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  • Eldercare technology
  • Human-robot interaction
  • Spatial reasoning interfaces

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Master's student Daniel Nabelek (left) and doctoral candidate Yun Li show a device Li conceived to use sound to detect falls. Li has worked on sound analysis since 2008 when he was working as a research assistant while earning his master's degree.
ECE Professor Marjorie Skubic stands inside Tiger Place, a Columbia-based Americare independent living facility, where she and collaborators are testing their eldercare monitoring devices. Skubic has received numerous grants for the project, including one recently-awarded from the White House's US Ignite initiative.
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These images demonstrate fall detection using a "voxel person." The top row shows one image sequence of a person falling, and the bottom row shows the corresponding voxel person representations computed from the camera images. The color indicates the classification from the automated program: red for an upright position, blue for on the ground, and green for in between.
Ye Duan, assistant professor of computer science, discussed his work with 3D computer models to an attentive audience at MU's first Saturday Morning Science program of the winter semester.
A new NSF grant aims to increase the number of STEM faculty members such as CoE Associate Professor Marjorie Skubic, shown here working with Charlie Huggard, a computer science graduate student, to configure a computer server. Photo by Vicki Hodder

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