computer interaction #learning + teaching #music +3 more
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

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

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

DoppelLab: Experiencing multimodal sensor data

Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensive …

Joseph A. Paradiso · Brian Mayton +1 more
#human-computer interaction #learning + teaching #music +3 more
Article Research

(Re)Building the Economy | Alex (Sandy) Pentland | TEDxMIT

With each major crisis, be it pandemic, war, or major new technology, there has been the need to reinvent our society.

via TEDxTalks · May 13, 2020
in Human Dynamics
#economy #social science #community +2 more
Article Research

Episode 46: Pioneer through the pandemic with professor + innovator, Dr. Hugh Herr

Biomechatronics head Hugh Herr discusses his research with the No Barriers USA podcast.

via No Barriers USA Podcast · May 6, 2020
in Biomechatronics
#creativity #community #technology +1 more
Post Research

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
Post Research

Awkwardly Mobile: Meet the New Ambulatory ArtCube

Because the walls and halls of E14 and E15 are subject to building codes and approvals, we decided to create our own walls.

Dec. 19, 2018
in Civic Media
#art #community
Article Research

Foster innovation, ethical tech with diverse teams

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.

via The Wall Street Journal · Jan. 13, 2020
in Civic Media
#ethics #community #technology +2 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
Article Research

Ring’s hidden data let us map Amazon's sprawling home surveillance network

By Dell Cameron and Dhruv MehrotraAs reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to…

via Gizmodo · Dec. 9, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#networks #privacy #security +2 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
Article Research

A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.

via Quartz · Dec. 17, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#social networks #wearable computing #community +1 more
Article Research

Innovator in chief

Moinina David Sengeh, PhD ’16, is trying to bring innovation into “the heart of government.”

via MIT Technology Review · Oct. 24, 2019
in Biomechatronics
#government #learning + teaching #community +2 more
Article Research

Opinion | The fast-evolving ethical conundrums of biotechnology

Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late

via Livemint · Nov. 11, 2019
in Community Biotechnology
#learning + teaching #privacy #community +2 more
Publication Research

Bike Swarm

Berke, A., Sanchez Lengeling, T., Nawyn, J., & Larson, K. (2019, November). Bike Swarm. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2019 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1-4). ACM.

Academic Paper, Nov. 2019
in City Science
#human-computer interaction #art #transportation +1 more
Post Research

A Counting—Poetic Justice group call for multilingual speakers

Please help Poetic Justice create an artwork that includes all the communities, voices, and languages of NYC.

Nov. 8, 2019
in Poetic Justice
#art #language learning #community
Article Research

Designs on the sky

Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow Prathima Muniyappa uses the transformative power of design to empower marginalized indigenous communities.

via SPAN · Sept. 1, 2019
in Space Enabled
#design #art #space +3 more
Article Research

EduTrends: Ep. 3 - Philipp Schmidt

José “Pepe“ Escamilla, from the Observatory of Educational Innovation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, talks to ML Learning head Philipp Schmidt

via EduTrends · Oct. 30, 2019
in ML Learning
#learning + teaching #community
Article Research

BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?

Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.

via BBC News · Oct. 16, 2019
in Affective Computing
#community #social change #women
Project Research

Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#agriculture #bioengineering #crowdsourcing +9 more
Article Research

HubWeek 2019 celebrates five years of connecting MIT, Boston, and the world

Greater Boston’s annual festival of ideas finds new avenues for celebrating and connecting innovators.

via MIT News · Sept. 27, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #community #technology
Article Research

A community-guided genome editing project can fight Lyme disease

Kevin Esvelt writes about the Sculpting Evolution group’s project to immunize mice against Lyme disease through gene editing.

via STAT · Aug. 22, 2019
in Sculpting Evolution
#genetics #health #community +1 more
Project Research

Symphony for the Koreas

Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#music #politics #community +1 more
Article Research

Peace workshop, concert connect experts, youth on Jeju Island

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover reflects on the recent peace workshop and concert on Jeju Island

via The Korea Times · Aug. 11, 2019
in Opera of the Future
#music #politics #community
Article Research

Episode 85: Innovation at the Edge

David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.

via Mass Cultural Council · July 30, 2019
in Community Biotechnology
#art #learning + teaching #community +1 more
Article Research

E14 Fund helps Media Lab community deploy startups

“First and foremost we’re a community-builder,” says Habib Haddad, a managing partner of the venture fund.

via MIT News · July 25, 2019
in Director's Office · Media Lab Spinoffs
#member company #community #alumni +1 more
Article Research

For the women of McCormick, a new space in which to create

MIT’s residence hall for women and women-identifying students opens a craft studio to promote creativity and belonging.

via MIT News · May 31, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#art #community #gender studies +1 more

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