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LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionPhysical and biological needs of the brain must be met as a precondition for "higher" functions t…
LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium DescriptionJohn Ratey will address the connection between exercise and the brain's performance and …
LocationE15 Bartos Auditorium DescriptionWhy do we reach for a cookie when we know an apple is better for us, even if we’re trying to lose …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMarko Ahtisaari is a technology entrepreneur and designer. For the last four years he was executi…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDigital self-tracking, sometimes called "life hacking" or "personal analytics," involves parsing …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-LL, Bartos Theater DescriptionThe human brain is made up of neurons, highly sophisticated and stable cellular st…
DescriptionJP Onnela is an assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is interested …
Former Director of Human Resources
Former Advisory Council Member
Thinking With Sand, a virtual talk series exploring new software interfaces and tools for augmented thinking and creative exploration.
DescriptionThis talk is part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series at the MIT Media Lab. For information about future talks, please joi…
Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…
Kumar, I. K. (2023). FOSTERING WELL-BEING: Designing Technology to Improve the Psychological Well-being of Foster-Involved Youth (thesis).
Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Pataranutaporn, P., Danry, V., Leong, J. et al. AI-generated characters for supporting personalized learning and well-being. Nat Mach Intell (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00417-9
Kubzansky LD, Kim ES, Boehm JK, Davidson RJ, Huffman JC, Loucks EB, Lyubomirsky S, Picard RW, Schueller SM, Trudel-Fitzgerald C, VanderWeele TJ, Warran K, Yeager DS, Yeh CS, Moskowitz JT. Interventions to Modify Psychological Well-Being: Progress, Promises, and an Agenda for Future Research. Affect Sci. 2023 Mar 3;4(1):174-184. doi: 10.1007/s42761-022-00167-w. PMID: 37064816; PMCID: PMC9982781.
LocationBartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab DescriptionDr. C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT, the founding chair of the Presencing Ins…
From Lenin to Einstein: How Being Someone Else Can Change Your Behavior
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-525 (Nagashima Conference Room) DescriptionPART 1: Investigating Well-being and Character in PsychologyPART 2: D…
Who decides what future cities look like?
Lecamwasam, K.H.M. (2023). Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Anxiety Disorders and Well-Being. Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab.
Open Learning Talks bring together leaders to discuss new research-based ideas, technologies, and efforts in education, at MIT and the world
Nosakhare, E., Picard, R. W. Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being," ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’19), August 4–8, 2019, Anchorage, AK, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3330738
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
Nosakhare, E., and Picard. R. 2019. Toward Assessing and Recommending Combinations of Behaviors for Improving Health and Well-Being. ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare 1, 1, Article 4 (December 2019), 29 pages.
Shaka Senghor and Martha Minow in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.
Professor Canan Dagdeviren has been invited to give a presentation at the EPFL BioE talks series, titled "MiNDS: Miniaturized Ne…
Orii, L., Alonso, L. and Larson, K., 2020. Methodology for Establishing Well-Being Urban Indicators at the District Level to be Used on the CityScope Platform. Sustainability, 12(22), p.9458.
The University of Guadalajara (UdeG) established a Master's Degree in City Science (Maestría en Ciencia de la Ciudad or MCCd). The degree i…
THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS: How Mindful Innovation Can Fuel Well-beingTechnology—at least in theory—is improving our productivity, efficiency,…
Nosakhare, E. "Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Predicting Future Well-Being and Assessing Behavioral Influences on Mood, Stress and Health", MIT PhD Thesis, September 2018
Design in the 21st Century
Part of the Advancing Wellbeing seminar series.
Non-invasive Sleep Quality Monitoring with LIBS, an In-ear Sensing SystemSleep occupies nearly a third of human’s life and acts as a critic…
Dr. Andrew Walshe, Senior Director of High Performance for Red Bull, presents his seminar "Performance Under Pressure: Fear is Not an Optio…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionJohn Miller will examine different aspects of dating and relationships from the perspective of a …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA wealth of evidence indicates that exercise programs can relieve negative affect, alleviate stre…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMobile and ubiquitous computing research has led to new techniques for cheaply, accurately, and c…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis talk is free and open to the public, and will be webcast.This fun and interactive program te…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionDigital technologies have made their way into all the aspects of our lives that, according to psy…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA fundamental challenge for modern society is the development of effective approaches to enhance …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-359 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.The popularity of…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionNew mobile apps and wearable devices for measuring health-related behavior and motivating health …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn his talk, Dr. Nock will describe recent findings from epidemiologic studies on the prevalence,…
Mobile Technologies for Health and Wellness: A Global PerspectiveWhat are the largest health needs around the world? And how can techn…
Designing Bots, Virtual Humans, and Other Systems that Can Hold up Their End of the ConversationIn today's era of intelligent assistants of…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionCarefully designed feedback on automatically sensed human behavior has been effective in improvin…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 Description“You cannot not communicate,” Paul Watzlawick once famously said. Similarly, whatever designers p…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionRogers will discuss two topics. The first is on the four underlying psychological and structural…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionIn this interactive workshop, Dr. Brian Cugelman will discuss motivation from an evolutionary-psy…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe world’s population is aging. While people are living longer, they are also suffering from man…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe Transtheoretical Model can be applied with individual patients and entire populations to prod…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E15-359 DescriptionCompared with many other industries, including health care, the Internet industry has distinct ad…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionOne third of US adults have low health literacy, the ability to obtain, read, and use healthcare …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionTalks in the Advancing Wellbeing Seminar Series are free and open to the public.Poor diet and obe…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis talk is free and open to the public, and will be a live interaction via Skype.The Fogg Behav…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionAlzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, currently affecting over 5 million …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionMore than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the diagn…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionTwo of the main components of wellbeing are engagement and positive affect. Stress is often derid…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionChronic stress is often thought to be exacerbated by interactive technologies–but we challenge th…
Hatice Gunes' recent work has focused on Digital Personhood.
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionCan you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares? Many of us live and work in an urban e…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThis talk is open to the public and will be webcast live. For the last decade, Sandy Pentland's r…