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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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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, auditory…
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Dentsu collaboration with Affective Computing group

Member company Dentsu and the Affective Computing research group have been collaborating on a research project to use smartphone and d…
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AgriFuge: An exploration of controlled irrigation methods for a rotating plant habitat

Somayajulu Dhulipala, Manwei Chan. Agrifuge: An exploration of controlled irrigation methods for a rotating plant habitat. IAC-22, Paris, France. IAC-22,A2,3,4,x69080.
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AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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MIT engineers develop sensors for face masks that help gauge fit

The system measures biological and environmental changes, and detects contact between the mask and the wearer’s skin.
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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What the well-dressed spacecraft will be wearing

Spacecraft wrapped in sensor-rich electronic textiles could double as scientific instruments
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How culture creates emotions — and how technology decodes them

On KCRW's Life Examined, Rosalind Picard talks about the potential for technology to help people understand emotions and improve wellbeing.
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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The Guardians
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Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …
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Essence

The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We p…
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Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon 2018

A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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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 mor…
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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 c…
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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 depressi…
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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 obtai…
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Deploying machine learning to improve mental health

MIT scientist Rosalind Picard collaborates with clinicians to develop tools for mental health care delivery.
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Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health

Taylor, S.*, Jaques, N.*, Nosakhare, E., Sano, A. and Picard, R., "Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2784832 *Both authors contributed equally. WINNER: BEST OF COLLECTION
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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 proprioception,…
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QuantifyMe

Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to qu…
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Gravity Proof: Speculating Cosmic Futures

Gravity Proof is a performance and mission to prepare and cook bread in space. Inspired by ancient recipes and archaeological bread re…
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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 while …
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Thinking Cap

Find out more about the new version of the system, "The Thinking Cap 2.0" here.Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own int…
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PlusMinus

PlusMinus
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Mental health giants Headspace and Ginger to merge into $3 billion company

Congratulations to the team at Media Lab spinoff Ginger, which is merging with Headspace!
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When AI Recognizes Emotion, with Rosalind Picard

John Ellis talks to Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard about making AI and computers more emotionally intelligent.
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New device from MIT, Harvard can quickly detect COVID variants in saliva samples

The team talks to CBS Boston about their work on a low-cost tabletop device that can quickly detect SARS-CoV-2 using a saliva sample.
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New device can diagnose Covid-19 from saliva samples

The tabletop diagnostic yields results in an hour and can be programmed to detect variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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My Deep Sea, My Backyard

Seventy percent of nations have deep-sea environments within their maritime Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), yet only 16 percent of them ar…
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Bio-Digital Wearables or Space Health Enhancement

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
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Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
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Robotic Positive Psychology Coach for College Students

A significant number of college students suffer from mental health issues that impact their physical, social, and occupa…
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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 mult…
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Contact tracing: So promising. So invasive.

Kevin Esvelt, master's student Anika Ullah, and other experts talk about bi-directional contact tracing, privacy, and halting Covid-19.
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parkinsAI

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

The Interplanetary Cookbook, developed by Maggie Coblentz, presents thought-provoking recipes and zero-g kitchenware for the future of life…
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Information Hazards

MIT biologist Kevin Esvelt discusses the biology of the pandemic and how gain-of-function research jeopardizes public safety.
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Career Girls Role Models: Alexis Hope

Alexis Hope talks about her work that focuses on broadening the participation of women in designing technology for women’s health.
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FIGUR8 and Toppan Create Service for Upper-Body Misalignment Visualization

Spinoff Figur8 and member company Toppan Printing have developed a new service using musculoskeletal sensors to assess body misalignment.
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What’s it like to design a meal that floats?

Taking a taste of the sensory research of Space Exploration Initiative’s Maggie Coblentz
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RF-EATS: Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs

RF-EATS is a new system that can verify the authenticity of food and liquids in closed containers without opening them or requiring an…
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The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants

Signal Kinetics head Fadel Adib and other junior faculty members talk about the ways the J-WAFS’ seed grant program has catalyzed their work
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Eight from MIT named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows

Awards honor young professors in the Media Lab and departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemical Engineering, EECS, + Math
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New surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs

Reconnecting muscle pairs during amputation gives patients more sensory feedback from the limb.
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Paper cards and digital codes target vaccination chaos

An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.
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Robots will be tools for older adults and care givers in the future

Anastasia Ostrowski talks to the Digital Future Society about her work in this Q+A.
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Remote Learning: Proactive preparation & student outreach

How Canan Dagdeviren helped her students and members of the Conformable Decoders group adjust to working remotely
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We lost to SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. We can defeat B-117 in 2021

Esvelt and Lipsitch lay out a path for slowing the spread of B.1.1.7, and ensuring that we're better prepared for future pandemics.
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dementAI

 dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through a …
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Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices

Johnson, K.T. & Picard, R.W. (2020). Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices. Neuron 108(1), 8-12.
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Battery-Free Underwater GPS

Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem,  we seek to bring it to batt…
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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 dele…
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Truncated immune system receptors may regulate cellular activity

Unexpected findings in chemokine receptors once believed to be non-functional open up new fields of scientific inquiry.
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Lessons Learned on the Road to Pandemic Preparedness | Pandemic Response Catalyst Conversations

Expert panelists discuss lessons learned from COVID-19 and progress made to better prepare our public health systems.
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Media Lab Research Takes Flight

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
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The ethical way to alter organisms

An inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive has some advice to improve science, ethics, and the life-saving potential of these technologies.
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Episode 6: Reshaping nature through gene drives

Kevin Esvelt and other experts talk about the risks and possible benefits of using gene drives to eliminate diseases and invasive species.
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Innovative face masks and medical-grade gowns to combat Covid-19 and future pandemics

Three most promising PPE solutions selected by expert judges on MIT Pandemic Response CoLab.
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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 syst…
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ambienBeat: Mobile tactile biofeedback for subliminal heart rate rhythmic regulation

We present a mobile heart rate regulator—ambienBeat—which provides closed-loop ambient biofeedback via subliminal tactile stimulus based on…
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A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing

Jeong, Sooyeon, et al. "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing." Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2020) **Best Paper Award**
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Multimodal Inductive Transfer Learning for Detection of Alzheimer's Dementia and its Severity

@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} }
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Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Modal Ensembling for Severity Prediction of Alzheimer's Dementia

@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} }
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FAQ: Could exposure to the common cold reduce the severity of Covid-19 infection?

Read the FAQ that accompanies the op-ed by Kevin Esvelt and Carolyn P. Neuhaus, which answers questions about the research they're proposing
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Could exposure to the common cold reduce the severity of Covid-19 infection?

We don’t know, but the idea is hardly crazy—and if the answer is yes, we could save many lives long before a vaccine arrives
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Personal Robots and Affective Computing team win Best Paper Award at IEEE RO-MAN 2020

For the paper: "A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing"