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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.

Designing medical devices to bend with the body

Canan Dagdeviren creates flexible ultrathin systems to decode the patterns of disease.

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...

Watch this device translate silent thoughts into speech

For people who can’t speak out loud due to illness or injury, AlterEgo might return their ability to communicate in real time.

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...

SNAPSHOT Study

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

Computing Careers: Advice from Rosalind Picard on succeeding in the fast-growing field of "affective computing"

Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard talks to IEEE Computer Society for their series on careers in computing.

A breakthrough device that combines mind and machine

In the first live public demo of his new technology, TED Fellow Arnav Kapur introduces AlterEgo.

How wearable AI will amplify human intelligence

Pattie Maes and other experts talk to the Harvard Business Review about applications for wearable artificial intelligence agents.

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Space Health Wearables

Designing Wearables for Space Exploration

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Living Observatory Installation: A Transductive Encounter with Ecology

In the Living Observatory installation at the Other Festival, we invite participants into a transductive encounter with a wetland environ...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

HeartBit

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

Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Epilepsy

We are performing long-term measurements of autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity on patients with epilepsy. In certain cases, autonomi...

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An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

In this TED Talk, Affective Computing head Rosalind Picard explains how AI can help save lives.

Emotion AI, explained

Senior leaders should consider how emotion AI could change their industries and play a critical role in their firms.

MIT student develops brain-analyzing wizard hat project

The project can determine what a person is thinking about and use the information to sort them into a Hogwarts house in one test.

This MIT post-doc created a sorting hat like the one from ‘Harry Potter’

Nataliya Kos'myna created a “Thinking Cap” that looks like the Sorting Hat from the popular “Harry Potter” series.

Mood-forecasting tech could help stop bad moods even before they strike

Wearable devices might even help prevent suicide by giving a heads-up about worrisome behavior.

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...

These sleep engineers could help you hack your dreams

A group at MIT’s Media Lab known as the “Dream Team” thinks you can harness your unconscious mind with tech you can wear to bed.

Communications Futures Program

The dermal abyss: interfacing with the skin by tattooing biosensors

Katia Vega, Nan Jiang, Xin Liu, Viirj Kan, Nick Barry, Pattie Maes, Ali Yetisen, Joe Paradiso. " The dermal abyss: interfacing with the skin by tattooing biosensors." Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC '17 , p. 138-145, 2017.

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New tech provides early warning for depression

'Affective computing' measures subtle changes in stress and mental health.

Consumer Electronics Laboratory

Wearable medical tech is about to become crucial for staying alive

Wearables are already replacing traditional drugs and therapies—this year, they'll go further still.

Future Storytelling

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Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science

Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.

Creating intelligent computing: a conversation with Rosalind Picard

A dialogue concerning the impact of AI on the human brain and its relation to autism and depression.

Physio FreeFall

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

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Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.

Masque

When the body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self-existence. At ...

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Characterizing Electrodermal Activity Using Point Processes in Young Children

Subramanian, S., Barbieri, R., Johnson, K.T., Brown, E. "Characterizing Electrodermal Activity Using Point Processes in Young Children," 50th Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Atlanta, Georgia, October 2018.

Epidermal Robots: Wearable Sensors that Climb on The Skin

Dementyev A., Hernandez J., Choi I., Follmer S., Paradiso J., "Epidermal Robots: Wearable Sensors That Climb On The Skin" In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2 (3), September 2018.

SkinBot: A Wearable Skin Climbing Robot

A. Dementyev, J. Hernandez, S. Follmer, I. Choi, and J. Paradiso. "SkinBot: A Wearable Skin Climbing Robot." ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium, October 2017.

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Living Mobile

Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions

How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's

Multi-SPRING: Facilitating Social Interaction through a Customizable, Multimodal Learning Platform

Johnson, K.T., Ferguson, C.S., Picard, R.W., "Multi-SPRING: Facilitating Social Interaction through a Customizable, Multimodal Learning Platform," International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 2018.

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Mediated Atmosphere

Smart office uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize individual work environments

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DermalAbyss wins Scifi No Longer Award at SXSW

The 21st annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards honored DermalAbyss with the Scifi No Longer Award, given to "the coolest sc...

How the body could power pacemakers and other implantable devices

Batteries wear out, but breathing, sweat and body heat might provide alternative fuel.

Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers

Johnson, K.T., Taylor, S., Fedor, S., Jaques, N., Chen, W., Picard, R.W. "Vomit Comet Physiology: Autonomic Changes in Novice Flyers." Proceedings of the International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2018.

Wearable ESM: Comparing the Wearable Experience Sampling Method across Wearable Devices

Hernandez, J., McDuff, D., Infante, C., Maes, P., Quigley, K., and Picard, R. W. "Wearable ESM: Comparing the Wearable Experience Sampling Method across Wearable Devices," In Proceedings of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, Florence, Italy, September 2016.

figur8: digitizing 3-D body movements for everyone

Nan-Wei Gong and figur8 are spurring the growth of wearable technology within the sports medicine and digital health sectors.

QuantifyMe

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

Gender Shades

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

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Intrepid

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ...

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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...

The body electric

What if wearable and implantable devices could harvest energy from the heat, sweat or vibrations of the wearer?

QuantifyMe: An Open-Source Automated Single-Case Experimental Design Platform

Taylor, S.*, Sano, A.*, Ferguson, C., Mohan, A., Picard, R. "QuantifyMe: An Open-Source Automated Single-Case Experimental Design Platform," Sensors, April 2018. (*equal contribution)

AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface

A. Kapur, S. Kapur, and P. Maes, "AlterEgo: A Personalized Wearable Silent Speech Interface." 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2018), pp 43-53, March 5, 2018.

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.

Facial recognition software is biased towards white men, researcher finds

New research out of MIT’s Media Lab is underscoring what other experts have reported or at least suspected before: facial recognition tec...

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...

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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.

DuoSkin selected as a finalist in the 2017 World Technology Awards

DuoSkin was one of four finalists in the Design category of the 2017 World Technology Awards.

Location Patterns from Phone Sensors May Help Predict Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Pilot Study

Howe, E., Ghandeharioun, A., Pedrelli, P., Mischoulon, D., Picard, R., Fedor, S. "Location Patterns from Phone Sensors May Help Predict Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Pilot Study," Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention – Tech SIG, San Diego, CA, November 2017.

Multimodal Ambulatory Sleep Detection Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Chen, W.*, Sano, A.*, Lopez, D., Taylor, S., McHlll, A. W., Phillips, A. J., Barger, L.K., Czeisler, C. A., Picard, R. W. "Multimodal Ambulatory Sleep Detection Using Recurrent Neural Networks," Sleep 2017 (oral), June 2017.

Multimodal Ambulatory Sleep Detection

Chen, W.*, Sano, A.*, Lopez, D., Taylor, S., McHill, A. W., Phillips, A. J. K., Barger, L. K., Klerman, E. B., and Picard, R. W., "Multimodal Ambulatory Sleep Detection," In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), Orlando, Florida, pp. 465-468, 2017. (*equal contribution)

Findings from Modeling Peaks in Electrodermal Activity during Sleep as a Point Process

Taylor, S., Sano, A., and Picard, R. W. "Findings from Modeling Peaks in Electrodermal Activity during Sleep as a Point Process" 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Minnesota, USA, September 2016.

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Characterizing Electrodermal Responses during Sleep in a 30-day Ambulatory Study

Taylor, S. "Characterizing Electrodermal Responses during Sleep in a 30-day Ambulatory Study", MIT Master's Thesis, September 2016.

Recognizing Academic Performance Sleep Quality Stress Level and Mental Health using Personality Traits Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phones

Sano, A., Phillips, A.J., Yu A.Z., McHill, A.W., Taylor, S., Jaques, N., Czeisler, C,A., Klerman, E.B., Picard. R.W., "Recognizing Academic Performance, Sleep Quality, Stress Level, and Mental Health using Personality Traits, Wearable Sensors and Mobile Phones," In the proceedings of Body Sensor Networks, Cambridge, USA, June 2015.

Wavelet-Based Motion Artifact Removal for Electrodermal Activity

Chen, W., Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Sano, A., Fedor, S., and Picard, R. "Wavelet-Based Motion Artifact Removal for Electrodermal Activity" In Proc. International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milan, Italy, August 2015.

Prediction of Happy-Sad Mood from Daily Behaviors and Previous Sleep History

Sano, A., Yu A.Z., McHill, A.W., Phillips, A.J., Taylor, S., Jaques, N., Czeisler, C,A., Klerman, E.B., Picard. R.W. "Prediction of Happy-Sad Mood from Daily Behaviors and Previous Sleep History" In Proc. International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Milan, Italy, August 2015