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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
Publication Research

Achieving Grassroots Innovation Through Multi-Lateral Collaborations: Evidence from the Field

Guzmán, Silvia Buitrago, and Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar. "Achieving grassroots innovation through multi-lateral collaborations: evidence from the field." (2020).

Academic Paper, May 2018
in Civic Media
#civic media #social science
Article Research

National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator awards two grants to MIT

MIT received two Convergence Accelerator grants from the NSF—one of which is for the Smart Oceans 2020 conference co-hosted by the Media Lab

via MIT News · Sept. 23, 2020
in Signal Kinetics
#environment #social science #technology +2 more
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Synthetic Neurobiology

Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations

#art #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +25 more
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Tools for mapping the molecular architecture and wiring of the brain

Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNAs,…

in Synthetic Neurobiology
Edward Boyden
#art #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +13 more
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How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences

Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded.…

in Collective Learning
Cristian Ignacio Jara Figueroa · Amy Yu +1 more
#social science #social change #history
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What is the optimal way to diversify an economy?

One of the eternal challenges of economic development is how to identify the economic activities that a country, city, or region should tar…

in Collective Learning
Cesar A. Hidalgo · Flavio L. Portas Pinheiro
#data #economy #social science
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Publication Research

The Design of Pseudo-Participation

Victoria Palacin, Matti Nelimarkka, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and Christoph Becker. 2020. The Design of Pseudo-Participation. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2 (PDC '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 40–44.

Academic Paper, June 2020
in Civic Media
#civic media #social science #civic action
Publication Research

Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of Participatory Design

Becker, C., Light, A., Frauenberger, C., Walker, D., Palacin, V., Ahmed, S. I., ... & Nemer, D. (2020, June). Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020-Participation (s) Otherwise-Volume 2 (pp. 181-184).

Academic Paper, June 2020
in Civic Media
#civic media #social science #social change +1 more
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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
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Machine Behavior

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …

in Scalable Cooperation · Personal Robots · Human Dynamics
Iyad Rahwan · Manuel Cebrian +3 more
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #learning +4 more
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AI, Automation, Labor, and Cities: How to map the future of work

Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. But …

in Scalable Cooperation
Alex Rutherford · Iyad Rahwan +5 more
#artificial intelligence #data #economy +3 more
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Honest Crowds

The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey pl…

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Lijun Sun +2 more
#government #social media #social science
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DeepMoji

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an in…

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Bjarke Felbo +1 more
#communications #data #social media +2 more
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Evolution of the Social Contract

Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutions…

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Manuel Cebrian
#politics #social science #collective intelligence
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Identifying the human impacts of climate change

Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these potenti…

Nick Obradovich · Manuel Cebrian +4 more
#environment #government #health +5 more
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Global Cooperation

Measuring Cooperation at Scale

in Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Morgan Ryan Frank +2 more
#networks #politics #social science +1 more
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Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…

in Scalable Cooperation
Edmond Awad · Iyad Rahwan +1 more
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +13 more
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Kicks x Cliques

Leveraging sneaker culture to influence civic engagement. Marginalized groups have influence on digital platforms but are often unhear…

in Viral Communications
Britney Johnson
#fashion #health #social media +3 more
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SuperGlue Kinesics

The relationship between news content and its presentation has been a long-studied problem in the communications domain. Often, channe…

in Viral Communications
Tejal Wakchoure · Mike Hao Jiang +1 more
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +6 more
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(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
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MIT Sloan research shows adaptive networks promote better collective intelligence

Study cautions against using static org charts during COVID-19 crisis.

via WFMZ · May 12, 2020
in Human Dynamics
#social science #technology #public health +1 more
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Announcing the 2019 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowships support three graduate students working at the intersection of creativity, play, learning, and new technology.

April 4, 2019
in Lifelong Kindergarten · Personal Robots · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic media #learning +3 more
Thesis Research

Founders’ Dynamics – Interpersonal Relationships and Between-Team Interaction in Early Startups

Thesis, June 2019
in Human Dynamics
#sensors #social science #collective intelligence +1 more
Article Research

C-3PO and the rise of robots, with Anthony Daniels

Kate Darling joins Anthony Daniels, Chuck Nice, and Neil deGrasse Tyson to talk about the rise of robotics and the cultural impact of C-3P0.

via StarTalk Radio · March 23, 2020
in Director's Office
#robotics #artificial intelligence #social science
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Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving, …

in Ethics · Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Edmond Awad +1 more
#artificial intelligence #cryptocurrency #social science +3 more
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AI Ethics and Governance

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.This project will support …

in Ethics · Scalable Cooperation
Iyad Rahwan · Priyadarshi Shukla
#artificial intelligence #extended intelligence #social science
Archived
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Humanizing AI in Law (HAL)

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The  Humanizing …

in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence · Ethics
Chelsea Barabas · Karthik Dinakar +4 more
#artificial intelligence #government #social science +2 more
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Study uses physics to explain democratic elections

US elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.

via MIT News · Jan. 21, 2020
in Social Machines
#government #politics #social science +1 more
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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
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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

Building a more honest internet

What would social media look like if it served the public interest?

via Columbia Journalism Review · Nov. 27, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #social media #social science +1 more
Article Research

Students push to speed up artificial intelligence adoption in Latin America

To help the region catch up, students organize summit to bring Latin policymakers and researchers to MIT.

via MIT News · Nov. 19, 2019
in Object-Based Media · Personal Robots · Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #politics #social science +5 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
Article Research

Investigating the power of group think

Political science doctoral student Clara Vandeweerdt studies how identity shapes beliefs on complex political topics such as climate change.

via MIT News · Nov. 7, 2019
in Social Machines
#politics #social science #behavioral science +1 more
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Predicting Trust Between People

Machine learning model outperforms human judgementOur computational trust model is capable of predicting—above human accuracy—the degree of…

in Personal Robots
Rosalind W. Picard · Cynthia Breazeal +1 more
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +5 more
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Intentional Inference of Emotions

Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #kids +6 more
Archived
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Human-Robot Trust

Unconventional mixing of research fields introduces a new method to study human behavior using social robots.

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +6 more
Archived
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Emotionally Aware Robot Teammates

Emotionally supportive robots improve overall team functioning!

in Personal Robots
Sigurdur Orn Adalgeirsson · Cynthia Breazeal +2 more
#robotics #human-machine interaction #social science +2 more
Archived
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Project Research

Artificial listener with social intelligence

A social robot modifies its behavior to change what you think about it!

in Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Jin Joo Lee
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
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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
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Empowerment-based design and evaluation of civic technology

Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Vall…

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Erhardt Graeff
#civic media #civic technology #politics +2 more
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +25 more
Article Research

The world is complex. Measuring charity has to be too

We must, however, make changes in the way we fund potential solutions so that it supports a diversity of disciplines and approaches.

via Wired · July 30, 2019
in Director's Office
#economy #politics #social science
Article Research

Algorithm using racist drug war data to determine Missourians’ freedom

Pretrial risk assessments draw from “deeply flawed data" generated from arrest and conviction records, say researchers.

via FilterMag · July 29, 2019
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #social science #racial justice
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
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Understanding Socio-Technical Issues Affecting the Current Microgravity Research Marketplace

C. Joseph and D. Wood, "Understanding Socio-Technical Issues Affecting the Current Microgravity Research Marketplace," 2019 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2019, pp. 1-10. doi: 10.1109/AERO.2019.8742202

Proceedings, June 2019
in Space Enabled
#social science
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Black Rock Atlas

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes this …

in Scalable Cooperation
Ziv Epstein · Niccolo Pescetelli +5 more
#social networks #crowdsourcing #networks +4 more
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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
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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
Post Research

Footwear x Mental Health: A Collaboration

How do your kicks collaborate with mental health?

May 21, 2019
in Viral Communications
#health #social science
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
Article Research

AI researchers want to study AI the same way social scientists study humans

Maybe we don’t need to look inside the black box after all. We just need to watch how machines behave, instead.

via MIT Technology Review · April 29, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #learning #social science +1 more
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Open or closed? The answer is both.

Joi Ito tells Reid Hoffman what he learned about management, diversity, and openness from being a DJ in Chicago in the ‘80s.

via Masters of Scale · May 1, 2019
in Director's Office
#social science #industry
Article Research

Understanding machine behaviour

CIFAR Fellows Hugo Larochelle and Matthew Jackson argue for a new scientific discipline to study the broad effects of AI.

via CIFAR · April 26, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #learning +1 more
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The Future's Coming: Why we need to prepare for sci-fi tomorrows today

Teleportation may have to wait.

via Space.com · March 17, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative · Beyond the Cradle
#social science #space #technology
Publication Research

Machine behaviour

Rahwan, Iyad, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, et al. “Machine Behaviour.” Nature 568, no. 7753 (April 2019): 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y.

Academic Paper, April 2019
in Human Dynamics · Personal Robots · Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #social science +2 more
Post Research

Studying the behavior of AI

A new paper frames the emerging interdisciplinary field of machine behavior

April 23, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #social science +2 more
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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
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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
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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
Article Research

Grey Mirror #8 Kate Darling, MIT: A systemic view on regulation and gender roles in tech

Kate Darling and Rhys Lindmark discuss the balances in regulating tech , how her research has evolved, and other topics.

via Medium · March 28, 2019
in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
#social science #technology
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The death of curiosity

How your company is killing innovation.

via Medium · March 26, 2019
in Affective Computing
#learning #social science #industry
Publication Research

Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

Frank, Morgan R., David Autor, James E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J. Deming, Maryann Feldman, et al. “Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 25, 2019, 201900949. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900949116.

Article, March 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #data #economy +3 more
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‘Atlas of Inequality’ maps where rich, poor do and don’t mix

Visiting professor Esteban Moro talks to Next City about the Atlas of Inequality.

via Next City · March 22, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #social science
Article Research

'Atlas Of Inequality' shows income segregation around Boston

Esteban Moro talks to WBUR about the Human Dynamics group's Atlas of Inequality.

via WBUR · March 12, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #social science
Article Research

Visualizing where rich and poor people really cross paths—or don’t

These maps show “place inequality"—or why people of different income levels are at different coffee shops.

via Fast Company · March 8, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #economy #social science
Article Research

The 'Atlas of Inequality' maps micro-level segregation

MIT Media Lab’s new interactive “Atlas of Inequality” shows that “segregation is not just about where you live, but what you do."

via CityLab · March 6, 2019
in Human Dynamics
#civic technology #economy #social science +1 more
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