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Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Enhancing human physical capability
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
We've designed a health system strengthening model to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
The SNAPSHOT study seeks to measure Sleep, Networks, Affect, Performance, Stress, and Health using Objective Techniques. It is an NIH-funde…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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.
According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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
Technology for Women’s Health
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.
An embodied virtual agent is a promising oracle for delivering appropriate just-in time interventions. We aim to build a system and design …
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
Appropriate and adaptive treatment plans are challenging in Parkinson’s disease for several reasons. parkinsAI models drug response a…
P. Shah*, G. Yauney*, O. Gupta, V. Patalano II, M. Mohit, R. Merchant, SV Subramanian. BMJ Open (2018). 8:e018774. PMID: 29678964 * Equal contribution
A wearable olfactory display that monitors cardio-respiratory information with the aspiration to support mental wellbeing.BioEssence is a w…
Finding could help overturn the prevailing notion that men and women experience angina differently.
Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
