Research

Researchers from Stanford medical school are designing digital interventions to enable well-being for the places we frequent the most - the office, car and home. One of the projects to transform the often stressful commute to a "mindful commute," aims to passively sense stress and recommend personalized digital de-stressors turning the commute into a cool-down or de-stress period.

Balaji Prabhakar, Professor, Electrical Engineering discusses his work on 'nudging' commuters to alter their driving habits by using digital incentives. In this Future of Everything podcast, Russ Altman and Prabhakar discuss how his techniques from a Stanford study and larger project in Singapore to shift commuters to off-peak travel habits could improve commuting across the world.