Event

Tools for Well-Being Talk Series: Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone

LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-LL, Bartos Theater DescriptionThe human brain is made up of neurons, highly sophisticated and stable cellular st…

Friday
April 18, 2014
Event

Tools for Well-Being Talk Series: John Ratey

LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium DescriptionJohn Ratey will address the connection between exercise and the brain's performance and …

Event

Tools for Well-Being Talk Series: Martha Herbert

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionPhysical and biological needs of the brain must be met as a precondition for "higher" functions t…

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Tools for Well-Being Talk Series: Lori Melichar

LocationE15 Bartos Auditorium DescriptionWhy do we reach for a cookie when we know an apple is better for us, even if we’re trying to lose …

Friday
April 11, 2014
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Tools for Well-Being Talk Series: Marko Ahtisaari

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMarko Ahtisaari is a technology entrepreneur and designer. For the last four years he was executi…

Event

Tools for Well-Being Talk Series: Professor Natasha Dow Schüll

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDigital self-tracking, sometimes called "life hacking" or "personal analytics," involves parsing …

Event

Tools for Well-Being Talk Series: Anmol Madan and Jukka-Pekka Onnela

DescriptionJP Onnela is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is interested …

Friday
May 2, 2014
Event

Advancing Wellbeing seminar series: Dr. Andrew Walshe

Dr. Andrew Walshe, Senior Director of High Performance for Red Bull, presents his seminar "Performance Under Pressure: Fear is Not an Optio…

Wednesday
December 14, 2016
11:00am — 3:00pm ET
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Dr. Lisa Mosconi

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting over 5 million …

Wednesday
November 26, 2014
Video

Robert Morris on Crowdsourcing Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being

DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…

Event

Dr. Dagdeviren to deliver a talk “Conformable Biomedical Devices: from Breast to Brain” for 2023 Seminar Series, University of Rhode Island

Dr. Dagdeviren is invited to deliver a talk titled: “Conformable Biomedical Devices: from Breast to Brain” during the Fall 2023 Seminar Ser…

Thursday
October 19, 2023
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Dr. Canan Dagdeviren to give a talk at Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series, School of Engineering, Tufts University

Dr. Canan Dagdeviren is invited to give a talk at Biomedical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series, School of Engineering, Tufts University.I…

Monday
September 11, 2023
Publication

FOSTERING WELL-BEING: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth

Kumar, I. K. (2023). FOSTERING WELL-BEING: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth (thesis).

Post

City Science Network Talks Series-2024

Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…

Event

Social Innovation & Social Well-Being: Lessons from Practice

LocationBartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab DescriptionDr. C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Ins…

Wednesday
December 9, 2009
Publication

AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being

Pataranutaporn, P., Danry, V., Leong, J. et al. AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being. Nat Mach Intell (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00417-9

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Canan Dagdeviren invited to present at EPFL BioE Talks Series

Professor Canan Dagdeviren has been invited to give a presentation at the EPFL BioE talks series, titled  "MiNDS: Miniaturized Ne…

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Mel Slater

From Lenin to Einstein: How Being Someone Else Can Change Your Behavior

Event

Optimizing Mental Health: Technology to Improve Well-Being and Combat Depression

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 (Nagashima Conference Room) DescriptionPART 1: Investigating Well-being and Character in PsychologyPART 2: D…

Event

Dr. Joelle Pineau Talk

Building Reproducible, Reusable, and Robust Machine Learning SoftwareWe have seen significant achievements with machine learning in re…

Wednesday
July 31, 2019
10:30am — 11:30am ET
Post

Talks series organized by the University of Guadalajara for their Master’s in City Science

The University of Guadalajara (UdeG) established a Master's Degree in City Science (Maestría en Ciencia de la Ciudad or MCCd). The degree i…

Article

President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone visits MIT

Public talk outlines ambitious plans to make his nation a hub for technology and innovation.

Publication

Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Anxiety Disorders and Well-Being

Lecamwasam, K.H.M. (2023). Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Anxiety Disorders and Well-Being. Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab.

Event

Open Learning Talks: Mindfulness, Mental Wellness, and Learning

Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and the world

Post

MAS Research Talk Series - Spring 2022

Publication

Methodology for Establishing Well-Being Urban Indicators at the District Level to be Used on the CityScope Platform

Orii, L., Alonso, L. and Larson, K., 2020. Methodology for Establishing Well-Being Urban Indicators at the District Level to be Used on the CityScope Platform. Sustainability, 12(22), p.9458.

Publication

Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being

Nosakhare, E., Picard, R. W. Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being," ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’19), August 4–8, 2019, Anchorage, AK, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3330738

Project

Enhancing well-being through low-frequency resonance: a parametric analysis of space geometry

Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…

Publication

Towards Assessing and Recommending Combinations of Behaviors for Improving Health and Well-Being

Nosakhare, E., and Picard. R. 2019. Toward Assessing and Recommending Combinations of Behaviors for Improving Health and Well-Being. ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare 1, 1, Article 4 (December 2019), 29 pages.

Article

Strengthening Community Data Engagement in Humanitarian Health Crisis: A reflection from Sierra Leone

In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.

Post

New collaboration aims to strengthen orthotic and prosthetic care in Sierra Leone

K Lisa Yang Center for Bionics and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation aim to develop an integrative approach to strengthening

Article

Robots will be tools for older adults and care givers in the future

Anastasia Ostrowski talks to the Digital Future Society about her work in this Q+A.

Gallery

Prostheses for All: Sierra Leone Project

Footage of the Biomechatronics Group in their work collaborating to improve the orthotic and prosthetic sector of Sierra Leone.

Video

Walter Willett on Tools for Wellbeing

For much of the last 25 years the focus of nutritional advice has been to reduce total fat intake and consume large amounts of carbohydrate…

Project

The Sierra Leone Orthotics & Prosthetics Program

We've designed a health system strengthening model  to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…

Article

MIT News highlights Dr. Canan Dagdeviren being selected as a finalist for the Future Founders Initiative prize competition

MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech.

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Amy Blankson

THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS: How Mindful Innovation Can Fuel Well-beingTechnology—at least in theory—is improving our productivity, efficiency,…

Thursday
April 13, 2017
4:00pm — 5:30pm ET
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Don Norman

Design in the 21st Century

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Jeffrey Girard

Part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series.

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Tam Vu

Non-invasive Sleep Quality Monitoring with LIBS, an In-ear Sensing SystemSleep occupies nearly a third of human’s life and acts as a critic…

Wednesday
September 13, 2017
4:00pm — 5:30pm ET
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: John Miller

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionJohn Miller will examine different aspects of dating and relationships from the perspective of a …

Monday
September 12, 2016
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Michael Otto

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA wealth of evidence indicates that exercise programs can relieve negative affect, alleviate stre…

Monday
September 19, 2016
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Tanzeem Choudhury

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMobile and ubiquitous computing research has led to new techniques for cheaply, accurately, and c…

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Ted Simendinger

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis talk is free and open to the public, and will be webcast.This fun and interactive program te…

Tuesday
September 29, 2015
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Rafael Calvo

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDigital technologies have made their way into all the aspects of our lives that, according to psy…

Tuesday
September 15, 2015
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Adam Gazzaley

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA fundamental challenge for modern society is the development of effective approaches to enhance …

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Katherine Milkman

LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-359 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.The popularity of…

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Stephen Intille

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionNew mobile apps and wearable devices for measuring health-related behavior and motivating health …

Thursday
February 26, 2015
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Matthew Nock

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn his talk, Dr. Nock will describe recent findings from epidemiologic studies on the prevalence,…

Wednesday
November 12, 2014
Publication

Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Predicting Future Well-Being and Assessing Behavioral Influences on Mood, Stress and Health

Nosakhare, E. "Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Predicting Future Well-Being and Assessing Behavioral Influences on Mood, Stress and Health", MIT PhD Thesis, September 2018

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Rich Fletcher

Mobile Technologies for Health and Wellness: A Global PerspectiveWhat are the largest health needs around the world? And how can techn…

Wednesday
April 18, 2018
5:00pm — 6:30pm ET
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Justine Cassell

Designing Bots, Virtual Humans, and Other Systems that Can Hold up Their End of the ConversationIn today's era of intelligent assistants of…

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: M. Ehsan Hoque

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionCarefully designed feedback on automatically sensed human behavior has been effective in improvin…

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Sebastian Deterding

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 Description“You cannot not communicate,” Paul Watzlawick once famously said. Similarly, whatever designers p…

Tuesday
November 24, 2015
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Todd Rogers

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionRogers will discuss two topics. The first is on the four underlying psychological and structural…

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Brian Cugelman

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn this interactive workshop, Dr. Brian Cugelman will discuss motivation from an evolutionary-psy…

Tuesday
November 10, 2015
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Samir Chatterjee

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe world’s population is aging. While people are living longer, they are also suffering from man…

Tuesday
November 17, 2015
Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: James O. Prochaska

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe Transtheoretical Model can be applied with individual patients and entire populations to prod…

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Dean Eckles

LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-359 DescriptionCompared with many other industries, including health care, the Internet industry has distinct ad…

Event

Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Timothy Bickmore

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOne third of US adults have low health literacy, the ability to obtain, read, and use healthcare …