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Past Member

Natasha Jaques

Former Research Assistant
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ELSA: Empathy learning, socially-aware agents

What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form o…
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Causal Influence Intrinsic Social Motivation for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Teaching multiple AI agents to coordinate their behavior represents a challenging task, that can be difficult to achieve without training a…
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SmileTracker

SmileTracker is a system designed to capture naturally occurring instances of positive emotion during the course of normal interaction with…
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Learning via Social Awareness: Improving sketch representations with facial feedback

In the quest towards general artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have explored developing loss functions that act as intrinsic motiva…
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Physio FreeFall

This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will c…
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Improving RNN Sequence Generation with RL

This project investigates a general method for improving the structure and quality of sequences generated by a recurrent neural network (RN…
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Predicting students' wellbeing from physiology, phone, mobility, and behavioral data

The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obtai…
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Predicting Bonding in Conversations

We show that using thin slices (< 1 minute) of facial expression and body language data, we can train a deep neural network to predict w…
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EDA Explorer

Electrodermal Activity (EDA) is a physiological indicator of stress and strong emotion. While an increasing number of wearable devices can …
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The Challenge

Mental wellbeing is intimately tied to both social support and physical activity. The Challenge is a tool aimed at promoting social connect…
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Wavelet-based motion artifact removal for electrodermal activity

Electrodermal activity (EDA) recording is a powerful, widely used tool for monitoring psychological or physiological arousal. However, anal…
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