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The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
MIT lab offers a model for cost savings, productivity, and safety; principles may also facilitate efficient reopening in the future.
Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.
Sound and space are fundamentally intertwined, at both a physical and perceptual level. Sound radiates from vibrating materials, filling …
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
Ethics Initiative
Fluid Interfaces postdoc Nataliya Kosmyna discussed her AttentivU research for MIT xTalks.
Dr Pratik Shah speaks to ecancer at the 2019 MyKE Myeloma meeting in Barcelona.
The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.
Cristina Quinn profiles Morgan Stickney, an elite swimmer who's the first person to undergo a bilateral Ewing amputation.
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.
Nosakhare, E. "Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Predicting Future Well-Being and Assessing Behavioral Influences on Mood, Stress and Health", MIT PhD Thesis, September 2018
Sculpting Evolution head Kevin Esvelt shares how emerging technologies can help us fight the new coronavirus.
Can tattoos embrace technology in order to make the skin interactive?The DermalAbyss project was the result of a collaboration between MIT …
We already have all the tools we need to fix climate change. We just need to use them.
Alum Ben Waber talks about how the spinoff Humanyze has worked to create a culture that supports employees in taking parental leave.
A research team, including members of the Biomechatronics group, devises a new surgery for hand amputations and prostheses.
Kevin Esvelt and other experts discuss potential technological approaches to combating mosquito-borne diseases.
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
How does one scientist deal with the potential ramifications of his own creation?
Morgan Stickney is an elite swimmer who's helping pave the way for the next generation of bionic prosthetics and para-athletes.
Finding could help overturn the prevailing notion that men and women experience angina differently.
Lab on Body, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-Digital Systems for Health and Human Enhancement
CE 2.0
Mabu is about the size of a kitchen appliance and assists with day-to-day healthcare needs through daily "conversations."
Women are more likely to report multiple symptoms, and "the majority of women present just like men."
Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
System could help with diagnosing and treating noncommunicative patients.
Opioid therapy is the cornerstone of management of pain in the ICU. However, opioids present numerous side effects and are highly addictive…
S. S. Srinivasan, M. J. Carty, P. W. Calvaresi, T. R. Clites, B. E. Maimon, C. R. Taylor, A. N. Zorzos, H. Herr, On prosthetic control : A regenerative agonist-antagonist myoneural interface, 2, eaan2971 (2017).
The menacing mites have invaded suburban backyards and even parts of Boston. And Lyme disease isn’t the only thing they carry.
Kevin Esvelt writes about the Sculpting Evolution group’s project to immunize mice against Lyme disease through gene editing.
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
The MAS.808 course perspective article published in Foresight was chosen as a winner by the editorial team, as it is one of the most except…
In an interview with Medgadget, Canan Dagdeviren talks about the mission and ethos of Conformable Decoders
For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microgra…
Although significant progress is being made in identifying pH sensing materials and device configurations, a standard protocol for be…
Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots group, and her collaborators talk to US News about Huggable.
Summer’s great indoor-temperature debate rages on.
Pratik Shah speaks on the challenges and opportunities for artificial intelligence and machine learning adoption in clinical development.
Bloomberg Law interviews Pratik Shah for his opinion on the impact of AI in regulatory decisions.
Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients’ positive emotions, engagement, and activity level.
The past two decades have seen unprecedented progress in the development of novel materials, form factors, and functionalities in neuroimp…
How do your kicks collaborate with mental health?
Designing Wearables for Space Exploration
Congratulations, Arnav!
Can a person look at a portable display, click on a few buttons, and recover his or her refractive condition? Our optometry solution combin…
Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children. The skills required to diagnose it make it an even greater concern. Our solution …
The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can als…
A learning framework for secure, decentralized, computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at m…
HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weight,…
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augmented…
Pattie Maes discusses her group’s approach to bridging this divide and improving our relationships with technology.
We are performing long-term measurements of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity on patients with epilepsy. In certain cases, autonomic …
In the United States, there are an estimated 1.7 million people living with amputation, with that number expected to double by 2050. Compl…
TurboTrack is a 3D localization system for fine-grained robotic tasks, with unique capability to localize backscatter nodes with sub-centim…
Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
In this TED Talk, Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard explains how AI can help save lives.
The technology being developed can enable personalized interactions with an autistic child, helping therapists to engage their attention.
Scientists hope these genetically modified "gene drive" mosquitoes could help eradicate malaria.
Fadel Adib talks to CBS about a project from the Signal Kinetics group that aims to democratize food quality and safety testing.
In-Vivo Networking (IVN) is the new technology that can wirelessly power and communicate with tiny devices implanted deep within the h…
We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…