Awardee Organization(s): University of Missouri
Principal Investigator(s): Trent M. Guess, PhD
Official Project Title: Motor Function Assessment for Mild Cognitive Impairment, Frailty, and Fall Risk
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s):
https://mizzoumotioncenter.com/
Awardee Organization(s): University of Georgia
Principal Investigator(s): Soheyla Amirian, PhD
Official Project Title: AI-Powered Web Application to Analyze Knee Joint Space for Aging Population
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): https://engineering.uga.edu/team_member/soheyla-amirian/
A machine learning-enabled speech-based screening tool for AD/ADRD caregivers
Awardee Organization(s): University of Southern California
Principal Investigator(s): Maja Matarić, PhD
Official Project Title: An Accessible Machine Learning-Based ADRD Screening Tool for Families and Caregivers
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.robotics.usc.edu/~maja
The PI’s research team will use a human-centered approach to design, build, and evaluate conversational care technologies that scaffold meaningful care discussions between older adults and their informal caregivers
Awardee Organization(s): University of Michigan
Principal Investigator(s): Robin Brewer, PhD
Official Project Title: Conversational Care Technologies
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.umich.edu, www.si.umich.edu
Using machine learning to create data-driven user personas for the design of usable technologies for older adults
Awardee Organization(s): University of Minnesota
Principal Investigator(s): Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, DC, RN-BC
Official Project Title: Designing Usable Technologies for Older Adults via Data-Driven Whole-Person User Personas
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.nursing.umn.edu
Awardee Organization(s): Drexel University
Principal Investigator(s): Hualou Liang, PhD
Official Project Title: Detecting Cognitive Impairment Using Large Language Models from Speech
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): https://drexel.edu/biomed/
AI-enabled near-field coherent sensing (NCS) radio sensors to detect respiratory distress for advanced AD/ADRD patients who are unable to self-report
Awardee Organization(s): Weill Cornell Medicine
Principal Investigator(s): Veerawat Phongtankuel, MD
Official Project Title: Detecting Respiratory Distress in Patients with Advanced AD/ADRD Using Radio Sensors
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.weill.cornell.edu
Wearable sensors capturing digital autonomic biomarkers to detect empathy loss for frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD)
Awardee Organization(s): University of Pennsylvania Frontotemporal Degeneration Center
Principal Investigator(s): Emma Rhodes, PhD
Official Project Title: Feasibility of Digital Monitoring to Detect Autonomic Markers of Empathy Loss in bvFTD
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.med.upenn.edu/ftd
Awardee Organization(s): University of Pittsburgh
Principal Investigator(s): Julie Faieta, PhD, MOT OTR/L
Official Project Title: Health App Review Tool: Connecting those Affected by Alzheimer’s to Needed Technology Support
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): https://www.shrs.pitt.edu/
Using natural language processing to create an AI-based algorithm from EMR data to identify non-traditional caregivers who might benefit from dyadic interventions
Awardee Organization(s): University of Colorado | Kaiser Permanente
Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Portz, PhD
Official Project Title: Leveraging Patient Portals to Support Caregivers
AITC Partner: PennAITech
Website(s): www.medschool.cuanschutz.edu/general-internal-medicine, www.kpco-ihr.org
