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AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...
Looking beyond smart cities
Health 0.0
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
(Note: This project was previously called ECHOS.) Official Commalla website: https://commallamit.wixsite.com/commal...
By Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi IshiiOverviewProject HERMITS explores a way to greatly...
Inspired by the shell-swapping hermit crab, MIT’s HERMITS use interchangeable mechanical shells to do all sorts of creative things
Space Exploration Initiative
When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization...
Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces.
In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algo...
Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found...
There are currently UROP openings for this project. All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...
This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health p...
Enhancing human physical capability
Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain ...
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
M. E. Carney and H. Herr, "Electric-Energetic Consequences of Springs in Lower-Extremity Powered Prostheses on Varied Terrain," 2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), New York City, NY, USA, 2020, pp. 989-996, doi: 10.1109/BioRob49111.2020.9224458.
Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...
dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through ...
Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for le...
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact tr...
Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and di...
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...
Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...
We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or mask...
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...
We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We mon...
Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...
General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significa...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Community Biotechnology
Doze is an IoT enabled platform for personalized scent diffusion and on-skin drug delivery. Leveraging a hydrogel technology, the Doze sy...
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)
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.
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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
~~~ 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
@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} }
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