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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Agnis Stibe

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionCan you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares? Many of us live and work in an urban e…

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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
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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…

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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
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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
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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…

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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
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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: 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
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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
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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
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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…

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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
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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
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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 …

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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…

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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
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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
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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: 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
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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Christina A. Roberto, PhD

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.Poor diet and obe…

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: BJ Fogg

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis talk is free and open to the public, and will be a live interaction via Skype.The Fogg Behav…

Thursday
February 5, 2015
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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
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Rob Morris

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMore than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the diagn…

Wednesday
October 8, 2014
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Rosalind Picard

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionTwo of the main components of wellbeing are engagement and positive affect. Stress is often derid…

Wednesday
September 17, 2014
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Neema Moraveji

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionChronic stress is often thought to be exacerbated by interactive technologies–but we challenge th…

Thursday
February 12, 2015
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Sandy Pentland

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis talk is open to the public and will be webcast live. For the last decade, Sandy Pentland's r…

Tuesday
September 22, 2015
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Kevin Slavin

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOur tastes and predilections for food are based neither on instinct or information, but cultural …

Wednesday
September 10, 2014
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Hatice Gunes

Hatice Gunes' recent work has focused on Digital Personhood.

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Mel Slater

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

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Charles A. Czeisler

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionSleep deficiency and circadian disruption are endemic in our 24/7 society. Both are particularly …

Wednesday
October 29, 2014
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Cancelled: Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Susan Murphy

Event Cancelled due to weather and will be rescheduledMicro-randomized Trials and Moderated Effects of Mobile Health Intervention Pushes on…

Thursday
February 9, 2017
4:00pm — 5:00pm ET
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Björn Schuller

We are at the edge of seeing voice-based monitoring of wellbeing conquer the consumer market.

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: BJ Fogg, Part III

LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-070, Bartos Theater DescriptionTo create behavior change that endures, designers have only one approach that is …

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: BJ Fogg, Part II

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOver the last three years, Dr. BJ Fogg has used email to coach over 30,000 people in a new method…

Thursday
February 19, 2015
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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Walter Willett, "Diet and Health: An Update"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionFor much of the last 25 years the focus of nutritional advice has been to reduce total fat intake…

Wednesday
October 1, 2014
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Meet the Labbers: Agnis Stibe

"We are creating the future; we are designing it; we are building the future."

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Tam Vu

Non-invasive sleep quality monitoring with LIBS, an in-ear sensing system

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Advancing Welbeing Seminar Series: Jeffrey “Lyte” Lin

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionWhen online communities first emerged on the Internet, they developed without structure; there we…

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar: Robert Waldinger

The Harvard Study of Adult Development: What We Learn From Tracking Lives Over 80 YearsThe Harvard Study of Adult Development is the longes…

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Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series: Mel Slater

From Lenin to Einstein: How being someone else can change your behavior

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Advancing Wellbeing Distinguished Lecture: David Williams

Social Influences on Health: Addressing both Risks and ResourcesAn overview of how factors linked to the social environment, such as socioe…

Wednesday
September 6, 2017
4:00pm — 5:30pm ET
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In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, and…

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Are the things we’re inventing for the future taking into account our deepest human needs? The Advancing Wellbeing initiative explores not …

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Advancing Wellbeing: Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and the Workplace

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionProlonged sedentary behavior characterized by long bouts of sitting increases the risk for premat…

Wednesday
November 19, 2014
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NanoBio Seminar Series Spring '24

NanoBio Seminar Series Spring'24Timings : 1 pm ETPlease use this zoom link for joining the webinar.For a list of all talks at the…

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NanoBio Seminar Series, Fall 2023

Join us at the NanoBio Seminar Series Fall 2023 edition for an exciting journey through next generation nanoelectronics devices.

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Advancing Wellbeing Videos

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MIT IoT Seminar Series

The Fall 2020 MIT IoT Seminar Series features world class visionaries presenting their latest work and vision for the future of IoT.

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More information: Advancing Wellbeing

Learn more about the program, and watch videos of past talks.