System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately
For individuals who communicate using a single switch, a new interface learns how they make selections, and then self-adjusts accordingly.
For individuals who communicate using a single switch, a new interface learns how they make selections, and then self-adjusts accordingly.
New products presented by students at the annual event included a curb-climbing wheelchair attachment and seizure-preventing glasses.
Periodically catching up on sleep can improve gait control for the chronically sleep-deprived.
Researchers find blind and sighted readers have sharply different takes on what content is most useful to include in a chart caption.
Interdisciplinary research center funded by philanthropist Lisa Yang aims to mitigate disability through technologies that marry human physiology with electromechanics.
Advance incorporates sensing directly into an object’s material, with applications for assistive technology and “intelligent” furniture.
Prosthetic enables a wide range of daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, shaking hands, and petting a cat.
Robotic arm equipped with a hairbrush helps with brushing tasks and could be an asset in assistive-care settings.
Jessica Xu, a senior studying mechanical engineering, draws upon her skills as an artist to develop medical devices and assistive technologies.
Pison, founded by Dexter Ang ’05, enables people to control digital interfaces, such as their phones, through brain signals.
Professor David Wallace and his team developed class 2.s009 (Explorations in Product Design) to give students the safest, best possible hands-on educational experience.
Researchers have designed a skin-like device that can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to speak.
For the robotics category in a new series celebrating innovation, the USPS chose the bionic prosthesis designed and built by the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group.
Startup makes meeting data searchable and shareable, and automates data entry into workplace apps.
An MIT team discusses the pitfalls of “parachute research” and the importance of “sociotechnical” factors.