Artificial Intelligence That Helps Seniors Stay in their Homes | Mai Lee Chang | TEDxOshkosh

As the world's population of older adults expands, there is a growing need for care support, especially in light of increasing desire for seniors to age in their own homes. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to fill this gap, however, the biggest challenge to successful aging-in-place technology assistance has been a lack of adoption and acceptance.

Supported by large volumes of data, defining care support needs in the senior population, AI has the potential to provide personalized intelligent care to seniors, and to navigate the complex social and task-based demands coordinating a diverse network of caregivers to maintain meaningful quality of life for seniors.

Mai Lee Chang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (School of Computer Science) at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research is part of the AI-Caring National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute that focuses on developing the next generation of personalized collaborative AI systems that improve the quality of life of aging adults living at home.

She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to her Ph.D., she worked as an engineer at NASA-Johnson Space Center. She received her M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and B.S. in Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx