Billington Lab awarded HAI Seed grant for research on ambient intelligence for senior care
Billington Lab will collaborate with colleagues in Computer Science, Medicine, and CEE on a project titled ‘Personal and Private Ambient Intelligence for Senior Care’
Prof. Billington was recently awarded a seed grant from the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute at Stanford, and together with a team of colleagues they will focus on improving in-home healthcare of the future. The number of older adults 60+ is expected to double—and 80+ triple—by 2050, creating urgency for innovative solutions to improve care practices. The team aims to use ambient intelligence to reimagine care work with personal health aides and older adults while actively considering the ethical implications of the system.
The team will work with personal health aides to design a system that will improve their work conditions while enhancing the care they provide. The system will be more privacy-preserving than cameras by using a variety of sensing mechanisms and combining their information via a multi-modal inference algorithm. Voice assistants will be developed to ask relevant medical questions, provide learning opportunities, and deliver a customized care plan in an intuitive manner.