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Personalized Animated Movies for Behavior Change

Animated movies are a powerful tool to engage and influence audience across various culture and age groups. We create an automated animat...
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Affective Computing

Advancing wellbeing using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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Interactive Inference of Mental States

Social robots take an active role in the inference process by producing social cues to elicit nonverbal responses from children to better...
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EmotionalBeasts

An experiment with the manipulation of a user’s self-expression in VR space and as well as the perception of others in it, prov...
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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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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Modulating Peripheral and Cortical Arousal Using a Musical Motor Response Task

We are conducting EEG studies to identify the musical features and musical interaction patterns that universally impact measures of arous...
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An EEG and Motion-Capture Based Expressive Music Interface for Affective Neurofeedback

This project examines how the expression granted by new musical interfaces can be harnessed to create positive changes in health and well...