MIT Center for Future Banking (Defunct)

Center for Future Banking was active from January 2008 to January 2010 This center explores how emerging technologies and insights into human behavior can transform the customers' experience and elevate the role of the bank in their financial lives. Researchers seek to invent new ways to anticipate the needs and desires of customers down to the level of the individual, to rethink the experience of bank-customer interactions as virtual and physical reality become increasingly intertwined, and finally to leverage the unique position of a bank to make people's lives simpler and more fulfilling. The Center brings together disciplines ranging from behavioral economics, to computer science, to urban design, in order to take a truly holistic approach to imagining and realizing new possibilities in banking. Its research spans a wide range of physical and social scales, from one-on-one interactions with customers, to new modes of global transactions. Research Topics #robotics #architecture #art #artificial intelligence #banking and finance #bioengineering #cognition #consumer electronics #developing countries #economy #energy #entertainment #health #human-machine interaction #kids #learning #music #networks #neurobiology #perception #pharmaceuticals #politics #privacy #storytelling #transportation #wearable computing #sensors #interfaces #networking #social science