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Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Revisit Human 2.0, a 2007 Media Lab symposium focused on the future of human adaptability.
Smart office uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize individual work environments
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Enhancing human physical capability
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...
"During the twilight years of this century, I believe humans will be unrecognizable in morphology and dynamics from what we are today."
Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
By Joi ItoAround the time I turned 40, I decided to address the trifecta of concerns I had about climate change, animal rights, and ...
Privacy-preserving mHealth application using Open Algorithm (OPAL) architecture to address urgent care challenges in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
The 21st annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards honored DermalAbyss with the Scifi No Longer Award, given to "the coolest sc...
Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...
Designing for, with, and by nature
Machine learning network offers personalized estimates of children’s behavior.
Our team aims to improve bi-directional communication between the human nervous system, biological limbs, and bionic prostheses, through ...
Open Algorithm (OPAL)
Games are a uniquely human endeavour, reducing stress and supporting mental well-being. Astronauts aboard the ISS have created their own ...
ML Learning
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Extending human and computer abilities in sensing, communication, and actuation through signals and networks
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
IVN featured in the news
Creating technology for social change
Batteries wear out, but breathing, sweat and body heat might provide alternative fuel.
A. Dementyev, J. Hernandez, S. Follmer, I. Choi, and J. Paradiso. "SkinBot: A Wearable Skin Climbing Robot." ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium, October 2017.
Nan-Wei Gong and figur8 are spurring the growth of wearable technology within the sports medicine and digital health sectors.
Oh this? It's just my brain.
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the...
Center for Extreme Bionics
New study describes first human implementation of novel approach to limb amputation.
The brain is a three-dimensional, densely-wired circuit that computes via large sets of widely distributed neurons interacting at fast ti...
This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Ethics
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Health 0.0
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at...
Achieving a safe privacy-preserving information sharing environment for individualized care using blockchain-based technology in multiple...
Continuous localized tissue monitoring and disease treatmentThe ability to continuously monitor physical patterns, such as pH in the...
We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TE...
A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apne...
A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives. If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to e...
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering
We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a...
We built a low-cost and open source 405 nm imaging device to capture red fluorescence signatures associated with the oral biomarker porph...
Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...
Paper diagnostics can be used for affordable and scalable biomarker detection. We propose new methods for stabilizing cellulose-based imm...
Biomarker imaging provides non-invasive indicators of disease and is used by human experts to augment disease diagnosis. It is, however, ...
Phase 3 clinical trial outcomes used to evaluate new drugs, therapies and vaccines are among the most complex experiments performed in me...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-fun...
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. 10.1109/JTEHM.2017.2695194
K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, G. Bhatia, S. Wu, P. Shah. "Near-Infrared Transillumination Guides Administration of Dental 2D Radiography and CBCT Imaging." 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-33
R. S. Puri, A. G. Athanassiadis, N. Gill, S. S. Sathya, G. Rathod, A. Wahi, G. Satat, M. Majmudar, P. Shah. "Design and preliminary evaluation of a wearable device for mass-screening of sleep apnea." 2016 IEEE 38th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). pp. 1870-1873. IEEE, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591085
G. Yauney, K. Angelino, D. A. Edlund, P. Shah. "Convolutional Neural Network for Combined Classification of Fluorescent Biomarkers and Expert Annotations using White Light Images." 2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2017.00-37
E. Yee, S. Lathwal, P. Shah, H. Sikes. "Detection of biomarkers of periodontal disease in human saliva using stabilized, vertical flow immunoassays." ACS sensors 2.11 (2017): 1589-1593. DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00745
A. Rana, G. Yauney, L. C. Wong, O. Gupta, A. Muftu, P. Shah. "Automated segmentation of gingival diseases from oral images." 2017 IEEE Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies (HI-POCT). IEEE. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/HIC.2017.8227605
K. Angelino*, P. Shah*, D. Edlund, M. Mohit, G. Yauney. "Clinical validation and assessment of a modular fluorescent imaging system and algorithm for rapid detection and quantification of dental plaque." BMC Oral Health 17.1: 162. 2017. DOI: 10.1186/s12903-017-0472-4