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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amar Basu, Wayne State University, Michael Busa, UMass Amherst. This project will evaluate TRACE, a novel wearable sensor for monitoring orthostatic vital signs continuously at home, whenever an individual stands up.
Jennifer Williams, Stanford University. This project will develop and test an approach to monitoring older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the home using an unobtrusive metric derived from acoustic features collected during normal cell phone use.