Jocelyn Scheirer is an American entrepreneur, scientist, and artist who has been working in wearable technology since the late 1990s.
19 Facts About Jocelyn Scheirer
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Jocelyn Scheirer's research focuses on Affective Computing, which she pursued while pursuing her PhD at MIT Media's Lab Affective Computing Group with Rosalind Picard.
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Jocelyn Scheirer founded the intercommunication equipment and systems company Empathyx, Inc in 2006 and co-founded the emotional analytics company Affectiva in 2009, serving as their director of operations until 2010.
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Jocelyn Scheirer has created several visual and performance art pieces that have been featured in several galleries in Massachusetts including the MIT Museum, the Galatea Fine Art Gallery, and the Bromfield Gallery.
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Jocelyn Scheirer currently serves as CEO of the wearable company Bionolux Labs, LLC.
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Jocelyn Scheirer graduated from Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts in 1985.
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Jocelyn Scheirer obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and English Literature from Tufts University in 1989.
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Jocelyn Scheirer then went on to earn her master's degree from Brandeis University, focusing on Developmental and Social Psychology, graduating in 1996.
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Jocelyn Scheirer later pursued a PhD in media arts and sciences while working as a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing Group from 1996 to 2001.
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Shortly after graduating from Tufts University, 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.
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Jocelyn Scheirer co-authored several works with Tischler concerning chromaffin cell proliferation in rats and humans.
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Two years later, Jocelyn Scheirer joined the MIT Media Lab as a research assistant in the Affective Computing Research Group and began developing 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.
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Jocelyn Scheirer published several studies on the topic with Rosalind Picard, the founder of the Affective Computing Research Group.
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Jocelyn Scheirer would continue to prototype the Galvactivator device in her future companies Empathyx, Inc and Bionolux, LLC Affectiva licensed the patent in 2009.
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Jocelyn Scheirer briefly worked as a consultant for Sherry Turkle in the Science, technology, and society department at MIT.
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In 2006, Jocelyn Scheirer founded her first MIT Media Lab spinout Empathyx, Inc where she attempted to commercialize the Galvactivator.
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Jocelyn Scheirer founded the wearables research and development company Bionolux Labs, LLC in May 2014 and currently serves as CEO.
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Jocelyn Scheirer was elected to sit on the board of the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City in September 2015.
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Jocelyn Scheirer is a Research Scholar at the Ronin Institute.