News

• August 2026: EdgeCare team is developing a first-of-its-kind longitudinal, multimodal dataset for understanding the social health of mid-life and older adults who live alone and experience memory concerns
• July 2026: Profs. Zhao and Roberts presented EdgeCare at the 2026 AIM-AHEAD Annual Meeting [Poster]
• May 2026: Profs. Zhao and Roberts appeared on Arizona PBS to discuss AI-powered health care for older adults and veterans [Video]
• May 2026: EdgeCare PhD student Guoxin Sun presented “MOSAIC: Multi-agent Orchestrated System for Adaptive Interactive Coaching” at Arizona Digital Health Symposium [Presentation]
• April 2026: The EdgeCare team hosted a community advisory meeting with health and social-service leaders to explore and refine an early-stage concept for a mobile AI coach designed to help older adults manage their health and maintain social connections
• August 2025: EdgeCare team is awarded a National Institutes of Health AIM-AHEAD hub-specific project to conduct preliminary research on agentic-AI-based personalized social health coaching for older adults living alone with early cognitive decline
• April 2025: EdgeCare graduate student Navya Jagirdhar presented "Understanding Information Management and Technology Use among Older Veterans in Arizona: A Focus Group Study" at the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFES) in Health Care [Poster].
• February 2025: EdgeCare team presented at the ASU Digital Health Summit
• February 2025: EdgeCare graduate student Natalie Newton presented "Technology Attitudes and Health: Insights from Older U.S. Military Veterans" at the SPSP 2025 Health Preconference [Poster].
• June 2024: EdgeCare Community Workshop
• June 2024: ASU News report on the EdgeCare project: No one left behind: AI-enabled support for aging vets
• February 2024: Profs. Zhao and Roberts shared the EdgeCare project with the S&CC community at the annual PI meeting [Video]

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