With AI and other tech, US researcher focuses on helping people with disabilities


  • TECH
  • Friday, 09 Aug 2019

In Caspi's office at the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering is a table she and her team at the Taskar Center are designing that uses sensors and cameras to understand and adjust to the needs of its users by swiveling and tilting depending on the situation. — Seattle Times/TNS

SEATTLE: While walking beneath a canopy of trees on the winding Burke Gilman trail, artificial intelligence researcher Anat Caspi pointed to the evenness of the terrain along the University of Washington campus periphery.

"A lot of times we don't want the shortest path," Caspi said over the din of traffic whizzing by. The scenic route she picked for its level ground, while not the most direct, allowed her to walk and talk.

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