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The Road to 2050, a six-part docuseries from The Franklin Institute, examines the ways that today's technology will shape the future.
Artificial intelligence can make adults nervous, but experts say exploring it as a family is the best way to understand its pros and cons.
Jain A, Schoeller F, Horowitz A, Hu X, Yan G, Salomon R and Maes P (2023) Aesthetic chills cause an emotional drift in valence and arousal. Front. Neurosci. 16:1013117. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.1013117
Media Lab spinoff Sourcemap and MIT spinoff Overjet have been listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.
Spinoff Vecna Technologies uses a wide range of robotic and digital technologies to help solve a variety of issues in healthcare.
Xander plans to launch its first product, XanderGlasses, designed for people with hearing loss or auditory processing challenges.
Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, addressing sweeping problems such as food insecurity + climate change
Magnetomicrometry has exciting prospects for the control of wearable robotics, including prostheses and exoskeletons.
A new paper published by Kevin Esvelt lays out a blueprint for preventing, preparing for, and responding to future pandemics.
Co-founded by Media Lab alum Alex Westner, Xander will introduce its first product, XanderGlasses, at CES 2023.
Brain-computer interfaces, IoT and AI to fuel the advancement of assistive technology devices for ALS patients.
Craig Ferguson discusses Paradise Island, Affective Computing's new game for mental health.
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.
Lara Ozkan (undergraduate researcher in the Conformable Decoders group) was selected as MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s SERC Scholar.
The system measures biological and environmental changes, and detects contact between the mask and the wearer’s skin.
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We built a low-cost and open source 405 nm imaging device to capture red fluorescence signatures associated with the oral biomarker porphyr…
Two-dimensional radiographs are commonly used for evaluating sub-surface hard structures of teeth, but they have low sensitivity for early …
A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apnea …
Paper diagnostics can be used for affordable and scalable biomarker detection. We propose new methods for stabilizing cellulose-based immun…
We report a novel method that processes biomarker images collected at the point of care and uses machine learning algorithms to provide a f…
Imaging fluorescent disease biomarkers in tissues and skin is a non-invasive method to screen for health conditions. We report an automated…
Biomarker imaging provides non-invasive indicators of disease and is used by human experts to augment disease diagnosis. It is, however, of…
We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TES)…
Technical summary: Future of clinical development is on the verge of a major transformation due to convergence of large new digital data so…
General overview:Sepsis, a life-threatening complication of bacterial infection, leads to millions of worldwide deaths requires significant…
General OverviewStaining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various ti…
Technical summaryUnstructured learning problems without well-defined rewards are unsuitable for current reinforcement learning (RL) approac…
Staining of tissues sections using chemical and biological dyes has been used for over a century for visualizing various tissue types and m…
Foodborne pathogens are a major source of human morbidity, food recalls, and economic loss. Current detection methods for foodborne pathoge…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah, in collaboration with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have develope…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
A capsule that tunnels through mucus in the GI tract could be used to orally administer large protein drugs such as insulin.
"No one would ever expect people to build their own heart valves at home"-- Francesca Riccio-Ackerman on inequity in the prosthetic field.
Francesca Riccio-Ackerman and co-authors consider advances in the treatment of conditions associated with aging.
We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
Style:Teamwork; CollectiveTo pass, you must: (i) attend all the class lectures, (ii) participate during the experimental/simulation se…
MIT uses affective computing in efforts to improve human mental health.
In a recent MISTI course, students engaged on collaborative solutions to climate, health care, and economic development in the Middle East.
We present PsychicVR, a proof-of-concept system that integrates a brain-computer interface device and virtual reality headset to improve mi…
Games are a uniquely human endeavour, reducing stress and supporting mental well-being. Astronauts aboard the ISS have created their own ga…
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Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Researchers develop a comfortable, form-fitting fabric that recognizes its wearer’s activities, like walking, running, and jumping.
This special issue encourages contributors to submit their work in this field to demonstrate its great potential to reshape everyday life.
As a graduate student at MIT, Rob Morris struggled with mental health. Today, he wants to make it easier for others to find help online.
The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and MilliporeSigma—the life …
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…
A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…
Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.
CNBC profiles Headspace Health, which was formed through a merger between spinoff Ginger and meditation + mindfulness app company Headspace.
The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much mor…
The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that allo…
This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will c…
In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depressi…
EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a projec…
Mental wellbeing is intimately tied to both social support and physical activity. The Challenge is a tool aimed at promoting social connect…
The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obtai…
Occupational stress can be described as a harmful emotional and physical response that occurs when high demanding job conditions cannot be …