Resources for Assisted Cognition
Products and Companies
Technology for Long Term Care
Center for Aging Services Technologies
- A program of the American Association for Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), whose goal is to be a clearinghouse of information on emerging technologies.
AbleLink
- Develops and sells a variety of desktop and palmtop cognitive support technologies, including task prompting systems and cell phones with simplified photograph-based interfaces.
Attention Control Systems
- Develops an sells a palmtop-based task scheduler and prompter.
Elite Care
- Assisted living home near Portland, Oregon
Educational and Research Organizations
LACE: Laboratory for Assisted Cognition Environments
- University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
ACCESS: Assisted Cognition in Community, Employment, and Social Settings
- University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Center for Future Health
- University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
BehaviorScope
- Yale University, Prof. Adreas Savvidesour
Mobile & Pervasive Computing Laboratory
Coleman Institute
Assistive Technology for Cognition
Nursebot
- Joint project of University of Michigan, CMU, and Pittsburgh
University
Intel Research Proactive
Health Group
Intel
Research Seattle Activity Inference
MIT Changing Places/House_n
Research Funding
Alzheimer's
Association: Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer Care (ETAC)
NIA: National Institute on Aging
NIDRR: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
National Science Foundation, Universal Access