There is a very wide range of promising technological innovations to assist the elderly and physically handicapped that can dramatically reduce health care costs, while substantially increasing the quality of life for many in our society. To be truly effective, the support should include not only the elderly themselves, but their entire support network, including friends, family, caregivers, health care professionals, and the like. Thus, it is likely that fully integrated supportive environments for the elderly will encompass many of the current application and research areas of computer science, including local and remote networking, computer interfaces and interaction models, computer vision, robotics, distributed sensor networks, privacy issues, etc. Please visit our project website for more detailed information.

This project is supported by the following grants: NSF HSD SES-0527648 and NSF DG Planning Grant IIS-0535120.

   Collaborators

          UMass Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics

          Smith College School for Social Work

          Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL)

   Faculty

          Allen R. Hanson

          Edward M. Riseman

          Roderic A. Grupen

   Graduate Students

          Shichao Ou

          Adam Williams

          Dan Xie

   Undergraduate Students

          Jessica Krause

          Joseph Gallo

          Caitlin Bailey