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The Best Inventions of 2020 | A New Kind of Interface: MIT Media Lab AlterEgo

Congrats to Fluid Interfaces PhD student Arnav Kapur and collaborators on the selection of AlterEgo by ⁦Time Magazine for this recognition.
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Doze: On-skin Scent Diffusion and Drug Delivery Patch

Doze is an IoT enabled platform for personalized scent diffusion and on-skin drug delivery. Leveraging a hydrogel technology, the Doze sy...
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[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
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Leveraging artificial intelligence for the assessment of severity of depressive symptoms

This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Hea...
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How do you control your dreams? MIT scientists think they've figured it out

Dormio is the result of several year's worth of research conducted by the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.
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A wearable sleep-tracker designed by an MIT team could give people the power to shape their own dreams

Vega and his colleagues tested Dormio on group of 50 people this summer. Read about their results.
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Dream-shaping tech from MIT channels suggestions into your dreams

Guided dreaming could be used to boost creativity or to confront sources of stress and trauma.
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Q+A with Pattie Maes, MIT Professor of Media Technology

The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) talks to Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes
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Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation

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
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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A new way to control experimentation with dreams

Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.
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Cocoon: Speculative Dream Engineering

Cocoon is our vision of a programmable dream machine from the future. This device would be enabled by the synthesis of many devices under...
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SensorNets

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bio...
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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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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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Wearable Wisdom

Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pe...
How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such a
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An MIT lab is building devices to hack your dreams

From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.
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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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AttentivU biosignals help re-focus attention

Fluid Interfaces postdoc Nataliya Kosmyna discussed her AttentivU research for MIT xTalks.
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DermalAbyss: Possibilities of Biosensors as a Tattooed Interface

Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project was the result of a collaboration between MI...
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Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...
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Rosalind Picard elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Rosalind Picard elected to the NAE for her contributions to affective and wearable computing.
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A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

Human Dynamics head Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland discusses the necessity of social connections.
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Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device

P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479
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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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BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-Respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing

Amores, J., Hernandez, J., Dementyev, A., Wang, X., Maes, P. "BioEssence: A Wearable Olfactory Display that Monitors Cardio-respiratory Information to Support Mental Wellbeing," Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018
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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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AttentivU: Towards Improved Wellbeing in the Car

Several research projects have recently explored the use of physiological sensors such as electroencephalography (EEG - brain activity) o...
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MoveU

MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR).  The device ...
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The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
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Designing medical devices to bend with the body

Canan Dagdeviren creates flexible ultrathin systems to decode the patterns of disease.
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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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Watch this device translate silent thoughts into speech

For people who can’t speak out loud due to illness or injury, AlterEgo might return their ability to communicate in real time.
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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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Computing Careers: Advice from Rosalind Picard on succeeding in the fast-growing field of "affective computing"

Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard talks to IEEE Computer Society for their series on careers in computing.
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A breakthrough device that combines mind and machine

In the first live public demo of his new technology, TED Fellow Arnav Kapur introduces AlterEgo.
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How wearable AI will amplify human intelligence

Pattie Maes and other experts talk to the Harvard Business Review about applications for wearable artificial intelligence agents.
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Space Health Wearables

Designing Wearables for Space Exploration
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Living Observatory Installation: A Transductive Encounter with Ecology

In the Living Observatory installation at the Other Festival, we invite participants into a transductive encounter with a wetland environ...
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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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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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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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Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Epilepsy

We are performing long-term measurements of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity on patients with epilepsy. In certain cases, autonomi...
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An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

In this TED Talk, Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard explains how AI can help save lives.
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Emotion AI, explained

Senior leaders should consider how emotion AI could change their industries and play a critical role in their firms.
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MIT student develops brain-analyzing wizard hat project

The project can determine what a person is thinking about and use the information to sort them into a Hogwarts house in one test.
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This MIT post-doc created a sorting hat like the one from ‘Harry Potter’

Nataliya Kos'myna created a “Thinking Cap” that looks like the Sorting Hat from the popular “Harry Potter” series.
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Mood-forecasting tech could help stop bad moods even before they strike

Wearable devices might even help prevent suicide by giving a heads-up about worrisome behavior.
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These sleep engineers could help you hack your dreams

A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks you can harness your unconscious mind with tech you can wear to bed.
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The dermal abyss: interfacing with the skin by tattooing biosensors

Katia Vega, Nan Jiang, Xin Liu, Viirj Kan, Nick Barry, Pattie Maes, Ali Yetisen, Joe Paradiso. " The dermal abyss: interfacing with the skin by tattooing biosensors." Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC '17 , p. 138-145, 2017.
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New tech provides early warning for depression

'Affective computing' measures subtle changes in stress and mental health.
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Wearable medical tech is about to become crucial for staying alive

Wearables are already replacing traditional drugs and therapies—this year, they'll go further still.
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Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science

Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.
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Creating intelligent computing: a conversation with Rosalind Picard

A dialogue concerning the impact of AI on the human brain and its relation to autism and depression.
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Masque

 When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...
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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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