2.1Thrust/System Name (ABBR)

2013 Annual Report & Renewal Proposal – Volume 2

2Core Projects

2.1Thrust/System Name (ABBR)

2.1.1Project Title

ERC Team Members

List all project personnel, including people who worked on the project but were not funded by the ERC, under the following categories.

Lead:

Faculty:

Staff:

PhD Students:

MS Students:

Undergrads:

Other Students:

Visitors:

Partners:

Project Goals and Impact

Explain what the work is intended to accomplish. Explain what constitutes success, including metrics.

Provide a summary description of the project approach.

For systems, also answer the following: 1) primary and secondary target population(s); 2) aspects of Quality of Life that are intended to be improved, 3) primary and secondary human function domain(s) targeted (i.e., cognitive, sensory, neuromuscular, behavioral, psychological, social)

Briefly describe potential impacts on 1) quality of life, 2) healthcare effectiveness and cost (e.g., reduced caregiver burden, reduced utilization of healthcare resources), 3) health/public policy and economics, and 4) (if applicable) other benefits of the technology and knowledge being created.

Explicitly describe involvement, if any, of current IPAB members or prospective members; otherwise, describe how this project is an attractor for industry.

Role in Support of QoLT Strategic Plan

Describe how this project supports the Center’s long-term Vision and Mission Statements.

Address the wider aperture, i.e., improving QoL for everyone).

Highlight ties to other QoLT research thrusts and testbed systems.

Profile the interdisciplinary project team. Explain PST’s role in the project. IMPORTANT: Specifically describe how involvement of prospective users and/or clinicians has influenced technology design and/or project directions

Fundamental Research Barriers and How They Are Being Addressed

Indicate which of the 12 fundamental barriers this project is addressing and explain how.

Describe how this project advancesexplores QoLT-specific knowledge.

Explain the research value in wider scientific contexts beyond QoLT.

Describe how other barriers to technology advancement are being addressed.

Briefly the technology’s commercialization potential, as well as barriers to development, implementation and adoption.

If applicable, explain how project is addressing educational barriers.

Achievements

Provide details of significant project work, findings, and accomplishments in previous years with more detail on accomplishments in the past year. Include mention of any awards or honors, as well as notable media coverage.

NEW NSF REQUIREMENT: Detail any research aspect that involves foreign collaborations, especially indicating the length of time US faculty or students spent abroad conducting their work, and vice versa, and the value added of that work to the student’s/faculty’ work.

Relevant Work Being Conducted Elsewhere; How this Project Differs

What differentiates us from other groups?Describe other projects and other prior work that informs or competes with this project. Provide citations.

Provide an analysis of the competition, pointing to relevant scientific work and/or competing developments in industry. Clearly define what is unique about our achievements and/or.

Future Plans, Milestones and Deliverables

Describe future plans,detailing the upcoming year and sketching the years after. Indicate the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) to be achieved, for the project for three time periods: 1) how far we will take it with ERC funding, 2) how far we will take it as a team, and 3) how far we intend it to be taken ultimately.

List the expected deliverables for each, e.g., design documentation, software code & documentation, testing results, papers, and other representation materials.

Reference the milestones table in section 2.1.4

NEW NSF REQUIREMENT: Detail any research aspect that involves foreign collaborations, especially indicating the length of time US faculty or students spent abroad conducting their work, and vice versa, and the value added of that work to the student’s/faculty’ work.

Publications

List any publications – in print; in press doesn’t count – that have resulted from this project between 1/1/12 and 12/31/12. It’s OK for a publication to be attributed to (appear in the write-ups of) more than one project.

Literature Cited

Provide full bibliographic information for any quotations used in the narrative. Use the formats below.

[Bennewitz 05] Bennewitz, M., Burgard, W., Cielniak, G., Thrun, S. “Learning Motion Patterns of People for Compliant Robot Motion”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, V24, N1, pages 31-48, 2005.

[Lnameyr] lname, fn., lname, fn. “Title”. Publisher, editor, Publication Name, page numbers, year.

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