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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...
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AttentivU

[Update 09/12/2019: This project has two open positions for UROPs/visiting students or interns. One position focuses around electrical en...
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AlterEgo

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

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...
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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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BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a novel wearable olfa...
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Theme | Wearable Biotech Enhancement

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

Having good mentors and role models is important for personal growth. Knowledge, advice, and inspiration from people a person admires can...
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Identi-Wheez: A device for in-home diagnosis of asthma

Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children. The skills required to diagnose it make it an even greater concern. Our solutio...
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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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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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SkinBot: A wearable, skin-climbing robot

We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and cap...
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Living Observatory: Sensor networks for documenting and experiencing ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...
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HeartBit

HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weigh...
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Thinking Cap

Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...
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SensorKnits: Architecting textile sensors with machine knitting

Digital machine knitting is a highly programmable manufacturing process that has been utilized to produce apparel, accessories, and footw...
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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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Physio FreeFall

This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...
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Mediated Atmosphere

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

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

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
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CAPS: Curbing Assault to Protect Society

We present CAPS, wearable on-body capsules which produce repulsive odor to deter sexual abuse. The capsules can be triggered by self...
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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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ChromoSkin

Makeup has long been used as a body decoration process for self-expression and for the transformation of one's appearance. While the mate...
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DuoSkin

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...
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Kino

This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...
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Mindful Photons: Context-Aware Lighting

Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...
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NailO

NailO is a wearable input device in the form of a commercialized nail art sticker. It works as a miniaturized trackpad the size and thick...
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Rovables

We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, an...
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Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display

Fluxa is a compact wearable device that exploits body movements, as well as the visual effects of persistence of vision (POV), ...
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EDA Explorer

Electrodermal Activity (EDA) is a physiological indicator of stress and strong emotion. While an increasing number of wearable devices ca...