'Care Chair' Helps Detect Patients' Movements, Mental State From: Medical Design Technology - 09/01/2016 Dr. Debraj De, a postdoctorial fellow at Missouri S&T, and Dr. Sajal K. Das, the Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair and department chair of computer science at Missouri S&T, have developed a chair that could help detect the daily behavior and mental health of elderly people at home or in assisted-living facilities - specifically rehabilitation patients and elderly people susceptible to levels of dementia. The "Care Chair" employs sensors to detect a user's functional and emotion-based activities throughout a normal day. The device, which uses four sensors, slips over a chair's backrest and back so that it's unobtrusive. Read the entire article at: https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/09/care-chair-helps-detect-patients-movements-mental-state http://news.mst.edu/2016/08/care-chair-helps-detect-patients-movements-mental-state Links: Debraj De http://www.debrajde.com Care-Chair: Sedentary Activities and Behavior Assessment with Smart Sensing on Chair Backrest http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7501682