Advancing Wellbeing

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

Design in the 21st Century

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

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

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

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

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

Part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series.

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

DescriptionJoi Ito will engage in a live conversation with Stephen Downs, Chief Technology & Strategy Officer at the Robert Wood...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-674 DescriptionThis event is co-sponsored by the Media Lab and the Simons Center for the Social Brain and is o...

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

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

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

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 meth...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOver the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in how contemplative practices su...

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