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Looking beyond smart cities
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Project Captivate have been designed to serve as a easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world. We've desi...
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
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...
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
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.
Health 0.0
Space Exploration Initiative
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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...
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
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...
Enhancing human physical capability
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
In the Biomechatronics group, we imagine a world where assistive technologies help people realize their physical potential and maximize t...
AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of glasses, which senses brain activity (electroencephal...
“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...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Leveraging sneaker culture to influence civic engagement. Marginalized groups have influence on digital platforms but are often unhe...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
We are working on communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological s...
In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...
ML Learning
Center for Extreme Bionics
We present a mobile heart rate regulator—ambienBeat—which provides closed-loop ambient biofeedback via subliminal tactile stimulus based ...
The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...
"How can architects/urban developers use technology to foster the human/nature connection and improve our lives?" Glorianna Davenport
The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obt...
Comfortable, form-fitting garments could be used to remotely track patients’ health.
R. S. Puri, A. G. Athanassiadis, N. Gill, S. S. Sathya, G. Rathod, A. Wahi, G. Satat, M. Majmudar, P. Shah. IEEE 38th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). pp. 1870-1873. IEEE, (2016). PMID: 28268691
K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, P. Shah. Near-Infrared Imaging for Detecting Caries and Structural Deformities in Teeth. Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (2017). PMID: 28507826
E. Yee, S. Lathwal, P. Shah, H. Sikes. ACS sensors 2.11 (2017): 1589-1593. PMID: 29090909
K. Angelino*, P. Shah*, D. Edlund, M. Mohit, G. Yauney. BMC Oral Health 17.1: 162 (2017). PMID: 29284461. * Equal contribution
P. Shah*, G. Yauney*, O. Gupta, V. Patalano II, M. Mohit, R. Merchant, SV Subramanian. BMJ Open (2018). 8:e018774. PMID: 29678964 * Equal contribution
Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
Maggie Coblentz is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of speculative recipes, tools for eating, and sensory experience...
MIT lab offers a model for cost savings, productivity, and safety; principles may also facilitate efficient reopening in the future.
Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely whil...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
The Guardians Project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile games to help people form beneficial long-term habits an...
Clothing that monitors vital signs could be made possible with electronic sensors that have been embedded into stretchy fabrics.
The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...
Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.
Its potential here on Earth has much more widespread benefit potential, particularly in the era of COVID-19.
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection