Quality of Life Technology Center a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center Individual Needs & Feedback Community Products Society Home & Community QoLTbots Safe Driving Virtual Coach Health & Wellness Industry/ Practitioner Collaboration Testbed System s & Spin-off Company Creation Requirements Technologies & Insights VibeAttire Basic Research Mobility & Perception & Person & Society Human-System Education, Outreach Manipulation Awareness Interaction & Diversity Enhancement “Creating intelligent systems that enable older adults and people with disabilities to live more independently”
Societal Needs for QoLT Demographic Health • Incidence and severity of debilitating • 60 million Americans have some form of disability (including 7 million children) diseases increase dramatically with age • By 2030, • Strong evidence that caregivers themselves have poorer health o one in two working adults will be an informal caregiver Economic o 20% of Americans will be an older • 1-month delay in nursing home adult (70 million people) admissions could save $1.12 B annually. • Nursing home costs increase ~10% / year. • ~65% of people with disabilities are unemployed (~14M aged 16-64). • Over 40 million informal caregivers in the US provide >$300B in “free” services. • In 2009, Federal and state governments spent $79B on nursing home care.
QoLT Systems: Functionalities and Target Populations Sample systems Key Functionalities Targeted Populations (size) Target Industry Navigation for people with visual retrieve signage information Retail, Electronic public buildings impairments (>3M) medical record, Virtual Coach Infotech, Exercise provide appropriate guidance, Medical device people with Mild Cognitive equipment, Memory & reasoning support feedback and reinforcement usage coach Impairment (>6M) Healthcare communicate with clinicians wherever a person goes and equipment, whatever he or she does survivors of stroke (2.5M) Assistive living, Personal recognize correct movements people with knee Nursing institution exercise coach track performance osteoarthritis (20M) Home & Community recognize kitchen activities people with TBI (5.3M) Cueing Kitchen provide cues for actions people with MCI (>6M) Health and Wellness Appliance, Home security, Consumer Perceptive environments a electronics older adults living alone (4M) measure and record vital signs support a person’s physical, Health Kiosk allow interaction with clinicians mental and emotional state manipulate objects on behalf of the wheelchair users with Personal Mobility user dexterity impairment (0.2M) & Manipulation QoLTbots assist with transfers between Appliance all wheelchair users (2M) Assistive chairs, beds, toilets, etc. Personal robots that assist technology with ADLs and IADLs retrieve and place objects people with mobility Home Exploring prepare meals impairments (10M) Robot Butler do household chores frail elderly ( 4M) continually assess a person’s DriveCap Safe Driving capability to drive a vehicle drivers with vision (>3M) or Automotive hearing impairments (24M) Ways to make driving safer provide route instructions tailored industries, people with Mild Cognitive for older adults and people DriveCap to user’s driving capability and Infotech Impairment (>6M) Navigator prevailing road/environmental with disabilities conditions
Leverage autonomous vehicles physical medicine & rehabilitation robotics assistive technology Quality of Life Technology geriatrics & gerontology computer vision occupational / vocational human- rehab computer interaction
Sample projects PerMMA First Person Vision Seating Coach Virtual Valet
Technologists, clinicians, sociologists collaborating by data collection method by functional status concerns about technology invading privacy vs. the nursing home alternative by data recipient
• $1.5M translational research supplement from NSF • 8 spin-off companies in three years • Consumer Electronics Show presence (got the attention of Aneesh Chopra) • influence on Carnegie Mellon’s innovation ecosystem
Realizing the Vision Conduct transformative research to enhance body and mind functions person-robot symbiosis human-aware computing Build QoLT Respond to industrial base societal needs influence established industry giants enable and facilitate (e.g., self-parking Nissan Pivo) home healthcare put QoLT products humanely and ethically in the mainstream apply technology to people (e.g., First Person Vision) Produce future QoLT researchers & practitioners engineers who understand aging and rehabilitation clinicians who understand robotics and computer science
Recommend
More recommend
