Papers

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," Accepted for 6th International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, Pisa, Taucany, Italy, June 4-7, 2008.

Anderson D, Luke R, Keller J, and Skubic M, "Extension of a Soft-Computing Framework for Activity Analysis from Linguistic Summarizations of Video," Proc, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008.

Anderson D, Luke R, Skubic M, Keller JM, Rantz M, and Aud M, "Evaluation of a Video Based Fall Recognition System for Elders Using Voxel Space," Accepted for International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, June 4-7, 2008.

Anderson D, Luke RH, Keller J, Skubic M, Rantz M and Aud M, "Linguistic Summarization of Activities from Video for Fall detection Using Voxel Person and Fuzzy Logic," Computer Vision and Image Understanding, In review.

Anderson D, Luke RH, Keller J, Skubic M, Rantz M and Aud M, "Modeling Human Activity from Voxel Person Using Fuzzy Logic," IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, In preparation.

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, in press.

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," Pattern Recognition, In review.

Luke RH, Anderson D, Keller JM and Skubic M , "Moving Object Segmentation from Video Using Fused Color and Texture Features," In preparation.

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.

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, in press.

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,"

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.

Wang S and Skubic M, "Density Map Visualization from Motion Sensors for Monitoring Activity Level," Accepted for 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, July 21-22, 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 R & Keller J, "Speedup of Fuzzy Clustering through Stream Processing on Graphics Processing Units," IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

Anderson D, Luke R & Keller J, "Incorporation of Non-Euclidean Distance Metrics into Fuzzy Clustering on Graphics Processing Units," Proceedings, International Fuzzy Systems Association Conference, 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 & 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 & 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 Dynamic Environments," under revision for resubmission to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies, 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, Keller J, Anderson D & Skubic M, "Adaptive Silouette 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, Keller J, Rantz MJ, Parker Oliver D, Aud MA, Lee J, Burks K & Green N, "Nurse Participation in the Design of User Interfaces for a Smart Home System," 2006 International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST 2006), Belfast, Northern 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 & 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 & 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 2005 Fall Symposium, Workshop on Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare, Arlington, Virginia, November 4-6, 2005.

Dalal S, Alwan M, Seirafi R, Kell S & Brown D, "A Rule-Based Approach to Analyzing Elders' Activity Data: Detection of Health and Emergency Conditions," Proc. AAAI Fall 2005 Symposium Workshop on Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare, Washington, DC, November 4-6, 2005.

Demiris G, Rantz MJ, Aud MA, Marek KD, Tyrer HW, Skubic M & 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, Tyrer HW, Skubic M, Demiris G & Hussam AA, "Technology and nursing collaboration to help older adults age in place," Nursing Outlook 53(1): 40-45.

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.

Skubic M, "Assessing Mobility and Cognitive Problems in Elders," Proc. AAAI Fall 2005 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 & Porter RT, "Senior Care: Making a Difference in Long-Term Care of Older Adults," Journal of Nursing Education, February, 2004.