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Project Research

Comments on Code

I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Char Stiles
#social networks #data #community +1 more
Project Research

Intentional Community Building from Local to Global

​IntroductionThe typology of sociotechnical transition pathways, as developed by Geels and Schot, provides a theoretical foundation for und…

in City Science
Danwen Ji · Kai Hu +2 more
#design #social networks #artificial intelligence
Project Research

Decentralized AI

As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…

in Camera Culture · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Ayush Chopra · Charles Lu +2 more
#social networks #artificial intelligence #data +1 more
Project Research

Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…

in Conformable Decoders · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Wenya Du · Lin Zhang +3 more
#social networks #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +18 more
Project Research

Remaking City by Community-based Social Innovation

The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Danwen Ji · Kent Larson +3 more
#design #social networks #artificial intelligence +2 more
Project Research

VALIS: 2023 Production

Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…

in Opera of the Future · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Ana Schon · Tod Machover +2 more
#social networks #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

Living Lab with CityScope using h-ABM

In the CityScope platform, we leverage humanized Agent-Based Models (h-ABMs) to elevate urban simulation to new heights of realism and comp…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Parfait Atchade Adelomou · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +5 more
#social networks #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence
Project Research

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h - ABM)

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
Parfait Atchade Adelomou · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +1 more
#social networks #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +2 more
Project Research

Theme | Sleep + Dream Engineering

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…

in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez +5 more
#design #social networks #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

First 100 days of pandemic; an interplay of pharmaceutical, behavioral and digital interventions - A study using agent based modeling

The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…

in Camera Culture · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Gauri Gupta · Ayush Chopra +1 more
#social networks #artificial intelligence #data +6 more
Project Research

Exploring Science Communication Through Song and Dance

Science is not just about discovery; it’s an art of communication too.In this project, we are exploring how complex scientific topics can b…

in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Lasse Mohr
#social networks #art #communications +1 more
Project Research

Collective Echos

Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…

in MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Naana Obeng-Marnu · Maggie Hughes +2 more
#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +9 more
Project Research

CommunityLM

CommunityLM is a research program from MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and MIT Media Lab. We are devoted to developing soci…

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds +2 more
Hang Jiang
#social networks #artificial intelligence #civic media +4 more
Project Research

'@artbhot' - Towards a Creative Partner on Social Media

@artbhot is a Twitter bot that leverages stable diffusion technology to translate user tweets into images and animations.  Access…

in Viral Communications · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Amy Smith
#social networks #human-computer interaction #art +1 more
Project Research

Divergences in Following Patterns between Influential Twitter Users and their Audiences

Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. …

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Suyash Fulay
#social networks #social media
Project Research

Super Spreaders

As part of its recommendations to increase transparency, the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder recommended – in its…

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Hope Schroeder · Shayne Longpre
#social networks
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
Bernardo Garcia Bulle Bueno · Takahiro Yabe +4 more
#social networks #transportation #urban planning +5 more
Project Research

Increased Urban Segregation during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Urban socioeconomic segregation is an important indicator that is crucial for social, economic, and health outcomes. Segregation is inheren…

in Human Dynamics
#social networks #data
Project Research

Social Mirror

Social Mirror is a web application that helps Twitter users interactively explore the politically active parts of their social network. Wo…

in Social Machines
Ann Yuan · Nabeel Gillani +1 more
#social networks #politics #social media
Project Research

Learning Loops

Developed as part of the Playful Words research project at the MIT Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines, Learning Loops aims to make …

in Social Machines
Anneli Hershman · Sarah Ballinger +5 more
#design #social networks #human-machine interaction +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
Project Research

Conversation Trees

An alternative viewing experience for large-scale conversations on Twitter. Each conversation tree visualizes the structure of replies to a…

Brandon C. Roy · Bridgit Mendler +1 more
#social networks #social media #data visualization

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