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AttentivU

There are currently  UROP openings for this project.  All the details available via the link: https://www.braini.io/j...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #augmented reality #health +6 more
Project Research

AlterEgo

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

in Fluid Interfaces
Arnav Kapur · Eric Wadkins +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

Targeted Dream Incubation

What Is TDI?Targeted Dream Incubation is a method for guiding dreams towards specific themes. It is a proposal both magnetic and unl...

in Fluid Interfaces
Ishaan Grover · Tomas Vega Galvez +5 more
#cognition #learning #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

Frisson

Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Abhinandan Jain · Tomas Vega Galvez +2 more
#human-computer interaction #cognition #wearable computing +1 more
Project Research

Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...

in Biomechatronics · Center for Extreme Bionics
Hugh Herr · Matthew Carney
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +12 more
Project Research

Flexible dry electrodes for EMG acquisition within prosthetic sockets

Acquisition of surface electromyography (sEMG) from a person with an amputated lower extremity (LE) during prosthesis-assisted walking re...

in Biomechatronics
Seong Ho Yeon · Tsung-Han Hsieh +5 more
#robotics #human-machine interaction #wearable computing +5 more
Project Research

Essence Wearables: Biometric Olfactory Interfaces for Day and Night

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has traditionally focused on designing and investigating interfaces that provide explicit visual, audito...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +18 more
Project Research

Wearable Sanitizer: Open-source, On-body Sanitizer

Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and di...

in Fluid Interfaces · Responsive Environments
Pat Pataranutaporn · Ali Shtarbanov +4 more
#human-computer interaction #consumer electronics #open source +3 more
Project Research

Project Us

“Us” aims to help people develop their sense of empathy. It uses machine learning to analyze interlocutors’ signals (e.g., tone of voice,...

in Fluid Interfaces
Camilo Rojas · Gaurav Patekar +1 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #wearable computing +1 more
Project Research

Doze: On-skin Scent Diffusion and Drug Delivery Patch

Doze is an IoT enabled platform for personalized scent diffusion and on-skin drug delivery. Leveraging a hydrogel technology, the Doze sy...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono
#human-computer interaction #bioengineering #consumer electronics +7 more
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Adam Haar Horowitz · Ishaan Grover +4 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +15 more
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Project Research

Leveraging artificial intelligence for the assessment of severity of depressive symptoms

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

in Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Darian Bhathena
#wearable computing #affective computing
Project Research

parkinsAI

Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons.  parkinsAI models drug response...

in Fluid Interfaces
Utkarsh Sarawgi · Pattie Maes
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #health +3 more
Project Research

Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depres...

in Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Szymon Fedor +1 more
#health #wearable computing #affective computing +1 more
Project Research

Cocoon: Speculative Dream Engineering

Cocoon is our vision of a programmable dream machine from the future. This device would be enabled by the synthesis of many devices under...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Adam Haar Horowitz +1 more
#design #wearable computing #interfaces +1 more
Project Research

Material Functionalization

When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization...

in Responsive Environments
Cedric Honnet · Paul Strohmeier +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #wearable computing +2 more
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SPRING: A Smart Platform for Research, Intervention, and Neurodevelopmental Growth

SPRING is a custom-built hardware and software platform for children with neuro-differences. The system automates data acquisition, optim...

in Affective Computing · ML Learning
Rosalind W. Picard · Kristy Johnson
#robotics #cognition #data +7 more
Project Research

Multi-SPRING

OverviewWe have created a new customizable, multi-user research-through-play platform designed to facilitate social skill development for...

in ML Learning · Affective Computing
Kristy Johnson · Rosalind W. Picard +1 more
#cognition #learning #wearable computing +4 more
Project Research

Theme | Assistive Technology

Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...

in Fluid Interfaces · Affective Computing
Pattie Maes · Utkarsh Sarawgi +3 more
#design #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +4 more
Project Research

KnittedKeyboard

Knitting is an established textile manufacturing technique that has been pervasive in the garment and technical fabrics industry. In comp...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #consumer electronics +9 more
Project Research

SensorNets

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bio...

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Elena Chong Loo +2 more
#design #human-computer interaction #augmented reality +6 more
Project Research

Thinking Cap

Peoples' mindsets, meaning their beliefs about their own intellectual abilities, affect their effort and thereby their performance on tas...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#kids #learning #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

Theme | Engineering Dreams

We are working to build technology that interfaces with the sleeping mind. As the dreamer descends into sleep, we track different sl...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Judith Amores Fernandez +5 more
#design #wearable computing #interfaces +2 more
Project Research

Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work ex...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +2 more
#human-computer interaction #architecture #health +8 more
Project Research

Wearable Wisdom

Wearable Wisdom: An Intelligent Audio-Based System for Mediating Wisdom and AdviceHaving good mentors and role models is important for pe...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pat Pataranutaporn · Tomas Vega Galvez +1 more
#human-computer interaction #extended intelligence #wearable computing +4 more
Project Research

BioEssence

A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a...

in Fluid Interfaces
Judith Amores Fernandez · Pattie Maes +2 more
#consumer electronics #health #wearable computing +5 more
Project Research

Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capita...

in Human Dynamics
Takeo Nishikata · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
#social networks #wearable computing #social science +4 more
Project Research

Wearable Lab on Body

Wearables are being widely researched for monitoring individual's health and wellbeing. Current generation wearable devices sense an indi...

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Pat Pataranutaporn · Abhinandan Jain +2 more
#health #wearable computing #sensors +1 more
Project Research

Theme | Wearable Biotech Enhancement

Lab on Body, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-Digital Systems for Health and Human Enhancement

in Fluid Interfaces
Oscar Rosello · Pat Pataranutaporn +5 more
#health #synthetic biology #wearable computing +3 more
Project Research

AttentivU: Towards Improved Wellbeing in the Car

Several research projects have recently explored the use of physiological sensors such as electroencephalography (EEG - brain activity) o...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes +3 more
#wearable computing #wellbeing
Project Research

MoveU

MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR).  The device ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Misha Sra · Abhinandan Jain +1 more
#human-computer interaction #wearable computing #interfaces
Project Research

Conformal Piezoelectric Mechanical Energy Harvesters: Mechanically Invisible Human Dynamos

Nearly all classes of wearable and implantable biomedical devices depend on battery power for continuous operation. However, the life spa...

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren
#bioengineering #energy #health +3 more
Project Research

Social Physics of Unemployment

Earlier studies proved that behavior is highly shaped and constrained by one's social networks, and demonstrated ways in which individual...

in Human Dynamics
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland · Abdullah M. Almaatouq
#data #economy #politics +4 more
Project Research

SNAPSHOT Study

The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-fun...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Akane Sano · Sara Taylor +9 more
#health #wearable computing #machine learning +2 more
Project Research

Identi-Wheez: A device for in-home diagnosis of asthma

Asthma is the most common chronic illness among children. The skills required to diagnose it make it an even greater concern. Our solutio...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Camera Culture
Ramesh Raskar · Guy Satat +1 more
#health #wearable computing
Project Research

BrightBeat: Effortlessly influencing breathing for cultivating calmness and focus

The relationship between breathing and self-reported stress is bidirectional. Respiration pattern is an indicator of stress, but it can a...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Asma Ghandeharioun · Rosalind W. Picard
#health #wearable computing #affective computing +2 more
Project Research

SkinBot: A wearable, skin-climbing robot

We introduce SkinBot: a lightweight robot that moves over the skin's surface with a two-legged suction-based locomotion mechanism and cap...

in Responsive Environments · Affective Computing
Artem Dementyev · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics #health #human-machine interaction +3 more
Project Research

Living Observatory: Sensor networks for documenting and experiencing ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...

in Terrestrial Sensing · Responsive Environments
Glorianna Davenport · Joseph A. Paradiso +4 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #data +6 more
Project Research

HeartBit

HeartBit is an interface designed for haptic heart rate biofeedback. A handheld heart beats alongside your own, mirroring the size, weigh...

in Fluid Interfaces
Oscar Rosello
#augmented reality #consumer electronics #health +4 more
Project Research

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...

in Affective Computing
Ognjen (Oggi) Rudovic · Rosalind W. Picard
#robotics #human-computer interaction #health +9 more
Project Research

Physio FreeFall

This project seeks to examine the effects of altered gravity on an individual’s physiology during parabolic flight. Specifically, we will...

in Affective Computing · Space Exploration Initiative
Kristy Johnson · Rosalind W. Picard +3 more
#bioengineering #consumer electronics #health +5 more
Project Research

QuantifyMe

Unlike traditional randomized controlled trials that generalize relationships in large groups of people, single-case experiments seek to ...

in Affective Computing · Advancing Wellbeing
Rosalind W. Picard · Akane Sano +3 more
#data #wearable computing #behavioral science +2 more
Project Research

Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Project Research

CAPS: Curbing Assault to Protect Society

We present CAPS, wearable on-body capsules which produce repulsive odor to deter sexual abuse. The capsules can be triggered by self...

in Living Mobile
Chris Schmandt · Manisha Mohan
#human-machine interaction #wearable computing
Project Research

ChromoSkin

Makeup has long been used as a body decoration process for self-expression and for the transformation of one's appearance. While the mate...

in Living Mobile · Responsive Environments
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao · Manisha Mohan +3 more
#fashion #wearable computing
Project Research

DuoSkin

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...

in Living Mobile
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao · Andres Calvo +1 more
#art #fashion #wearable computing +1 more
Project Research

Kino

This work explores a dynamic future in which the accessories we wear are no longer static, but are instead mobile, living objects on the ...

in Living Mobile
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao · Deborah Ajilo +2 more
#robotics #design #fashion +3 more
Project Research

Mindful Photons: Context-Aware Lighting

Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +1 more
#architecture #cognition #environment +5 more
Project Research

NailO

NailO is a wearable input device in the form of a commercialized nail art sticker. It works as a miniaturized trackpad the size and thick...

in Living Mobile · Responsive Environments
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao · Artem Dementyev +2 more
#fashion #wearable computing
Project Research

Rovables

We introduce Rovables, a miniature robot that can move freely on unmodified clothing. The robots are held in place by magnetic wheels, an...

in Responsive Environments · Living Mobile
Artem Dementyev · Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao +3 more
#robotics #wearable computing #sensors +1 more
Project Research

Fluxa: Body Movements as a Social Display

Fluxa is a compact wearable device that exploits body movements, as well as the visual effects of persistence of vision (POV), ...

Pattie Maes · Xin Liu
#wearable computing
Project Research

EDA Explorer

Electrodermal Activity (EDA) is a physiological indicator of stress and strong emotion. While an increasing number of wearable devices ca...

in Advancing Wellbeing · Affective Computing
Rosalind W. Picard · Akane Sano +4 more
#wearable computing

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