We pioneer technologies that help people measure, communicate, and understand affective information including emotion, attention, and motivation. Our primary interest is in helping people with health and medical challenges where affective tools can change their lives for the better. Areas of focus include improving wellbeing through enhancing social-emotional communication, building resilience and preventing depression, and enabling stress measurement and regulation. We have current partnerships with world-class medical experts in sleep, epilepsy, and depression, all of which involve affective processes. We have pioneered work on wearable and non-contact technologies for physiological measurement, and continue to innovate with wearable sensing, mobile devices, machine learning, personalized analytics, and whatever we need to invent in order to improve lives.
Students with skills in computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition, emotional intelligence, sensor and interface design. Applicants should be open to working with and learning from people with disabilities and should have a strong desire to build technologies to make people's lives better.
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