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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project.  All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #augmented reality #health +6 more
Project Research

Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Hugh Herr · Matthew Carney
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +12 more
Project Research

iNonymize: Empathetic Anonymity in Tele-Mental Health Using AI Generated Avatars

iNonymize is a tele-mental health platform that uses generative AI avatars for preserving a person’s privacy and identity while allowing ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Joanne Leong · Pat Pataranutaporn +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +3 more
Project Research

Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +18 more
Project Research

AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...

in Fluid Interfaces
Arnav Kapur · Eric Wadkins +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

dementAI

 dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through ...

Utkarsh Sarawgi · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +4 more
Project Research

Research resiliency through lean labs

Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely whil...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · David Sadat
#bioengineering #health #biotechnology +2 more
Project Research

Near-Infrared Transillumination Guides Administration of Dental 2D Radiography and Cone Beam Computed Tomography Imaging

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#bioengineering #health #imaging +3 more
Project Research

Research Area | Emergent Neural Networks to Redesign Clinical Testing of Medicines and Learning from Real World Evidence

Real World Data (RWD) and Real World Evidence (RWE) are playing an increasing role in healthcare decisions to support innovative use of E...

in Health 0.0
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

Technology-Enabled Mobile Phone Screenings Augment Routine Primary Care

We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TE...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#health #imaging #primary healthcare +3 more
Project Research

Self-Learning AI Model Learns from Patient Data to Design Novel Clinical Trials

Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) appro...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Project Research

Deep Learning to Develop and Analyze Computational Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue Images for Digital Biopsies

Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +8 more
Project Research

On-Face Olfactory Interfaces

We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or mask...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +6 more
Project Research

Space Sustainability Rating

​Special Announcement: Call for Letters of Intent to Operate the Space Sustainability RatingThe Consortium Designing the Space Sustainabi...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Minoo Rathnasabapathy
#environment #health #sensors +5 more
Project Research

Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the lif...

in Community Biotechnology
David S. Kong · Desiree Dudley
#health #technology #wellbeing +1 more
Project Research

WOSNA - WorkOut Sensor Node Assistant

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...

in Responsive Environments
Fangzheng Liu
#design #health #sensors
Project Research

Non-full-length G protein-coupled receptors: An unexpected discovery may lead to design new molecular devices

It was believed that functionalities of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) require full-length sequences which are negated by residue de...

in Molecular Machines
Shuguang Zhang · Pranam Chatterjee +1 more
#bioengineering #health #wellbeing +2 more
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PsychicVR: Increasing mindfulness by using Virtual Reality and Brain Computer Interfaces

We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and virtual reality headset to improve ...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Fluid Interfaces
Xavier Benavides Palos · Pattie Maes +2 more
#augmented reality #health #technology
Project Research

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Development: A Translational Perspective

Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah · Francis Kendall
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +10 more
Project Research

Biomarker Imaging with Mobile Phones

We built a low-cost and open source 405 nm imaging device to capture red fluorescence signatures associated with the oral biomarker porph...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #health #imaging +2 more
Project Research

Helping Emergency Care Physicians Diagnose Sepsis and Bacterial Infections with Machine Learning and Vision

General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significa...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +7 more
Project Research

AI Methods for Rapid Automated Staining and Destaining of Tissue Biopsies in Hospitals

General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#artificial intelligence #health #pharmaceuticals +7 more
Project Research

At-Home Sleep Apnea Screening

A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apne...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#health #engineering #point of care
Project Research

Detecting Biomarkers with Printable Paper Diagnostics

Paper diagnostics can be used for affordable and scalable biomarker detection. We propose new methods for stabilizing cellulose-based imm...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#bioengineering #health #engineering +1 more
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Machine Learning from Biomarker Signatures and Correlation to Systemic Health Conditions

Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automat...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
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Machine Learning and Automated Segmentation of Oral Diseases Using Biomarker Images

We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#computer vision #health #imaging +3 more
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Machine Learning for Combined Classification of Fluorescent Biomarkers and Expert Annotations Using White Light Images

Biomarker imaging provides non-invasive indicators of disease and is used by human experts to augment disease diagnosis. It is, however, ...

in Health 0.0
Pratik Shah
#health #imaging #machine learning +1 more
Project Research

SpaceSkin: Resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing on protective fabrics in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space....

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston
#environment #health #sensors +7 more
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Project Captivate: A wearable platform for measurement and actuation across contexts

Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world.  We've des...

in Responsive Environments
Patrick Chwalek · David Ramsay
#design #environment #health +1 more
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Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu.&nb...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Mehak Sarang · Ariel Ekblaw
#architecture #environment #health +6 more
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (P-POP)

The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#environment #health #sensors +6 more
Project Research

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket prop...

in Space Enabled
Javier Stober
#environment #health #sensors +5 more
Project Research

Democratizing prosthetic and diabetic care: A resilient model for healthcare delivery

We are engineering a better healthcare system for people with diabetes and limb loss such that we can physically bridge gaps to...

in Biomechatronics
Hugh Herr · Joel Huegel +7 more
#health #primary healthcare #public health +4 more
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Adam Haar Horowitz · Ishaan Grover +4 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +15 more
Project Research

PAL: a wearable on-device deep learning platform for personalized, context-aware, and closed-loop real-time support

OverviewPAL is a  wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change.  PAL has mu...

in Fluid Interfaces
Mina Khan · Glenn Fernandes +3 more
#artificial intelligence #health #sensors +4 more
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conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&n...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Lin Zhang +2 more
#design #bioengineering #health +5 more
Project Research

A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. ...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #bioengineering #consumer electronics +9 more
Project Research

Miniaturized Neural System for Chronic, Local Intracerebral Drug Delivery (MiNDS)

Recent advances in medications for neurodegenerative disorders are expanding opportunities for improving the debilitating symptoms suffer...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren
#bioengineering #health #neurobiology +3 more
Project Research

Flexible piezoelectric devices for gastrointestinal motility sensing

Improvements in ingestible electronics with the capacity to sense physiological and pathophysiological states have transformed the standa...

in Conformable Decoders
Zijun Wei · Canan Dagdeviren
#bioengineering #health #sensors
Project Research

Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI)

Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioceptio...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Roman Stolyarov · Matthew Carney +13 more
#robotics #artificial intelligence #bioengineering +15 more
Project Research

Self-Reconfigurable Micro-Implants

New technology for next-generation wireless + batteryless micro-implantsThese wireless batteryless micro-chips can reprogram themselves i...

in Signal Kinetics
#health #internet of things #medicine
Project Research

Terrain-Adaptive Lower Limb Prosthesis

Although there have been great advances in the control of lower extremity prostheses, transitioning between terrains such as ramps or sta...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Hugh Herr · Roman Stolyarov
#robotics #health #human-machine interaction +2 more
Project Research

parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response...

in Fluid Interfaces
Utkarsh Sarawgi · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
Project Research

Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Szymon Fedor +1 more
#health #wearable computing #affective computing +1 more
Project Research

Saving Face

“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...

in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Sculpting Evolution +1 more
Camilo Rojas · Irmandy Wicaksono +6 more
#health #sensors #covid19
Project Research

Research Area | Application, Interpretability and Clinical Translation of Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Images

Research in our laboratory reduces dependence on specialized medical imaging devices, biological and chemical processes and creates new p...

in Health 0.0
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #health +8 more
Project Research

User needs for augmentative communication interfaces

We are working on communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological s...

in Fluid Interfaces
Jaya Narain
#design #human-computer interaction #health +1 more
Project Research

Pandemic Response CoLab

Pandemic Response CoLab will help individuals and groups work together to solve practical problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic. By l...

in Community Biotechnology
Berenice Estrada · Desiree Dudley +1 more
#health #member company #wellbeing +1 more
Project Research

Theme | Assistive Technology

Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...

in Fluid Interfaces · Affective Computing
Pattie Maes · Utkarsh Sarawgi +3 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +4 more
Project Research

Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...

in Responsive Environments
Valentina Sumini · Clement Duhart +4 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Project Research

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...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Akane Sano +5 more
#data #health #machine learning +2 more
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #health +8 more
Project Research

The Interplanetary Cookbook

Maggie Coblentz is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of speculative recipes, tools for eating, and sensory experience...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #food #health +2 more
Project Research

The Guardians

The Guardians Project aims to use the same game design principles used in mobile games to help people form beneficial long-term habits an...

in Affective Computing
Sara Taylor · Craig Ferguson +2 more
#data #entertainment #gaming +6 more
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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Pattie Maes +2 more
#consumer electronics #health #wearable computing +5 more
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Wearable Lab on Body

Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indi...

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Pat Pataranutaporn · Abhinandan Jain +2 more
#health #wearable computing #sensors +1 more
Project Research

Theme | Wearable Biotech Enhancement

Lab on Body, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-Digital Systems for Health and Human Enhancement

in Fluid Interfaces
Oscar Rosello · Pat Pataranutaporn +5 more
#health #synthetic biology #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#agriculture #bioengineering #crowdsourcing +9 more
Project Research

Non-Ionizing Imaging for Medical Diagnosis Instead of 2D Radiography and Cone-Beam Computed Tomography

Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for earl...

in Health 0.0
Aman Rana · Gregory Yauney +2 more
#computer vision #health #imaging +1 more
Project Research

MultiDIC: a MATLAB Toolbox for Multi-View 3D Digital Image Correlation

Three-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (3D-DIC) is a non-contact optical-numerical technique for evaluating the dynamic mechani...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Dana Solav · Kevin Mattheus Moerman +1 more
#robotics #health #human-machine interaction +1 more
Project Research

Lensing: Cardiolinguistics for Atypical Angina

Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people roman...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Rosalind W. Picard · Karthik Dinakar
#artificial intelligence #health #machine learning +3 more
Project Research

Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microg...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Christine Joseph
#environment #health #politics +8 more
Project Research

A Protocol to Characterize pH Sensing Materials and Systems

​Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for ...

in Conformable Decoders
Mohamed Tarek · Canan Dagdeviren
#health #biotechnology
Project Research

Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters: Mechanically Invisible Human Dynamos

Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren
#bioengineering #energy #health +3 more
Project Research

Huggable: A social robot for pediatric care

The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Personal Robots
Cynthia Breazeal · Sooyeon Jeong
#health #social robotics #wellbeing
Project Research

The Future of Neuroimplantable Devices: A materials science and regulatory perspective

​The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroi...

in Conformable Decoders
Farita Tasnim · Canan Dagdeviren
#design #bioengineering #health +4 more
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