AAAI Fall Symposium: AI for Gerontechnology Student Travel Support

该项目正在为研究生参加与人工智能促进协会2012年秋季年度研讨会一起组织的研讨会提供支持。2012年11月2日至11月4日，在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行了题为《老年技术的人工智能》的研讨会。老年技术是一个跨学科的学术和专业领域，它结合了老龄化和技术方面的研究，以应对老龄化社会带来的人口结构变化带来的挑战。人工智能技术被认为是老年技术领域支持照顾老年人的解决方案的关键组成部分之一。智力价值：研讨会通过讨论受老年技术发展挑战启发的问题和解决方案，促进了人工智能的最新发展。具体来说，讨论的主题包括：1)处理稀疏注释数据的新方法，2)创新的机器学习技术，可以在广泛的现实世界环境中改进技术解决方案的泛化，以及3)利用领域知识的建模算法的设计。更广泛的影响：虽然研讨会的目标是促进人工智能领域的发展，重点是老年人护理应用，但研讨会产生的解决方案也可以应用于其他医疗领域，如帮助医院和家庭中的慢性病患者。此外，这个工作坊的教育方面提供了机会，让未来的劳动力在计算机科学、人工智能和照顾老年人的交叉点上拥有专业知识。

This project is providing support for graduate students to attend a workshop organized in conjunction with the fall 2012 annual symposium of the Association for Advancement in Artificial Intelligence. The workshop entitled Artificial Intelligence for Gerontechnology was held November 2nd to November 4th, 2012, in Arlington, Virginia. Gerontechnology is an interdisciplinary academic and professional field combining the study of aspects of aging and technology to address the challenges arising from the demographic changes due to aging society. Artificial intelligence techniques are considered to be among the key components of the solutions within the gerontechnology domain supporting care for elders. Intellectual Merit: The symposium advances the state of the art in artificial intelligence by considering problems and solutions that are inspired by the challenges in developing gerontechnology. Specifically, the topics addressed include the following: 1) novel approaches for dealing with sparsely annotated data, 2) innovative machine learning techniques that can improve the generalization of technological solutions across a wide range of real-world settings and 3) design of modeling algorithms that take advantage of domain knowledge. Broader Impacts: While the goal of the symposium was to advance the field of AI with the focus on elder care applications, the solutions resulting from the symposium can also be applied to other health care areas such as assisting chronic patients in hospitals and homes. In addition, the educational aspect of this workshop provides the opportunity to educate future workforce with expertise at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence and care for the elders.