Principal Investigator Rosalind Picard
While building wearables to measure emotional stress, we learned that deep brain activation during seizures could show up as a change in electrical signals measured on the wrist. This unexpected finding led us to develop a wristband, “Embrace” that today is worn to alert to neurological events that might be potentially life-threatening. This talk will tell the story of Empatica’s development of a product that wins design prizes for its appearance, looks like a cool consumer timepiece, and yet is collecting clinical quality data and running analytics based on sophisticated machine learning to advance personalized health.
Rosalind Picard Director, Affective Computing Group MIT Media Lab