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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.

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.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Chris Atkeson - Professor, RI/HCII <cga@cs.cmu.edu>
• Ellen M Ayoob - Interaction Designer, HCII <ema@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] 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>
• [Home] Jeffrey Cohn - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <jeffcohn@cs.cmu.edu>
• Rory Cooper - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <rcooper@pitt.edu>
• [Home] 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>
• [Home] Colleen Everett - Communications Manager, CS <everett@cs.cmu.edu>
• Baruch Fischhoff - Howard Heinz University Professor, SDS <baruch@cmu.edu>
• [Home] Jodi Forlizzi - Associate Professor, HCII <forlizzi@cs.cmu.edu>
• Martin Gaynor - E. J. Barone Professor of Economics, Heinz <mgaynor@cmu.edu>
• [Home] Geoffrey Gordon - Assoc. Res. Professor/Adjunct Faculty RI, MLD (Adjunct) <ggordon@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Martial Hebert - Professor <hebert@ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof. <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] 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>
• [Home] Brad A Myers - Professor, HCII <bam@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Illah Nourbakhsh - Associate Professor <illah@ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] 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>
• [Home] Daniel Siewiorek - Buhl Univ.Prof ECE & CS - Dir.HCII, CS/ECE <dps@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Reid Simmons - Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair <reids@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Sanjiv Singh - Associate Research Professor <ssingh@ri.cmu.edu>
• Asim Smailagic - Research Professor, ICES <asim@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Aaron Steinfeld - Systems Scientist <steinfeld@cmu.edu>
• [Home] Latanya Sweeney - Assoc Professor, Comp Science/Public Pol, ISRI <latanya@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Howard Wactlar - Vice Provost Res Computing/Res.Professor, RI/CS <wactlar@cmu.edu>
• [Home] Lee Weiss - Research Professor <lew@cs.cmu.edu>
• Jie Yang - Senior Systems Scientist, CS <yang+@cs.cmu.edu>

• Temporal Segmentation of Human Motion - Temporal segmentation of human motion

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]
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