ITR/SY: The Aware Home: Sustaining the Quality of Life for an Aging Population

这是一个标准奖项。该项目的重点是开发一种家庭环境，这种环境可以识别居住者的行踪和活动，并为他们的日常生活提供支持。虽然该技术适用于一系列国内情况，但这项工作的重点将放在支持现有的老龄化；通过与辅助护理和认知老龄化方面的专家合作，PI及其团队将设计、演示和评估一系列旨在维持老龄化人口生活质量的家庭服务，其目标是增加“呆在家里”替代辅助生活的可能性，以满足老年人及其分散家庭的需求。该计划将特别探讨维持独立长者生活质素的两个关键范畴：维持家庭警觉及支持日常生活。目的是作为一个积极的合作伙伴，帮助老年居住者，而不是控制。这项研究将导致三个研究领域的进展：人机交互；计算感知;还有软件工程。为了达到预期的目标，PI将在一个真实的家庭环境中进行研究和实验，一个名为住宅实验室的新型研究设施最近在佐治亚理工学院校园旁边完工。与老龄化理论和实践方面的专家一起，PI将建立一种研究模式，在这种模式中，无处不在的计算技术的知情设计可以在真实的环境中迅速部署、评估和发展。将始终特别注意与隐私和信任影响有关的问题。PI将把该项目的产品转交给有兴趣对Aware Home技术的社会和经济影响进行更大规模观察的研究人员和实践者。

This is a standard award. The focus of this project is on development of a domestic environment that is cognizant of the whereabouts and activities of its occupants and can support them in their everyday life. While the technology is applicable to a range of domestic situations, the emphasis in this work will be on support for aging in place; through collaboration with experts in assistive care and cognitive aging, the PI and his team will design, demonstrate, and evaluate a series of domestic services that aim to maintain the quality of life for an aging population, with the goal of increasing the likelihood of a "stay at home" alternative to assisted living that satisfies the needs of an aging individual and his/her distributed family. In particular, the PI will explore two areas that are key to sustaining quality of life for an independent senior adult: maintaining familial vigilance, and supporting daily routines. The intention is to serve as an active partner, aiding the senior occupant without taking control. This research will lead to advances in three research areas: human-computer interaction; computational perception; and software engineering. To achieve the desired goals, the PI will conduct the research and experimentation in an authentic domestic setting, a novel research facility called the Residential Laboratory recently completed next to the Georgia Tech campus. Together with experts in theoretical and practical aspects of aging, the PI will establish a pattern of research in which informed design of ubiquitous computing technology can be rapidly deployed, evaluated and evolved in an authentic setting. Special attention will be paid throughout to issues relating to privacy and trust implications. The PI will transition the products of this project to researchers and practitioners interested in performing more large-scale observations of the social and economic impact of Aware Home technologies.