Note: The QoLT Project has been superseded by the QoLT Center.
Technology to Enable Self-Determination for Older Adults and People with Disabilities
The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) whose mission is to transform lives in a large and growing segment of the population – people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability.
QoLT is a unique partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, in association with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). QoLT brings together a cross-disciplinary team of technologists, clinicians, industry partners, end users, and other stakeholders to create revolutionary technologies that will improve and sustain the quality of life for all people.
The vision of the QoLT Center is to develop intelligent systems ranging from individual devices to comprehensive environments that enhance body and mind. They monitor and communicate with a person and understand his/her needs and task goals, and compensate for or replace diminished capabilities appropriately, safely, reliably and graciously. Such future QoLT systems will not be just machines for convenience or saving labor, but intelligent assistants. They will restore and preserve independence, allowing people to freely perform valued and necessary activities of daily living so that they can fully participate in society. They will enhance and augment the capabilities of caregivers, and will also delay or prevent the manifestation of functional impairment.
Please visit our complete current personnel list at http://www.qolt.org/People/Researchers.jsp
QoLT is a partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. The personnel listed below are CMU personnel only. Please see the link above for a complete personnel list.
current head
past staff
- Clifford E Brubaker
- Wandi Bruine de Bruin
- Sheldon Cohen
- Anind Dey
- Julie Downs
- Colleen Everett
- Baruch Fischhoff
- Jodi Forlizzi
- Martin Gaynor
- Geoffrey Gordon
- James Kuffner
- Jennifer Mankoff
- Deborah R Murphy
- Brad A Myers
- James Osborn
- Rema Padman
- Michael Scheier
- Asim Smailagic
- Latanya Sweeney
- Jie Yang
past contact
- James Osborn