A new approach to teaching the skills used by health professionals during hands-on (palpation-based) examinations and procedures is reported, where students practice individual ‘core’ skills by playing haptic computer games. These core palpatory skills were identified through interviews and a survey of clinicians and include determining size, firmness, shape and moving and thinking in 3D. A lea...

The ultimate goal of ambient assisted living is to help elderly people live a healthy life in the convenience of their homes by making more intelligent technology bring them a set of required assistive tools. In this paper we describe a robotic fitness coach that learns a set of physical exercises from a professional trainer, and assists elderly subjects in performing these gestures. The gestur...

Gene L Bowman1† & Joseph F Quinn2 †Author for correspondence 1Oregon Health & Science University, CR-131 3181 Southwest Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, USA Tel.: +1 503 494 6976; Fax: +1 503 494 7499; Email: [email protected] 2Oregon Health & Science University, Clinical Core, NIA-Layton Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease Center, OR, USA Tel.: +1 503 494 6976; Fax: +1 503 494 7499; Email: qu...

This paper presents International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Special Interest Group (SIG, http://www.isca-speech.org/sig.html) on Speech And Language Technology for MInority Languages (SALTMIL). The paper gives an overview of the group's mission and discusses its past and present activities.

This study models a joint pricing, inventory, and preservation decision-making problem for deteriorating items subject to stochastic demand and promotional effort. The generalized price-dependent stochastic demand, time proportional deterioration, and partial backlogging rates are used to model the inventory system. The objective is to find the optimal pricing, replenishment, and preservation t...

Recently, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and Alzheimer’s Association (AA) issued new guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related conditions [1–4]. It is important to think deeply about the lessons learned from these new efforts both in terms of their actual content and the cultural context in which they were issued. We believe that these lessons about the state o...

a Division of Aging Biology, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA b Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center and Research Service, South Texas VeteransHealth Care System, Department of Pharmacology, Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX 78229, USA c Department of Pathology and Geriatrics Cente...