Sponsored by: MIT Sloan School of Management

Do you want to change the world and create your own social movement? This course empowers you to build your own swarm interacting on social media and face-to-face by analyzing email, social media, and by tracking emotions with smartwatches using machine learning and AI.

In this course you will learn:

• How to create Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), intrinsically motivated groups of people working towards a shared vision by collaborating over the Web
• How to identify virtual tribes, groups of people sharing similar profiles and preferences on online social media such as Twitter through deep learning
• How to measure emotions such as happiness, stress, or anger through a smartwatch-based body sensing system, the happimeter
• How to forecast and predict trends by finding the trendsetters in online social media, in corporate e-mail archives, and personal sensor networks.
• How social quantum physics triggers change through two feedback looks: “empathy-entanglement”, and “reflect-reboot”.
• How to use our tools Condor and Galaxyscope for dynamic semantic social network analysis and machine learning
• How to measure collective consciousness and induce group flow (positive stress)

This course is organized in two parts: The first session gives an overview of the basic principles. At the end of day one, you can apply for the second part, where we will work with up to five individuals or small groups to develop their project or initiative.

Details

January 17 & 18, 2019

Course schedule:

Introduction to Swarm Creativity

Thursday, January 17
3:00–5:00 pm
E94-1531

Introduces Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), coolhunting with Condor and Galaxyscope (finding trends/virtual tribes by finding influencers), and coolfarming (supporting these trendsetters) by measuring email and Twitter networks by social network analysis, and the Happimeter, a smartwatch based system to measure emotions to track collective consciousness and group flow.

Creating Your Own Swarm

Friday, January 18
3:00–5:00 pm
E94-1531

If you have your own cause or scientific project where would you like to create your own swarm or virtual tribe, apply before the course for a slot on the second day (limited to five projects). The instructors will work with you to leverage the tools from the first day (coolhunting, coolfarming, Happimeter, dynamic semantic social network analysis, deep learning, Condor, GalaxyScope) for your own cause or project.

Advance sign-up required by Jan. 16. Limited to 30 participants. Apply at first session for the second session.

Requirements: Bring your laptop

Contact: Peter Gloor, 617 253-7018, pgloor@mit.edu

For more information, visit the IAP website.