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Space Exploration Initiative
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and di...
Looking beyond smart cities
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
(Note: This project was previously called ECHOS.) Official Commalla website: https://commallamit.wixsite.com/commal...
We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We mon...
Health 0.0
Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...
Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...
General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significa...
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
iNonymize is a tele-mental health platform that uses generative AI avatars for preserving a person’s privacy and identity while allowing ...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Enhancing human physical capability
Community Biotechnology
Doze is an IoT enabled platform for personalized scent diffusion and on-skin drug delivery. Leveraging a hydrogel technology, the Doze sy...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
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)
AttentivU is a device, in the form factor of a pair of glasses, which senses brain activity (electroencephal...
Haar Horowitz, Adam, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes. "Dormio: Interfacing with dreams." In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-10. 2018.
Climate change and the domino effect it creates will require coordination at scales we haven’t seen and new forms of organization to addr...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
How to attain Tangible Telepresence—taking more aspects into consideration.T² Tool Kit: A Tangible Telepresence (T²) Concept Frame...
InspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain moments: when a favorite moment of a favorite song comes on, o...
~~~ This project is on indefinte hold due to COVID-19 ~~~~¿Cómo puede la tecnología influir en las celebraciones culturales? // How...
Probabilistic thinking has been one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science, and it is rapidly gaining even more relevance a...
Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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} }
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Chee, G*., Cobb, T.*, Richter-Lunn, K.*, Wicaksono, I.*, and Freedman, B.R., 2020. Doze: Hydrogel-Based Epidermal Platform for Personalized Scent Diffusion. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Transforming data into knowledge
Visualization recommender systems aim to lower the barrier to exploring basic visualizations by automatically generating results for anal...
Researchers currently rely on ad hoc datasets to train automated visualization tools and evaluate the effectiveness of visualization desi...
The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) talks to Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes
Living Bits : Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Living Microorganisms in Human-Computer InteractionThere are trillions of livi...
We are working on communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological s...
Berke A., Nawyn J., Lengeling T.S., Larson K. (2020) Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1229. Springer, Cham
In recent years, the retail industry has become increasingly interested in Information and communications technology (ICT) systems for en...
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...