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Seli is an assistant professor at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and also an artist. He uses Dormio to tap into hypnagogia.
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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The KALM project consists of a multimodal dataset and a wearable system for managing anxiety. With this set of tools we aim to make...
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Transforming data into knowledge
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audi...
Perchance to dream engineer: on new research into our sleeping minds
In the April issue, Michael W. Clune writes about the profound insights offered by the Dormio: "Can technology shape our dreams?"
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
Leong, Joanne, et al. "Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
"We can see the waves forming a tsunami that will come, but most people are just sleeping on a beach unaware"
OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...
This is the actual stuff of nightmares.
Sleep and dream researchers are urging for an advance tightening of advertising law to nip all this in the bud before it starts in earnest.
“The potential for misuse of these technologies is as ominous as it is obvious.”
After Coors sought to steer unconscious minds to thoughts of beer, scientists have called for curbs on ‘targeted dream incubation.’
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ML Learning
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Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...
Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for le...
Researchers in the Fluid Interfaces group and elsewhere are hoping to learn more about how and why dreams are generated, and their effects.
Haar Horowitz, Adam, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes. "Dormio: Interfacing with dreams." In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-10. 2018.
Skip Norm is a new and flexible building block for Deep Learning that serves as a skip connection and normalization block simultaneously....
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Revealing insights into the human condition and repairing brain disorders via novel tools for mapping and fixing brain computations
Complex biological systems such as brain circuits are extended 3-D structures made out of nanoscale building blocks such as proteins, RNA...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
When we form memories, not everything that we perceive is noticed; not everything that we notice is remembered. Humans are excellent at ...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...
CE 2.0
Advancing Wellbeing
How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
Digital Synesthesia looks to evolve the idea of human-computer interfacing and give way for human-world interacting. It aims to find a wa...
A conversation between Ed Boyden and Tyler Cowen on optogenetics and expansion microscopy to storytelling and the nature of consciousness.
Cognimates is a platform where parents and children (7-10 years old) participate in creative programming activities in which they l...
Luminaries in computing and cognition discuss their journeys and share their insights.
When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...
People express and communicate their mental states–such as emotions, thoughts, and desires–through facial expressions, vocal nuances, ges...
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How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
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Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...