Papers

2010

Alexander, G.L., Havens, T.C., Rantz, M., Keller, J., & Abbott, C.C., "An analysis of human motion detection systems use during elder exercise routines," Western Journal of Nursing Research, in press.

Rantz, M.J., Skubic, M., Alexander, G., Popescu, M., Aud, M., Koopman, R., & Miller, S. (2010), "Developing a Comprehensive Electronic Health Record to Enhance Nursing Care Coordination, Use of Technology, and Research," Journal of Gerontological Nursing 36(1), 13-17.

T.C. Havens, G.L. Alexander, C.C. Abbott, J.M. Keller, M. Skubic, and M. Rantz (2010), "Tracking exercise motions of older adults using contours," Journal of Applied Computer Science Methods, accepted for publication.

2009

Alexander GL & Madsen R, "Information Technology and Quality Measures in Nursing Homes," Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 35(7), 22-27.

Alexander GL & Staggers N, "A Systematic Review on the Designs of Clinical Technology," Advances in Nursing Science, Vol 32(3), 2009.

Alexander GL and Kehr WR, "Mobile IT applications," Long Term Living, Long Term Living, January, 2009, pp. 21-25.

Alexander GL and Wakefield DS (2009), "Information Technology Sophistication in Nursing Homes," Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 10(6), 398-407.

Anderson D, Luke RH, Keller JM, Skubic M, Rantz M and Aud M, "Modeling Human Activity from Voxel Person Using Fuzzy Logic," IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, vol. 17, no. 1, 2009, pp. 39-49.

Demiris G, Parker Oliver D, Giger J, Skubic M, Rantz M, "Older adults' privacy considerations for vision based recognition methods of eldercare applications," Technology and Health Care 2009;17(1):41-48.

Godsey, C and Skubic, M, "Using Elements of Game Engine Architecture to Simulate Sensor Networks for ElderCare," Proc, Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 2-6, 2009, pp 6143-6146.

Harvey N, Zhou Z, Keller JM, Rantz M, and He Z, "Automated Estimation of Elder Activity Levels from Anonymized Video Data," Proceedings, Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 2-6, 2009, pp 7236-7239.

Havens TC, Alexander GL, Abbott C, Keller JM, Skubic M, and Rantz M, "Contour Tracking of Human Exercises," 2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence, Nashville, TN, Mar 30-Apr 2, 2009.

Hensel, B., Demiris, G., Parker Oliver, D., & Rantz, M. (2009), "A comparison of video-based resident-family communication in a nursing home and a congregate living facility," Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 10(5), 342-347.

Liang J, Abbott CC, Skubic M, Keller J, "Investigation of Gait Features for Stability and Risk Identification in Elders," Accepted for 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 2-6, 2009.

Skubic M, Alexander G, Popescu M, Rantz M and Keller J (2009), "A Smart Home Application to Eldercare: Current Status and Lessons Learned," Technology and Health Care 17(3), 183-201.

Wang F, Stone E, Dai W, Banerjee T, Giger J, Krampe J, Rantz M, and Skubic M, "Testing an In-Home Gait Assessment Tool for Older Adults," Accepted for 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 2-6, 2009

Wang F, Stone E, Dai Wenqing, Skubic Marjorie, and Keller James, "Gait Analysis and Validation Using Voxel Data," Accepted for 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 2-6, 2009

Wang S, Skubic M, Zhu Y, "Activity Density Map Dis-similarity Comparison for Eldercare Monitoring ," Accepted for 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 2-6, 2009

Zhou Z, Dai W, Eggert J, Giger JT, Keller J, Rantz M, and He Z, "A Real-time System for In-home Activity Monitoring of Elders," Accepted for 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Sep 2-6, 2009.

2008

Alexander G, Rantz M, Skubic M, Aud MA, Wakefield B, Florea E, and Paul A, "Sensor Systems for Monitoring Functional Status in Assisted Living Facility Residents," Research in Gerontological Nursing, 1:4, 2008.

Alexander GL, Havens TC, Skubic M, Rantz M, Keller JM, and Abbott C, "Markerless Human Motion Capture-Based Exercise Feedback System to Increase Efficacy and Safety of Elder Exercise Routines," 6th International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, Pisa, Italy, June 4-6, 2008.

Anderson D, Luke RH, Keller JM, and Skubic M, "Extension of a Soft-Computing Framework for Activity Analysis from Linguistic Summarizations of Video," Proc, IEEE International Congress on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), WCCI, pp 1404-1410, Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008.

Anderson D, Luke RH, Keller JM, Skubic M, Rantz M and Aud M, "Linguistic Summarization of Video for Fall Detection Using Voxel Person and Fuzzy Logic," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2008, 113:80-89.

Anderson D, Luke RH, Skubic M, Keller JM, Rantz M, and Aud M, "Evaluation of a Video Based Fall Recognition System for Elders Using Voxel Space," 6th International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, June 4-6, 2008.

Courtney KL, "Privacy and senior willingness to adopt smart home information technology in residential care facilities," Methods of Information in Medicine, 47 (2008) 76-81.

Courtney KL, Demiris G, Rantz M, and Skubic M, "Needing Smart Home Technologies: The Perspective of Older Adults in Continuing Care Retirement Communities," Informatics in Primary Care, 2008, 16:3, 195-201.

Demiris G, Hensel BK, Skubic M & Rantz MJ, "Senior Residents' Perceived Need of and Preferences for "Smart Home" Sensor Technologies," International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 2008; 24(1): 102-124.

Demiris G, Parker Oliver D, Dickey G, Skubic M, Rantz M, "Findings from a Participatory Evaluation of a Smart Home Application for Older Adults," Technology and Health Care 2008, 16:111-118.

Demiris G, Parker Oliver D, Hensel BK, Dickey G, Rantz M, Skubic M, "Use of Videophones for Distant Caregiving: An Enriching Experience for Families and Residents in Long-Term Care," Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 34(7), 50-55.

Harvey N, Luke R, Keller J, and Anderson D, "Speedup of Fuzzy Logic through Stream Processing on Graphics Processing Units," Proc, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008.

Havens TC, Bezdek JC, Keller JM, and Popescu M, "Clustering in Ordered Dissimilarity Data," International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2008, in review.

Luke RH, Anderson D, Keller JM and Skubic M , "Human segmentation from video in indoor environments using fused color and texture features," Technical Report, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 2008.

Popescu M, Florea E, Krampe J, Skubic M, and Rantz MJ, "Prediction of the pulse pressure trend in elderly using in-home monitoring sensors: A pilot study," Intelligent Data Analysis in Biomedicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP), Washington, DC, Nov 7, 2008, pp 29-33.

Popescu M, Florea E, Skubic M, and Rantz M, "Prediction of Elevated Pulse Pressure in Elderly Using In-Home Monitoring Sensors: A Pilot Study," 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, July 21-22, 2008.

Popescu M, Li Y, Skubic M, and Rantz M, "An Acoustic Fall Detector System that Uses Sound Height Information to Reduce the False Alarm Rate," 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 20-24, 2008.

Rantz M, Aud M, Alexander G, Oliver D, Minner D, Skubic, M, Keller J, He Z, Popescu M, Demiris G, and Miller S, "Tiger Place: An Innovative Educational and Research Environment," AAAI in Eldercare: New Solutions to Old Problems, Washington DC, November 7-9, 2008.

Rantz M, Aud M, Alexander G, Wakefield B, Skubic M, Luke RH, Anderson D, and Keller JK, "Falls, Technology, and Stunt Actors: new Approaches to Fall Detection and Fall Risk Assessment," Journal of Nursing Care Quality.

Rantz M, Skubic M, Burks K, Yu J, Demiris G, Hensel BK, Alexander GL, He Z, Tyrer HW, Hamilton M, Lee J, & Brown M, "Eldercare Technology for Clinical Practitioners," 2008.

Rantz MJ, Skubic M, Alexander GL, Aud MA, Wakefield BJ, Koopman RJ, and Miller SJ, "Improving Nurse Care Coordination," CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing, 2008, in review.

Rantz MJ, Skubic M, Miller SJ, and Krampe J, "Using Technology to Enhance Aging in Place," International Conference on Smart Home and Health Telematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, June 28-July 2, 2008.

Skubic M, "New Solution to Old Problems: The MU Eldertech Initiative," Chronicles in Aging, MU Interdisciplinary Center on Aging Newsletter, Winter, 2008, pp. 1-3.

Sledge IJ and Keller JM, "Growing Neural Gas for Temporal Clustering," Proceedings, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, FL, December, 2008.

Sledge IJ, Keller JM, and Alexander GL, "Emergent Trend Detection in Diurnal Activity," Proceedings, IEEE 2008 International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 3815-3818, Vancouver, August, 2008.

Sledge IJ, Keller JM, Havens TC, and Alexander GL , "Temporal Activity Analysis," AI in Eldercare: New Solutions to Old Problems, AAAI Technical Report FS-08-02, 2008, pp 100-108.

Wang S and Skubic M, "Density Map Visualization from Motion Sensors for Monitoring Activity Level," Proceedings of the IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Seattle, Washington, 2008, pp. 64-71.

Zhou Z, Chen X, Chung YC, He Z, Han TX, and Keller JM , "Activity Analysis, Summarization, and Visualization for Indoor Human Activity Monitoring," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 18:11, 2008.

2007

Alexander GL, "The Nurse Patient Trajectory Framework," Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, Brisbane, Australia, August 20-24, 2007.

Alexander GL & Demiris G, "Human Factors Applications for the Design of Developing Technologies Used to Monitor Elderly People," The 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, Brisbane, Australia, August 20-24, 2007.

Anderson D, Luke RH & Keller JM, "Speedup of Fuzzy Clustering through Stream Processing on Graphics Processing Units," IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2007, 16:1101-1106.

Anderson D, Luke RH & Keller JM, "Incorporation of Non-Euclidean Distance Metrics into Fuzzy Clustering on Graphics Processing Units," Proceedings, International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), 41:128-139, Cancun, Mexico, June 18-21, 2007.

Aud MA, Alexander GL, Rantz MJ & Skubic M, "Use of Sensor System Data for Early Detection of Health Status Changes in Older Adult Residents of a Retirement Community," Midwest Nursing Research Society, Omaha, Nebraska, March 23-26, 2007.

Courtney KL, Demiris G, Hensel BK , "Obtrusiveness of information-based assistive technologies as perceived by older adults in residential care facilities: A secondary analysis," Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine, 32(3): 241-249, 2007.

Demiris G, Courtney KL, Skubic M & Rantz M, "An Evaluation Protocol of a Smart Home Application for Older Adults," Proc. 2007 International Conference Addressing Information Technology and Communications in Health (ITCH), pp. 319-323, Victoria, BC, Canada, Feb 15-18, 2007.

Hensel BK, Demiris G & Courtney KL, "Content Validity of Obtrusiveness Model of Home Telehealth Technologies," National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Conference. Stanford University, June 26-27, 2007.

Mahoney DF, Purtilo RB, Webbe FM, Alwan M, Bharucha AJ, Adlam TD, Jimison HB, Turner B, and Becker SA, "In-home Monitoring of Persons with Dementia: Ethical Guidelines for Technology Research and Development," Alzheimer's & Dementia - Journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 3: 217-226, 2007.

Rantz MJ, Porter R, Cheshier D, Otto D, Servey CH, Johnson RA, Skubic M, Tyrer H, He Z, Demiris G, Lee J, Alexander G & Taylor G, "TigerPlace, a State-Academic-Private Project to Revolutionize Traditional Long Term Care," Journal of Housing for the Elderly.

Tyrer HW, Aud MA, Alexander G, Skubic M, Rantz M, "Early Detection of Health Changes in Older Adults," Proc., IEEE 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 4045-4048, Lyon, France August 23-26, 2007.

2006

Alwan M, Rajendran PJ, Kell S, Mack D, Dalal S, Wolfe M, and Felder R, "A Smart and Passive Floor-Vibration Based Fall Detector for Elderly," Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications (ICTTA'06), vol. 1, pp. 1003-1007, Damascus, Syria, April 24-28, 2006.

Anderson D, Keller J, Skubic M, Chen X & He Z, "Recognizing Falls From Silhouettes," Proc., IEEE 2006 International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 6388-6391, New York, NY, August 30-September 3, 2006.

Chen X, He Z, Anderson D, Keller J & Skubic M, "Adaptive Silhouette Extraction and Human Tracking in Complex and Dynamic Environments," International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, Georgia, October 8-13, 2006.

Chen X, He Z, Anderson D, Keller J & Skubic M, "Adaptive Silhouette Extraction and Human Tracking in Dynamic Environments," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, 2006.

Chen X, He Z, Keller J, Anderson D & Skubic M, "Adaptive Silhouette Extraction In Dynamic Environments Using Fuzzy Logic," Proceedings, 15th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp. 832-839, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.

Courtney KL, Demiris G Rantz M & Skubic M, "Decision Factors for Participation in "Smart Home" Technology Research in a Residential Care Setting: A Single Subject Case Study," Proceedings, International Congress of the European Federation of Medical Informatics, pp. 379-384, Maastricht, Netherlands, August 27-30, 2006.

Demiris G, Skubic M, Keller J, Rantz M, Parker Oliver D, Aud M, Lee J, Burks K & Green N, "Nurse Participation in the Design of User Interfaces for a Smart Home System," Proceedings, International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, pp. 66-73, Belfast, N. Ireland, June 26-28, 2006.

Demiris G, Skubic M, Oliver DR, Rantz MJ, Aud MA, Lee J, Burks K, Green N & Keller J, "End-User Involvement in Interface Design of Smart Home Applications: The Nursing Perspective," International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI), St Petersburg, Florida, February 1-5, 2006.

Demiris G, Skubic M, Rantz M & Hensel B, "Smart Home Sensors for Aging in Place: Older Adults' Attitudes and Willingness to Adopt," The Gerontologist, 46 (Special Issue 1): 430, 2006.

Demiris G, Skubic M, Rantz M, Keller J, Aud M, Hensel B & He Z, "Smart Home Sensors for the Elderly: A Model for Participatory Formative Evaluation," Proc. IEEE EMBS International Special Topic Conference on Information Technology in Biomedicine, p.1-4, Ioannina Greece, October 26-28, 2006.

Demiris G, Skubic M, Rantz MJ, Courtney KL, Aud MA, Tyrer HW, He Z & Lee J, "Facilitating Interdisciplinary Design Specification of "Smart Homes" for Aging in Place," Proceedings, International Congress of the European Federation of Medical Informatics, p. 45 - 50, IOS Press, Maastricht, Netherlands, August 27-30, 2006.

Demiris G, Skubic M, Rantz MJ, Harris K, Hensel B, Aud MA, Lee J, Burks K, Oliver DR, He Z & Tyrer HW, "Older Adults' Attitudes Towards Smart Home Features," International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI), St Petersburg, Florida, February, 2006.

Hensel BK, Demiris G & Courtney KL , "Defining Obtrusiveness in Home Telehealth Technologies: A Conceptual Framework," Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13(4): 428-431, 2006.

Mack D, Alwan M, Turner B, Felder R & Suratt P, "Passive Ballistocardiography System Compared to EKG: Preliminary Validation," Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS '06), Salt Lake City, Utah, June 17-22, 2006.

Mack D, Alwan M, Turner B, Felder R and Suratt P, "Passive Automatic Detection of Sleep Apnea and Arousals Compared to Standard Polysomnography: Preliminary Validation," Proceedings of the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS '06), Salt Lake City, Utah, pp. 379-384, June 17-22, 2006.

Mack DC, Alwan M, Turner B, Suratt P & Felder R, "A Passive and Portable System for Monitoring Heart Rate and Detecting Sleep Apnea and Arousals: Preliminary Validation," Proceedings of the Transdisciplinary Conference on Distributed Diagnosis and Home Healthcare (D2H2), pp. 51-54, Arlington, Virginia, April 2-4, 2006.

Marek KD, Popejoy L, Petroski G & Rantz MJ, "Nurse Care Coordination in Community-Based Long-Term Care," Journal of Nursing Scholarship (38)(1): 80-86, 2006.

Rajendran PJ, Alwan M, Kell S, Mack DC, and Dalal S, "A Passive Floor-Vibration Based Fall Detector," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Independence, Aging and Disability, St Petersburg, Florida, February 2-4, 2006.

Tyrer H, Alwan M, Demiris G, He Z, Keller J, Skubic M & Rantz M, "Technology for Successful Aging," Proceedings, IEEE 2006 International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp. 3290-3293, New York, NY, August 30-September 3, 2006.

Wang S, Keller JM, Burks K, Skubic M & Tyrer H, "Assessing Physical Performance of Elders Using Fuzzy Logic," Proceedings, 15th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp. 2998-3003, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006.

2005

Dalal S, Alwan M, Seifrafi R, Kell S & Brown D, "A Rule-Based Approach to the Analysis of Elders' Activity Data: Detection of Health and Possible Emergency Conditions," AAAI Fall 2005 Symposium, Workshop on Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare, Arlington, Virginia, November 4-6, 2005.

Demiris G, Rantz MJ, Aud MA, Marek KD, Tyrer HW, Skubic M, and Hussam AA, "Seniors' Attitudes Towards Home-based Assistive Technologies," 29th Annual MNRS Research Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1-4, 2005.

Marek K, Popejoy L, Petroski G, Mehr D, Rantz MJ & Lin W, "Clinical Outcomes of Aging in Place," Nursing Research (54)(3): 202-211.

Rantz MJ, Demiris G, Aud MA, Tyrer HW & Skubic M, "Seniors' Attitudes Towards Home-based Assistive Technologies," 29th Annual Research Conference, Midwest Nursing Research Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 1-4, 2005.

Rantz MJ, Marek KD, Aud MA, Tyrer HW, Skubic M, Demiris G & Hussam AA, "A Technology and Nursing Collaboration to Help Older Adults Age in Place," Nursing Outlook, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 40-45, January-February, 2005.

Rantz MJ, Marek, KD, Aud MA, Johnson RA, Otto D & Porter R, "TigerPlace: A New Future for Older Adults," Journal of Nursing Care Quality, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-4, January-March, 2005.

Skubic M, "Assessing Mobility and Cognitive Problems in Elders," AAAI 2005 Fall Symposium, Workshop on Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare, Arlington, Virginia, November 4-6, 2005.

2004

Demiris G, Rantz MJ, Aud MA, Marek KD, Tyrer HW, Skubic M & Hussam AA, "Older Adults' Attitudes Towards and Perceptions of 'Smarthome' Technologies: a Pilot Study," Medical Informatics and The Internet in Medicine, June, 2004, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 87-94.

Demiris G, Rantz MJ, Aud MA, Marek KD, Tyrer HW, Skubic M & Hussam AA, "Smart Home Technologies for Aging in Place," Telemedicine Journal and e-Health, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of the American Telemedicine Association, Tampa FL, May 2-5, 2004.

Marek KD, Rantz MJ, and Porter RT, "Senior Care: Making a Difference in Long-Term Care of Older Adults," Journal of Nursing Education, February, 2004.