Rosalind W. Picard

To facilitate real-world applications of personal sensing such as, triggering a mobile intervention or detecting  early depression ons…

An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…

Large language models (LLMs) are capable of generating plausible explanations of how they arrived at an answer to a question. However, thes…

Self-supervised representation learning (SSL) powers modern AI systems and enables the learning of information rich data representations fr…

Wearable devices allow us to continuously and passively record elements of our physiology (e.g., electrodermal activity, skin temperature) …

Many digital mental health apps show promising results for stress and anxiety management, but they often fail to keep users engaged. Our pr…

People inherently use experiences of their past while imagining their future, a capability that plays a crucial role in mental health. …

In "A HeARTfelt Robot", we designed a social robot interaction for children age 7-11 that helped them practice their social-emotional learn…

By establishing correlations between sleep parameters and wellbeing indicators, our project hopes to further understanding of fluctuations …

Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…

Computer-mediated forms of communication (i.e., social media, texting) have quickly become the predominant way that we keep in touch w…

Teddy is a cutting edge data collection platform available for both Android and iOS that lets you collect data from study participants in a…

This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…

Serosa III is a wearable electrode patch that records gastric activity. It reduces the size of the interface and incorporates high-resoluti…

Serosa records gastrointestinal (stomach and intestinal) signals. Serosa aims for cognitive enhancement via the mind-gut connection by aidi…

Families with ASD often struggle with social and emotional communication. This work explores the role of an embodied agent (a social robot)…

Try Affective Network!Emotional contagion in online social networks has been of great interest over the past years. Previous studies have m…

This project aims to improve the prediction accuracy of wellbeing (stress, mood, and health levels) using temporal machine learning models.…