LocationMOMA DescriptionOver the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter,…
M. E. Carney, T. Shu, R. Stolyarov, J. F. Duval and H. M. Herr, "Design and Preliminary Results of a Reaction Force Series Elastic Actuator for Bionic Knee and Ankle Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 542-553, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2021.3098921.
E. J. Rouse, L. M. Mooney and H. M. Herr Clutchable series-elastic actuator: Implications for prosthetic knee design International Journal of Robotics Research, 2014, in press
D. Paluska and H. M. Herr. The effect of series elasticity on actuator power and work output: Implications for robotic and prosthetic joint design, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 54, pp. 667–673, 2006.
E. J. Rouse, L. M. Mooney, E. C. Martinez-Villalpando and H. M. Herr A clutchable series-elastic actuator: design of a robotic knee prosthesis for minimum energy consumption, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2013
The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…
L. M. Mooney and H. M. Herr Continuously-Variable Series-Elastic Actuator, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2013
Carney, Matthew E. “Design and Evaluation of a Reaction-Force Series Elastic Actuator Configurable as Biomimetic Powered Ankle and Knee Prostheses By.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.
G. Elliott, G.S. Sawicki, A. Marecki, H. Herr. The biomechanics and energetics of human running using an elastic knee exoskeleton, International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2013.
At Otherlab, inventors build cutting-edge tech from exoskeletons and flexible undersea robots to clean energy devices.
The Music, Mind and Machine group is working towards bridging the gap between the current generation of audio technologies and those that w…
H. Herr and N. Langman. Optimization of human-powered elastic mechanisms for endurance amplification, Structural Optimization, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 65–67, Feb. 1997.
Leclerc, V. "SENSPECTRA: An Elastic, Strain-Aware Physical Modeling Interface"
Opera of the Future head Tod Machover, alum Grace Leslie, and Dr. Adam Gazzaley join Renée Fleming for Music and Mind Live.
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LocationE14-244 DescriptionIf we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty yea…
Spinoff Learning Beautiful develops education materials that encourage kids to explore computer science concepts through physical learning.
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This is a unique time to engage and teach children about the benefits and limitations of technology.
The Media Lab is working to revolutionize and improve mental + physical wellbeing using digital technologies and human-computer interaction.
Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and the world
The Media Lab is enhancing human physical capability and revolutionizing mental wellbeing using digital technologies and human-compute…
The prosthetic interface consists of a compliant liner and rigid socket, and conventionally has been made through a very hands-on artisinal…
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Barry, B. "Mindful Documentary"
Our work in Music, Mind, and Health has culminated in a recent PhD thesis, showing the technologies and perspectives required to build on t…
In the first live public demo of his new technology, TED Fellow Arnav Kapur introduces AlterEgo.
The Society of Mind research group focuses on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. We account for many aspe…
Wang, Q. "Music, Mind, and Mouth: Exploring the Interaction Between Music and Flavor Perception"
There is an opportunity to revolutionize and improve mental + physical wellbeing using digital technologies and human-computer interactions.
What is curiosity? How does it work? And where does its seemingly limitless power to shape the mind and reshape society come from?
Rosalind Picard will be a keynote speaker at the Technology, Mind, and Society Showcase 2020
This event is free and part of Harvard Book Store's Virtual Event Series.
Saadi, J.I., Roeder, G., Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Verma, A., & Yang, M. Barriers, resources, and changes of social, policy, and ethical considerations in design education. Accepted to ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2023); Track: 35th International Conference on Design The
A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.
Martinez-Villalpando, E. "Design and Evaluation of a Biomimetic Agonist-Antagonist Active Knee Prosthesis"
Congratulations to Professor Deblina Sarkar on being selected for a 2023 Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Prize.
Canan Dagdeviren creates flexible ultrathin systems to decode the patterns of disease.
Dava Newman talks to the Seneca Women’s Podcast Network about diversity, interdisciplinary research, and transforming ideas into reality.
We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and virtual reality headset to improve mi…
Amphibian advances the field of VR while exploring the relationship between diving and disability
Groff, J. (2013). Expanding our 'Frames' of Mind for Education and the Arts. Harvard Education Review, 83(1), 15-39.
Nataliya Kosmyna, Cassandra Scheirer, and Pattie Maes. 2021. The Thinking Cap: Fostering Growth Mindset Of Children By Means Of Electroencephalography And Perceived Magic of Harry Potter Universe. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’21 Extended Abstracts), May 08–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/34
Xiao Xiao and Cynthia Solomon in conversation with Hal Abelson
G. Hoffman, C. Breazeal
Professor Minsky continues to develop the theory of human thinking and learning called the "Society of Mind," which tries to explain how va…
Kyung Yun Choi, Neska ElHaouij, Jinmo Lee, Rosalind W. Picard, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2022. Design and Evaluation of a Clippable and Personalizable Pneumatic-haptic Feedback Device for Breathing Guidance. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 1, Article 6 (March 2022), 36 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517234
Jifei Ou, Zhao Ma, Jannik Peters, Sen Dai, Nikolaos Vlavianos, Hiroshi Ishii, kinetiX: Designing auxetic-inspired deformable material structures, Computers & Graphics, Volume 75, 2018, Pages 72-81, ISSN 0097-8493
Siegel, M. "Persuasive Robotics: How Robots Change our Minds"
E.C. Martinez-Villalpando, J. Weber, G. Elliott, and H. M. Herr. Design of an agonist-antagonist active knee prosthesis, Proceedings of IEEE BIORobotics Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, 2008.
The programs are designed to foster an understanding of how artificial intelligence technologies work, including their social implications.
While we have learned much about human behavior and neurobiology, there is arguably no field that studies the mind itself. We want to overc…
The biggest problem facing artificial intelligence today is how to teach computers enough about the everyday world so that they can reason …
How do we meaningfully engage with topics such as ethics, equity, and justice in our design processes?
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