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Personalized Machine Learning for Future Health

The view on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis has shifted towards a more dynamic process in which clinical and pathological markers evol...

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Fluid Interfaces

Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development

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Mnemo

Mnemo is a system to augment human memory.

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Space Exploration Initiative

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Affective Computing

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

Article Research

This man’s quest to understand memory starts with obsessive bodycam recording and brain-wave tracking

By-products include striking short films that speed up and slow down along in response to body signals.

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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...

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Personalized Machine Learning for Robot Perception of Affect and Engagement in Autism Therapy

Rudovic, O., Lee, J., Dai, M., Schuller, B. , Picard, R. W., " Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy," Science Robotics, June 2018.

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Personalized Machine Learning for Autism Therapy

EngageME: Personalized machine learning and humanoid robots for measuring affect and engagement of children with autismEngageME is a proj...

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Engineering Dreams

Our dream is a sci-fi future, where dreams are controllable. We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mi...

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Chill.out

Temperature influences our perception and cognition both consciously and subconsciously. These effects are rooted in our bodily experienc...

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Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Physically Reconfigurable Wearables.

Sang-won Leigh, et al. "Morphology Extension Kit: A Modular Robotic Platform for Physically Reconfigurable Wearables." TEI 18, pp 11-18, March 3, 2018.