SBIR PHASE I: Position Sensing to Improve the Interface forAdvice Giving Wearable Computers Used as Cognitive Prosthetics

SBIR 第一阶段：位置传感以改进为用作认知假肢的可穿戴计算机提供建议的界面

• 批准号: 9561143
• 负责人: Mark Friedman
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: AugmenTech Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-02-01 至 1996-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9561143&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; PHASE; Position; Sensing; Improve

9561143 Friedman This Small Business Innovations Research Phase I project focuses on research to develop a new and more powerful user interface for advice giving and is built on 10 years experience designing and testing the use of custom wearable talking computers for assisting people with cognitive impairments. Based on an existing wearable computer, a position sensing system will be developed that can be cost effectively installed in schools and potential job sites. The research is to actively sense user location and gross motor activity to give goal oriented advice based on task and user activity models. Use of these models should enable giving advice verbally either after a user request or when there is sensed user difficulty. In our domain of gross motion, we will be able to determine whether or not computer originated advice is heeded. By actively sensing task progress, we will be able to offer encouragement when advice is heeded and provide more detailed guidance when initial cues are insufficient. Finally, we will be able to automatically radio for human supervision if we sense dangerous activities or an inability to follow computer generated guidance. This interface avoids the natural language understanding problems inherent in other active advice giving systems that engage in dialog with their users. It will explore the domain of understanding user needs from task related gross motor activities. The application to enable cognitively impaired users to independently hold jobs rather than remain in custodial care is important to society. If affordable wearable computer technology and minor modifications to a worksite can enable a person to change from being a dissatisfied net consumer of public funding in custodial care to a more satisfied wage earner in competitive employment, it is obviously a win-win-win situation. Society wins by decreasing net care costs to cognitively impaired citizens, the citizens are more satisfied with their lives, and our company has a new, pro prietary product.

小行星9561143 这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目的重点是研究开发一个新的和更强大的用户界面，用于提供建议，并建立在10年的经验，设计和测试使用定制的可穿戴式谈话计算机，以帮助人们认知障碍。基于现有的可穿戴计算机，将开发一种位置传感系统，该系统可以成本有效地安装在学校和潜在的工作场所。 该研究是主动感知用户的位置和粗大运动活动，以提供基于任务和用户活动模型的目标导向的建议。 这些模型的使用应该能够在用户请求之后或当感觉到用户困难时口头给出建议。在我们的总运动领域，我们将能够确定是否注意到计算机发出的建议。通过主动感知任务进展，我们将能够在听取建议时提供鼓励，并在最初的线索不足时提供更详细的指导。最后，如果我们感觉到危险活动或无法遵循计算机生成的指导，我们将能够自动无线电进行人类监督。该接口避免了与用户进行对话的其他主动建议给出系统中固有的自然语言理解问题。它将探索从任务相关的粗大运动活动中理解用户需求的领域。 使认知障碍用户能够独立工作而不是继续被监护的应用对社会很重要。如果负担得起的可穿戴计算机技术和对工作场所的微小修改可以使一个人从一个不满意的公共资金的净消费者转变为一个更满意的有竞争力的就业的工薪阶层，这显然是一个双赢的局面。社会通过减少认知障碍公民的净护理成本而获胜，公民对他们的生活更加满意，我们公司有一个新的，专业的产品。