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Designing systems for cognitive enhancement

Wearable and Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...

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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

Project Research

Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...

Project Research

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...

Article Research

Students push to speed up artificial intelligence adoption in Latin America

To help the region catch up, students organize summit to bring Latin policymakers and researchers to MIT.

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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

Project Research

BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a...

Publication Research

BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-Respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing

Amores, J., Hernandez, J., Dementyev, A., Wang, X., Maes, P. "BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing," Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018

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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better

Project Research

Wearable and Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

Paper Dreams

Students push to speed up artificial intelligence adoption in Latin America

[bike] swarm

BioEssence

BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-Respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing

Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

An osseointegrated prosthesis with bi-directional neural communication