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The award recognizes Nakagaki's work developing tangible interfaces.
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
Focus groups are a core methodology in audience research for bringing people together to discuss an issue of concern; however, it has been …
M. E. Carney, T. Shu, R. Stolyarov, J. F. Duval and H. M. Herr, "Design and Preliminary Results of a Reaction Force Series Elastic Actuator for Bionic Knee and Ankle Prostheses," in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 542-553, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2021.3098921.
The human body produces a variety of different electrophysiological signals from brain-waves (EEG) to the electrical activity of the heart …
WiStress is a system that can monitor a user’s stress passively using wireless signals. WiStress can be installed on a desk or near a couch…
Emotional arousal influences focus, attention, and decision-making, which are critical when driving. To help promote an optimal arousal lev…
MetaSense: Integrating Sensing Capabilities into Mechanical Metamaterial. J. Gong*, O. Seow*, C. Honnet*, J. Forman, S…
Jiang, Hang, Sairam Gurajada, Qiuhao Lu, Sumit Neelam, Lucian Popa, Prithviraj Sen, Yunyao Li, and Alexander Gray. "LNN-EL: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Short-text Entity Linking." ACL (2021).
By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way to …
Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously e…
Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast walk…
A whole new mode of communication between prosthesis and user.
A recent feature in Designboom highlights research conducted by the Biomechatronics group that describes magnetomicrometry.
When you’re blind, you can’t hear when someone smiles, much less figure out whether that smile is genuine or polite. But I’m learning.
Amputation, muscle weakness, and nerve damage can make it difficult to perform simple daily tasks. In this project, we are developing a mi…
Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaurant…
Huggins, Matthew, et al. "Practical Guidelines for Intent Recognition: BERT with Minimal Training Data Evaluated in Real-World HRI Application." Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2021.
By Ken Nakagaki, Joanne Leong, Jordan L Tappa, Joao Wilbert, and Hiroshi IshiiOverviewProject HERMITS explores a way to greatly a…
This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found a…
OverviewPAL is a wearable platform for personalized, context-aware, and always-present user change. PAL has mult…
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response a…
Alvarado García, Adriana, Juan F. Maestre, Manuhuia Barcham, Marilyn Iriarte, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Oscar A. Lemus, Palak Dudani, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Ruotong Wang, and Teresa Cerrato Pargman. "Decolonial Pathways: Our Manifesto for a Decolonizing Agenda in HCI Research and Design" In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Preprint.
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. Us…
Inspired by the shell-swapping hermit crab, MIT’s HERMITS use interchangeable mechanical shells to do all sorts of creative things
In this work, we introduce FedML, an open research library and benchmark that facilitates the development of new 'federated learning algori…
This project was selected to represent MIT at the Microsoft Design Expo 2020 on ‘Healthier Futures.’ iNonymizeA tele-mental health pla…
Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
M. E. Carney and H. Herr, "Electric-Energetic Consequences of Springs in Lower-Extremity Powered Prostheses on Varied Terrain," 2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), New York City, NY, USA, 2020, pp. 989-996, doi: 10.1109/BioRob49111.2020.9224458.
dementAI is an open-source platform for modeling risk stratification of Alzheimer's dementia using spontaneous speech through a …
Interpreting human electroencephalogram (EEG) is a challenging task and requires years of medical training. We present a framework for lear…
We propose an improved private count-mean-sketch data structure and show its applicability to differentially private contact trac…
Regular disinfection of hands and frequently touched surfaces is a critical factor in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and diso…
We envision that a close-to-nose interface could be used as a complementary or alternative wearable method to nasal cannulas or masks,…
We present an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that uses biometric information for reflection and relaxation. We monit…
Doze is an IoT enabled platform for personalized scent diffusion and on-skin drug delivery. Leveraging a hydrogel technology, the Doze syst…
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …
Johnson, K.T.*, Narain, J.*, Ferguson, C., Picard, R.W., and Maes, P. The ECHOS Platform to Enhance Communication for Nonverbal Children with Autism: A Case Study. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Case Studies Track of CHI 2020). (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)
Climate change and the domino effect it creates will require coordination at scales we haven’t seen and new forms of organization to addres…
Delivery workers, ridehail drivers, and other gig workers are increasingly controlled through algorithmic decision-making, fueled by data a…
As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
@article{sarawgi2020multimodal, title={Multimodal Inductive Transfer Learning for Detection of Alzheimer's Dementia and its Severity}, author={Sarawgi, Utkarsh and Zulfikar, Wazeer and Soliman, Nouran and Maes, Pattie}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00700}, year={2020} }
@misc{sarawgi2020uncertaintyaware, title={Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Modal Ensembling for Severity Prediction of Alzheimer's Dementia}, author={Utkarsh Sarawgi and Wazeer Zulfikar and Rishab Khincha and Pattie Maes}, year={2020}, eprint={2010.01440}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.LG} }
@misc{sarawgi2020unified, title={Why have a Unified Predictive Uncertainty? Disentangling it using Deep Split Ensembles}, author={Utkarsh Sarawgi and Wazeer Zulfikar and Rishab Khincha and Pattie Maes}, year={2020}, eprint={2009.12406}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.LG} }
Chee, G*., Cobb, T.*, Richter-Lunn, K.*, Wicaksono, I.*, and Freedman, B.R., 2020. Doze: Hydrogel-Based Epidermal Platform for Personalized Scent Diffusion. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
Visualization recommender systems aim to lower the barrier to exploring basic visualizations by automatically generating results for analys…
Researchers currently rely on ad hoc datasets to train automated visualization tools and evaluate the effectiveness of visualization design…
The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) talks to Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes
Living Bits : Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Living Microorganisms in Human-Computer InteractionThere are trillions of living…
We are working on communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological sen…
Berke A., Nawyn J., Lengeling T.S., Larson K. (2020) Urban Mobility Swarms: A Scalable Implementation. In: Arai K., Kapoor S., Bhatia R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1229. Springer, Cham
In recent years, the retail industry has become increasingly interested in Information and communications technology (ICT) systems for enri…
We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In se…