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Wearable and Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...
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BrainBeat: Breath-based music therapy

Can we sonfiy calming breathing and passively influence a state of calm?Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart...
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SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, and Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...
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PAL: Project on Affinities + Language

The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with thei...
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Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...
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Predicting students' wellbeing from physiology, phone, mobility, and behavioral data

The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obt...
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Affective Robotic Ring

An affective robotic ring which allows users to interact with multiple robots using finger gestures.- Runs on Robotic Operating System (R...
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a...
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UncNet: Modeling uncertainty in deep learning for inherently subjective tasks

Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of...
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Personalized Machine Learning for Future Health

​The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evo...
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Emotion Navigation

Before automobiles were invented and widely adopted, animals like horses were the most common mode of transportation. While this change b...
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Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement

Adaptive Music for Affect Improvement (AMAI) is a music generation and playback system with the goal of steering the listener toward a st...
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Improving Wellbeing for Office Workers

Excessive stress can decrease office workers' productivity and negatively impact overall health. This project aims to predict office work...
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Personalized Animated Movies

Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...
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Improving wellbeing prediction performance using temporal machine learning models

This project aims to improve the prediction accuracy of wellbeing (stress, mood, and health levels) using temporal machine learning model...
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SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-fun...
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WorldBeat: Hearing the world differently

Can we modulate the way we hear the world around us to make it more calming or to induce focus? While technology is usually associated wi...
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Modulating peripheral and cortical arousal using a musical motor response task

We are conducting EEG studies to identify the musical features and musical interaction patterns that universally impact measures of arous...
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Learning via Social Awareness: Improving sketch representations with facial feedback

In the quest towards general artificial intelligence (AI), researchers have explored developing loss functions that act as intrinsic moti...
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BrightBeat: Effortlessly influencing breathing for cultivating calmness and focus

The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can a...
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An EEG and motion-capture based expressive music interface for affective neurofeedback

This project examines how the expression granted by new musical interfaces can be harnessed to create positive changes in health and well...
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Leveraging artificial intelligence for the assessment of severity of depressive symptoms

Depressive disorders are ranked as the single largest contributor to non-fatal health loss (7.5% of all Years Lived with Disability), aff...
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Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...
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EmotionalBeasts

With advances in virtual reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication through l...
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Image Sentiment Analysis

 In this project we explore how to recognize and localize affect in images.
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Machine Learning for Pain Measurement

Pain is a subjective experience commonly measured through patients' self reports. Unfortunately, self-report measures only work when...
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Realtime Detection of Social Cues

Realtime detection of social cues in children’s voicesIn everyday conversation, people use what are known as backchannels to signal to so...
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QuantifyMe

Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to ...