Jesse Hoey

Jesse Hoey is an assistant professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Hoey is also an adjunct scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute in Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on planning and acting in large scale real-world uncertain domains. He has worked extensively on systems to assist persons with cognitive and physical disabilities. He won the Best Paper award at the International Conference on Vision Systems (ICVS) in 2007 for his paper describing an assistive system for persons with dementia during hand washing. Hoey won a Microsoft/AAAI Distinguished Contribution Award at the 2009 IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, for his paper on technology to facilitate creative expression in persons with dementia. He also works on devices for ambient assistance in the kitchen, on stroke rehabilitation devices, and on spoken dialogue assistance systems. Hoey was co-Chair of the 2008 Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) conference and he is Program Chair for the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) in 2011.

Publications

POMDP Models for Assistive Technology
POMDP Models for Assistive Technology
Jesse Hoey, Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier, Alex Mihailidis. © 2014. 21 pages.
This chapter presents a general decision theoretic model of interactions between users and cognitive assistive technologies for various tasks of importance to the elderly...
Decision Theory Models for Applications in Artificial Intelligence: Concepts and Solutions
Decision Theory Models for Applications in Artificial Intelligence: Concepts and Solutions
L. Enrique Sucar, Eduardo F. Morales, Jesse Hoey. © 2012. 444 pages.
One of the goals of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating autonomous agents that must make decisions based on uncertain and incomplete information. The goal is to design...