AGING WELL

The focus of this consortium is home environments to support the older adult with personal health management tools and systems. The work of this team is dedicated to developing assisted living health management technologies that will enable the elderly to remain in their homes. Projects focus on devices and infrastructure that are integrated, networked, easy to use, and ensure privacy. Current projects include:

Personal Medical Advisor System. An intelligent system that provides a completely natural conversational interface for asking questions, for medication management and for receiving personal health information. The conversational interface will interpret the user's intention, query for confirmation, and search out the answers to questions they pose.

View video about the Smart Medical Advisor

Motion/Activity Monitoring. Devices and systems that can inform individuals with chronic health conditions about the effectiveness of their fitness programs. They can also provide early warning of the possible onset of a wide range of common neurological and musculoskeletal disorders such as stroke, Parkinson's disease and arthritis.

View video about the Gait Analysis project

Memory Assistance Aids. Inventing memory aids for individuals with moderate memory loss due to early dementia--with the eventual goal of developing smart memory prostheses.

View video about the Memory Assistance project

Leader: James Allen, Ph.D. Medical Advisor: Dr. William J Hall, MD, Chief of UR General Medicine and Geriatrics Unit and Director of UR Geriatrics Program Team: Michel Berg, MD George Ferguson, Ph.D. Wendi Heinzelman Ph.D. Amy Murphy, Ph.D. Randal Nelson, Ph.D. Alex Pentland, Ph.D. Murat Tekalp, Ph.D.

Publications about Center Research
S. L. Dockstader and A. M. Tekalp, "Kinematic Modeling and Feature Extraction for Gait Analysis," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 2001.

S. L. Dockstader and A. M. Tekalp, "Multiple Camera Tracking of Interacting and Occluded Human Motion," Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 89, no. 10, pp. 1441-1455, October 2001.
http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~dockstad/documents/procieee01.pdf

S. L. Dockstader and A. M. Tekalp, "On the Tracking of Articulated and Occluded Video Object Motion," Real-Time Imaging, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 415-432, October 2001.
http://www.ece.rochester.edu/~dockstad/documents/rti00.pdf

A. Murphy, G. P. Picco, and G. C. Roman, "Lime: A Middleware for Physical and Logical Mobility," Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systesm, Phoenix, AZ (USA), pp. 524-533, April 2001

A. Murphy, and W. Heinzelman, "MILAN: Middleware Linking Applications and Networks," University of Rochester Department of Computer Science Technical Report #795, 2002;

R. C. Nelson and I. A. Green, "Using Object Recognition for Tracking" University of Rochester Computer Science Technical Report #765, Feburary 2002.

Perillo, M. and Heinzelman, W., "Providing Application QoS Through Intelligent Sensor Management," submitted to 2003 First IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA).

Relevant Publications by Center Researchers
J. Allen, and G. Ferguson (1996). "Actions and Events in interval Temporal Logic." In O. Stock (Ed.), Spatial and Temporal Reasoning.

J. Allen and C. R. Perrault, "Analyzing Intention in Utterances", Artificial Intelligence 15, 3, 1980.

J. Allen, G. Ferguson, A. and Stent, (2001). "An Architecture for More Realistic Conversational Systems." Paper presented at the Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-01), Santa Fe, NM.

J. Allen, J. Tenenberg, R. Pelavin, & H. Kautz, (1991). "Formal Models of Reasoning About Plans." Morgan Kaufmann.

J. Allen, N. Blaylock, & G .Ferguson, (2002). "A Problem Solving Model for Collaborative Agents." Paper presented at the 1st Int'l. Joint Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-02), Bologna, Italy.

J. F. Allen, Donna K. Byron, Myroslava Dzikovska, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Amanda Stent. (2001). "Towards Conversational Human-Computer Interaction." AI Magazine, 22(4), 27-35.

J. F. Allen,, L. K. Schubert, G. Ferguson, P. Heeman, C. H. Hwang, T. Kato, M. Light, N. Martin, B. Miller, M. Poesio, D. R. and Traum, (1995). "The TRAINS project: a case study in building a conversational planning agent." Journal of Experimental Theories in Artificial Intelligence, 7, 7-48.

G. Ferguson, and J. Allen, (1998) "TRIPS: An Integrated Intelligent Problem-Solving Assistant", Proc. National Conference on AI, (AAAI-98), Madison, WI.

D. Litman, and J. Allen, (1990). "Discourse Processing and Commonsense Plans." Cambridge, MA: Bradford Books (MIT Press).

A. Selinger and R. C. Nelson, 2001. "Appearance-Based Object Recognition Using Multiple Views" in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR01), Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001, Volume 1, 905-911.

David Traum and James Allen, "Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing", Proc., 32nd Annual Meeting of the ACL, 1-8, Las Cruces, NM, June 1994.