LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionProlonged sedentary behavior characterized by long bouts of sitting increases the risk for premat…
Rosenberger, M. E., Haskell, W. L., Albinali, F., Mota, S., Nawyn, J., & Intille, S. (2013). Estimating activity and sedentary behavior from an accelerometer on the hip or wrist. Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 45(5), 96
S.S. Intille, F. Albinali, S. Mota, B. Kuris, P. Botana, and W.L. Haskell, “Design of a wearable physical activity monitoring system using mobile phones and accelerometers,” in Proc. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Meeting (EMBC), 2011, pp. 3636 – 3639.
New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond.
Former Technology Director; Former Alumnus, Vismod
Project shares ways to create community around design equity, ethics, and justice.
Hernandez, J., Sano, A., Goodwin, M. S., Picard, R. W. "AMA, an application for Annotation, Monitoring, and Analysis of behavioral activity"; in the Extended Abstract of IMFAR 2012, Toronto, Canada, May 17-19, 2012.
Chang, A., Mota, S., & Lieberman, H. (2014, July). GestureNet: A Common Sense Approach to Physical Activity Similarity. In EVA.
LocationMIT Media Lab Description Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore
LocationMIT Media Lab Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) New Media Medicine Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore
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Nick Obradovich, James H. Fowler. Climate change may alter human physical activity patterns. Nature Human Behaviour 1, Article number: 0097 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0097. Published online: 24 April 2017
Akane Sano, Rosalind W. Picard
DescriptionIn his talk, Dr. Nock will describe recent findings from epidemiologic studies on the prevalence, characteristics and risk facto…
Professor Pentland explains the single activity that characterixes creative workplace—and it's probably something that you love doing.
Sandy Pentland explains the single activity that characterizes creative workplace—and it's probably something that you love doing.
Nawyn, Jason Paul. A persuasive television remote control for the promotion of health and well-being. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.
Mota, Selene, Fahd Albinali, and Stephen Intille. "Collecting Longitudinal Physical Activity Data Using Miniature Wireless Accelerometers and Mobile Phones." International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI) 4.2 (1993): 37-43.
S.S. Intille, E. Munguia Tapia J. Rondoni, J. Beaudin, C. Kukla, S. Agarwal, and L. Bao, "Tools for studying behavior and technology in natural settings," in Proceedings of UBICOMP 2003: Ubiquitous Computing, vol. LNCS 2864, A.K. Dey, A. Schmidt, and J.F. McCarthy, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2003, pp. 157-174.
Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and the world
In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, and…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionKelly Dobson is an artist and engineer who pioneered the Parapraxis of Machine Design, a novel ar…
LocationBartos Theater, MIT Building E15 Description
Are the things we’re inventing for the future taking into account our deepest human needs? The Advancing Wellbeing initiative explores not …
Nataliya Kosmyna, Pattie Maes. 2019. AttentivU: a Biofeedback Device to Monitor and Improve Engagement in the Workplace. In the 41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 23-27.
Fletcher, R. R., Kumar, S., Leonard, N., & Mota, S. (2014). Using Wearable Sensors for Monitoring and Interventions: Lessons Learned and Future Directions. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 47(Supplement: 1), S154-S154.Rich Fletcher, S. Kumar, N. Leonard, Selene Mota
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
LocationBartos Theater, MIT Building E15 Description
Daniel Olguin Olguin, Peter A. Gloor, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
Organizations are deploying gratitude-tracking systems to encourage appreciation, promote pro-sociality, and monitor employee wellbeing. We…
Kaur, I. "OpenSpace: Enhancing Social Awareness at the Workplace"
Johnson, K.T. & Picard, R.W. (2020). Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices. Neuron 108(1), 8-12.
Transitioning from low-income to high-income occupations is difficult because the skills associated with each type of job are so different.
Professor of the Practice
Depression correlated with anxiety is one of the key factors leading to suicidal behavior, and is among the leading causes of death worldwi…
From Lenin to Einstein: How Being Someone Else Can Change Your Behavior
Developed by researchers at the MIT Media Lab, the platform helps users learn empathetic and inclusive communication practices.
The SA+P-sponsored Wellness Program, including yoga classes and mindfulness meditation - is now available virtually.
The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obtai…
LocationCourtyard Marriott, Rio Grande Ballroom, 300 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #how2focus #MLSXSWDistracted at the office? You’re not alo…
Doorley, R., Noyman, A., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019, May 1). RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data. 2019 Smart Cities Symposium Prague, SCSP 2019 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSP.2019.8805683
Gloria Mark, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Mary Czerwinski, Paul Johns, Akane Sano
Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change
Dr. Andrew Walshe, Senior Director of High Performance for Red Bull, presents his seminar "Performance Under Pressure: Fear is Not an Optio…
Fleming, Renée, et al. "Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness." Viking (Penguin Random House LLC). April 9, 2024. ISBN 9780593653197
MIT resources for students, staff, and faculty.
Wicaksono, I., Shtarbanov, A., Slater, R., Ranade, E., Newman, D., and Paradiso, J., 2023. Design, Development, and Testing of Peristaltic Suit: Active-Dynamic Compression and Physiological Sensing Intra-vehicular Activity Spacesuit for Cardiovascular Deconditioning. In ICES 2023.
Daniel Olguin Olguin, Benjamin N. Waber, Taemie Kim, Akshay Mohan, Koji Ara, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…
Vujic, A., Tong, S., Picard, R., Maes, P. (2018) Towards Gut-Brain Computer Interfacing: Gastric Myoelectric Activity as an Index of Subcortical Phenomena. In 3rd International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference, 135-136.
Vujic, A., Tong, S., Picard, R., Maes, P. (2018) Towards Gut-Brain Computer Interfacing: Gastric Myoelectric Activity as an Index of Subcortical Phenomena. In 3rd International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference, 135-136.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionFor much of the last 25 years the focus of nutritional advice has been to reduce total fat intake…
Leong, Joanne, et al. "Social Wormholes: Exploring Preferences and Opportunities for Distributed and Physically-Grounded Social Connections." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7.CSCW2 (2023): 1-29.
Munguia, E. "Using Machine Learning for Real-Time Activity Recognition and Estimation of Energy Expenditure"
A. Ghandeharioun, D. McDuff, M. Czerwinski and K. Rowan, "Towards Understanding Emotional Intelligence for Behavior Change Chatbots," 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2019, pp. 8-14.