LocationNew York Academy of Sciences Description BiographiesAdam Marblestone is the Director of Scientific Architecting at the MIT Syntheti…

LocationNew York Academy of Sciences Description BiographiesProfessor Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D. is founder and director of the Affective Co…

Former Research Affiliate

Friend, Stephen H., Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, and Rosalind W. Picard. "Wearable Digital Health Technology." New England Journal of Medicine 389.22 (2023): 2100-2101.

Erica S. Spatz, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, John S. Rumsfeld, and Mintu P. Turakhia; guest editors Stephen H. Friend, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, Jeffrey M. Drazen. "Wearable Digital Health Technologies for Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine." New England Journal of Medicine 2024; 390:346-356. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2301903

How do we, in . . . studying the brain . . . match the complexity of the brain itself?

Elizabeth Donner, Orrin Devinsky, and Daniel Friedman; guest editors Stephen H. Friend, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, Jeffrey M. Drazen. "Wearable Digital Health Technology for Epilepsy." New England Journal of Medicine 2024; 390:736-745. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2301913

Researchers in the Affective Computing group have been invited to edit a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Former Director's Fellow

Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, and Stephen H. Friend. "Key Issues as Wearable Digital Health Technologies Enter Clinical Care." New England Journal of Medicine 2024; 390:1118-27. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2307160

Rosalind Picard’s unique technology is revolutionizing digital health.

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…

Former Research Assistant

Former Postdoctoral Associate

LocationApple Store UWS, NYC, 1981 Broadway Description

Designing Wearables for Space Exploration

Luxton, D.D., June D. J., Akane Sano, Timothy Bickmore. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420248-1.00006-4

IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks – Sensors and Systems for Digital Health (IEEE BSN) is the premier conference in…

Opera of the Future head Tod Machover, alum Grace Leslie, and Dr. Adam Gazzaley join Renée Fleming for Music and Mind Live.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of BSN, this special panel discussion is set to unveil the intricate journey of wearable computing a…

Media Lab alum Steve Mann, known as “the father of wearable computing,” talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his approach to new tech.

Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

P. Pataranutaporn, A. Jain, C. M. Johnson, P. Shah and P. Maes, "Wearable Lab on Body: Combining Sensing of Biochemical and Digital Markers in a Wearable Device," 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Berlin, Germany, 2019, pp. 3327-3332. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857479

A talk  at Type Thursday NYC about the project Skeletext. Type Thursday is a monthly gathering for type and letterform lover…

Former Research Affiliate

Sano, Akane & Picard, Rosalind. (2014). Understanding Ambulatory and Wearable Data for Health and Wellness. AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report.

LocationMumbai, India DescriptionThe Tata Center for Technology+Design along with the MIT Media Lab will be hosting a workshop that will br…

Abstract:The world of biotech wearables is changing and evolving at warp speed in 2017, and Fisher Wallace Laboratories is at the forefront…

Fang, C. M., Danry, V., Whitmore, N., Bao, A., Hutchison, A., Pierce, C., & Maes, P. (2024). PhysioLLM: Supporting Personalized Health Insights with Wearables and Large Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19283.

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

Director, Community Biotechnology Initiative; Research Scientist

Former Research Assistant

Many digital mental health apps show promising results for stress and anxiety management, but they often fail to keep users engaged. Our pr…

Michael S. Hughes, Ananta Addala, and Bruce Buckingham; guest editors Stephen H. Friend, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Rosalind W. Picard, Jeffrey M. Drazen. "Digital Technology for Diabetes." New England Journal of Medicine 2023; 389:2076-2086. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra2215899

Work by data analysts, demographers, cutting-edge contemporary artists, and designers who use these tools to enliven and humanize statistics

LocationMFA Design Criticism Department, School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21 Street, 2nd Fl., New York, NY DescriptionThis event is free and…

LocationNew York, NY Description

LocationColumbia University, NYC Description Participant(s)/CommitteeAndrés Monroy-Hernández

The field of public health has transformed medicine, yet failed the most vulnerable. This trajectory can be avoided.

The documentary Zero Gravity about the MIT Zero Robotics program, led by Danielle Wood, will be showing at the DOC NYC Film Festival.

Pataranutaporn, Pat. Wearable Lab and BioFab on Body : Towards Closed-Loop Bio-Digital Human Augmentation. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020.

Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionA fundamental challenge for modern society is the development of effective approaches to enhance …

LocationSt. Regis Hotel, San Francisco Description

PotScript: a playful 3D modeling tool that integrates a visual grammar with shaping curves to model forms as parametric functions.

Sano, A., Taylor, S., McHill, A. W., Phillips, A. J. K., Barger, L. K., Klerman, E., and Picard, R., "Identifying objective physiological markers and modifiable behaviors for self-reported stress and mental health status using wearable sensors and Mobile Phones: Observational Study," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2018;20(6):e210

S.S. Intille and A.M. Intille, "New challenges for privacy law: wearable computers that create electronic digital diaries," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, MIT Dept. of Architecture House_n Project Technical Report, 2003.

Fedor, S., Lewis, R., Pedrelli, P., Mischoulon, D., Curtiss, J., & Picard, R. W. (2023). Wearable technology in clinical practice for depressive disorder. New England Journal of Medicine, 389(26), 2457-2466.

J. Wachman, Rosalind W. Picard

Former Graduate Student

Technology for Women’s Health

We believe that tough global health problems require an innovation pipeline. We must bring together the people and providers facing health …

Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes and five other experts talk about emerging health and wellness technologies.

Lab on Body, Synthetic Biology, and Bio-Digital Systems for Health and Human Enhancement

KickSoul is a wearable device that maps natural foot movements into inputs for digital devices. It consists of an insole with embedded sens…