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Past Member

Asma Ghandeharioun

Former Research Assistant
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  • Affective Computing

 Please visit my personal website at media.mit.edu/~asma_gh or check out my publications.

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DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanationsvia Concept Traversals

One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and can…
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ELSA: Empathy learning, socially-aware agents

What is ELSA?ELSA is an AI-powered chatbot that acts as an empathetic companion, encouraging users to talk about their day through a form o…
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Privacy-Preserving Depressive Symptoms Estimation

The goal of this project is to develop techniques to remove identifying information from wearable and phone data to protect patients’ priva…
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UncNet: Modeling uncertainty in deep learning for inherently subjective tasks

Automatic emotion recognition has become a well-established machine learning task in recent years. The sensitive and subjective nature of e…
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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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EMMA: An emotionally intelligent personal assistant for improving wellbeing

The delivery of mental health interventions via ubiquitous devices has shown a lot of promise. A natural conversational interface that allo…
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BrainBeat: Breath-based music therapy

Can we sonfiy calming breathing and passively influence a state of calm?Deep breathing has been scientifically proven to affect the heart, …
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WorldBeat: Hearing the world differently

Can we modulate the way we hear the world around us to make it more calming or to induce focus? While technology is usually associated with…
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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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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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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 als…
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"Kind and Grateful": Promoting kindness and gratitude with pervasive technology

We have designed a novel system to promote kindness and gratitude. We leverage pervasive technologies to naturally embed gratitude inspirat…
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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-funde…