Ongoing Projects
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The 3C Platform
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Online Asessments of Cognitive Function (Ethics approved study H-10-23-9755)
Volunteers Needed for an Online Study of Aging and Memory/Volontaires recherchés pour une étude en ligne sur le vieillissement et la mémoire
Student Projects
My primary appointment is with the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences with cross-appointments into the School of Psychology, and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The following projects are therefore open to undergraduate students for course credit for CSI4900, PSY4276, or HSS4901.
The lab has developed an exciting software platform for remote and in-person assessment of cognitive functioning (see description above). The platform includes cognitive and behavioral tasks to assess memory, executive function, processing speed, visuospatial construction, depression, anxiety, etc.
This platform provides many opportunities for psychology, health science, engineering, computer science, or interdisciplinary student projects. The goal is to expand this platform in many ways. This includes building up a database of scores from healthy adults to develop normative information about the tasks. Another goal is to leverage the computerized nature of these tasks and identify additional cognitive metrics that are only available with digital assessments. In the same manner, there is a need to develop open-source databases (drawings, voice recordings, etc.) for machine learning applications. Here is a list of some of our specific current needs, but if you have your own idea of something we could use/need, we would love to hear about it!
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Develop Automatic Scoring of Drawings
Develop/implement a tool for the automatic scoring of the hand-drawn cognitive tests
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Implement Cognitive Protocols
Implement cognitive protocols into the 3C platform
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Collect data on drawing tasks
Collect data remotely or in person from drawing tasks using the 3C platform for development of an open-source database of visuo-spatial construction data for future machine learning projects.
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Develop additional continuous performance cognitive tasks
Identify and implement cognitive tasks that utilize continuous performance measures
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Platform Setup GUI
Develop GUI for end user to setup the platform for their own battery of assessments
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Equity in cognitive assessments
Explore what equity means in cognitive assessments
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Eye-Tracking
Incorporate eye-tracking capabilities into the cognitive assessment platform
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Pupillometry (pupil diameter measurements)
Incorporate pupil diameter capabilities into the cognitive assessment platform
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Implement Questionnaires
Implement additional questionnaires into the 3C platform
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Refine speech recognition for cognitive assessments
Collect data remotely or in person from tasks relying on spoken responses using the 3C platform
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Cognitive Screening Based on Assessment of Speech and Language
Speech and language are becoming important tools to understand cognition
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When is enough, enough?
Identify and implement adaptive criteria for cognitive assessments to indetify when enough information is collected to streamline evaluations.