[Music]
[Applause]
this is a house I’m gonna tell you a
secret about this house
spider-man lives here and I know you
think his spider-man secret identity is
Peter Parker but his real name is Owen
one day I was in the kitchen cleaning
dishes and I could hear spider-man
fighting crime in the living room he was
flying through the air swaying from
building to building
catching can bank robbers and thieves
and then I heard a loud noise the floor
shook silence followed by a cry
spider-man found that day the
superheroes get hurt but after a few
stitches and a cookie he was ready to
fight crime again well what if is
spider-man’s great grandmother was the
one that fell when fortunately
statistics don’t show – just a few
stitches for her the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention reports that one
of every five Falls in ordered in older
adults result in a serious injury such a
broken bone and these injuries make it
difficult for them to do independent
daily activities and live independently
over 65 percent of older adults the
software fault do not return to their
previous living status and false are not
as a problem for the older adults and
their families they’re also problem for
the healthcare system in 2015 the total
medical cost for faults was over 50
billion dollars and this is yes
increasing as our population ages now I
know what you think
here comes the commercial about the
button that you would around your neck
right well there is no question wearable
devices are definitely an excellent
alternative alternative to ask for help
one thing about the Apple watch they
wonder what’s released only a few weeks
ago it has a new feature that can
automatically detect if a person has
fallen that is amazing technology that
is if you’re wearing it because I mean
let’s be honest about this will you wear
a device to go to the bathroom in the
middle of the night and is that this
time when it’s dark that we’re more
likely to trip on something that we
don’t see how about your parents and
grandparents or they wear something at
all times and what if as we age we
develop cognitive impairments such as
those produced by dementia and
Alzheimer’s disease we’re just going to
forget to charge our devices
we’re going to forget that we actually
wear them in the first place so what if
your house could feel and I do mean
feeling and not saying because even
though cameras are a very good
alternative to detecting false cameras
are regularly not welcoming some parts
of a home well it turns out that this is
actually possible based on research that
we’re developing here at the University
of South Carolina that it studies how
your house moves believe it or not we
can detect very small levels of
vibration with sensors that are just not
that expensive and are easy to install
an existing structures these are not
motion sensors rather these are the type
of sensors that scientists use to study
earthquakes but in your house they can
detect motions and vibrations due to
air-conditioning units people walking
elevators and yes people falling these
vibrations have different
characteristics depending on the type of
impact the location of the impact and
also how hard the impact is so let’s say
that I have a
in the kitchen if I jump in my bedroom
the sensor we will get vibrations with
different characteristics that if I’m
job in my living room so Benjamin Davis
is a former student of mine and myself
come up with an algorithm that uses
these floor vibrations to identify and
locate those impacts in the floors of a
house or an apartment but more
importantly we can actually identify the
force of those impacts well why are
those force is important because this is
what’s going to let us know whether or
not those vibrations were produced by a
person falling or an object striking the
floor now after we Thurston or an
algorithm we were very happy Benjamin
and I will be working on these for many
many years and we were finally doing
some good progress and we talked to one
of our research collaborators he’s a
gerontologist his name is Victor hurt he
was also very happy at Everett about the
result but then then he paused and he
said you know this is good but would it
be better if we can prevent default I
mean I have to admit I rolled my eyes I
hope he didn’t notice so we went back to
the drawing board and we started
thinking about all sort of crazy ideas
what if we have floors with embedded
airbags that will deploy automatically
well no hopefully nobody will be ejected
out of their houses by accident what if
we have a robot with a cane that will
walk with you ready to steady you if you
commute Istanbul certainly not the best
ideas but Victor of research
collaborator he came out with the best
idea of all what if he measured gate
well it turns out you can tell a lot
about a person not only by their shoes
but also by the way they walk it Stacy
fritz
xisa exercise scientists here at the
University of South Carolina has done a
lot of research about this topic and she
has found that there is a strong
correlation between the walking speed of
an individual and also all sort of other
things like for example
risk of hospitalization and also the
risk of falling in a nutshell if your
walking speed is about one meter per
second or higher you are very likely to
be able to do daily activities on your
own if your walking speed slows down to
less than 0.7 m/s you are a risk of
falling so right now we are at the stage
we’re starting to gather some of these
gate parameters based on the same levels
of vibrations that we were collecting
before not to preventable but to
identify people that is at risk of
falling and our research findings is
telling us that we can do even more we
can tell people behavior as how much
that Mohammed activity they do in their
houses when they when is Spiderman’s all
twin brothers were about two years old I
instrumented the first floor of my house
and when I compared the schedule of my
family with what they’ve what the
sensors found I was really surprised so
let’s start first with the schedule of
my case my wife found these clocks that
change color at 7:00 a.m. as a way to
teach the kids if it’s time to get up in
the morning of it or if it’s time to go
back to sleep and so and because there
is something and better than every
two-year-old that I just don’t
understand they just don’t believe in is
sleeping in right so 7:00 a.m. is almost
exactly the time in which they come
downstairs for breakfast after that and
every two-year-old working schedule you
have play play play nap play play play
more naps play and then going to bed
don’t worry we do feed our kids but for
the purpose of this presentation I
included breakfast lunch dinner and
snacks as part of playtime because those
happen generally around the location
where the sensors were installed now
that super impose the level of activity
that was recorded by the sensors lighter
colors and Red’s show the levels of high
activity and
match perfectly with the times where the
kids were playing or having lunch darker
colors are levels of low intensity and
that matches perfectly with not time
before they came out of bed in the
morning and after they went to bed in
the evening so it’s amazing that you can
tell so much with only two sensors that
we place on the floor under a sofa it’s
a little creepy if you ask me now is it
this time that we I think we need to
start having a conversation about the
technology we’re bringing our homes are
we okay with this are we okay with
technology knowing at the time that I
get up in the morning what time I go for
work right and I think the jury for that
is still out but we need to have that
conversation as we invite Alexa Siri and
Google to our homes and we all have a
smartphones in our in our pockets that
can potentially track our location at
any time so my challenge for you today
is for thing about your house or our
apartment differently when you get home
think beyond what what it is beyond what
you think about refu from rain or beyond
the place that keeps you warm and cold
and cold winter days and uncool in her
summer summer days I mean think about
the possibilities it being beyond what
John Gaines can think buildings can let
us know the number of people that were
in in each room before an earthquake or
a fire houses can have superpowers to
let us know who is inside the house for
security system applications and
apartments can let us know or can help
us with our parents and grandparents so
what is your dream for your house today thank you
[Applause]
this is a house I’m gonna tell you a
secret about this house
spider-man lives here and I know you
think his spider-man secret identity is
Peter Parker but his real name is Owen
one day I was in the kitchen cleaning
dishes and I could hear spider-man
fighting crime in the living room he was
flying through the air swaying from
building to building
catching can bank robbers and thieves
and then I heard a loud noise the floor
shook silence followed by a cry
spider-man found that day the
superheroes get hurt but after a few
stitches and a cookie he was ready to
fight crime again well what if is
spider-man’s great grandmother was the
one that fell when fortunately
statistics don’t show – just a few
stitches for her the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention reports that one
of every five Falls in ordered in older
adults result in a serious injury such a
broken bone and these injuries make it
difficult for them to do independent
daily activities and live independently
over 65 percent of older adults the
software fault do not return to their
previous living status and false are not
as a problem for the older adults and
their families they’re also problem for
the healthcare system in 2015 the total
medical cost for faults was over 50
billion dollars and this is yes
increasing as our population ages now I
know what you think
here comes the commercial about the
button that you would around your neck
right well there is no question wearable
devices are definitely an excellent
alternative alternative to ask for help
one thing about the Apple watch they
wonder what’s released only a few weeks
ago it has a new feature that can
automatically detect if a person has
fallen that is amazing technology that
is if you’re wearing it because I mean
let’s be honest about this will you wear
a device to go to the bathroom in the
middle of the night and is that this
time when it’s dark that we’re more
likely to trip on something that we
don’t see how about your parents and
grandparents or they wear something at
all times and what if as we age we
develop cognitive impairments such as
those produced by dementia and
Alzheimer’s disease we’re just going to
forget to charge our devices
we’re going to forget that we actually
wear them in the first place so what if
your house could feel and I do mean
feeling and not saying because even
though cameras are a very good
alternative to detecting false cameras
are regularly not welcoming some parts
of a home well it turns out that this is
actually possible based on research that
we’re developing here at the University
of South Carolina that it studies how
your house moves believe it or not we
can detect very small levels of
vibration with sensors that are just not
that expensive and are easy to install
an existing structures these are not
motion sensors rather these are the type
of sensors that scientists use to study
earthquakes but in your house they can
detect motions and vibrations due to
air-conditioning units people walking
elevators and yes people falling these
vibrations have different
characteristics depending on the type of
impact the location of the impact and
also how hard the impact is so let’s say
that I have a
in the kitchen if I jump in my bedroom
the sensor we will get vibrations with
different characteristics that if I’m
job in my living room so Benjamin Davis
is a former student of mine and myself
come up with an algorithm that uses
these floor vibrations to identify and
locate those impacts in the floors of a
house or an apartment but more
importantly we can actually identify the
force of those impacts well why are
those force is important because this is
what’s going to let us know whether or
not those vibrations were produced by a
person falling or an object striking the
floor now after we Thurston or an
algorithm we were very happy Benjamin
and I will be working on these for many
many years and we were finally doing
some good progress and we talked to one
of our research collaborators he’s a
gerontologist his name is Victor hurt he
was also very happy at Everett about the
result but then then he paused and he
said you know this is good but would it
be better if we can prevent default I
mean I have to admit I rolled my eyes I
hope he didn’t notice so we went back to
the drawing board and we started
thinking about all sort of crazy ideas
what if we have floors with embedded
airbags that will deploy automatically
well no hopefully nobody will be ejected
out of their houses by accident what if
we have a robot with a cane that will
walk with you ready to steady you if you
commute Istanbul certainly not the best
ideas but Victor of research
collaborator he came out with the best
idea of all what if he measured gate
well it turns out you can tell a lot
about a person not only by their shoes
but also by the way they walk it Stacy
fritz
xisa exercise scientists here at the
University of South Carolina has done a
lot of research about this topic and she
has found that there is a strong
correlation between the walking speed of
an individual and also all sort of other
things like for example
risk of hospitalization and also the
risk of falling in a nutshell if your
walking speed is about one meter per
second or higher you are very likely to
be able to do daily activities on your
own if your walking speed slows down to
less than 0.7 m/s you are a risk of
falling so right now we are at the stage
we’re starting to gather some of these
gate parameters based on the same levels
of vibrations that we were collecting
before not to preventable but to
identify people that is at risk of
falling and our research findings is
telling us that we can do even more we
can tell people behavior as how much
that Mohammed activity they do in their
houses when they when is Spiderman’s all
twin brothers were about two years old I
instrumented the first floor of my house
and when I compared the schedule of my
family with what they’ve what the
sensors found I was really surprised so
let’s start first with the schedule of
my case my wife found these clocks that
change color at 7:00 a.m. as a way to
teach the kids if it’s time to get up in
the morning of it or if it’s time to go
back to sleep and so and because there
is something and better than every
two-year-old that I just don’t
understand they just don’t believe in is
sleeping in right so 7:00 a.m. is almost
exactly the time in which they come
downstairs for breakfast after that and
every two-year-old working schedule you
have play play play nap play play play
more naps play and then going to bed
don’t worry we do feed our kids but for
the purpose of this presentation I
included breakfast lunch dinner and
snacks as part of playtime because those
happen generally around the location
where the sensors were installed now
that super impose the level of activity
that was recorded by the sensors lighter
colors and Red’s show the levels of high
activity and
match perfectly with the times where the
kids were playing or having lunch darker
colors are levels of low intensity and
that matches perfectly with not time
before they came out of bed in the
morning and after they went to bed in
the evening so it’s amazing that you can
tell so much with only two sensors that
we place on the floor under a sofa it’s
a little creepy if you ask me now is it
this time that we I think we need to
start having a conversation about the
technology we’re bringing our homes are
we okay with this are we okay with
technology knowing at the time that I
get up in the morning what time I go for
work right and I think the jury for that
is still out but we need to have that
conversation as we invite Alexa Siri and
Google to our homes and we all have a
smartphones in our in our pockets that
can potentially track our location at
any time so my challenge for you today
is for thing about your house or our
apartment differently when you get home
think beyond what what it is beyond what
you think about refu from rain or beyond
the place that keeps you warm and cold
and cold winter days and uncool in her
summer summer days I mean think about
the possibilities it being beyond what
John Gaines can think buildings can let
us know the number of people that were
in in each room before an earthquake or
a fire houses can have superpowers to
let us know who is inside the house for
security system applications and
apartments can let us know or can help
us with our parents and grandparents so
what is your dream for your house today thank you
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