From: The Boston Globe
Eyeing college stress, sleep patterns
November 19, 2015
The Boston Globe:
MIT professor Rosalind Picard is worried about campus stress.
After a handful of suicides in recent years, Picard started thinking about how her own work might be able to help change MIT’s emotional climate. The founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the university’s Media Lab, Picard has long tried to turn emotions into something that can be counted and measured — following the “old engineering principle that for something to be controllable, it has to be observable.”
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