Jocelyn Scheirer

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Jocelyn Scheirer
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Scheirer in 2022
Born (1967-12-06) December 6, 1967 (age 57)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Alma mater Tufts University (B.A.
Brandeis University (M.A.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D Candidate)
MIT Media Lab
Scientific career
Fields Affective Computing
Wearables
Institutions MIT Media Lab, Ronin Institute
Website www.bionolux.com

Jocelyn Scheirer is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and artist who works in wearable technology and affective computing.

Education and published works

Scheirer graduated from Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts in 1985. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English Literature from Tufts University in 1989. She then received a master's degree from Brandeis University, focusing on Developmental and Social Psychology, graduating in 1996. Scheirer was a PhD candidate in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (all but dissertation) from 1996 to 2001. [1]

Career

Scheirer worked as a research technician under Arthur S. Tischler in the endocrine pathology lab at Tufts University School of Medicine from 1991 to 1994. [2]

She worked as a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing Group. [1] She worked on affective objects, or physical objects that can record emotional data from a given subject and relay that information to that subject or to observers in a given environment. [3] [4] She published several studies on the topic with Rosalind Picard, the founder of the Affective Computing Research Group. [5]

Scheirer briefly worked as a consultant for Sherry Turkle in the Science, technology, and society department at MIT. conducting ethnographic research for Turkle's book Alone Together from 2000 to 2001. [6]

Emphathyx

In 2006, Scheirer founded her first MIT Media Lab spinout Empathyx, Inc. where she attempted to commercialize the Galvactivator. [1] [7]

Affective

Scheirer co-founded the emotional analytics company Affectiva in 2009, and was their director of operations until 2010. [1]

In 2009, Affectiva licensed the Galvactivator from MIT. Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard would continue to utilize the patent over the next 3 years, developing their own skin conductance sensor called the Q Sensor which also used some of the technology from the MIT Media Lab's iCalm, another wearable physiological monitoring device. [8] [9] [10] Affectiva used the Q Sensor in addition to their facial recognition software to measure physiological stress and excitement in focus groups. Affectiva discontinued their use of the "Q Sensor" in 2013 to focus their attention exclusively on their patented Affdex facial recognition software. [11]

Boards

She was elected to sit on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City in September 2015. [12] She is also a research scholar at the Ronin Institute. [13]

Art

Scheirer has also created several visual and performance art pieces that have been featured in several galleries in Massachusetts. [14] [15] [16] Most recently, Scheirer created her abstract Glyph series which includes acrylic paintings like "Red Nuns" (2023). [17]

Patents

"Sensing and Display of Skin Conductivity.” U.S. Patent 6415176. Issued July 2, 2002. (Jocelyn Scheirer, Rosalind Picard, Nancy Tilbury, and Jonathan Farringdon) [18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kirsner, Scott (August 31, 2009). "MIT's Legendary Media Lab Spawns Two New Companies". Boston.com. 2015 Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Internet of Things and Social Wearables By @JCSMedia @ThingsExpo [#IoT]: Speaker Bio". Internet of Things Expo 2015. SYS-CON Media Inc. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ Scheirer, Jocelyn; Picard, Rosalind (2000). Affective Objects (PDF) (Technical report). MIT Media Laboratory Perceptual Computing Section. 524.
  4. ↑ "MIT Media Lab Alumni". MIT Media Lab Affective Computing Group. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  5. ↑ Higginbotham, Adam. "Welcome to Rosalind Picard's touchy-feely world of empathic tech". Wired UK. Condé Nast Digital. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ Turkle, Sherry (2011). Alone Together (PDF) (1st ed.). Basic Books. p. 10. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Spin-offs". MIT Media Lab. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. April 30, 2005. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ "The CIMIT Exploratorium 2009" (PDF). cimit.org/. Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Q Sensor User Manual". Affectiva.com. Affectiva. May 15, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ Campbell-Dollaghan, Kelsey (November 19, 2014). "How a Medical Stress Sensor Evolved Into a Beautiful Wearable For All". Gizmodo. Gawker Media Network. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  11. ↑ Comstock, Jonah (May 17, 2013). "Mobile epilepsy sensors: student-led, stopped, or stalled". MobiHealthNews. Chester Street Publishing, Inc. Retrieved April 14, 2015./
  12. ↑ "About Us". MITEFNYC.org. MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Research Scholar profile". Ronin Institute. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  14. ↑ "Media Lab Conductor Jacket". MIT Museum 150 Exhibition. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Artists selected for 'NE Collective IV' Juried Show". Galatea Fine Art. Open Publishing. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Events by Organization and Artist (1999 Archives)". Boston Cyber Arts Festival. Open Publishing. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Red Nuns Painting by Jocelyn Scheirer". Saatchi Art. Retrieved January 30, 2025.
  18. ↑ US patent 6415176, "Sensing and Display of Skin Conductivity", Scheirer, J, Picard, R.W., Tilbury, N., & Farringdon, J. U.S. Patent 6415176. Issued July 2, 2002.
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