AI for Gerontechnology

The titles of the eight symposia were as follows: AI for Gerontechnology (FS-12-01), Artificial Intelligence of Humor (FS-12-02), Discovery Informatics: The Role of AI Research in Innovating Scientific Processes (FS-12-03), Human Control of Bio-Inspired Swarms (FS-12-04), Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Text (FS-12-05), Machine Aggregation of Human Judgment (FS-12-06), Robots Learning Interactively from Human Teachers (FS-12- 07), and Social Networks and Social Contagion (FS-12-08). The highlights of each symposium are presented in this report. The development of user-centered technologies that assist older adults to live independently and also reduce the burden on caregivers is gaining more attention due to increasing healthcare costs and the aging population. AI is central to these technologies as it deals with the process of transforming raw sensor data into human-interpretable abstractions, innovating new human computer interfaces, as well as planning and reasoning. The symposium provided an intimate setting for researchers from the disciplines of computer science, engineering, nursing, psychology, cognitive science, and health informatics to take stock of the state of the art, highlighting successes and failures, while discussing new problems and opportunities.