Bathroom assistive technologies, such as toilet safety frames and grab bars, can help people with long-term mobility disabilities safely accomplish tasks like toileting and bathing. However, these features are often fixed environmental supports that can’t be adjusted to accommodate individuals whose support needs vary over time or even fluctuate day-to-day. SmartBathroom is a state-of-the-art bathroom laboratory installed in the bathroom of the Georgia Tech Aware Home. It features mechanically adjustable features including a toilet, grab bars, and bathtub, plus an array of sensors that can measure performance (e.g., walking speed, balance, stability), location of feet and hands, and forces applied to the bathroom surfaces and fixtures. Building upon earlier TechSAge work, we are adding a voice-control interface for the SmartToilet and development of a portable SmartSeat to monitor in-home changes in toilet transfer safety and performance over time. 

Ultimately, we hope to: 1. Commercialize a smart seat that will allow care providers, such as occupational therapists, to monitor functional health trajectories in the target population and proactively provide services as needed to address changing needs; 2. Demonstrate a toilet that is adjustable through different input control interfaces, such as voice, that allows people of any ability to adjust the system to their preferences, 3. advance the predictive algorithms that can be used to automatically adjust SmartBathroom features to meet the transfer support needs of individuals at any point in time.