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My research is at the intersection of psychology and computer science. I am designing hardware and algorithms for sensing human behavior at scale in order to build technologies that make life better. Applications of human sensing I am developing include: understanding mental health, improving online learning, designing new connected devices (IoT) and mixed reality experiences.

Seattle, WA

djmcduff@media.mit.edu
twitter: @danmcduff
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Daniel is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond and a visiting scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Previously, he was Director of Research at MIT Media Lab Spin-Out Affectiva. Daniel McDuff received his Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab while working in the Affective Computing group. He received his bachelor's degree, with first-class honors, and master's degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge. The technology Daniel has helped develop is being commercialized by a number of companies including start-ups: Affectiva and Cardiio. His work has been reported in many publications:

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Talks:
2017
19 Apr:   SPIE Yoko., Tokyo
20 Mar:   MS Edu., Toronto
14 Mar:   Adobe, WA
07 Mar:   UCSF, CA
14 Jan:   Uni. Wash., WA

Videos:
TEDx
WIRED
UW Seminar
DL Summit

Research and Publications

My research covers a range of topics from machine learning to augmented reality:

AI Sensing Interfaces/AR/VR Psychology Health

AI

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Deep Faces
Deep Learning Applied to Emotion Recognition
Smiles-in-the-wild
Video Liking Prediction
Automatic Prediction of Liking Video Ads
pdf
BEST PAPER AWARD - IEEE FG
thesis_paper
Purchase Prediction
How Do Emotions Predict Sales of Products
pdf
Affect Mirror
AM-FED Dataset
Largest Naturalistic Dataset of Faces Collected Over the Internet
dataset ·  pdf
ESOMAR
Fast Facaial Expression Detection
Active Learning and an Efficient Kernel Approximation
pdf
FG2015_b
Group Sparsity for AU Detection
Leveraging Co-occurrence and Sparsity in Facial Expressions
pdf
Election
Predicting Voters' Preferences
Measuring Emotions During the 2012 Presidential Debates
pdf


Sensing

CardioCam
CardioCam
Non-contact Physiological Measurement
pdf one ·  pdf two ·  video
CIMIT AWARD FOR HEALTHCARE
Medical Mirror
The Medical Mirror/Inside-Out
Non-contact Health Monitoring
pdf one ·  pdf two
WINNER OLYMPUS/MIT HACKATHON
CardioCam
Multi-Spectral Imaging
Trans. on Biomedical Engineering
pdf
CardioCam
COGCAM
Dectecting Cognitive Load with a Camera
pdf one ·  pdf two
CHI HONORABLE MENTION
BioWatch
BioWatch
Phys. measurement through a smartwatch
pdf
BEST PAPER AWARD - PH
BioInsights
BioInsights
Extracting Personal Data from "Still" Wearable Motion Sensors
pdf
BEST PAPER AWARD - BSN
BioWatch
BioPhone
Phys. measurement through a smartphone
pdf
BEST PAPER AWARD - EMBC

Interfaces

AffectAura
AffectAura
An Intelligent System for Emotional Memory
pdf
AutoEmotive
AutoEmotive
Emotional Interfaces for Automobiles
webpage
WINNER MIT/VW/IDEO HACKATHON
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CardioLens
Reveal "Hidden" Vital Signs
pdf ·  video

Psychology

BioWatch
Cultural Differences in Expression
World's First Large-scale Study of Behavior
pdf
BioWatch
Sex Differences in Expression
Valence Analysis in An Everyday Setting
pdf

Health + mHealth

PAD
VISION
Low-Cost Vascular Disease Screening (Co-Founder)
pdf
Smiley
Scribble Therapy
Scalable Internet Drawing Therapy
PAD
POCKETSKILLS
Mobile DBT Application
AutoEmotive
Suicide Risk Assessment
Using Facial Reactions to Stimuli to Assess Risk
AutoEmotive
time_and_space
Crisis Textline DataViz
Webpage
CONTEST PRIZE WINNER


Other projects:

Know Your Exit
Know Your Exit
Crowdsourced Music Project
site
SXSW AWARD NOMINEE 2012
Thumbs Down
Pavlov Poke
A Shocking Solution to Facebook Addiction
website
SXSW AWARD WINNER 2014