The Intelligent Technologies for Wellness and Independent Living Lab at the University of Waterloo brings together state-of-the-art computer science, engineering, rehabilitation science, and human factors methodologies to create internationally renowned intelligent assistive technologies for supporting aging and promoting independence and quality of life for older adults.
Our research centres around the transdisciplinary execution of user-centred design practices to create innovative, usable, and useful solutions to large, complex problems.
Our goal is to create innovative, accessible technologies that simultaneously enrich the experience of aging as well as society’s perception of aging.
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Dr Boger member of IEEE AI and ethics panel
Dr. Jennifer Boger was honoured to be an invited panellist of the "Using AI To Establish Sustainably Trustworthy And Responsible Research And Innovation" session at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2021). This internationally renowned conference brings together thought leaders in the theory and applications of computational intelligence that underpin innovation and development in the field of AI.
New framework for participatory design in technology for supporting dementia
So proud of our own Karan Shastri for leading our new publication "Working towards inclusion: Creating technology for and with people living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia who are employed", which outlines participatory design for inclusion of people living with mild cognitive impairment / early onset dementia (MCI/EOD) in technology development!!
How age and dementia affect sleep detection
So proud of the terrific research by Jing Wei on "Sleep Detection for Younger Adults, Healthy Older Adults, and Older Adults Living With Dementia Using Wrist Temperature and Actigraphy: Prototype Testing and Case Study Analysis" that has just been published in JMIR!