{"297271":{"#nid":"297271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LeDantec\u0027s Class Uses Campus as Laboratory","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor Christopher Le Dantec, an avid cyclist, asked students in his Principles of Interaction Design course to use the campus as a living laboratory to address issues that involve cycling and cyclists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis colleague in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kari Watkins involved her students inseparate bike-pedestrian safety project with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe eventual goal of both classes is to work with Cycle Atlanta to develop a planning-level decision support tool to help GDOT decide what bike and pedestrian infrastructure is appropriate on various corridors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the meantime, the app is\u0026nbsp;already helping cyclists around the city with their daily journeys to campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on these projects as well as the work of Cycle Atlanta, go to \u003Ca title=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/national-bike-month\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/national-bike-month\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/features\/national-bike-month\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Class uses data gathered on campus to create bike app."}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2014-05-13 14:15:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:26","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"297241":{"id":"297241","type":"image","title":"Chris LeDantec","body":null,"created":"1449244530","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:30","changed":"1475894998","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:58","alt":"Chris LeDantec","file":{"fid":"199438","name":"cycleatlanta.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cycleatlanta_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cycleatlanta_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":204162,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cycleatlanta_0.jpg?itok=kIsKUaZf"}}},"media_ids":["297241"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ledantec@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eledantec@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}