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

9561143弗里德曼这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目专注于开发一种新的、更强大的用户界面来提供建议，并建立在10年设计和测试定制可穿戴语音计算机用于帮助认知障碍患者的经验的基础上。在现有可穿戴计算机的基础上，将开发一种位置感应系统，该系统可以经济高效地安装在学校和潜在的工作地点。该研究旨在主动感知用户的位置和总的运动活动，以基于任务和用户活动模型提供面向目标的建议。使用这些模型应该能够在用户请求之后或在感觉到用户困难时以口头方式提供建议。在我们的粗大运动领域，我们将能够确定计算机发出的建议是否被注意到。通过主动感知任务的进展，我们将能够在听取建议时给予鼓励，并在初始提示不足时提供更详细的指导。最后，如果我们感觉到危险的活动或无法遵循计算机生成的指导，我们将能够自动通过无线电请求人工监督。该界面避免了与用户进行对话的其他主动建议给出系统所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。使认知受损用户能够独立工作而不是继续被拘留的应用程序对社会来说很重要。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看管护理公共资金的净消费者，变成一个在竞争性就业中更满意的工资者，这显然是一个双赢的局面。社会的赢家是降低认知障碍公民的净护理成本，公民对自己的生活更满意，我们公司推出了一种新的专业产品。

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.