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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 + teaching #social science +1 more
Article Research

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 + teaching +1 more
Article Research

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
Project Research

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
Project Research

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

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
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
Article Research

The death of curiosity

How your company is killing innovation.

via Medium · March 26, 2019
in Affective Computing
#learning + teaching #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
Article Research

‘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
Article Research

Augmented Democracy: César Hidalgo at TED2018

A bold idea to replace politicians

via TED · March 5, 2019
in Collective Learning
#artificial intelligence #politics #social science
Article Research

Making a path to ethical, socially-beneficial artificial intelligence

Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.

via MIT News · March 5, 2019
in Director's Office
#art #artificial intelligence #social science +3 more
Publication Research

How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences

Jara-Figueroa C, Yu AZ, Hidalgo CA (2019) How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0205771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205771

Article, Feb. 2019
in Collective Learning
#social science #social change #history
Article Research

Artificial intelligence has a problem with gender and racial bias. Here’s how to solve it.

Joy Buolamwini’s essay is featured in the Optimists issue of Time, guest-edited by Ava DuVernay.

via TIME · Feb. 7, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #social science #racial justice
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
Publication Research

Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B. , Picard, R. W., " Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy," Science Robotics, June 2018.

Academic Paper, June 2018
in Affective Computing
#human-machine interaction #social science #machine learning +4 more
Publication Research

Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics

Lederman, O., Calacci, D., MacMullen, A., Fehder, D. C., Murray, F. E., & Pentland, A. ". (2016). Open Badges: A Low-Cost Toolkit for Measuring Team Communication and Dynamics, 2016 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation , Washington DC, USA, June 28-July 1, 2016.

Academic Paper, March 2016
in Human Dynamics
#open source #social science
Article Research

The paradox of universal basic income

Liberals and conservatives alike love—and fear—the idea of giving free money to everyone. But we have to try it anyway.

via Wired · March 29, 2018
in Director's Office
#politics #social science
Article Research

The limits of explainability

Academics, economists, and AI researchers often undervalue the role of intuition in science. Here's why they're wrong.

via Wired · March 1, 2018
in Director's Office
#artificial intelligence #social science
Article Research

The next great (digital) extinction

We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.

via Wired · Oct. 8, 2018
in Director's Office
#social networks #networks #social media +2 more
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Emerging Worlds

Emerging Worlds

#art #consumer electronics #entertainment +3 more
Post Research

Congratulations to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees

The 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list includes at least three members of the Media Lab community.

Nov. 13, 2018
in Center for Civic Media · Biomechatronics · Synthetic Neurobiology +2 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #neurobiology +4 more
Article Research

30 Under 30 In Enterprise Tech: Drone School, AI Accountability And Buying Cars From Home

Joy Buolamwini identifies bias in algorithms and develops practices for accountability during design.

via Forbes · Nov. 13, 2018
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #social science
Archived
Project Research

A-pops

A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's e…

in ML Learning · Lifelong Kindergarten
Guillermo Bernal · Jennifer Groff +2 more
#kids #learning + teaching #interfaces +1 more
Archived
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Apops: Pilot Installation, Mexico City, December 2017

APOPS was presented at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab in Aug 2018. The slides from that presentation can be found below.

Oct. 17, 2018
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#learning + teaching #interfaces #social science
Archived
Research
Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

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

Diana Orghian – The Optimism Bias

Growing up in a foreign country, the optimism-mystique connection and making data digestible.

via GLiMPSE · Aug. 8, 2018
in Collective Learning
#data #social science #data visualization
Thesis Research

Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment

Graeff, Erhardt (2018). Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment. PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Thesis, May 2018
in Civic Media
#civic media #civic technology #politics +1 more
Project Research

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…

in Personal Robots
Hae Won Park · Mirko Gelsomini +2 more
#artificial intelligence #data #human-machine interaction +7 more
Project Research

Personalized Interaction for Language Learning

The process by which children learn native languages is markedly different from the process of learning a second, or non-native, language. …

in Personal Robots
Huili Chen · Samuel Spaulding +2 more
#interfaces #social science #social robotics
Publication Research

Weather impacts expressed sentiment

Baylis P, Obradovich N, Kryvasheyeu Y, Chen H, Coviello L, et al. (2018) Weather impacts expressed sentiment. PLOS ONE 13(4): e0195750.

Academic Paper, Aug. 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#social science
Project Research

GUI3D

GUI3D Template is a generic implementation of the GUI components that anyone might want for a 3D simulation in Processing 3. Component…

J. Ira Winder
#gaming #human-machine interaction #open source +2 more
Publication Research

ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality

Fuste, Anna, and Chris Schmandt. "ARTextiles: Promoting Social Interactions Around Personal Interests Through Augmented Reality." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.

Media, May 2017
in Living Mobile
#augmented reality #social science #data visualization
Publication Research

Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas

Alshamsi A, Pinheiro FL, & Hidalgo CA. "Optimal diversification strategies in the networks of related products and of related research areas." Nature Communications (2018) 9:1328. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03740-9.

Academic Paper, April 2018
in Collective Learning
#data #economy #social science
Publication Research

Small cities face greater impact from automation

Small cities face greater impact from automation Morgan R. Frank, Lijun Sun, Manuel Cebrian, Hyejin Youn, Iyad Rahwan J. R. Soc. Interface 2018 15 20170946; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0946. Published 7 February 2018

Academic Paper, Feb. 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#data #human-machine interaction #social science
Publication Research

Rhythm: A Unified Measurement Platform for Human Organizations

Academic Paper, Jan. 2018
in Human Dynamics
#consumer electronics #social science
Publication Research

Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?

Pinheiro, Flávio L., et al. "Shooting Low or High: Do Countries Benefit from Entering Unrelated Activities?" arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05352 (2018).

Article, Jan. 2018
in Collective Learning
#networks #social science
Publication Research

Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems

Pinheiro, F. L., Santos, F. (2018). Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems, forthcoming Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018)

Article, May 2018
in Collective Learning
#networks #social science
Publication Research

Detecting the Trustworthiness of Novel Partners in Economic Exchange

D DeSteno, C Breazeal, R Frank, D Pizarro, J Baumann, L Dickens, JJ Lee (2012). Detecting the Trustworthiness of Novel Partners in Economic Exchange. Psychological Science.

Academic Paper, Nov. 2012
in Personal Robots
#social science #social robotics #nonverbal behavior +1 more
Publication Research

Validating Bayesian truth serum in large-scale online human experiments

Frank, M. R., Cebrian, M., Pickard, G., & Rahwan, I. (2017). Validating Bayesian truth serum in large-scale online human experiments. PloS one, 12(5), e0177385.

Article, May 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#government #social media #social science
Publication Research

Detecting reciprocity at a global scale

Frank, M. R., Obradovich, N., Sun, L., Woon, W. L., LeVeck, B. L., & Rahwan, I. (2018). Detecting reciprocity at a global scale. Science Advances, 4(1), eaao5348.

Academic Paper, Jan. 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#networks #politics #social science +1 more
Thesis Research

Modeling the Dynamics of Nonverbal Behavior on Interpersonal Trust for Human-Robot Interactions

Jin Joo Lee. Modeling the Dynamics of Nonverbal Behavior on Interpersonal Trust for Human-Robot Interactions. Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011.

Thesis, Sept. 2011
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #data #social science +5 more
Publication Research

Computationally Modeling Interpersonal Trust

JJ Lee, WB Knox, JB Wormwood, C Breazeal, D DeSteno (2013). Computationally Modeling Interpersonal Trust. Frontiers in Psychology.

Academic Paper, Dec. 2013
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #social science #machine learning +3 more
Thesis Research

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.

Thesis, June 2017
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #data #kids +6 more
Archived
Project Research

Do countries benefit from jumping into unrelated varieties?

It is well established that countries, regions and institutions tend to develop towards related activities. This implies that, for instance…

in Collective Learning
Dominik Hartmann · Aamena Alshamsi +2 more
#networks #social science
Archived
Article Research

"Psychological roadblocks" for self-driving cars

Iyad Rahwan on the trust gap between people and autonomous vehicles.

via MIT News · Sept. 11, 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social science
Post Research

EU2017 .EE

Digital single market conference on the free movement of data (see Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland from minute 36)The priorities of the Est…

July 24, 2017
in Human Dynamics
#data #social science
Archived
Research
Playful Systems

Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability

#art #consumer electronics #crowdsourcing +10 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Post Research

How I'm fighting bias in algorithms

Joy Buolamwini's TED Talk

March 29, 2017
in Civic Media
#civic technology #social science #computer science
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
Thesis Research

Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines

Awad, Edmond (2017). Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines (Master's Thesis).

Thesis, May 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social science #ethics
Article Research

The surprising secret of workplace creativity

Sandy Pentland explains the single activity that characterizes creative workplace—and it's probably something that you love doing.

via Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat podcast · May 8, 2017
in Human Dynamics
#social science
Article Research

Facial recognition technology is both biased and understudied

Algorithms used by the police are better at identifying some racial groups than others. Why is hardly anyone studying this?

via Undark · May 17, 2017
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#civic technology #social science #ethics +1 more
Article Research

Identity swap

Creating “swappable identities” for a bot, allowing a user to pose questions to an assortment of AI personae.

via Venture Beat · May 21, 2017
in Human Dynamics
#data #social science #machine learning
Project Research

Andorra Living Lab

The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (Tourism, Innovation, Energy & Environment, Mobility, Dynamic urban p…

in Changing Places
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +11 more
#data #transportation #urban planning +2 more
Publication Research

Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment

Almaatouq, A., Prieto-Castrillo, F. and Pentland, A., 2016, November. Mobile Communication Signatures of Unemployment. In International Conference on Social Informatics (pp. 407-418). Springer International Publishing.

Article, Nov. 2016
in Human Dynamics
#economy #social science
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

Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking

Peter Krafft, Kaitlyn Zhou, Isabelle Edwards, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro. (2017). Centralized, Parallel, and Distributed Information Processing during Collective Sensemaking. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).

Academic Paper, March 2017
in Human Dynamics
#social media #social science #collective intelligence
Publication Research

Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination

Krafft, Peter M., Chris L. Baker, Alex "Sandy" Pentland, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2016). Modeling Human Ad Hoc Coordination. The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Academic Paper, Feb. 2016
in Human Dynamics
#networks #social science
Publication Research

Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference

Peter Krafft, Julia Zheng, Wei Pan, Nicolás Della Penna, Yaniv Altshuler, Erez Shmueli, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, and Alex Pentland. (2016). Human collective intelligence as distributed Bayesian inference. arXiv:1608.01987.

Academic Paper, Aug. 2016
in Human Dynamics
#social science #collective intelligence
Thesis Research

Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market

Almaatouq, A. (2016). Complex Systems and a Computational Social Science Perspective on the Labor Market. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08562. Chicago

Thesis, June 2016
in Human Dynamics
#economy #networks #social science
Publication Research

Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam

Almaatouq, Abdullah, et al. "Twitter: who gets caught? observed trends in social micro-blogging spam." Proceedings of the 2014 ACM conference on Web science. ACM, 2014.

Academic Paper, June 2014
in Human Dynamics
#social media #social science #social robotics +1 more
Publication Research

The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change

Almaatouq, A., Radaelli, L., Pentland, A. and Shmueli, E., 2016 The Role of Reciprocity and Directionality of Friendship Ties in Promoting Behavioral Change Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling, pp.33-41

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#networks #wearable computing #social science +1 more
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