The Nursebot project is a multi-disciplinary, multi-university effort aimed at developing
mobile robotic assistants for the elderly. In this paper, we describe one such robot, Pearl …

The world's population is aging at a phenomenal rate. Certain types of cognitive decline, in
particular some forms of memory impairment, occur much more frequently in the elderly. This …

Over the last decade, the topic of prospective memory the encoding, storage and delayed
retrieval of intended actions has attracted much interest, and this is reflected in a rapidly …

Temporal constraints pose a challenge for conditional planning, because it is necessary for
a conditional planner to determine whether a candidate plan will satisfy the specified …

Risk-Aware Interventions in Public Health: Planning with Restless Multi-Armed Bandits Page 1
Risk-Aware Interventions in Public Health: Planning with Restless Multi-Armed Bandits Aditya …

Until now there have been hardly any well-standardized measures or intervention methods
for prospective memory disorders. The assessment techniques reviewed in this chapter …

The aging of the world's population presents vast societal and individual challenges. The
relatively shrinking workforce to support the growing population of the elderly leads to a …

The Assisted Cognition Project at the University of Washington develops novel
representation and reasoning techniques in order to dramatically advance the capacity of …

To many people, home is a sanctuary. For those people who need special medical care,
they may need to be pulled out of their home to meet their medical needs. As the population …

Solving challenging computational problems involving time has been a critical component in
the development of artificial intelligence systems almost since the inception of the field. This …