Opportunity Knocks: a System to Provide Cognitive Assistance with Transportation Services

Opportunity Knocks (OK) is an automated transportation routing system, whose goal is to improve the efficiency, safety and independence of individuals with mild cognitive disabilities. OK is implemented on a combination of a Bluetooth sensor beacon that broadcasts GPS data, a GPRS-enabled cell-phone, and remote activity inference software. The system uses a novel inference engine that does not require users to explicitly provide information about the start or ending points of their journeys; instead this information is learned from users' past behavior.