Please note all press requests are handled by the Media Lab Press Liasion, Alexandra Kahn, via the Lab's Contact Us form or her phone 617-253-0365.

2012

• The Epilepsy Wristband by Christopher Wright, DailyRx, April 28, 2012.


• Wristband Could Predict Severe Epileptic Seizures by Sarah O'Meara, The Huffington Post UK, April 27, 2012.


• Gauging Seizures' Severity by Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office, April 27, 2012.


• Treating Epileptic Seizures in Kids by the Clock by Dawn Fallik The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2012.


• Training computers to recognize emotion by Anna Bressanin and camera by Ilya Shnitser, BBC, April 17, 2012.


• Millward Brown, Affectiva: A new way to test emotional responses to ads, BizCommunity, February 15, 2012.


• At MIT, computers that understand human emotions, by Amy Kraft, SmartPlanet, February 11, 2012.

2011

• MIT Meter Measures the Mood of Passers-By, by Susannah F. Locke, Popular Science, November 10, 2011.


• Specs that see right through you, by Sally Adee, NewScientist, July 5, 2011.


• 2011 Invention Awards: A Mirror That Monitors Vital Signs, by Gregory Mone, Popular Science, May 26, 2011.


• Photo Essay: Furry Robots, Foldable Cars and More Innovations from MIT's Media Lab, PBS Newshour, May 20, 2011.


• Preventing Customers from Getting Stressed Out, by Kristina Grifantini, Technology Review, May 10, 2011.


• Pesquisadora analisa sorriso de usuário ao ver vídeo no YouTube, by Amanda Demetrio, Folha.com, May 8, 2011.


• Smile, MIT! You’re on the Mood Meter, by Laura Stilwell, The Tech Online Edition, May 6, 2011.


• Eye in the Sky: MIT's Mood Meter is Watching You - Smile!, by Gregory Gomer, BostInnovation, April 25, 2011.


• Mood Meter Analyzed Happiness of Passersby, by Morgen E. Peck, Innovation on msnbc.com, April 21, 2011.


• Mood Meter, a creation of MIT Media Lab, measures facial expressions from a public video feed, The Tech Online Edition, April 15, 2011.


• Affective Crowdsourcing, by Rob Morris, crowdresearch.org, April 12, 2011.


• Now computers can sense your emotions, by AFP, Emirates 24/7, April 1, 2011.


• Tech Night at the Pops, MIT Alumni Association and Boston Pops, 1896 to present, Museum.mit.edu, April 2011.


• MIT Spinoff Attempts to Measure Your Emotions, by Mark Hachman, PCMag.com, March 30, 2011.


• Want marketers to measure your emotions? That technology's coming (video), by Dean Takahashi, Venture Beat, March 30, 2011.


• Face Time: New App Reads Facial Responses, Boon To Marketers, by Gavin O'Malley, MediaPost, March 3, 2011.


• Replying to Emails Is More Stressful Than Public Speaking, by David Zax, Fast Company, March 3, 2011.


• Wearable Sensor Reveals what Overwhelms You, by Kristina Grifantini, Technology Review, March 3, 2011.


• Interactive: Analyze your smile with world's first cloud-based technology for reading facial expressions, Forbes.com, March 3, 2011.


• The Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers: Shaundra Daily, NOVA, March 2011.


• Affectiva Wins NSF Award to Enable Facial Expression Recognition Over the Web, Source: PRWEB, Allvoices, January 31, 2011.


• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall..., by David Chandler, Technology Review, January/February 2011.


• Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You, by Steve Lohr, New York Times, January 1, 2011.

2010

• Monitor your heart rate at home via webcam, by Lindsay Patterson, EarthSky, December 16, 2010.


• Longer vimeo movie of Technology for Non-contact, Multi-parameter Physiological measurements: CardioCam.


• Computers that monitor how kids feel, CNN.com, November 15, 2010.


• Rana el Kaliouby '98, '00 is taking the lead in making computers emotionally intelligent, AUCToday, Fall 2010.


• Bracelet may help communication for people with autism, Marketplace, November 9, 2010.


• Sensor Detects Emotions through the Skin, by Kristina Grifantini, Technology Review, October 26, 2010.


• The place where crazy inventors create your future, by Matthew Danzico, BBC News, October 19, 2010.


• New Technology Coaches Autistic Children and Their Caretakers on Emotional Understanding, by Jon Bruner, Forbes, October 15, 2010.


• Your vital signs, on camera: MIT team develops system for continuous medical monitoring using widely available video technology. by David L. Chandler, MIT News, October 4, 2010.


• Tutors Made to Measure, by Maggie Jones, The New York Times, September 16, 2010.


• EmotionML: Will computers tap into your feelings?, by Stephen Shankland, CNET News, August 30, 2010.


• NSF award funds Media Lab researchers work on Autism spectrum disorders, MIT Media Lab, MIT News, August 20, 2010.


• The future is now at MIT Media Lab, by Daniel Terdiman, CNET News, July 23, 2010.


• MIT Faculty Spotlight: Rosalind Picard, by William Manning, MIT Industrial Liaison Program, May 5, 2010.


• MIT Researchers Read Consumers’ Faces to Make a Better Taste Test, by Jennifer Valentino, Wall Street Journal Blogs: Digits, January 19, 2010.

2009

• Emotional robots: Will we love them or hate them?, by Hazel Muir, New Scientist, July 3, 2009.


• How are you feeling today, user?, by David Kidd, Future Living Magazine, Edition 5, Spring Issue 2009, pp. 23, 2009.

2008

• High-tech clues to facial cues, Boston Globe, October 27, 2008.


• Hope on the horizon: Mitigating Autism, MIT news, May 28, 2008.

2006 - 2007

• Wired For Excitement, by Billy Baker, Boston Globe, October 28, 2007.


• Look Out Logan: Software is Soft Wear, by Linda k. Wertheimer, Boston Globe, October 5, 2007.


• Face Reader, PBS Wired Science Video Segment, October 5, 2007.
• Science City for the Cambridge Science Festival Spotlight on G.I.R.L.S. software by WGBH, May 2007.


• Vers La Robotique Affective, by Susan Le Remi, Internet ACTU Article, March 29, 2007.


• Expressive Robot Computers by Celeste Biever, EurekAlert, March 21, 2007.


• Digital Revolutionary, by Keith O'Brien, Boston Globe, February 18, 2007. At last - Affective Computing is finally confused with Effective Computing (in this article about Frank Moss).


• What if your Laptop knew how you felt? by Cristian Lupsa, Christian Science Monitor, December 18, 2006.


• Social-Cue Reader by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times Magazine, 6th Annual Year in Ideas issue, December 10, 2006.


• Feeling Machine Science Update Podcast by Bob Hirshon, July 24, 2006.


• How Interruptions Can Destroy Your Day by Alison Motluk, NewScientist.com, June 28, 2006.


• Help for Autism: A New Device Teaches the Interpretation of Facial Cues by Susan Nasr, Technology Review.


• Best & Brightest 2006: The Future of Driving by Tom Chiarella, Esquire.


• Virtual Companionship by Jeremy Rifkin, The Boston Globe, October 10, 2006. Jeremy Rifkin finds Picard study "amazing" but frets about increasing loneliness.


• Video from MIT Zigzag episode 4.


• Emotional Intelligence: Teaching Machines to Care by Liz Karagianis, MIT Spectrum.


• MIT Group Develops 'Mind-Reading' Device by Candace Lombardi, News.com, April 4, 2006.


• Face Reader Bridges Autism Gap by Eric Smalley, Wired On-line, April 14, 2006.


• Emotion Detectors: MIT's Wearable Devices May Aid Those With Autism by Catherine Elton, Globe Correspondent, The Boston Globe, March 31, 2006.


• Device Warns You if You're Boring or Irritating by Celeste Biever, New Scientist, March 29, 2006. Also picked up at BoingBoing.net, March 29, 2006 and at science.slashdot.org, March 30, 2006.


• 'Smart' Technology Promises Efficiency but Raises Questions by Heather Sells, CBN.com, March 3, 2006.

2003 - 2005

• Virtual Fitness Trainer Gets Pulses racing by Bennett Daviss, New Scientist, December 3, 2005, Magazine issue 2528.


• ILP Edition of MIT Technology Insider, October 2004.


• Entschuldigung vom Drucker, by Hilmar Schmundt, Der Spiegel, 26 April 2004, p. 194.


• Computers with Attitude, Science News for Kids, March 2004.


• New Computers Sense Users' Feelings, Respond by Chelsea Stark, The Daily Texan, February 20, 2004, page 6.


• The Love Machine by David Diamond, WIRED, December 2003, pages 230-235.


• Si Hacemos Los Ordenadores Mas Humanos Se Negaran A Trabajar by Javier Cavanilles, El Mundo, Valencia/Sociedad Julio 2003, pg. 10.


• Entrevista: Rosalind Picard: Experta del MIT en Computacion Afectiva by Alejandro Sacristan, Muy Interesante, No. 266, Julio 2003, pages 137-138.

2001-2002

• Accident Free Driving: A Change of Perspectives, DaimlerChrysler HighTech Report, Edition 2/2002, pages 46-51.


• Self Portraits of the Future, Emotion and the Computer by Noriko Takiguchi, Axis, Volume 99, September/October 2002, pages 111-113.


• How MIT Won Me Over by June Wakefield, ZDNet (UK), June 26, 2001.


• Customer empathy Infoconomist, May 9, 2002.


• A Human Touch for Machines by Charles Piller, LA Times, May 7, 2002.


• Looking Alive by Thomas Hine, The Atlantic, November 2001.


• At MIT Lab, Emotions Do Compute by Ellen Gamerman,The Baltimore Sun, August 22, 2001, page 1.


• Sensual Computing, PC PRO, Futures, May 1, 2001.


• E-Learners Should Rule by Tamara Hosansky, Medical Meetings, April 1, 2001.


• Making Sense: Robot Research Eyes Emotion by Gareth Cook,The Boston Globe, City & Region, April 30, 2001.


• Getting to Know You by Carolyn Marshall, Business 2.0, March 20, 2001.


• Wearable Computers, PC Upgrade, March 1, 2001.

2000

• Getting the Picture: How A Cybernetic Camera Triggered by the Subconscious Could Tackle Image Overload by Don Lake, Advanced Imaging, November, 2000.


• Wearable Computers by William Van Winkle, Laptop, Science & Technology, October 1, 2000, pages 130- 136.


• The IBTE Conversation: Computers That "Feel Your Pain" with Rosalind Picard by Albert M. Erisman and David W. Gill, Bulletin of the Institute for Business, Technology & Ethics, Issue 13, October 2000, pages 4-9.


• The Media Lab at a Crossroads by David H. Freedman, Technology Review September/October, 2000, pages 71-83.


• Warm and Fuzzy Logic by Peter Kupfer,Metropolis, July 2000, pages 100-105, 134.


• Citiace Pocitace", Pravda, Techn. Spektrum, June 29, 2000.


• Putting a Smiley Face on the Computer by Grant Buckler,Computer Dealer News, June 2, 2000.


• La Moda Chip by Gian Emilio Mazzoleni,Carnet, June 1, 2000, pages 64-66 and September 1, 2000 (Milan).


• Smart Envrironments, The MIT Report, March, 2000, pages 1-4.


• PC, Gefuhlsecht, General-Anzeiger, April 2000.


• Computer Sollen Sensibel Werden, Neue Westfalische and Haller Kreisblatt, April, 2000.


• Computer Sollen in Zukunft Sensibler Werden,Oberhessische Zeitung and Kreis-Anzeiger fur Wetterau und Vogelsberg, April, 2000.


• Wie Sage Ich Es Meinem Computer?, Freiberger Nachrichten, April 14, 2000, page 8. Also in Grenchner Tagblatt , March 22, 2000, page 25;Langenthaler Tagblatt, March 22, 2000, page 25 and Berner Rundschau, March, 22, 2000, page 25.


• Modern PCs: Infinite Potential, As Always by Jim Rue, Computer Service & Repair, March/April, 2000.


• Le Cybermonde Au Quotidien by Bruno D. Cot, L'Express, February, 10, 2000, page 97.


• Before Long, The Desktop Could Know How You Feel by Ian Austen,International Herald Tribune, New York, Jan. 10, 2000.


• Soon: Computers That Know You Hate Them by Ian Austen, The New York Times,, Circuits, January 6, 2000, pages E1, E7-E8.


• Den Cursor mit Blinken Lenken, Desiree Karge and Harald Fette, CHIP, December 1999, pages 288-293.

1999

• Affective Computing and SENS*BLES, Weekly Toyo Keizai (in Japanese), December 11, 1999, pages 30-32.


• The Feeling Machines: Would You Want Your PC to Respond to your Emotions? Affective Computers Can do Just That &#;151 and much more by James Geary, Time, October 11, 1999, pages 14-16.


• El Paradigma Nord-America, Tecno 2000, Dona I Ciencia, Revisita D'Innovacio A L' Empresa, Setembre/Octubre, 1999. page 6.


• El Paradigma Nordamericano, Tecno 2000, Mujer Y Cienca, Revisita De Innovacion En La Empresa, Setiembre/Octubre, 1999. page 4.


• Computers May Ease Life's Vexations by Tom Stein, San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 1999.


• Software, Hardware And Ready-to-Wear by Linton Weeks, Washington Post, June 18, 1999.


• Computers Will Be More Human by Michael J. Miller, PC Magazine, June 22, 1999, page 113.


• Edinburgh Festival Announcement, Computing (London), March 25, 1999.


• IBM Research Director Focuses on Future of Computing by Janet Rae-Dupree, Troy (NY) Record, January 25, 1999.


• Interface-Off by Matt Steinglass, Metropolis, June 1999, pages 118-126.


• I Know How You Feel by Clive Davidson, New Scientist, May 8, 1999, pages 26-31.


• Ausgerechnet Wir by Christian Buck, Konrad, pages 22-28.


• Se Il Computer Ha l’arteriosclerosi by Gualtiero Peirce, La Repubbica, page 39.


• On Your Wavelength by Hester Lacey, The Independent On Sunday, May 26,1999.


• Miss Rosalind et Son Ordinateur by Jean-Luc Andrei, Vogue, February 1999.

1998

• A Motherboard's Love by Emily Esterson, Inc. , September 15, 1998, No. 3, page 31.


• Mood Music by Christopher Miller, Popular Science, October 1998, page 45.


• MIT's PC breakthrough by Margaret Kane, ZDNet News, July 26, 1998.


• These Computers Know you Don't Like Them by Margaret Kane, ZDNet News, July 22,1998.


• Computer With A Heart Is Goal, Designer Says, Washington Times, February 17, 1998.


• A HAL Of A Way To Take The Chip Off Marvin's Cold Shoulder by Tony Durham, The Times Higher, March 13, 1998, page 111.


• Soft-hearted Hardware On The Way by Oliver Burkeman, The Independent Network, December 14, 1998.


• Collected Works by Wendy Grossman, New Scientist, January 17, 1999, page 47.


• Getting to Know You: Should Computers Have Emotions? by Lee Ridgway, MIT I/S, Volume 13, No. 4, March/April 1998, pages 1-2.


• Computers with Emotions by Jeffrey H. Epstein, The Futurist, April 1998, page 12.


• PostScript Meets Pasta: MIT - Lab Full of High-Tech Toys by Jamie Beckett, San Francisco Chronicle, Friday, October 9, 1998.


• Wear Do PCs Go From Here? by Douglas Gantenbein, Home Office Computing, November 1998.


• Computer Mit Gefulhlen by Karlhorst Klotz, CHIP, July 7, 1998, page 216.


• In the Labs, Wearable Computers Are Becoming a Reality by Michel Marriott, The New York Times, July 23, 1998.


• Boost Your PC's Emotional IQ by staff writer, Time Digital, September 7, 1998.


• L'ordinateur Affectif (The Emotional Computer) by Roman Ikonicoff, Science & Vie, Number 971, August 1998, pages 120-121.


• Music and Graphics in Harmony by Donna Coco, Computer Graphics World, 1998.


• Computer Emozionante by Simona Vigna, Il Mondo, Number 33/34, August 1998, pages 80-82.


• Digital Culture, Atlantic Unbound, April 29, 1998.


• FM Interviews: Rosalind Picard",, First Monday, April 1998.


• Music and Graphics in Harmony by Donna Coco, Computer Graphics World, August 1998, pages 20-21.


• The Body's Musical Rhythms by Julie Flaherty, New York Times, Circuits, June 11, 1998, page E4.


• Lockhart Suits Up by Beth Carney and Maureen Dezell, The Boston Globe, June 4, 1998.

1996-1997

• Emotionale Aufrüstung (Emotional Upgrade) by Christian Webber, Focus, Number 40, 1997, pages 246-248.


• Socrates At The Terminal: Emotion's Neglected Role In High-Tech Education by Norman Weinstein, Educom Review, November/December 1997, pages 52-55.


• Frontiers in Cyberspace: Agents and Emissaries by John Adams, Webs, Wires & Waves, New York Times Ad Supplement, April 20, 1997.


• Beyond the Internet Generation 2 by John Adams, NSF feature in Discover, May 1997.


• Research Shows Computers Can Be Murder by Peter Coffee, PC Week, December 29, 1997.


• These Computers Were Made For Wearing by Lori Valigra, The Christian Science Monitor, December 18, 1997, pages 10-11.


• Laugh and Your Computer Will Laugh With You, Someday by Daniel Goleman, The New York Times, January 7, 1997, pages C1, C9.


• You're Wrong, Mr. Spock by David Concar, New Scientist Supplement, April 26, 1996, pages 4-7.


• Negroponte: Affective Computing by Nicholas Negroponte with Rosalind W. Picard, WIRED, April 1996, page 184.


• Aqui se Fabrica O Futuro by Heitor Shimizu and Ricardo Setti, Super Interessante, March 1996, pages 50-51.