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Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT) Head: Takeo Kanade Contact: James Osborn (oz@cmu.edu) Mailing address: Quality of Life Technology Center 417 S. Craig Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412/268-5543 412/268-5807 For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

Technology to Enable Self-Determination for Older Adults and People with Disabilities

The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) whose mission is to transform lives in a large and growing segment of the population - people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability.

QoLT is a unique partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, in association with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). QoLT brings together a cross-disciplinary team of technologists, clinicians, industry partners, end users, and other stakeholders to create revolutionary technologies that will improve and sustain the quality of life for all people.

The vision of the QoLT Center is to develop intelligent systems ranging from individual devices to comprehensive environments that enhance body and mind. They monitor and communicate with a person and understand his/her needs and task goals, and compensate for or replace diminished capabilities appropriately, safely, reliably and graciously. Such future QoLT systems will not be just machines for convenience or saving labor, but intelligent assistants. They will restore and preserve independence, allowing people to freely perform valued and necessary activities of daily living so that they can fully participate in society. They will enhance and augment the capabilities of caregivers, and will also delay or prevent the manifestation of functional impairment.

Please visit our complete current personnel list at http://www.qolt.org/People/Researchers.jsp

QoLT is a partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. The personnel listed below are CMU personnel only. Please see the link above for a complete personnel list.

Personnel [Past Members]

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Chris Atkeson	Professor, RI/HCII	cga@cs.cmu.edu
	Ellen M Ayoob	Interaction Designer, HCII	ema@cs.cmu.edu
	James (Drew) Bagnell	Research Scientist	bagnell2@andrew.cmu.edu
	Clifford E Brubaker	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)	cliffb@pitt.edu
	Wandi Bruine de Bruin	Research Faculty, SDS	wandi@cmu.edu
	Sheldon Cohen	Professor, Psychology	scohen@cmu.edu
	Jeffrey Cohn	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)	jeffcohn@cs.cmu.edu
	Rory Cooper	Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)	rcooper@pitt.edu
	Fernando De la Torre Frade	Research Scientist	ftorre@cs.cmu.edu
	Anind Dey	Assistant Professor, HCII	anind.dey@cs.cmu.edu
	Julie Downs	Researcher, SDS	downs@andrew.cmu.edu
	Colleen Everett	Communications Manager, CS	everett@cs.cmu.edu
	Baruch Fischhoff	Howard Heinz University Professor, SDS	baruch@cmu.edu
	Jodi Forlizzi	Associate Professor, HCII	forlizzi@cs.cmu.edu
	Martin Gaynor	E. J. Barone Professor of Economics, Heinz	mgaynor@cmu.edu
	Geoffrey Gordon	Assoc. Res. Professor/Adjunct Faculty RI, MLD (Adjunct)	ggordon@cs.cmu.edu
	Martial Hebert	Professor	hebert@ri.cmu.edu
	Takeo Kanade	U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS	tk@cs.cmu.edu
	James Kuffner	Assistant Professor	kuffner@cs.cmu.edu
	Jennifer Mankoff	Assistant Professor, HCII	jmankoff@cs.cmu.edu
	Deborah R Murphy	Research Assistant	drmurphy@andrew.cmu.edu
	Brad A Myers	Professor, HCII	bam@cs.cmu.edu
	Illah Nourbakhsh	Associate Professor	illah@ri.cmu.edu
	James Osborn	Exec Dir, Quality of Life Tech Eng Cente	oz@cmu.edu
	Rema Padman	Professor, Heinz	rpadman@cmu.edu
	Michael Scheier	Professor, Psychology	scheier@cmu.edu
	Daniel Siewiorek	Buhl Univ.Prof ECE & CS - Dir.HCII, CS/ECE	dps@cs.cmu.edu
	Reid Simmons	Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair, RI/CS	reids@cs.cmu.edu
	Sanjiv Singh	Associate Research Professor	ssingh@ri.cmu.edu
	Asim Smailagic	Research Professor, ICES	asim@cs.cmu.edu
	Aaron Steinfeld	Systems Scientist	steinfeld@cmu.edu
	Latanya Sweeney	Assoc Professor, Comp Science/Public Pol, ISRI	latanya@cs.cmu.edu
	Howard Wactlar	Vice Provost Res Computing/Res.Professor, RI/CS	wactlar@cmu.edu
	Lee Weiss	Research Professor	lew@cs.cmu.edu
	Jie Yang	Senior Systems Scientist, CS	yang+@cs.cmu.edu

Current Sub-projects

Temporal Segmentation of Human Motion - Temporal segmentation of human motion

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning
  B.D. Ziebart, A. Maas, J. Bagnell, and A.K. Dey
  Proceeding of AAAI 2008, July, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [293 KB] copyrighted