Research Groups Working with the Center for Future Banking

How new technologies can help people better communicate, understand, and respond to affective information.

How to build machines that learn to use language in human-like ways, and develop tools and models to better understand how children learn to communicate.

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.

How to integrate the world of information and services more naturally into our daily physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections.

How social networks can influence our lives in business, health, and governance, as well as technology adoption and diffusion.

How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.

How to spur advances in financial engineering and develop better ways to teach students and executives how to apply financial technology in corporate settings.

How musical composition, performance, and instrumentation can lead to innovative forms of expression, learning, and health.

How sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception.

How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.

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 needs.

How speech technologies and portable devices can enhance communication.

How to engineer intelligent neurotechnologies to repair pathology, augment cognition, and reveal insights into the human condition.

How to design seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment.

How to construct agile, scalable, collaborative systems.