6 papers
An Edge-Host-Cloud Architecture for Robot-Agnostic, Caregiver-in-the-Loop Personalized Cognitive Exercise: Multi-Site Deployment in Dementia Care
Wenzheng Zhao, Ruth Palan Lopez, Shu Fen Wung +1
We present Speaking Memories, a distributed, stakeholder-in-the-loop robotic interaction platform for personalized cognitive exercise support. Rather than a single robot-centric sy…
SafeScreen: A Safety-First Screening Framework for Personalized Video Retrieval for Vulnerable Users
Wenzheng Zhao, Madhava Kalyan Gadiputi, Fengpei Yuan
Open-domain video platforms offer rich, personalized content that could support health, caregiving, and educational applications, but their engagement-optimized recommendation algo…
Bridging the Awareness Gap: Socially Mediated State Externalization for Transparent Distributed Home Robots
Wenzheng Zhao, Manideep Duggi, Fengpei Yuan
Distributed multi-robot systems for the home often require robots to operate out of the user's sight, creating a state awareness gap that can diminish trust and perceived transpare…
An Interactive LLM-Based Simulator for Dementia-Related Activities of Daily Living
Kruthika Gangaraju, Shu-Fen Wung, Kevin Berner +2
Effective dementia caregiving requires training and adaptive communication, but assistive AI and robotics are constrained by a lack of context-rich, privacy-sensitive data on how p…
Causal Reinforcement Learning based Agent-Patient Interaction with Clinical Domain Knowledge
Wenzheng Zhao, Ran Zhang, Ruth Palan Lopez +2
Reinforcement Learning (RL) faces significant challenges in adaptive healthcare interventions, such as dementia care, where data is scarce, decisions require interpretability, and…
Assist-As-Needed: Adaptive Multimodal Robotic Assistance for Medication Management in Dementia Care
Kruthika Gangaraju, Tanmayi Inaparthy, Jiaqi Yang +2
People living with dementia (PLWDs) face progressively declining abilities in medication management-from simple forgetfulness to complete task breakdown-yet most assistive technolo…