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Workshop Announcement: 1st ACM Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Computing for AgeTech

Post category:Events News
Post published:June 5, 2024

MassAITC is excited to announce that we are participating in organizing the 1st ACM Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Computing for AgeTech (MobiCom4AgeTech 2024). The workshop will be held in Washington DC on November 18th, 2024 and is affiliated and co-located with the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom). The workshop aims to bring together academic researchers, industry leaders, and government partners to present research and discuss challenges and opportunities at the intersection of wireless and mobile computing, AI and data analytics, and technologies for supporting healthy aging. The workshop is now accepting contributed research papers, extended abstracts, and demo proposals. See the call for contributions for more information.

An academic-industrial partnership for AI-based sleep staging in the elderly using an EEG headband and a smartwatch

Post category:Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Joyita Dutta, UMass Amherst. This project will develop AI techniques for at-home sleep staging in seniors using multimodal data from EEG headband and smartwatch devices.

Passive monitoring of walking cadence as a novel tool for aging and cognitive health assessment

Post category:Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Honghuang Lin, UMass Chan Medical School. This study will leverage a large collection of physical activity and cognitive assessment data to derive novel digital phenotypes from commercially available wearable devices.

AI-Supported In-Home Brain Assessments for Older Adults and Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease

Post category:Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Quan Zhang, Massachusetts General Hospital. This project will create an adapted version of NINscan, a Near-Infrared Neuromonitoring Device, with the goal of enabling older adults and AD patients to collect high quality brain and physiological data at home.

Creation of a technology-ready cohort for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their caregivers

Post category:Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Mark Eldaief, Massachusetts General Hospital. This project will establish a “technology-ready cohort” of individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias to support the evaluation of digital assessments relevant to ADRD patients and their caregivers.

Portable Sleep Monitoring in Older Adults with AD/ADRD and Common Chronic Conditions

Post category:Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Rebecca Spencer, UMass Amherst. This project will validate sleep detection capabilities of commercially available devices with physiological sensors in a diverse representative sample of older adults with common chronic conditions and a group with AD/ADRD.

Detection of falls and other health events using sound, activity monitoring and machine learning

Post category:Year 2 Pilots
Post published:March 26, 2024

Richard Watkins, Livindi. This project aims to optimize hardware and enhance software for in-home detection of distress related events for use by older adults and caregivers.