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Quality of Life Technology Center

a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center

Home & Community Health & Wellness QoLTbots Virtual Coach Safe Driving Mobility & Manipulation Perception & Awareness Person & Society Human-System Interaction

Testbed System s Basic Research

Requirements Technologies & Insights

Individual

Community

Society

Products Needs & Feedback Industry/ Practitioner Collaboration & Spin-off Company Creation

VibeAttire

Education, Outreach & Diversity Enhancement “Creating intelligent systems that enable older adults and people with disabilities to live more independently”

Societal Needs for QoLT

Demographic

• 60 million Americans have some form of

disability (including 7 million children)

• By 2030,
• one in two working adults

will be an informal caregiver

• 20% of Americans will be an older

adult (70 million people)

Health

• Incidence and severity of debilitating

diseases increase dramatically with age

• Strong evidence that caregivers

themselves have poorer health

Economic

• 1-month delay in nursing home

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

Virtual Coach

Memory & reasoning support wherever a person goes and whatever he or she does

Navigation for public buildings retrieve signage information people with visual impairments (>3M) Retail, Electronic medical record, Infotech, Exercise equipment, Healthcare equipment, Assistive living, Nursing institution Medical device usage coach provide appropriate guidance, feedback and reinforcement communicate with clinicians people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (>6M) Personal exercise coach recognize correct movements track performance survivors of stroke (2.5M) people with knee

• steoarthritis (20M)

Home & Community Health and Wellness

Perceptive environments a support a person’s physical, mental and emotional state

Cueing Kitchen recognize kitchen activities provide cues for actions people with TBI (5.3M) people with MCI (>6M) Appliance, Home security, Consumer electronics Health Kiosk measure and record vital signs allow interaction with clinicians

• lder adults living alone (4M)

QoLTbots

Personal robots that assist with ADLs and IADLs

Personal Mobility & Manipulation Appliance manipulate objects on behalf of the user wheelchair users with dexterity impairment (0.2M) Assistive technology assist with transfers between chairs, beds, toilets, etc. all wheelchair users (2M) Home Exploring Robot Butler retrieve and place objects prepare meals do household chores people with mobility impairments (10M) frail elderly ( 4M)

Safe Driving

Ways to make driving safer for older adults and people with disabilities

DriveCap continually assess a person’s capability to drive a vehicle drivers with vision (>3M) or hearing impairments (24M) people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (>6M) Automotive industries, Infotech DriveCap Navigator provide route instructions tailored to user’s driving capability and prevailing road/environmental conditions

Leverage

Quality of Life Technology

robotics autonomous vehicles computer vision human- computer interaction physical medicine & rehabilitation assistive technology

• ccupational /

vocational rehab geriatrics & gerontology

Sample projects

First Person Vision PerMMA Virtual Valet Seating Coach

Technologists, clinicians, sociologists collaborating

by data collection method by data recipient by functional status

• vs. the nursing home alternative

concerns about technology invading privacy

• $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

Produce future QoLT researchers & practitioners engineers who understand aging and rehabilitation clinicians who understand robotics and computer science Build QoLT industrial base influence established industry giants (e.g., self-parking Nissan Pivo) put QoLT products in the mainstream (e.g., First Person Vision) Respond to societal needs enable and facilitate home healthcare humanely and ethically apply technology to people Conduct transformative research to enhance body and mind functions person-robot symbiosis human-aware computing