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AI Goggles to Understand Influences on Well-being with Life-changing Injury or Pathology

Company: Real-time Science Laboratory - Pennsylvania State University

Major(s):
Primary: ME
Secondary: CMPSC
Optional: CMPEN

Non-Disclosure Agreement: NO

Intellectual Property: NO

Neurobehavioral disorders, such as spinal cord injury, addiction, and stroke, are life-changing. Patients with these injuries and disorders are faced with intense and lasting changes to almost every aspect of their lives, including physical limitations, changes to living situations, social stigma, upheavals of social, family, and romantic relationships, and often the onset of other psychological issues like depression and anxiety. Ordinary day-to-day influences, ranging from basic social interactions to care-team decisionmaking processes, can have large effects on the overall progress and patient well-being. Understanding these influences requires intensive data collection and advanced analysis techniques, which can add immense cost and burden to patients. This project will develop open hardware and software specifications and a set of prototypes for a body-mounted data collection system capable of collecting and transmitting audiovisual data to a server for privacy-preserving AI-based processing in real time. Current prototypes use a glasses-like form factor, although others may be possible. This project is part of a larger project to develop individualized interventions to improve well-being in patients recovering from long-term disorders and life-changing injuries.