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Enhancing human physical capability
We are engineering a better healthcare system for people with diabetes and limb loss such that we can physically bridge gaps to...
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
We present a mobile heart rate regulator—ambienBeat—which provides closed-loop ambient biofeedback via subliminal tactile stimulus based ...
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of glasses, which senses brain activity (electroencephal...
Space Exploration Initiative
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've des...
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mu...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely whil...
AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&n...
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...
Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...
Looking beyond smart cities
Researchers have designed a skin-like device that can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to speak.
“We have standard operating procedures for emergencies, and everyone knew what to do,” Dagdeviren says.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through ...
@article{sarawgi2020multimodal, title={Multimodal Inductive Transfer Learning for Detection of Alzheimer's Dementia and its Severity}, author={Sarawgi, Utkarsh and Zulfikar, Wazeer and Soliman, Nouran and Maes, Pattie}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00700}, year={2020} }
@misc{sarawgi2020uncertaintyaware, title={Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Modal Ensembling for Severity Prediction of Alzheimer's Dementia}, author={Utkarsh Sarawgi and Wazeer Zulfikar and Rishab Khincha and Pattie Maes}, year={2020}, eprint={2010.01440}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.LG} }
@misc{sarawgi2020unified, title={Why have a Unified Predictive Uncertainty? Disentangling it using Deep Split Ensembles}, author={Utkarsh Sarawgi and Wazeer Zulfikar and Rishab Khincha and Pattie Maes}, year={2020}, eprint={2009.12406}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.LG} }
New technology for next-generation wireless + batteryless micro-implantsThese wireless batteryless micro-chips can reprogram themselves i...
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Health 0.0
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or sta...
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response...
In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing for, with, and by nature
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
We have pioneered the development of fully genetically encoded reagents that, when targeted to specific cells, enable their physiology to...
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...
New technologies for recording neural activity, controlling neural activity, or building brain circuits, may be capable someday of servin...
Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNA...
We are providing our tools to the community, and also using them within our lab, to analyze how specific brain mechanisms (molecular, cel...
“Don’t touch your face” is seemingly simple advice. Since coronaviruses are stable for days on many surfaces, a person can get COVID-19 b...
ML Learning
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...
Research in our laboratory reduces dependence on specialized medical imaging devices, biological and chemical processes and creates new p...
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
We are working on communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological s...
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...
Panoply is a crowdsourcing application for mental health and emotional wellbeing. The platform offers a novel approach to computer-based ...
Each Scholar was chosen based on their innovative research and demonstrated leadership within their respective fields.
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...
We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or mask...
We are presenting the WorkOut Sensor Node Assistant (WOSNA), a body sensor net composed of many tiny sensor nodes that can suck on the sk...
On Aug. 15, 25 MIT students and staff members were engaged in a lively lecture and discussion in Building 66 — but the room was completel...
Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...