Rosalind W. Picard

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
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Key Issues as Wearable Digital Health Technologies Enter Clinical Care

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, and Stephen H. Friend. "Key Issues as Wearable Digital Health Technologies Enter Clinical Care." New England Journal of Medicine 2024; 390:1118-27. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2307160

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Wearable Digital Health Technology for Epilepsy

Elizabeth Donner, Orrin Devinsky, and Daniel Friedman; guest editors Stephen H. Friend, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, Jeffrey M. Drazen. "Wearable Digital Health Technology for Epilepsy." New England Journal of Medicine 2024; 390:736-745. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2301913

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Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones

Groh, M., Badri, O., Daneshjou, R. et al. Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02728-3

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Wearable Digital Health Technologies for Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine

Erica S. Spatz, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, John S. Rumsfeld, and Mintu P. Turakhia; guest editors Stephen H. Friend, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, Jeffrey M. Drazen. "Wearable Digital Health Technologies for Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine." New England Journal of Medicine 2024; 390:346-356. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2301903

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Wearable technology in clinical practice for depressive disorder

Fedor, S., Lewis, R., Pedrelli, P., Mischoulon, D., Curtiss, J., & Picard, R. W. (2023). Wearable technology in clinical practice for depressive disorder. New England Journal of Medicine, 389(26), 2457-2466.

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Improving Domain Generalization in Contrastive Learning using Adaptive Temperature Control

*Lewis, R. A., *Matton, K., Picard, R., & Guttag, J. (2023, December). Improving Domain Generalization in Contrastive Learning using Domain-Aware Temperature Control. In NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Distribution Shifts: New Frontiers with Foundation Models & Neurips 2023 Workshop on Self-supervised Learning (*Equal contribution)

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Sleep Deficiency Is Associated with Higher Next-Day Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure Risk

B. Zhang, W. V. Chen, G. Regalia, D. M. Goldenholz, and R. W. Picard, “Sleep deficiency is associated with higher next-day generalized tonic-clonic seizure risk”, in American Epilepsy Society 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023.

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Wearable Digital Health Technology

Friend, Stephen H., Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, and Rosalind W. Picard. "Wearable Digital Health Technology." New England Journal of Medicine 389.22 (2023): 2100-2101.

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Digital Technology for Diabetes

Michael S. Hughes, Ananta Addala, and Bruce Buckingham; guest editors Stephen H. Friend, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, Jeffrey M. Drazen. "Digital Technology for Diabetes." New England Journal of Medicine 2023; 389:2076-2086. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2215899

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Designing Conversational Agents for Emotional Self-Awareness

J. Shen, K. Lecamwasam, H. W. Park, C. Breazeal and R. Picard, "Designing Conversational Agents for Emotional Self-Awareness," 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ACIIW59127.2023.10388072.

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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.

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Investigating the Physiological and Psychological Effect of an Interactive Musical Interface for Stress and Anxiety Reduction

Lecamwasam, K., Gutierrez Arango, S., Singh, N., Elhaouij, N., Addae, M., & Picard, R. (2023, April). Investigating the Physiological and Psychological Effect of an Interactive Musical Interface for Stress and Anxiety Reduction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-9).

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Real-time digital monitoring of a suicide attempt by a hospital patient

Coppersmith DDL, Wang SB, Kleiman EM, Maimone JS, Fedor S, Bentley KH, Millner AJ, Fortgang RG, Picard RW, Beck S, Huffman JC, Nock MK. Real-time Digital Monitoring of a Suicide Attempt by a Hospital Patient. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2023;80:35-39. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2022.12.005

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Contrastive Learning of Electrodermal Activity Representations for Stress Detection

Contrastive Learning of Electrodermal Activity Representations for Stress Detection; Matton, K*, Lewis, R*, Guttag, J, Picard, R.W. Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) 2023. *Equal contribution

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Computational Empathy Counteracts the Effects of Anger on Human Creative Problem Solving

Groh, Matthew, Craig Ferguson, Robert Lewis, and Rosalind W. Picard. "Computational Empathy Counteracts the Negative Effects of Anger on Creative Problem Solving." In 2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2022.

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Can a Recommender System Support Treatment Personalisation in Digital Mental Health Therapy?

Can a Recommender System Support Treatment Personalisation in Digital Mental Health Therapy? A Quantitative Feasibility Assessment Using Data from a Behavioural Activation Therapy App, Lewis, R., Ferguson, F., Wilks, C., Jones, N., Picard, R.W.; CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts)

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Design and Evaluation of a Clippable and Personalizable Pneumatic-haptic Feedback Device for Breathing Guidance

Kyung Yun Choi, Neska ElHaouij, Jinmo Lee, Rosalind W. Picard, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2022. Design and Evaluation of a Clippable and Personalizable Pneumatic-haptic Feedback Device for Breathing Guidance. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 6, 1, Article 6 (March 2022), 36 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517234

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Deepfake detection by human crowds, machines, and machine-informed crowds

Matthew Groh, Ziv Epstein, Chaz Firestone, Rosalind Picard. "Deepfake detection by human crowds, machines, and machine-informed crowds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2022, 119 (1) e2110013119; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110013119

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Predicting Driver Self-Reported Stress by Analyzing the Road Scene

Cristina Bustos, Neska Elhaouij, Albert Sole-Ribalta, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Agata Lapedriza, and Rosalind Picard. "Predicting Driver Self-Reported Stress by Analyzing the Road Scene." in Proceedings of International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021), preprint arXiv:2109.13225 (2021).

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The Guardians: Designing a Game for Long-term Engagement with Mental Health Therapy

Ferguson, C.* and Lewis, R.*, Wilks, C., Picard, R.W.; The Guardians: Designing a Game for Long-term Engagement with Mental Health Therapy; IEEE Conference of Games 2021. *Equal contribution

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Habit Formation Dynamics: Finding Factors Associated with Building Strong Mindfulness Habits

Robert Lewis, Yuanbo Liu, Matthew Groh and Rosalind Picard, "Habit Formation Dynamics: Finding Factors Associated with Building Strong Mindfulness Habits" HCI International 2021

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Mixed Effects Random Forests for Personalised Predictions of Clinical Depression Severity

R. Lewis, A. Ghandeharioun, S. Fedor, P. Pedrelli, R.W. Picard, D. Mischoulon, "Mixed Effects Random Forests for Personalised Predictions of Clinical Depression Severity", ICML 2021 Computational Approaches to Mental Health workshop

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AmbientBreath: Unobtrusive Just-in-time Breathing Intervention Using Multi-sensory Stimulation and its Evaluation in a Car Simulator

Jinmo Lee, Neska Elhaouij, and Rosalind Picard. 2021. AmbientBreath: Unobtrusive Just-in-time Breathing Intervention Using Multi-sensory Stimulation and its Evaluation in a Car Simulator. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 5, 2, Article 71 (June 2021), 30 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3463493

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aSpire: Clippable, Mobile Pneumatic-Haptic Device for Breathing Rate Regulation via Personalizable Tactile Feedback

Kyung Yun Choi, Jinmo Lee, Neska El Haouij, Rosalind W. Picard, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2021. aSpire: Clippable, Mobile Pneumatic-Haptic Device for Breathing Rate Regulation via Personalizable Tactile Feedback. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’21 Extended Abstracts), May 8–13, 2021, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages.

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Shaping Habit Formation Insights with Shapley Values: Towards an Explainable AI-system for Self-understanding and Health Behavior Change

Lewis, Robert, et al. "Shaping Habit Formation Insights with Shapley Values: Towards an Explainable AI-system for Self-understanding and Health Behavior Change." CHI 2021 Workshop Paper. Realizing AI in Healthcare: Challenges Appearing in the Wild.

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Feasibility and Acceptability of the Empatica E4 Sensor to Passively Assess Physiological Symptoms of Depression

Meyer, A. K., Fedor, S., Ghandeharioun, A., Mischoulon, D., Picard, R. & Pedrelli, P. (2020). Feasibility and Acceptability of the Empatica E4 Sensor to Passively Assess Physiological Symptoms of Depression. ABCT.

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Going with our Guts: Potentials of Wearable Electrogastrography (EGG) for Affect Detection

Vujic, A., Tong, S., Picard, R., & Maes, P. (2020). Going with our Guts: Potentials of Wearable Electrogastrography (EGG) for Affect Detection. Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.

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Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices

Johnson, K.T. & Picard, R.W. (2020). Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices. Neuron 108(1), 8-12.

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A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing

Jeong, Sooyeon, et al. "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing." Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2020) **Best Paper Award**

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Driver Emotion Recognition for Intelligent Vehicles: A Survey

Sebastian Zepf, Javier Hernandez, Alexander Schmitt, Wolfgang Minker, and Rosalind W. Picard. 2020. Driver Emotion Recognition for Intelligent Vehicles: A Survey. ACM Comput. Surv. 53, 3, Article 64 (June 2020), 30 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3388790

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Nonverbal Vocalizations as Speech: Characterizing Natural-Environment Audio from Nonverbal Individuals with Autism

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, O’Brien, A., Wofford, P., Maes, P., Picard, R.W. "Nonverbal Vocalizations as Speech: Characterizing Natural-Environment Audio from Nonverbal Individuals with Autism," Proceedings of the Workshop on Laughter and Other Nonverbal Vocalisations, Bielefeld, Germany, October 2020. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)

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Augmenting Natural Communication in Nonverbal Individuals with Autism

Johnson, K.T.* & Narain, J.*, Maes, P., Picard, R.W., "Augmenting Natural Communication in Nonverbal Individuals with Autism," International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Seattle, Washington, May 2020. (*Co-first authors/equal contribution)

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The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study

Johnson, K.T.*, Narain, J.*, Ferguson, C., Picard, R.W., and Maes, P. The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Case Studies Track of CHI 2020). (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)

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EmpathicGPS: Exploring the Role of Voice Tonality in Navigation Systems during Simulated Driving

Sebastian Zepf, Neska ElHaouij, Wolfgang Minker, Javier Hernandez, and Rosalind W. Picard. 2020. EmpathicGPS: Exploring the Role of Voice Tonality in Navigation Systems during Simulated Driving. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–7. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.338293

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Promoting Wellbeing with Sunny, a Chatbot that Facilitates Positive Messages between Members of Social Groups

Narain, J.*, Quach, T.*, Davey, M.*, Park, H., Braezeal, C., and Picard, R. "Promoting Wellbeing with Sunny, a Chatbot that Facilitates Positive Messages within Social Groups". Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Accepted. *Equal Contribution.

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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.

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Holistic Affect Recognition using PaNDA: Paralinguistic Non-metric Dimensional Analysis

Zhang Y, Weninger F, Schuller B, Picard R "Holistic Affect Recognition using PaNDA: Paralinguistic Non-metric Dimensional Analysis." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, December 2019.

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Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Picard, R.W., Maes, P. "Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data," NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Social Good, December 2019. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)

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Detection of Real-World Driving-Induced Affective State Using Physiological Signals and Multi-View Multi-Task Machine Learning

Lopez-Martinez, Daniel, Neska Elhaouij, and Rosalind Picard. "Detection of Real-world Driving-induced Affective State Using Physiological Signals and Multi-view Multi-task Machine Learning." In 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), pp. 356-361. IEEE, 2019.

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Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Picard, R.W., and Maes, P. “Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data”. NeurIPS 2019 Joint Workshop on AI for Social Good. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)

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Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks

Umematsu, T., Sano, A., Taylor, S., and Picard, R. "Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks.", 2019 IEICE Society Conference, Japan, September 2019.

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Automatic Triage and Analysis of Online Suicide Risk with Document Embeddings and Latent Dirichlet Allocation

Jones, N., Jaques, N., Pataranutaporn, P., Ghandeharioun, A., & Picard, R. (2019, September). Analysis of Online Suicide Risk with Document Embeddings and Latent Dirichlet Allocation. In 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

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Multi-modal Active Learning From Human Data: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Rudovic, O., Zhang, M, Schuller, B., Picard, R. "Multi-modal Active Learning From Human Data: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach", In 2019 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’19), October 14–18, 2019, Suzhou, China. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

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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

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Meta-weighted Gaussian Process Experts for Personalized Forecasting of AD Cognitive Changes

Rudovic, O., Utsumi, Y., Guerrero, R., Peterson, K., Rueckert, D., Picard, R. W. "Meta-weighted Gaussian Process Experts for Personalized Forecasting of AD Cognitive Changes" Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (ML4HC2019), August 2019.

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Tweet Moodifier: Towards giving emotional awareness to Twitter users

Belen Saldias F. and Rosalind W. Picard. (2019). Tweet Moodifier: Towards giving emotional awareness to Twitter users. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019). Cambridge, UK.

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Daytime Data and LSTM can Forecast Tomorrow's Stress, Health, and Happiness

Umematsu, T., Sano, A., and Picard, R. "Daytime Data and LSTM can Forecast Tomorrow's Stress, Health, and Happiness," the 41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), p.2186-2190, Berlin, July 2019.

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Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks

Umematsu, T., Sano, A., Taylor, S., and Picard, R. "Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks." IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Chicago, Illinois, May 2019. (BEST PAPER AWARD - 1st Prize)

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Critical Care Pain Management with Morphine using Dueling Double-Deep Q Networks

Lopez-Martinez D, Eschenfeldt P, Ostvar S, Ingram M, Hur C, Picard R. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Critical Care Pain Management with Morphine using Dueling Double-Deep Q Networks, in Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC). Berlin, Germany ; 2019.

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Personalized Estimation of Engagement from Videos Using Active Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Rudovic, O., Park, H-W., Busche, J., Schuller, B. , Breazeal, C., Picard, R. W., " Personalized Estimation of Engagement from Videos Using Active Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning," IEEE CVPR -AMFG W, June 2019.

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Stress measurement using speech: Recent advancements, validation issues, and ethical and privacy considerations

Slavich G.M., Taylor S., Picard R.W. "Stress measurement using speech: Recent advancements, validation issues, and ethical and privacy considerations," Stress, 2019.

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Use of In-Game Rewards to Motivate Daily Self-Report Compliance: Randomized Controlled Trial

Taylor S., Ferguson C., Peng F., Schoeneich M., Picard R.W. "Use of In-Game Rewards to Motivate Daily Self-Report Compliance: Randomized Controlled Trial," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(1), e11683, 2019.

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Wearable Motion-based Heart-rate at Rest: A Workplace Evaluation

Hernandez J., McDuff D., Quigley K., Maes P., and Picard R., "Wearable Motion-based Heart-rate at Rest: A Workplace Evaluation," Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2018.

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CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism

Rudovic, O., Utsumi, Y., Lee, J., Hernandez, J., Castello Ferrer, E., Schuller, B., Picard, R. "CultureNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Engagement Intensity Estimation from Face Images of Children with Autism." IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018).

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Affective Keys: Towards Unobtrusive Stress Sensing of Smartphone Users

Exposito, M., Hernandez, J., Picard, R., "Affective Keys: Towards Unobtrusive Stress Sensing of Smartphone Users" In Proceedings of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2018

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Multi-task multiple kernel machines for personalized pain recognition from functional near-infrared spectroscopy brain signals

Lopez-Martinez D, Peng K, Steele S, Lee A, Borsook D, Picard R. "Multi-task multiple kernel machines for personalized pain recognition from functional near-infrared spectroscopy brain signals." International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Beijing, China, August 2018. "BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD"

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Multimodal Ambulatory Sleep Detection Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks

Sano A, Chen W, Lopez-Martinez D, Taylor S, Picard R. Multimodal Ambulatory Sleep Detection Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks. Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 2018.

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AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement

Su, D., Picard, R., Liu, Y. "AMAI: Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement." Proceedings of the 44th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Daegu, Korea, August 2018.

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Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers

Johnson, K.T., Taylor, S., Fedor, S., Jaques, N., Chen, W., Picard, R.W. "Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers." Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018.

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Mood, Stress and Sleep Sensing with Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phone

Sano,A., Taylor,S., Jaques,N., Chen,W., Lopez-Martinez,D., Nosakhare,E., Rudovic,O., Umematsu,T., and Picard,R., "Mood, Stress and Sleep Sensing with Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phone," The 40th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), July 2018.

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Continuous pain intensity estimation from autonomic signals with recurrent neural networks

Lopez-Martinez D, Picard R. Continuous pain intensity estimation from autonomic signals with recurrent neural networks, in IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Hawaii ; 2018.

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Towards Gut-Brain Computer Interfacing: Gastric Myoelectric Activity as an Index of Subcortical Phenomena

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.

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A Mixture of Personalized Experts for Human Affect Estimation

Feffer, M., Rudovic, O., Picard, R. "A Mixture of Personalized Experts for Human Affect Estimation." The 14th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM). July 2018.

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Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B. , Picard, R. W., " Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy," Science Robotics, June 2018.