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Machines of Loving Grace CSC 190B/290B Spring 2008 Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15pm CSB 632

Machines of Loving Grace CSC 190B/290B Spring 2008 Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15pm CSB 632. Henry Kautz University of Rochester. CONVERGENCE. Growing Ubiquitous Sensing Infrastructure. Localization GPS, wi-fi maps (Skyhook), cell towers. Wearable Multimodal Sensor Board. Motion, sound, heart rate, ….

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Machines of Loving Grace CSC 190B/290B Spring 2008 Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15pm CSB 632

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  1. Machines of Loving GraceCSC 190B/290BSpring 2008Mon/Wed 2:00-3:15pm CSB 632 Henry KautzUniversity of Rochester

  2. CONVERGENCE

  3. Growing Ubiquitous Sensing Infrastructure Localization • GPS, wi-fi maps (Skyhook), cell towers

  4. Wearable Multimodal Sensor Board Motion, sound, heart rate, …

  5. Object manipulation • RFID tags

  6. Computer vision • Tracking and activity recognition • Face and expression recognition

  7. Caregiving Crisis Care of the elderly • Epidemic of Alzheimer’s Disease • Desire for aging in place

  8. Traumatic brain injury • 100,000 @ year in the US Staff Sgt. Mark MacPherson, Washington Nat’l Guard 37 yr. old, environmental consultant

  9. Austism- Spectrum Disorder • Difficulty in understanding expressions • Need for slow, conscious processing of social rules • Growing diagnosis rate, about 0.5% of children

  10. Who Will Be the Caregivers? • Worldwide shortage of nurses and professional caregivers • AMA: 20% shortfall by 2010 • Kaiser: 40% shortfall for geriatric nurses alone by 2040 • Strain on family caregivers • “The 36 Hour Day”

  11. ...An Opportunity • Create methods for modeling and interpreting human behavior from sensor data • In order to develop assistive technologies to support independent living by people with disabilities • Help people perform activities of daily living • Monitor behavior to prevent health crises

  12. Example • COACH: Cognitive Orthosis for ACtivites in the Home • University of Toronto

  13. Topics • Smart homes for aging in place • Memory & navigation aids • Privacy & sharing of pervasive health data • Robot caregivers • Aids for affective disorders • Artificial bodies and brains

  14. Course Mechanics • 190B/290B • 3 short (4 page) essays • 2 short class presentations • 1 longer class presentation • Read assignments & prepare questions • 190B • 15 page final essay • 290B • 3 programming projects

  15. Grading • 190B: • 1/3 short essays • 1/3 presentations & participation • 1/3 final essay • 290B: • 1/4 short essays • 1/4 presentations & participations • 1/2 programming assignments

  16. Policies • Late assignments are not accepted • Extensions will be considered only if application is made to me at least 2 days before the due date • Medical emergencies must be documented • Collaboration is encouraged, but cheating is not • Plagiarized work will result in a failing mark for the entire course

  17. About Me • 1987: PhD in Computer Science, University of Rochester • 1987-2000: Researcher at Bell Laboratories • Automating logical reasoning • 2000-2006: Professor at the University of Washington • My father develops early-onset Alzheimer’s • Began work on “assisted cognition”

  18. About Me • 2006: Joined University of Rochester • LACE: Laboratory for Assisted Cognition Environments • Henry Kautz, Director • Sangho Park, Research Science (Vision) • Craig Harmon, Lab Manager • Joseph Modayil, Postdoctoral Researcher • Simulated home in lab in CSB 628

  19. Survey • What is your background? • What would you like to get out of this course?

  20. Robots, the Popular View

  21. Assignment • Read paper by Mihailidis et al. • Due: Wed 23 January • Come to class prepared with at least 3 questions or comments about the work • Essay: Machines as caregivers in popular culture • Due: Wed 30 January • Come to class prepared to speak for at least 10 minutes about your essay

  22. Future Assignments • Essays • Generational interview: Attitudes toward privacy • Imagining a new caregiving system • 190B final essay, topic to be chosen after discussion with me • Programming • Interpreting RFID data • Recognizing human emotion • Prototyping a new caregiving system

  23. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, by Richard Brautigan I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.

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