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Description
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Thrust or QoLT Systems
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| Active Home |
The primary goal of this project is to develop a robotic assistant for household tasks involving manipulation. |
AH |
| Balance & Tripping |
The aim in this project is to understand the postural strategies used in trips and the biomechanical factors that cause trips-precipitated falls. |
MoMAT |
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We are creating a coach that provides cognitive support to elders with episodic memory impairment.
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VC
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| Computer Access Coach |
This project is a virtual coach. The goal is to to demonstrate a computer dynamically adjusting to changes in human ability. |
HSIT |
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The overall goal of this project is to develop the prototype of a brain-computer interface (BCI) system based on electrocorticography (ECoG) and test its feasibility on patients with severe motor disabilities through the collective effort of investigators across multiple institutions, such as University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Washington University in St. Louis and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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HSIT
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The DriveCap project seeks to extend the reach of driver rehabilitation specialists and collect driver capability metrics utilizing low cost sensor technologies.
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SD
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This system is a special case of DriveCap that solely focuses on transforming traditional safety agnostic and somewhat uniform in-vehicle navigation approaches into a something that directly supports safer driving at a personalized level.
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SD
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eWatch for Wheelchair Users
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This project addresses the creation of a virtual coach for manual wheelchair users. |
VC |
| Grand Challenge |
The goal of this project is to collect a large dataset of daily activities, such as cooking, and to make the dataset freely available on the web for experiments in activity recognition and monitoring.
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PAT |
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This project influences engineering design by facilitating dialog between engineers and stakeholders. |
PST
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The long-term objective is to be able to learn predictive models of activities from training sensor data which can be used to predict actions and behaviors based on live data.
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PAT
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The project is developing a sound understanding of stakeholders' views, attitudes and beliefs about QoLT technologies so that implementation and utilization of these cost-effective health assessment and monitoring tools will be fully realized.
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PST
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This project aims to understand how people conceptualize and use everyday technologies as a foundation for informing new technologies.
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PST
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| Natural Environment Testbeds |
Developing QoLT successfully requires that we have access to a wide range of community settings where these technologies can be evaluated and tested. |
TbInteg
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PerMMA combines manipulation and mobility assistance with perception and decision making wherever a person goes.
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PerMMA
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This project generates prediction from sensor data and identifies intent for virtual coaches.
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HSIT
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Privacy Project
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This project explores various dimensions of privacy in the QoLT context with the ultimate goal of informing design of Center technologies to minimize potential privacy concerns.
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PST
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The goal of this project is to create computer software that is able to automatically detect when a user is having difficulty using a computer and automatically deploy software to assist them.
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HSIT
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We are creating a coach that provides reminders, trend information, and just-in-time feedback about daily activity.
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VC
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This project serves as a foundation for developing a framework of how people view their own ability to learn to use new QoLT products as they grow in experience. Our focus is on the factors that influence the adoption and usage of new products. This project concluded in May 2008.
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PST
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Techniques and languages appropriate for clinicians and care givers to instruct the coaches on the desired behaviors and activities for the person to be coached.
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PAT
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QoLT Mine captures, documents, combines and analyzes the relevant research and published literature on all aspects of the QoLT initiative.
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PST
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QoLT In-situ Implementation
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This project addresses and fine-tunes system/user fit issues, establishes an evidence base that can inform policy makers, and carries out cost-benefit analysis needed to develop business plans for these technologies.
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PST
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The goal of the project is to develop the techniques necessary for understanding the user's environment based on sensor data.
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PAT
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We are researching sensing and recognition of seated postures and determining physical location and context using wheelchair mounted sensors and machine learning.
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VC
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The goal of the project is to develop new approaches to sensing, such as "inside-out" vision in which the system experiences the environment and the user's behavior from the user's point of view.
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PAT
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The goal of this project is to develop ways for robots to physically interact safely with humans.
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MoMAT
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This project develops guidelines for user engagement coaches that provide reminders and notification in manners that best support users.
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HSIT
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Vehicle Transformation
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This project's goal is to conduct basic research that enables safer driving through key design and vehicle control improvements.
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SD |
