2004 Symposium on Assistive Technology for Cognition
On September 21st, 2004, Project ACCESS hosted a symposium on assistive technology for cognition entitled Opportunity Knocks. The symposium was attended by members of the Project ACCESS advisory board and the University of Washington community. Presentations from the symposium are embedded in the agenda below. The symposium was also videotaped and streaming video will be available soon from this page.
Presentations
9:00
Introductions & Overview of Assistive Technology
for Cognition
Presenter: Kurt Johnson, Ph.D., Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
9:30
In
Their Own Words: A qualitative investigation of barriers to independence
and use of technology by consumers with disabilities and their caregivers
Presenters: Pat Brown, Ed.D. and Mark Harniss, Ph.D.,
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
10:00
Opportunity
Knocks: Outdoor Navigation using
GPS and Machine Learning
Presenters: Henry Kautz, Ph.D. and Donald Patterson, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering
Participants listen to presentation at the Project ACCESS Symposium
10:45
SHARP: ADL Monitoring using RFID
Presenter: Matthai Phillipose, Intel Research Laboratory at Seattle; Department
of Computer Science and Engineering
11:15
Indoor Navigation using Wi-Fi and Rich
Wearable Sensors
Presenter: Gaetano Borriello, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Brian Dudgeon inspects Opportunity Knocks
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