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Ariel Ekblaw speaks at Sónar+D
The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab
The Storytelling project uses machine-based analytics to identify the qualities of engaging and marketable media. By developing models with…
Chowdhury, S. K. (2018). Pintail: A Travel Companion for Guided Storytelling.
Dan Novy, MIT Media Lab engineer, is a strong advocate of bridging this gap, especially in media innovation.
Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to some…
The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
An AI algorithm can predict which parts of a film will generate the greatest emotional responses in audiences.
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).
Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer.
New research can predict how plots, images, and music affect your emotions while watching a movie.
Computers don’t cry during sad stories, but they can tell when we will.
Artificial intelligence (AI) may not be ready to write the next blockbuster movie, but a team of AI researchers from the Massachusetts…
Jin Joo Lee. A Bayesian Theory of Mind Approach to Nonverbal Communication for Human-Robot Interactions. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
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).
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
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…