Event Time: 09:00 -
Event Location: OHSU's Mac Hall Marquam Room
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Agenda
8:45 – 9:15 Meet and greet with coffee and pastries
9:15 – 10:00 Welcome and Roundtable Updates
10:00 – 10:15 Break
10:15 – 11:00 Patrick Chiang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University & Huaping Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oregon State University
EPOCH: Silicon Electronics for Ubiquitous Monitoring of Aging
Patrick and Huaping will describe several projects the Oregon State VLSI Research Group is working on with OHSU and other collaborators. First, they will describe an indoor, centimeter-scale 3D localization and tracking system of elderly patients in their home (led by Prof. Huaping Liu in conjunction with Prof. Pavel and Hayes at ORCATECH). Second, they will describe future work on non-invasive, wireless brain sensors (EEG) (collaborating with Prof. Temes (OSU) and Cauwenberghs (UCSD)). The long-term goal here is to build ‘brain bandaids’, where a small miniature microchip can be placed on the head (or elsewhere on the body) to monitor minute electrical activity non-invasively. The end-goal is to build low-cost, tiny non-invasive sensors on the body to help detect and prevent important diseases – from critical events such as stroke, seizures, and heart arrhythmias to long-term gradual changes such as sleep monitoring and medication effects. The challenges and advantages of each project will also be examined.
11:00 – 11:45 Andrew Sixsmith, PhD, Professor and Director, Gerontology Research Centre at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia
New Technologies to Enhance Elder Care
Andrew will discuss SOPRANO (Service-oriented Programmable Smart Environments for Older People), which involves developing supportive environments for older people based on the concept of “ambient assisted living”. This project uses information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enable older people to live independently in their own homes. SOPRANO will not only address the “problems” of old age (e.g. falls, health problems) but will focus on positively enhancing quality of life. A full-feature demonstration system and extensive field trials involving older people are planned.
11:45 – 12:00 Wrap-up and discussion
12:00 –1:00 Networking lunch, provided