Rosalind W. Picard
People who have difficulty communicating verbally (such as many people with autism) sometimes send nonverbal messages that do not match wha…
Ali, S., Breazeal, C. (2018). The Use of Social Robots for Social Emotional Communication within Families with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Play Make Learn
The Autism & Communication Technology Initiative utilizes the unique features of the Media Lab to foster the development of innovative …
Boulanger, A. "Autism, New Music Technologies and Cognition"
Rana El Kaliouby, Alea Teeters, Rosalind W. Picard
Johnson, K.T.* & Narain, J.*, Maes, P., Picard, R.W., "Augmenting Natural Communication in Nonverbal Individuals with Autism," International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Seattle, Washington, May 2020. (*Co-first authors/equal contribution)
Rosalind W. Picard, Matthew Goodwin
Rana Kaliouby, Rosalind W. Picard, Alea Teeters, Matthew Goodwin
Rosalind W. Picard, A. Wexelblat
LocationCTS 2010, Chicago IL Description
Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Picard, R.W., and Maes, P. “Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data”. NeurIPS 2019 Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)
Morris, R. "Managing Sound Sensitivity in Autism Spectrum Disorder: New Technologies for Customized Intervention"
Johnson, K.T.*, Narain, J.*, Ferguson, C., Picard, R.W., and Maes, P. The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Case Studies Track of CHI 2020). (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)
Former Visiting Assistant Professor
Angela Chang, Ben Resner, Brad Koerner, XingChen Wang, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2001. LumiTouch: an emotional communication device. In CHI ’01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’01). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 313–314. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/634067.634252
Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Picard, R.W., Maes, P. "Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data," NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Social Good, December 2019. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a projec…
Schoeller, F., Haar, A. J. H., Jain, A., & Maes, P. (2019). Enhancing human emotions with interoceptive technologies. Physics of life reviews.
A Chang Resner, B., Koerner, B., Wang, X., and Ishii, H.
Former Research Assistant
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Stiehl, W. Chang, A., Wistort,R., Breazeal, C.
Teeters, A. "Use of a Wearable Camera System in Conversation: Toward a Companion Tool for Social-Emotional Learning in Autism"
Ira Winder and the Tactile Matrix won the award for best demonstration at the IEEE Future Technologies Conference.
The Communications Futures Program conducts research on industry dynamics, technology opportunities, and regulatory issues that form the ba…
Rojas, C., Patekar, G., Zuccarelli, E., Chin, A., Esquivel, D., Maes, P. Towards Enhancing Empathy Through Emotion Augmented Remote. 2022. Proc. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI (Accepted)
Daniel Olguin Olguin, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Rosalind W. Picard, Matthew Goodwin, Richard Fletcher, Eydgahi, H., Williams, C., Marecki, A., Lee, C.H., Morris, R., Kim, K., Mota, S., Rana El Kaliouby
Social robots could potentially aid therapists working with autistic children in the future.
MIT Media Lab City Science researchers Ira Winder and Nina Lutz presented the Tactile Matrix at the IEEE…
IFT celebrated its launch with a press conference, a research conference, and an evening of interactive arts performances.
The MIT Media Lab is prepared to discover and create new innovations to address the dual challenge of improving our climate through afforda…
The Institute for Futures Technologies (IFT) is a new space within the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris (La Défense), which aims to…
Machine learning network offers personalized estimates of children’s behavior.
Join us to explore possibilities and applications of technologies for augmenting and upgrading human capability over the next 10+ years.
Rana El Kaliouby, Rosalind W. Picard, Baron-Cohen S.
J. Shen, K. Lecamwasam, H. W. Park, C. Breazeal and R. Picard, "Designing Conversational Agents for Emotional Self-Awareness," 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ACIIW59127.2023.10388072.
Lopez Martinez D. and Picard R. "Wearable Technologies for Multiple Sclerosis: The Future Role of Wearable Stress Measurement in Improving Quality of Life," In the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-Oriented Devices and Systems (SPWID'16), May 2016, Valencia, Spain.
The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…
Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B. , Picard, R. W., " Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy," Science Robotics, June 2018.
Miriam Madsen, Rana el Kaliouby, Micah Eckhardt, Mohammed E. Hoque, Matthew S. Goodwin, Rosalind Picard
In collaboration with the Early Childhood Cognition Center at MIT BCS, we are developing sensor-enabled toys and infant affect sensors with…
Emotion recognition modeled as a goal-directed process!
Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; MIT Dean for Digital Learning
Haar Horowitz, Adam Jedidiah. Interfacing With Dreams: Novel Technologies and Protocols for Targeted Dream Incubation. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022.
Physiological arousal is an important part of occupational therapy for children with autism and ADHD, but therapists do not have a way to o…
Personalized machine-learning models capture subtle variations in facial expressions to better gauge how we feel
LocationStata Center, Kirsch Auditorium (32-155) DescriptionThis second civic media forum will center on several of the Center for Future C…
Rosalind W. Picard
Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, O’Brien, A., Wofford, P., Maes, P., Picard, R.W. "Nonverbal Vocalizations as Speech: Characterizing Natural-Environment Audio from Nonverbal Individuals with Autism," Proceedings of the Workshop on Laughter and Other Nonverbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld, Germany, October 2020. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)
Joe Paradiso, Chris Schmandt, Katia Vega, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Rébecca Kleinberger, Xin Liu, Jie Qi, Asta Roseway, Ali K. Yetisen, Jürgen Steimle, Martin Weigel
Using personalized, naturalistic experiments, the Gabrieli lab is pioneering new approaches to neurodevelopmental differences.
LocationHarvard Medical School Description Additional Featured Research ByAffective Computing (Unpublished) Autism & Communication Technolo…
Ghoneim, M. T., Nguyen, A., Dereje, N., Huang, J., Moore, G. C., Murzynowski, P. J. , Dagdeviren. C.†, ACS Chemical Reviews, 119(8), 5248-5297, 2019. [Invited Review Paper]
Rosalind W. Picard
Former Alumnus, Affective Computing
Reynolds-Cuéllar, Pedro, and Cynthia Breazeal. "Emotional Robocoaster: An Exploration on Emotions, Research Methods and Introspection." In Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, pp. 561-567. 2017.
Lee, C. "Externalizing and Interpreting Autonomic Arousal in People Diagnosed with Autism"
M. Madsen, Rana Kaliouby, Matthew Goodwin, Rosalind W. Picard
Political, media and technological forces have driven us into isolated, like-minded camps hostile toward outside views and ripe for the spr…
On KCRW's Life Examined, Rosalind Picard talks about the potential for technology to help people understand emotions and improve wellbeing.
Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…
People have welcomed conversational AI technologies into our homes, workplaces, and institutions where we interact with them daily.
Kajale, Shivam. Study of vdW Magnetic Materials for Spintronic Applications. 2023. MIT, MS Thesis
We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy.