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The Memory Assistant
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The Memory Assistant system is designed to help people with mild to moderate memory loss keep tracking of important objects in a home environment.

Isaac Green Randal Nelson
The Memory Assistant figure
Isaac Green
System layout for the Memory Assistant

The Memory Assistant tool employs a novel approach to object tracking with the goal of helping people with slight to moderate memory loss keep track of important objects placed around their home. Such memory difficulties are a significant issue in the aging population, and a major factor contributing to institutionalization of people who might, with modest human and machine assistance, be able to live on their own for a substantial additional period. The tool has been implemented in a model "smart home" that is part of the Center for Future Health at the University of Rochester. It has been shown to work robustly with a small collection of ordinary 3D objects with multiple cameras surveying multiple rooms.
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/igreen/memassist/memory_assistance.shtml
Memory assistance, Memory orthotic, object recogntion, activity detection, Isaac Green, Randal Nelson, home, homepage, University of Rochester



Prototype deployed the at the Center for Future Health (April 15, 2003).