About Us: Lab Facilities
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The mHealth lab is located in a beautiful space on the 3rd floor at 216 Massachusetts Avenue, at the edge of the Northeastern University campus closest to the heart of downtown Boston. The space includes our workspaces and the human-computer interaction lab. We are co-located on the third floor with the research groups of other faculty members working in personal health informatics, AI and data science, network science, computational biology, and algorithmic auditing. Also in our building are groups that work in computational theory, cybersecurity and privacy, the Internet of Things (IoT), and wireless sensing. We are a short walk from Northeastern’s West Village H building, which houses other faculty in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, and Northeastern’s Behrakis building, which is the home base for the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Behrakis and houses the Exercise Science Lab, which our group has made use of in the past, and the Medical Simulation Center.
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Our lab is located in a beautiful building in the center of the image, right in downtown Boston at the edge of the Northeastern campus.
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mHealth and HCI Laboratory
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The mHealth workspace supports the development of mobile health technologies. It is equipped with a suite of mobile phones, smartphones, and wearable sensing electronics. We have facilities and equipment for testing mobile phones and miniature sensors, including electronic shaker equipment, a variety of motion measurement devices (e.g., Actigraphs), tablet computers, and consumer fitness measurement devices (e.g., pedometers, scales). We also have a home-based polysomnography system. In the past we have built and experimented with custom-designed miniature mobile sensors for the body and the home. We have access to a cluster of high-performance workstations useful for conducting applied machine learning experiments.
In our lab space and elsewhere on campus we have access to space for testing human computer interface technologies. These spaces include rooms used for interviewing, observing human subjects, and testing in-home and mobile sensor technologies, as well as additional space for software development computers. |
The 3rd floor mHealth Group lab space at 216 Mass Ave.
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Khoury College Home Lab
The Home Lab apartment (October 2025)
The mHealth group is playing a leading role in developing an on-campus apartment into a fully sensorized home lab. This facility will be used for experiments studying people engaged in home activities in an actual home living space. It will be used to test prototypes of technologies before they are deployed to real homes, and to gather datasets that can be used to drive new research in wearable activity recognition, computer vision, robotics, and human-computer interaction.
Compute Resources
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center has computers used for AI processing by the research group.
The mHealth Research Group maintains dedicated computing resources in our lab, including three workstations each equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU and an Intel Core Ultra processor. These machines support real-time AI applications, model development, and rapid prototyping. For larger-scale work, the group also has access to Northeastern's Explorer cluster, housed at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) in Holyoke.
Explorer provides more than 45,000 CPU cores and 525 GPUs, available free of charge to all Northeastern faculty and students. Its CPUs span a range of Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids, Ice Lake, Cascade Lake, Skylake, Haswell, Sandy Bridge, and Ivy Bridge) and AMD (Zen, Zen 2, Zen 3, and Zen 4) microarchitectures. The cluster also offers a variety of NVIDIA GPUs, including Pascal (P100), Volta (V100), Turing (T4), Ampere (A100, A5000, and A6000), Ada Lovelace (L40), and Hopper (H100 and H200) models.
Explorer provides more than 45,000 CPU cores and 525 GPUs, available free of charge to all Northeastern faculty and students. Its CPUs span a range of Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids, Ice Lake, Cascade Lake, Skylake, Haswell, Sandy Bridge, and Ivy Bridge) and AMD (Zen, Zen 2, Zen 3, and Zen 4) microarchitectures. The cluster also offers a variety of NVIDIA GPUs, including Pascal (P100), Volta (V100), Turing (T4), Ampere (A100, A5000, and A6000), Ada Lovelace (L40), and Hopper (H100 and H200) models.
Exercise Science Laboratory
The Exercise Science Lab has equipment for physical activity and sedentary behavior measurement.
The mHealth group has used the Bouvé Exercise Science Lab to test physical activity sensor systems. This lab has cardiopulmonary function and aerobic assessment equipment, body composition measurement devices, anaerobic power assessment equipment, skeletal muscle strength and endurance analysis equipment, and energy expenditure assessment equipment.
Bouvé Simulation Laboratory
A patient simulator in the Sim Lab.
The mHealth group also has access to the Arnold S. Goldstein Interprofessional Laboratory Suite. The facility consists of a set of transformable labs and debriefing rooms. Each lab can be set up as a variety of practice environments including, hospital rooms, operating rooms, exam rooms, office spaces, conference rooms, home care settings or even a dorm room. Each lab contains video and audio capture technology used to record student experiences as they interact with the latest high-fidelity human patient simulators, patient actors, faculty and other students. Recorded simulation experiences can be played back and analyzed during structured debriefing sessions.
Makerspaces
Northeastern has multiple maker spaces on campus
The mHealth group also has access to Northeastern University's Makerspaces which has woodworking, 3D printing, CNC cutting, laser cutting, textile, electronics, and other miscellaneous machines. There is also a new AI Makerspace.
