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Article Research

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.

via Career Girls · March 16, 2021
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#design #health #technology +2 more
Article Research

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.

via SPORTTECHIE · Feb. 25, 2021
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#health #wearable computing #sensors +2 more
Article Research

What’s it like to design a meal that floats?

Taking a taste of the sensory research of Space Exploration Initiative’s Maggie Coblentz

via The Tech · Feb. 25, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Project Research

Tasting Menu in Zero G

 A multi-course tasting menu was flown on a zero gravity flight in August 2019.  Five specially crafted dishes were consum...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Project Research

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 ...

in Signal Kinetics
Fadel Adib · Unsoo Ha +2 more
#environment #food #health +4 more
Article Research

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

via MIT News · Feb. 18, 2021
in Signal Kinetics
#environment #food #health +4 more
Article Research

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

via MIT News · Feb. 19, 2021
in Signal Kinetics
#robotics #environment #health +5 more
Article Research

New surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs

Reconnecting muscle pairs during amputation gives patients more sensory feedback from the limb.

via MIT News · Feb. 15, 2021
in Biomechatronics
#robotics #biomechanics #wellbeing +2 more
Article Research

Paper cards and digital codes target vaccination chaos

An MIT-developed vaccination card aims to cut through vaccine distribution chaos while preserving patient privacy.

via IEEE Spectrum · Jan. 25, 2021
in Camera Culture
#data #privacy #public health +2 more
Article Research

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.

via Digital Future Society · Jan. 20, 2021
in Personal Robots
#robotics #social robotics #technology +1 more
Article Research

Remote Learning: Proactive preparation & student outreach

How Canan Dagdeviren helped her students and members of the Conformable Decoders group adjust to working remotely

via MIT Open Learning · Jan. 12, 2021
in Conformable Decoders
#community #wellbeing #covid19
Article Research

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.

via STAT · Jan. 9, 2021
in Sculpting Evolution
#public health #wellbeing #covid19
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

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 +5 more
Publication Research

Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices

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

Academic Paper, Oct. 2020
in Affective Computing
#wearable computing #sensors #wellbeing
Project Research

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 ba...

in Signal Kinetics
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh · Osvy Rodriguez +2 more
#robotics #environment #health +8 more
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
Article Research

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.

via MIT News · Oct. 28, 2020
in Molecular Machines
#health #wellbeing #clinical science +1 more
Article Research

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.

via Merck Life Science · Nov. 18, 2020
in Community Biotechnology
#health #technology #wellbeing +1 more
Post Research

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.

Nov. 16, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative +1 more
#environment #health #sensors +5 more
Project Research

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 +9 more
Article Research

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.

via The Boston Globe · Nov. 9, 2020
in Sculpting Evolution
#environment #genetics #health +3 more
Article Research

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.

via Brave New Planet podcast · Nov. 9, 2020
in Sculpting Evolution
#environment #genetics #health +3 more
Article Research

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.

via MIT News · Nov. 9, 2020
in Community Biotechnology
#health #member company #wellbeing +1 more
Project Research

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...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono
#human-computer interaction #bioengineering #consumer electronics +7 more
Archived
Project Research

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 ...

in Tangible Media
Kyung Yun Choi · Hiroshi Ishii
#design #health #wellbeing
Archived
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
#design #bioengineering #health +8 more
Publication Research

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**

Academic Paper, Aug. 2020
in Affective Computing · Personal Robots
#wellbeing
Publication Research

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} }

Academic Paper, Aug. 2020
in Fluid Interfaces
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
Publication Research

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} }

Academic Paper
in Fluid Interfaces
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
Research
Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

#robotics #design #social networks +64 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

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

via Sculpting Evolution · Sept. 28, 2020
in Sculpting Evolution
#public health #wellbeing #covid19
Article Research

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

via Scientific American · Sept. 28, 2020
in Sculpting Evolution
#public health #wellbeing #covid19
Post Research

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"

Sept. 15, 2020
in Affective Computing · Personal Robots
#robotics #social robotics #wellbeing
Archived
Research
Scalable Cooperation

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

#design #social networks #human-computer interaction +40 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

Identifying the human impacts of climate change

Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...

Nick Obradovich · Manuel Cebrian +4 more
#environment #government #health +5 more
Archived
Post Research

Ishwarya Ananthabhotla and Jaya Narain among 2020 Apple Scholars in AI/ML

Each Scholar was chosen based on their innovative research and demonstrated leadership within their respective fields.

July 13, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces
#artificial intelligence #health #machine learning +2 more
Project Research

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...

in Advancing Wellbeing
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #fashion #perception +3 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
Thesis Research

Prediction and Analysis of Degree of Suicidal Ideation in Online Content

Jones, Noah. Prediction and Analysis of Degree of Suicidal Ideation in Online Content. 2020. MIT, SM Thesis.

Thesis
in Affective Computing
#machine learning #wellbeing
Article Research

Making Self-Care Fun

How MIT is leveraging game design principles to combat depression.

via Superjump · June 14, 2020
in Affective Computing
#gaming #creativity #wellbeing
Archived
Project Research

LeakyPhones

LeakyPhones is a public/private headset that was designed to encourage face-to-face interactions, curiosity, and healthier ...

in Tangible Media · Fluid Interfaces
Amos Golan · Hiroshi Ishii +1 more
#design #communications #music +3 more
Archived
Thesis Research

Forecasting Mental Distress using Healthcare Claims Data

Taylor, Sara. Forecasting Mental Distress using Healthcare Claims Data. 2020. MIT, PhD dissertation.

Thesis, May 2020
in Affective Computing
#machine learning #wellbeing
Archived
Research
Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

#robotics #design #agriculture +21 more
Archived
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAgâ„¢ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Daniel Poitrast · Rebekah Carlson +3 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +13 more
Archived
Post Research

Lesson of a Pandemic for a Connected World

Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.

May 4, 2020
in Viral Communications
#communications #data #government +8 more
Article Research

This MIT app makes self-care as addictive as a video game

Collect cute monsters and make your brain feel better.

via Fast Company · April 29, 2020
in Affective Computing
#gaming #behavioral science #creativity +3 more
Post Research

Human Dynamics team tops Fragile Families Challenge

Media Lab researchers win three of six categories in inaugural contest.

Sept. 21, 2017
in Human Dynamics
#kids #machine learning #wellbeing
Project Research

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
Project Research

Molecular Gastronomy in Zero G

A molecular gastronomy experiment was flown on a zero gravity flight in August 2019, using spherification techniques to create recipes in...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +4 more
Publication Research

Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being

Nosakhare, E., Picard, R. W. Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being," ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’19), August 4–8, 2019, Anchorage, AK, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3330738

Proceedings, Aug. 2019
in Affective Computing
#machine learning #computer science #wellbeing +1 more
Publication Research

Towards Assessing and Recommending Combinations of Behaviors for Improving Health and Well-Being

Nosakhare, E., and Picard. R. 2019. Toward Assessing and Recommending Combinations of Behaviors for Improving Health and Well-Being. ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare 1, 1, Article 4 (December 2019), 29 pages.

Academic Paper, Jan. 2020
in Affective Computing
#health #machine learning #wellbeing
Publication Research

Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance

Judith Amores and Pattie Maes. 2017. Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, Denver, CO, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026004

Academic Paper, May 2017
in Fluid Interfaces
#design #fashion #perception +3 more
Publication Research

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

Academic Paper, July 2018
in Affective Computing · Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces
#consumer electronics #fashion #wearable computing +3 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

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...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes +3 more
#wearable computing #wellbeing
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
Publication Research

Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks

Umematsu, T., Sano, A., Taylor, S., and Picard, R. "Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks.", 2019 IEICE Society Conference, Japan, September 2019.

Proceedings, Sept. 2019
in Affective Computing
#wellbeing
Archived
Project Research

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Pain Management

Opioid therapy is the cornerstone of management of pain in the ICU. However, opioids present numerous side effects and are highly addicti...

in Affective Computing
Daniel Lopez Martinez · Rosalind W. Picard
#artificial intelligence #health #neurobiology +6 more
Archived
Project Research

The Telemetron

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

in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
Article Research

Ticks: They’re not just for hikers anymore

The menacing mites have invaded suburban backyards and even parts of Boston. And Lyme disease isn’t the only thing they carry.

via The Boston Globe · Aug. 23, 2019
in Sculpting Evolution
#genetics #health #wellbeing
Article Research

A community-guided genome editing project can fight Lyme disease

Kevin Esvelt writes about the Sculpting Evolution group’s project to immunize mice against Lyme disease through gene editing.

via STAT · Aug. 22, 2019
in Sculpting Evolution
#genetics #health #community +1 more
Archived
Research
Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing

#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +25 more
Article Research

Opioid epidemic may have new nemesis in AI-based ‘deep reinforcement learning’

In the new study, PhD candidate Daniel Lopez-Martinez of MIT and colleagues used data from more than 40,000 hospitalizations

via AI in Healthcare · July 29, 2019
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #public health #wellbeing
Article Research

Decoding physical patterns of our bodies via conformable devices

In an interview with Medgadget, Canan Dagdeviren talks about the mission and ethos of Conformable Decoders

via Medgadget · July 24, 2019
in Conformable Decoders
#health #neurobiology #wellbeing
Article Research

Using AI to manage opioid use in hospital ICUs

New Harvard-MIT deep reinforcement learning algorithm optimizes pain management.

via Psychology Today · July 25, 2019
in Affective Computing
#artificial intelligence #public health #wellbeing
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
Article Research

J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants

Nine MIT principal investigators will receive grants totaling over $1 million for research focused on global food and water challenges.

via MIT News · May 29, 2019
in Signal Kinetics
#food #wellbeing
Publication Research

Social Robots for Hospitalized Children

Logan, Deirdre, et al. "Social Robots for Hospitalized Children." Pediatrics 143.6 (2019).

Academic Paper, June 2019
in Personal Robots
#wellbeing
Article Research

RFID stickers could signal contaminated food

MIT researchers have found a way to check many items instantly, non-invasively, and from a distance—using the RFID tags.

via TechCrunch · Nov. 14, 2018
in Signal Kinetics
#food #technology #wellbeing
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