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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
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City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosyst…
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Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14. …
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City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…
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Ed Boyden on minding your brain

A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.
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Storytelling with volumetric displays

Mike Bove, head of the Object-Based Media group, on the current state of the technology and what his research team is working on.
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This city is a classroom

Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.
Communications Futures Program
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Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…
Future Storytelling
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Art, Science, Technology Inspires Walt Disney Imagineers at MIT Media Lab Event

“Happiness makes the world go round."
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Perspectives

The news is probably one of the first things people check in the morning, but how much does what you know and understand about the world de…
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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
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Science Fiction for tomorrow's day to day

Ariel Ekblaw speaks at Sónar+D
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Storytelling, STEM, and changing the conversation at Comic-Con

The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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The Story Learning Machine

The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…
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Pintail: A Travel Companion for Guided Storytelling

Chowdhury, S. K. (2018). Pintail: A Travel Companion for Guided Storytelling.
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Silos, groupthink and knowledge ghettos

Dan Novy, MIT Media Lab engineer, is a strong advocate of bridging this gap, especially in media innovation.
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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…
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Machines now know how to terrorise humans

The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
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AI is working to make moviegoers more emotional

An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.
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Telling Stories to Robots: The Effect of Backchanneling on a Child's Storytelling

Hae Won Park, Mirko Gelsomini, Jin Joo Lee, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2017. Telling Stories to Robots: The Effect of Backchanneling on a Child's Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17).
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"El robot que escribe libros de terror" Oppenheimer Presenta # 1741

Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer. 
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AI is learning how to make you cry at the movies

New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.
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AI in storytelling: Machines as cocreators

Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.
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A team of MIT scientists taught an AI to get emotional over movies

Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachusetts…
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Tod Machover: Operas 1987-2014

This brief excerpt video shows a glimpse of some of Tod Machover’s innovative, unusual opera realized at—and with the collaboration of—the …
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A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions

Jin Joo Lee. A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
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Backchannel Opportunity Prediction for Social Robot Listeners

HW Park, M Gelsomini, JJ Lee, T Zhu, and C Breazeal (2017). Backchannel Opportunity Prediction for Social Robot Listeners. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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Hyperscore

Music software that lets anyone compose music. The first music software program designed to teach students and adults how to compose music …
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Pillow-Talk: Seamless Interface for Dream Priming, Recalling and Playback
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How scalable global networks are changing our media, our communities, and our businesses.
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How everything from interface agents to toys can be designed to respond with human-like, full-body linguistic and social competencies.
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How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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Visible Language Workshop
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How storytelling form can be best achieved using new computational approaches for the creator and user of media such as video, cinema, and photography.
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How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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Center for Future Banking
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Pintail

Pintail is a travel companion app for guided storytelling. It will start by capturing your travel plan so that it can nudge you with person…
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Hyperinstruments

The Hyperinstruments project creates expanded musical instruments and uses technology to give extra power and finesse to virtuosic performe…