Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center

生命质量技术工程研究中心

• 批准号: 0540865
• 负责人: Daniel Siewiorek
• 金额: $ 1447.19万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0540865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Quality; Life; Technology; Engineering; Research

Lead Institution: Carnegie Mellon University; Principal Investigator: Takeo KanadeCore Partner Institution: University of Pittsburgh; Co-Principal Investigator: Rory A. CooperAffiliated Outreach Institutions: Florida/Georgia LSAMP, Howard Univ., Lincoln Univ.The Quality of Life Technologies Engineering Research Center (QoLT ERC) will transform lives in a large and growing segment of the population - people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability. Future compassionate intelligent QoLT systems, either individual devices or technology-embedded environments, will monitor and communicate with a person, understand daily needs and tasks, and provide reliable and happily-accepted assistance by compensating and substituting for diminished capabilities.Intellectual Merit: The QoLT ERC will create the scientific and engineering knowledge base that enables systematic development of human-centered intelligent systems that co-exist and co-work with people, particularly people with impairments. These QoLT systems may be an individual device that a person carries or wears, a mobility system that a person rides or that accompanies the person, an environment that is instrumented, or a combination of these. The QoLT ERC research will build upon recent advances in intelligent system technologies, including machine perception, robotics, learning, communication, and miniaturization, many of which have been created and applied to date mainly to industry, military, and entertainment. The QoLT ERC will transform these advances and develop new technologies for perceiving, reasoning with, and affecting people improving their lives. Many previous attempts to use sophisticated technology to enhance function for people with disabilities failed. One reason for those failures was a limited understanding of the human with disability and a lack of tight integration of technical and clinical expertise with users' needs. The QoLT ERC will overcome these barriers through partnership of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh in four thrust areas: Monitoring & Modeling, Mobility & Manipulation, Human-System Interface, and Person & Society, and by working closely with user groups throughout design, development, test, and deployment phases. The team has technical strengths in intelligent systems, rehabilitation engineering, and related clinical areas, and ample access to real-world testbeds. Broader Impacts: The technologies that the QoLT ERC develops will enable people with disabilities to independently perform activities of daily living. By restoring and preserving independence they can pursue individual goals and more fully participate in society. To have more people gainfully employed and to reduce the need for or delay the onset of institutionalization will have the ultimate impact on national economy. The QoLT ERC will expand the pools of talented students in two fronts: the pool of engineering students, with substantial clinical and socio-economic training and experiences that will motive them to create technologies for quality of life; and the pool of clinically-oriented students with engineering training and experiences that will help them understand how best to integrate technology into their practices. It will also teach students how to collaborate effectively one of the most recognized and yet difficult-to-overcome challenges in the development and implementation of systems for people's use. The fact that our ERC team includes a significant number of women faculty and faculty with disabilities will have a major impact on diversity. They serve as role models, and encourage extensive participation of women and people with disabilities in the ERC as faculty, students, advisors, and clients. The membership of the QoLT ERC industry consortium includes a wide spectrum of companies pertaining to all aspects of daily life: medical devices, assistive technology, information technology, consumer electronics, healthcare, and insurance. The QoLT ERC will catalyze a large and technologically sophisticated industry sector that ultimately will help all of us to function more capably, perceptively, and intelligently.

主要机构：卡内基·梅隆大学；首席研究员：Takeo Kanadecore合作伙伴机构：匹兹堡大学；共同研究人员：Rory A.合作社的外展机构：佛罗里达州/乔治亚LSAMP，霍华德大学，林肯大学。生活质量技术工程研究中心（Qolt ERC）将在人群的大型且不断增长的人群中改变生活 - 由于衰老而导致功能性降低的人，由于衰老而导致了功能能力。未来的同情智能系统，无论是单个设备还是技术装饰的环境，都会与人监视和沟通，了解日常需求和任务，并通过补偿和替代功能减少并替换功能降低来提供可靠且幸福的帮助。有障碍。这些Qolt系统可能是一个人携带或磨损的单独设备，一个人骑行或伴随该人的移动性系统，仪器的环境或这些组合的环境。 Qolt ERC研究将基于智能系统技术的最新进展，包括机器感知，机器人技术，学习，沟通和小型化，其中许多已被创建和应用于迄今为止，主要是用于行业，军事和娱乐。 Qolt ERC将改变这些进步，并开发新技术，以感知，推理和影响人们改善生活。以前的许多尝试使用复杂技术来增强残疾人的功能的尝试失败了。这些失败的原因之一是对残疾人的人类有限的理解，并且缺乏将技术和临床专业知识与用户需求的紧密整合在一起。 Qolt ERC将通过在四个推力领域与卡内基·梅隆（Carnegie Mellon）和匹兹堡大学（University of Pittsburgh）合作克服这些障碍：监测和建模，移动性和操纵，人类系统界面以及人与社会，以及与整个设计，开发，测试，测试和部署阶段的用户组密切合作。该团队在智能系统，康复工程和相关临床领域具有技术优势，并可以充分使用现实世界测试床。更广泛的影响：Qolt ERC开发的技术将使残疾人能够独立地进行日常生活活动。通过恢复和保存独立性，他们可以追求个人目标并更充分地参与社会。要有更多的人受雇，并减少对制度化的需求或延迟的需求，将对国民经济产生最终影响。 Qolt ERC将在两个方面扩大才华横溢的学生的池：工程专业的学生库，并通过大量的临床和社会经济培训和经验，这些培训和经验将激励他们为生活质量创造技术；以及以工程培训和经验的临床学生进行的，这将有助于他们了解如何最好地将技术整合到实践中。它还将教学学生如何在开发和实施人们使用系统中有效地合作是最认可，但难以克服的挑战之一。我们的ERC团队包括大量女性教职员工和残疾人教职员工这一事实将对多样性产生重大影响。它们是榜样，并鼓励妇女和残疾人在ERC中作为教师，学生，顾问和客户的广泛参与。 Qolt ERC行业财团的成员资格包括与日常生活各个方面有关的各种公司：医疗设备，辅助技术，信息技术，消费电子，医疗保健和保险。 Qolt ERC将催化一个大型且技术上复杂的行业领域，最终将帮助我们所有人更有能力，感知和聪明地发挥作用。