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Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
WHx Program: Unlocking Women's Health through Transformative Technologies
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Svetlana Boriskina, Ikra Shuvo, Duo Xu, Xianglin Ji, and Raul Fangueiro win MIT Portugal grant for sustainable textile research.
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response a…
Dr. Susan Blumenthal calls for increased funding and education to combat the mistaken belief that HIV is no longer a major health threat.
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
The MIT senior and undergraduate researcher in the Conformable Decoders group will pursue graduate studies in the UK.
Technology for Women’s Health
Foundation models have become invaluable in advancing the medical field. Despite their promise, the strategic deployment of LLMs for effect…
We've designed a health system strengthening model to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
PhD student Alexandra Rieger discusses her research combining music, engineering, neuroscience, and design.
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
She was selected for her work on breast cancer detection in the Engineering + Technology category.
By establishing correlations between sleep parameters and wellbeing indicators, our project hopes to further understanding of fluctuations …
Canan Dagdeviren talks to Sharon Kedar about the latest generation of the wearable ultrasound scanner Conformable Decoders is developing.
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
Ultrasound can be used to image soft tissues in vivo for early diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression. However, conventional ultra…
B. Zhang, W. V. Chen, G. Regalia, D. M. Goldenholz, and R. W. Picard, “Sleep deficiency is associated with higher next-day generalized tonic-clonic seizure risk”, in American Epilepsy Society 2023 Annual Meeting, 2023.
The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
In a study published in Nature Medicine, alum Matt Groh, Prof. Rosalind Picard, and colleagues found assistance from an AI model can help.
Groh, M., Badri, O., Daneshjou, R. et al. Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02728-3
Addressing Bias in Physician-Machine PartnershipsThis research program addresses how AI assistance can enhance physician decision-making on…
To help combat "interval" cancers, the Conformable Decoders group led by Prof. Dagdeviren, has developed a wearable ultrasound scanner.
Nano-Implants for Wireless Brain Interfacing
Radical treatment for pain and neurodegenerative diseases
Professor Dagdeviren was recognized for her work developing a wearable ultrasound patch for early breast cancer detection.
The wearable device, designed to monitor bladder and kidney health, could be adapted for earlier diagnosis of cancers deep within the body.
Caicedo, H.H., Darrow, J.J., Caicedo, J.C. et al. Prioritizing Early Disease Intervention. Ther Innov Regul Sci 57, 1148–1152 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43441-023-00569-3
In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.
The new device, which can be incorporated into a bra, could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer.
StyleFlexible; Individual projects (teamwork can also be possible upon the wish of students).To pass, you must: (i) attend at least 3/…
The journey to equitable access to bionic technology in Sierra Leone.
PhD student is designing and building a sustainable care and delivery model in Sierra Leone
Media Lab spinoff Sourcemap and MIT spinoff Overjet have been listed among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.
Co-founded by Professor Rosalind Picard, Empatica develops medical-grade wearables and algorithms for health monitoring and diagnostics.
Health 0.0
We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TES)…
Dr. Shah and his research lab at MIT has significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the labora…
Research studies led by Dr. Shah in his laboratory have created new paradigms for using low-cost images captured using simple optical …
MIT uses affective computing in efforts to improve human mental health.
In a recent MISTI course, students engaged on collaborative solutions to climate, health care, and economic development in the Middle East.
The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We p…
As developers of prosthetic technology, we’re dedicated to understanding the challenges that people with limb loss face, not just after amp…
Humans can accurately sense the position, speed, and torque of their limbs, even with their eyes shut. This sense, known as proprioception,…
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
P. Shah*, G. Yauney*, O. Gupta, V. Patalano II, M. Mohit, R. Merchant, SV Subramanian. BMJ Open (2018). 8:e018774. PMID: 29678964 * Equal contribution
Finding could help overturn the prevailing notion that men and women experience angina differently.