The BOM: Engineering a Path Forward
Episode 41: Wearables That Matter: How Effective Data and Health Sciences Can Change The World with Rosalind Picard
March 5, 2024 · 31 min
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An MIT scientist who never wanted to start a company built two of them to save lives with wearables.
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In this episode
- How affective computing turns emotional data into medical insight
- Why better measurement tools pushed a researcher into founding companies
- What wearables can realistically do for people with chronic illness
- How AI is being used to make machines respond to human emotion
About this episode
Rosalind Picard is the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Lab at MIT and co-founded both Affectiva and Empatica. Both companies are aimed at using extensive AI and wearable tech to improve the lives of people with chronic illnesses and make robots act a little more human. Ironically enough, she never wanted to start any kind of company but the need for better data and better measurement tools pushed her past the point of research and into the public sphere of engineering consumer products.The views and opinions expressed within this content are solely the speaker's and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of Supplyframe or its affiliates.
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About The BOM: Engineering a Path Forward
The BOM (or “bill of materials”) is a weekly Supplyframe DesignLab Podcast hosted by Head of Design & Partnerships Majenta Strongheart.
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