{"629909":{"#nid":"629909","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and People Power Collaborate on Senior Care Project","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and IoT software company \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/peoplepowerco.com\/\u0022\u003EPeople Power\u003C\/a\u003E are working together to collect and analyze data from in-home sensors as part of a study to better understand certain behaviors of people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The neurological condition creates increased challenges with memory, problem-solving, and spatial ability.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/helping-aging-adults-take-their-power-back\u0022\u003ECognitive Empowerment Program\u003C\/a\u003E (CEP), Georgia Tech researchers first explored the People Power IoT System in the technology-equipped \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.awarehome.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAware Home\u003C\/a\u003E, a 5,000 square foot home designed to facilitate research. The CEP\u0026rsquo;s technology team focuses on designing interventions and applications, as well as collecting data in the homes of study participants including sleep patterns, bathroom and kitchen habits, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team will use the data to empower CEP members and their care partners, through mobile apps and in-home interventions supporting independence. They\u0026#39;ll also share key information with the CEP therapeutic team to identify where members may need further training on strategies to compensate for cognitive impairment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Changes in daily habits provide key indicators for informing lifestyle interventions that combat a decline in cognitive function. Through this collaboration, we have the unique opportunity to collect critical data to inform care and empower people with MCI and their care partners,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EElizabeth Mynatt\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of the Institute for People and Technology and co-director of the CEP technology core.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the Aware Home Research Initiative (AHRI), the People Power IoT System will provide device and data management and a framework for creating machine learning microservices, allowing researchers to more effectively conduct long-term studies and collect and view data, according to \u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Jones\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of the Aware Home initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What People Power is providing is the opportunity to hit the ground running on this project,\u0026rdquo; said Jones. \u0026ldquo;We can have different studies running, view all of the homes in each study, and through a web browser see the status of in-home devices that provide the system with data.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlthough the joint effort between IPaT and People Power currently focuses on adults with MCI, Jones envisions expanding it to other data science research at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPeople Power is a leading provider of consumer and institutional services for senior care, energy management and home security. The company\u0026rsquo;s recent introduction of a comprehensive senior care solution that brings together agencies, caregivers, clients and their families for improved senior care reconfirms their mission of helping with life\u0026rsquo;s important challenges with easy-to-use technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Collaborating with Georgia Institute of Technology\u0026rsquo;s Aware Home Research Initiative is a real honor for our company,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EGene Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E, CEO and co-founder of People Power Co. \u0026ldquo;As a technology provider for senior care solutions that address technical, design and social challenges of aging, we are delighted to assist in this important research initiative with one of the top research universities in the country.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company also \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.prweb.com\/pdfdownload\/16504541.pdf\u0022\u003Erecently partnered\u003C\/a\u003E with the University of California Berkeley to design senior care technology for people with dementia. Learn more about People Power on their \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/peoplepowerco.com\/\u0022\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers will use the software company\u2019s smart home platform to study mild cognitive impairment with the goal of supporting older adults as they age in place."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-12-11 13:15:59","changed_gmt":"2019-12-12 18:56:07","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629927":{"id":"629927","type":"image","title":"Hands of older adult","body":null,"created":"1576087137","gmt_created":"2019-12-11 17:58:57","changed":"1576087137","gmt_changed":"2019-12-11 17:58:57","alt":"Hands of older adult","file":{"fid":"239887","name":"hand-2906456.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hand-2906456.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hand-2906456.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2375166,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hand-2906456.jpg?itok=o0xFu80L"}},"629910":{"id":"629910","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Aware Home","body":null,"created":"1576070502","gmt_created":"2019-12-11 13:21:42","changed":"1576070502","gmt_changed":"2019-12-11 13:21:42","alt":"Georgia Tech Aware Home","file":{"fid":"239878","name":"aware home.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aware%20home.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aware%20home.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1244967,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/aware%20home.jpeg?itok=zcDNUqX1"}}},"media_ids":["629927","629910"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"12888","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"11726","name":"Institute for People and Technology"},{"id":"177933","name":"smart home"},{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"183252","name":"People Power"},{"id":"8678","name":"Aware Home"},{"id":"183127","name":"cognitive empowerment program"},{"id":"180249","name":"Mild Cognitive Impairment"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell Key\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"628921":{"#nid":"628921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Technology for Connected and Independent Living","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInternet of Things (IoT) devices like smart thermostats, lightbulbs, and door locks show promising potential to support independent living for people aging with mobility disabilities. But there are challenges in selecting, installing, configuring, and using these devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are using augmented reality (AR) tools to help older adults with disabilities to choose smart home technology for their individual needs that will work in their homes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project is now in its second year. During the first year, researchers wanted to know what older adults with disabilities knew about smart home tech \u0026ndash; Do they use it? If not, why? Study participants provided feedback about which products they\u0026#39;re most interested in and tried out the voice-activated Amazon Echo, a device that\u0026rsquo;s easier to use for someone with a mobility impairment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers found, \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s a lot of misunderstanding or incorrect expectations around what the devices do or how they work,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMaribeth Gandy Coleman\u003C\/strong\u003E, the project\u0026rsquo;s principal investigator and director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome study participants were hesitant to use the products because they felt overwhelmed or assumed that they wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be able to use them.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECurrently, Coleman, along with Research Scientist\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ELaura Levy\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand Research Technician\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBen Thompson\u003C\/strong\u003E, are taking what they learned in the first year and have built a prototype that uses AR as a guided home tour. Study participants, with assistance, use a smartphone and AR-tracking product information cards to test different smart home technologies. Is the wi-fi strong enough in a particular corner of their home? Can they reach the device? Is the electrical outlet close enough?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;By situating virtual information for the person in the real world, we can help them better figure out what smart home tech would be best for them and their environment. It would help them be able to preview what the user experience would be like in their home,\u0026rdquo; Coleman explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere\u0026rsquo;s also an interactive, printed floor plan. \u0026ldquo;You\u0026rsquo;re able to see a bird\u0026rsquo;s eye view of the whole house.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPotential consumers can develop she calls \u0026ldquo;a more robust mental model\u0026rdquo; of how smart home tech works, which could help them choose what to buy, where to install it, and how to fix any technical problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring the study, Coleman and her team discovered accessibility barriers with commercial augmented reality products. Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s HoloLens interface was difficult to use for people with certain mobility impairments because it involves pointing and pinching motions. Participants also had difficulty putting on and taking off the AR headset.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to supporting consumers in finding the right smart home tech, Gandy said the AR experience could also help technology designers to create more accessible AR and VR products for older people as well as those with cognitive and physical disabilities, which impacts how they use these products at home and work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;This could be critical if future job training is done through virtual reality,\u0026quot; she said. \u0026quot;You could inadvertently be excluding someone from a job, not because they couldn\u0026#39;t do the job but because the training was inaccessible. Better technology doesn\u0026#39;t necessarily mean more accessible; it can mean less accessible.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis project is supported by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/techsage.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ETechSAge\u003C\/a\u003E, a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) to support aging-in-place for people with long-term disabilities. The center is a collaboration between Georgia Tech and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A grant from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/acl.gov\/about-acl\/about-national-institute-disability-independent-living-and-rehabilitation-research\u0022\u003ENational Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(NIDILRR) funds the center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers examine how smart home and augmented reality technologies can help people with mobility disabilities to age in place."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-11-12 21:56:10","changed_gmt":"2019-11-21 16:45:27","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629208":{"id":"629208","type":"image","title":"Augmented Reality Home Tour Demo","body":null,"created":"1574354677","gmt_created":"2019-11-21 16:44:37","changed":"1574354677","gmt_changed":"2019-11-21 16:44:37","alt":"AR home tour demo","file":{"fid":"239627","name":"echo_demo3.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/echo_demo3.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/echo_demo3.png","mime":"image\/png","size":309312,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/echo_demo3.png?itok=ir20hCix"}}},"media_ids":["629208"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"176","name":"aging"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"},{"id":"177933","name":"smart home"},{"id":"183056","name":"Amazon Echo"},{"id":"1597","name":"Augmented Reality"},{"id":"4980","name":"ar"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell Key\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"628929":{"#nid":"628929","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Helping Aging Adults Take Their Power Back","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs we age, we lose so many of the abilities we once prized. The simple tasks aren\u0026rsquo;t easy anymore. Things like climbing steps, walking on the sidewalk, cooking, and even going to the bathroom become achievements to us when we perform them without incidence, embarrassments when we fail. After spending a lifetime gaining experience and wisdom, we find our bodies, and sometimes our minds conspiring to undo all we have achieved.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at the Georgia Institute of Technology is working to help people take their power back through an array of research initiatives, centers, and partnerships, including the new Cognitive Empowerment Program in collaboration with the Emory Brain Health Center at Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;With our work in aging, we want to help people achieve the priorities and goals they have for their third stage of life,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBeth Mynatt\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of IPaT and Regents\u0026nbsp;Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. \u0026ldquo;We think technologies and different healthcare approaches, like help at home and a focus on social connections and community, can help people do this.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EImproving Health Outcomes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETele Tai Chi\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETracy Mitzner\u003C\/strong\u003E, a research scientist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E, is working on an evidence-based program with world-renowned tai chi\u0026nbsp;instructor Paul Lam on a project designed to help older people with mobility impairments increase both their activity level and their social connections.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;A strong social connection has very significant health outcomes,\u0026rdquo; said Mitzner, who\u0026rsquo;s also co-director of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/s2.techsage.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETechSAge\u003C\/a\u003E, a collaborative research center with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which supports aging-in-place for people with long-term disabilities. \u0026ldquo;And a lack of social connection increases your mortality risk. So, it\u0026#39;s not just about feeling good; it\u0026#39;s directly tied to your health.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Tele Tai Chi program brings together a group of older adults through OneClick.chat, a web-based video conferencing platform. They will not only learn tai chi\u0026nbsp;through the system, but they\u0026rsquo;ll also participate in social time, much like one does in a traditional class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMeasuring gait speed\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKnown as an extremely accurate, fast, and simple health indicator, doctors use walking speed and changes to predict significant health issues like physical and cognitive decline, quality of life, hospitalizations, and even mortality.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Jones\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/awarehome.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EAware Home Research Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, is collaborating with Ted Johnson, director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aging.emory.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter for Health in Aging\u003C\/a\u003E at Emory, to test a system they placed in doctor\u0026rsquo;s offices and medical centers in Atlanta and Oregon. It measures a person\u0026rsquo;s gait speed as they walk from the waiting room to the exam room, and is designed to be a quick and unobtrusive method for detecting issues that otherwise may go unnoticed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEnhancing the Quality of Life\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESmart Bathroom\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJones has also just completed a trial testing a bathroom that helps people get on and off the toilet. It uses off-the-shelf technology to observe the person\u0026rsquo;s gait, posture, and their speed of movement. The Smart Bathroom uses that information to raise or lower the toilet and grab bars to assist with the mount or dismount.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our next trial of the Smart Bathroom will involve testing it with people who use a wheelchair and people who use a walker,\u0026rdquo; said Jones.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHomeLab\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn if people can and will use a piece of assistive technology in the home, it pays to test it in their home. \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s only so much you can do in the lab,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBrad Fain\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/homelab.gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EHomeLab\u003C\/a\u003E and principal research scientist at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;People get tired, and older adults get tired even quicker.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHomeLab deploys products in the home to observe how people interact with them over time so the lab can test assumptions or make improvements. With a network of more than 600 homes of people aged 50 and older, HomeLab has assessed systems such as a wearable device that reminds users when its time for their medication, an in-home medication dispenser, and a smart mirror.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It\u0026#39;s real-world, and it gives people a lot more experience with the product or service we\u0026rsquo;re testing,\u0026rdquo; added Fain.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;A recent trial involved testing commercial activity trackers (FitBit, Nike+ Fuel Band, Striiv,\u0026nbsp;and MyFitnessPal) with older adults to see if knowing their actual level of daily activity would inspire them to change their behavior.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We saw real change with people trying to increase their activity level by adding just a bit more to what they\u0026rsquo;re already doing, like taking the long way when they went for a walk or took the dog for a stroll,\u0026rdquo; said Fain.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEveryday Memory Intervention\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the more frightening aspects of aging is a dwindling memory. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s something other people may be aware of before you are,\u0026rdquo; said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher Hertzog\u003C\/strong\u003E, a professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Psychology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScientists typically measure memories with diaries people use at the end of each day. \u0026quot;But they forget what happened during the day, and often once they\u0026rsquo;ve forgotten it, then it\u0026rsquo;s gone,\u0026rdquo; said Hertzog.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of his current projects, Everyday Memory Intervention, gets around that end-of-the-day problem by using a smartphone for people to record the events as they happen. It\u0026rsquo;s an attempt to overcome the difficulties of measuring memory in the real world. One of the problems with current mnemonics training is that while people can learn to memorize the information, they have more difficulty transferring that training into something useful in real life.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;What we\u0026rsquo;re doing,\u0026rdquo; he said, \u0026ldquo;is turning that on its head and focusing on helping people remember the target behavior in their everyday life,\u0026rdquo; basically cutting out the middleman.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECognitive Empowerment Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn January 2020, IPaT, in partnership with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.emoryhealthcare.org\/centers-programs\/brain-health-center\/index.html\u0022\u003EEmory Brain Health Center\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/simtigrate.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESimTigrate Design Lab\u003C\/a\u003E in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ECollege of Design\u003C\/a\u003E, will open the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-and-emory-university-partner-mild-cognitive-impairment-program\u0022\u003ECognitive Empowerment Program\u003C\/a\u003E (CEP) at Emory\u0026#39;s Brain Health Center. The program is made possible by $23.7 million in grants from the James M. Cox Foundation and Cox Enterprises. CEP has four major pieces: the therapeutics core, built environment core, technology core, and the innovation accelerator. Together they will provide a holistic approach to managing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a neurological condition that occurs between the typical cognitive decline of aging and dementia.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMemory problems, as well as difficulties with language, judgment, and general thinking to a degree that is greater than typically experienced in healthy aging, all characterize MCI. People with MCI may stay at that stage, or the condition may be a precursor to a dementia disorder such as Alzheimer\u0026rsquo;s disease, vascular dementia, or another neurological condition. It rarely reverses. The American Academy of Neurology\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5772157\/\u0022\u003Eestimates that about 14.9 percent\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of Americans over the age of 65 develop mild cognitive impairment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s a use it or lose it type of aspect about human cognitive capabilities,\u0026rdquo; said Mynatt. \u0026quot;So, if we can delay, stop, or even reverse the trends associated with cognitive decline, we can help people improve their quality of life.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year the World Health Organization\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.who.int\/mental_health\/neurology\/dementia\/guidelines_risk_reduction\/en\/\u0022\u003Ereleased a report\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;on reducing the risks of cognitive decline and dementia. Chief among its recommendations is for people to increase their physical activity.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The idea behind the empowerment program was really to put a structure to the recommendations given by a physician for how patients can manage their diagnosis,\u0026rdquo; said Amy Rodriquez, director of therapeutic programs at CEP and assistant professor in Emory School of Medicine\u0026rsquo;s Department of Neurology. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re saying we can support these patients in making changes that could impact the course of their condition.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA person with MCI may find that the instrumental activities of daily living are more difficult than before, said Rodriguez. 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The \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/IPaT.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rnoc.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EResearch Network Operations Center\u003C\/a\u003E hosted the finale of the competition on November 13 at IPaT\u0026rsquo;s Centergy Building location.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EQuickSip, which won first place in the competition\u0026rsquo;s Health on the Move category, aims to simplify the ordering process and reduce wait times for service at busy bars. 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If you have a question about whether your idea fits, send an\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rnoc-lab-staff@lists.gatech.edu?subject=Convergence%20Innovation%20Competition\u0022\u003Eemail to RNOC\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERNOC also provides access to the App Lab in the Technology Square Research Building, where students can get help with their projects and check out mobile devices for testing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents must submit competition entries on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/fall-2019\/project-submission\u0022\u003Eproject submission page\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESunday, November 10\u003C\/strong\u003E, at midnight. 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Previous winners have leveraged their CIC experience to participate in other competitions, find internship and job opportunities, and commercialize their projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about the CIC, including sponsorship opportunities, at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ecic.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The bi-annual competition encourages students to develop innovative technology products and experiences."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-11-05 16:54:53","changed_gmt":"2019-11-14 14:25:59","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-11-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628616":{"id":"628616","type":"image","title":"Spring 2019 Convergence Innovation Competition","body":null,"created":"1572973071","gmt_created":"2019-11-05 16:57:51","changed":"1572973071","gmt_changed":"2019-11-05 16:57:51","alt":"Spring 2019 Convergence Innovation Competition","file":{"fid":"239406","name":"2019_CIC_Demo-117.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019_CIC_Demo-117.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2019_CIC_Demo-117.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":756330,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2019_CIC_Demo-117.jpg?itok=bSkpRAob"}}},"media_ids":["628616"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu","title":"Convergence Innovation Competition"}],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"63951","name":"Convergence Innovation Competition"},{"id":"63931","name":"CIC"},{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"2262","name":"climate"},{"id":"167014","name":"Sports"},{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell Key\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"626567":{"#nid":"626567","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Launches Sports Innovation Initiative","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology, Georgia Tech Athletics, and other campus units have partnered to create SPRINT, or the Sports Research, Innovation, and Technology initiative. SPRINT centralizes and expands the Institute\u0026rsquo;s sports-related research, with the vision of making Atlanta a global leader in sports innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative will focus on three components:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAthletic performance (athlete health and human performance, wearables, and analytics)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFan engagement (in-game engagement, relationship management, segmentation, communications, sales, and customer marketing)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOperations (ticketing, game-day operations, parking, security, concessions, ingress\/egress, and venue management)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDoug Allvine\u003C\/strong\u003E is leading the effort as assistant athletics director for innovation, a role created in 2017 by Athletic Director \u003Cstrong\u003ETodd Stansbury \u003C\/strong\u003Ewithin the Georgia Tech Athletic Association.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Georgia Institute of Technology is a leading research university,\u0026rdquo; said Stansbury. \u0026ldquo;Applying our research innovation to sports is a huge opportunity for faculty and students, and gives our teams on and off the field a competitive advantage. Sports innovation creates opportunities for research, grants, corporate partnerships, industry collaboration, and student advancement.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIPaT will bring together Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s research community to support and amplify the work of faculty in this area, including the emerging \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/events\/ipat-thursday-think-tank-0\u0022\u003Eesports industry\u003C\/a\u003E, the use of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/shaping-human-technology-frontier\/fans\u0022\u003Etechnology to engage sports fans\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/sports-technology-innovation\u0022\u003Ephysical and mental health of athletes\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech researchers have examined the critical role of technology through the lens of sports for many years,\u0026rdquo; said IPaT Executive Director \u003Cstrong\u003EBeth Mynatt\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u0026ldquo;IPaT and our partners are excited to convene multidisciplinary research teams engaged in pioneering work that improves human performance and enhances the fan experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFaculty and staff from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRI), the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/OIC\u0022\u003EOffice of Industry Collaboration\u003C\/a\u003E (OIC), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/venturelab.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EVentureLab\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pwp.gatech.edu\/exercisephysiology\/\u0022\u003EExercise Physiology Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWallace H. 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The competition wrapped up on April 11th with a live demo and judging event for finalists hosted by IPaT and the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC). More than two dozen teams and 120 students participated in this semester\u0026rsquo;s CIC.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ETechnology for Social Good\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo of the winning CIC projects use the power of technology to create social change. Food for Thought is an app that connects businesses, non-profits, schools and individuals that have excess edible food to those who need it. App users have the option to either share, transport or request food, and can add images to their posts. \u0026ldquo;Brownie points\u0026rdquo; gamify the app and create a feel-good factor around sharing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nApproximately 40-percent of food in the U.S. is never eaten, making this country the world\u0026rsquo;s largest food waster. \u0026ldquo;You assume that because this is a first-world country, there\u0026rsquo;s enough food,\u0026rdquo; said Meghna Natraj, Georgia Tech master\u0026rsquo;s student in Computer Science. \u0026ldquo;Food\u0026rsquo;s being wasted; it\u0026rsquo;s not being channeled to the right sources.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Food for Thought team aims to have a final version finished by the end of April.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAnother winning project in the same category uses technology to address gentrification of the area surrounding the Atlanta Beltline. \u0026ldquo;Concerns about creating a discriminatory environment, rather than universally-available resources are growing,\u0026rdquo; explained the team in their submission video.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Beltline Display project envisions interactive experiences along the Beltline to promote connected and walkable communities. Utilizing big data, the team proposes creating technology-focused art pieces along the trail to educate users about their surroundings, neighbors and history of the area. The team\u0026rsquo;s goals are to promote social change, foster curiosity, and connect Atlanta communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EReal-Time Information for Transit and More\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s been nearly a month since fire engulfed part of I-85 causing it to collapse, and the Georgia Department of Transportation says it could take at least another seven weeks to repair the damage. In the meantime, commuters are exploring alternative means of transportation. The developers of MARTAnow say their app is the perfect use case for solving transit problems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEven before the I-85 collapse, the team behind MARTAnow has been researching why some commuters are reluctant to use MARTA. They\u0026rsquo;re also trying to solve a larger issue in public transit called the first-mile\/last-mile problem \u0026ndash; getting people from their location to the bus stop, and from the bus stop to their final location.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;A bridge collapses and all of a sudden, hundreds of thousands of people can\u0026rsquo;t get to where they need to go,\u0026rdquo; said Amit Garg, Georgia Tech master\u0026rsquo;s student in Human-Computer Interaction. \u0026ldquo;Using our app, people can visualize other modes of transportation to get to their final destination, whether that\u0026rsquo;s ridesharing, through renting a bike, or using MARTA trains and buses.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMARTAnow combines real-time MARTA schedules, walkability scores, and ridesharing into one easy-to-use transit app. MARTA is now working with Garg and his teammates to integrate the app into its ecosystem.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWhile they may not be working to solve something as complicated as transit issues, the creators of NowWhat are working to answer a question important to students \u0026ndash; where\u0026rsquo;s the party?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;All of us Tech students have had this problem at one time or another,\u0026rdquo; explained Ryan Brooks, Georgia Tech Computer Science student.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nNowWhat is a map interface app that allows you to see events happening around you in real time, get rides to those events, and see friends\u0026rsquo; current locations. Information from different event sources is gathered in one app for ease of use.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve never had that one central location, to see on a map how far away something is and being able to visualize it in that way,\u0026rdquo; said Brooks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe team will soon work on developing the app for iOS and Android.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EEnhancing Medical Intervention\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs many as 40% of people with autism never speak or have difficulty communicating verbally. Rapid Prompting Method, or RPM, was developed by a mother who wanted to teach her non-verbal autistic son to express himself. A group of Georgia Tech students has now found a way to enhance RPM using real-time data.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe process of RPM is simple: a teacher gives a short lesson on a topic, asks a question and then elicits a response using verbal, auditory, or visual prompts. The child will answer based on the teacher\u0026rsquo;s question by spelling out the letters written on a letterboard. The CIC project Responsive Letterboard for Autism Spectrum Disorder reinvents the board. When the child presses a letter, their selection is transferred to a web user interface in real time. This method allows teachers and clinicians to view the data, track a child\u0026rsquo;s progress and make improvements.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe team was inspired by their professor, Gregory Abowd,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/content\/single-observation-autism-research-blooms-georgia-tech\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewho has an autistic son\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;That community of parents and technicians are really positive and helpful and they\u0026rsquo;re engaged in our research,\u0026rdquo; said Fereshteh Shahmiri, Georgia Tech Ph.D. student in Design Computing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nApril is Autism Awareness Month.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nOne of the greatest threats to patient safety during an operation is surgical site infection. According to the CDC, in 2011 approximately 157,500 acute care hospital patients were diagnosed with infections.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Healthcare professionals try their best to prevent this type of infection, but the increasing mortality of surgical site infections has forced professionals to consider every possible way in which the surgical environment can be controlled,\u0026rdquo; said Luka Antolic-Soban, Georgia Tech Computer Science student.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nORCA, or Operating Room Computer Asepsis System, is designed to help operating room professionals detect and prevent contamination during operations. The system has two components. One is a belt that goes underneath surgical scrubs to alert operating room staff when they violate protocol. The other uses a camera and infrared sensor to collect information about the operating room environment, such as the distance between personnel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe ORCA team is collaborating with Emory University School of Medicine and Children\u0026rsquo;s Hospital of Atlanta to test the system. They\u0026#39;ve also been invited to participate in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.startupsummer.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026#39;s Startup Launch\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(formerly Startup Summer), a faculty-led, student-focused program to help student teams launch their startups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFollowing the competition, teams are leveraging the feedback received and contacts made during the course of working on their CIC projects and showcasing them at the live judging event. They are debugging their apps, incorporating enhancements, pursuing partnerships, and learning more about entrepreneurship. This semester\u0026rsquo;s CIC categories were aligned with IPaT\u0026rsquo;s research priorities; here\u0026rsquo;s a full list of winning projects and teams:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ELifelong Health and Wellbeing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1st place \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AQlptc1aJS0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOperating Room Computer Asepsis System (ORCA)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTeam: Luka Antolic-Soban, Jianming Zeng\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n2nd place \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/LfvBNbCgDi4\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EResponsive Letterboard for Autism Spectrum Disorder\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTeam: Anisha Bhandari, Geunbae Lee, Fereshteh Shahmiri, Vedant Das Swain\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESmart Cities and Healthy Communities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1st place \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9zVY2tPs1Lg\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENowWhat\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTeam: Ryan Brooks, Joan Chen, Will Christian, Aaron Parry, Brandi Van de Houten\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n2nd place \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WmGuur1sZGc\u0026amp;t=8s\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMARTAnow\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTeam: Vishal Bhatnagar, Prasenjeet Biswal, Amit Garg, Samyukta Sherugar\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESocio-Technical Systems and Human-Technology Frontier Innovation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1st place \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/ie--Bu2oB1E\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFood for Thought\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTeam: Akshay Agarwal, Luka Antolic-Soban, Satyajeet Gawas, Meghna Natraj\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n2nd place \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/xYH5P9797Wg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBeltline Display\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTeam: Aparna Iyer, Jayanth Krishna, Meghana Melkote, Caity Taylor, Eric Thompson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EVIEW:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.1621255594558802.1073741854.195737763777266\u0026amp;type=1\u0026amp;l=141ecea85a\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMore photos from the Spring 2017 Convergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe CIC is a semester-long event dedicated to helping students create innovative and viable products and experiences with the support of campus resources and industry guidance. The competition is open to Georgia Tech students from every class and discipline. To learn more,\u0026nbsp;or to find about partnership opportunities, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecic.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWinning projects focus on technology for social good, transit, medical intervention and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Winning projects focus on technology for social good, transit, medical intervention and more."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2017-04-27 15:19:31","changed_gmt":"2019-10-07 14:56:32","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"594329","name":"Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"167987","name":"smart cities"},{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"63931","name":"CIC"},{"id":"63951","name":"Convergence Innovation Competition"},{"id":"488","name":"transit"},{"id":"6053","name":"Autism"},{"id":"174223","name":"food waste"},{"id":"1243","name":"MARTA"},{"id":"3779","name":"party"},{"id":"15269","name":"Atlanta BeltLine"},{"id":"174224","name":"hospital infection"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer, Institute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"620899":{"#nid":"620899","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Combating Human Trafficking Through Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe magnitude is difficult to pinpoint, but the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/global\/lang--en\/index.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInternational Labor Organization\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;estimates that currently, there are 30 million victims of labor and sex trafficking around the world; one in four victims are children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLaw enforcement officers at the local, county, state, and federal levels investigate thousands of human trafficking cases every year and are often the first point of contact for victims who want to escape traffickers, connecting them to critical social services.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHuman trafficking cases are complex. Investigations regularly take more time than other criminal cases, stretching on for several months or years. Typically, investigators begin by searching specialized online databases of sex work advertisements for clues of trafficking. They also find information about potential victims on social media platforms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWith the continued rise of internet technology in facilitating and investigating human trafficking, Georgia Tech researchers wanted to know how computing can play a role in what has increasingly become a big-data research problem.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJulia Deeb-Swihart\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Georgia Tech, began examining human trafficking in 2013. \u0026ldquo;I was always drawn to problems that had a real-world impact,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDeeb-Swihart, along with\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Alex Endert\u003C\/strong\u003E, assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAmy Bruckman\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, interviewed law enforcement analysts, detectives, and other staff investigating human trafficking in cities in the U.S. and Canada to understand their computing needs and how computer scientists can design more supportive tools. It\u0026rsquo;s the first study to examine the role of technology in this type of law enforcement investigation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe researchers highlighted three areas where human-centered computing can help: visualizing location data as traffickers move victims across jurisdictions, merging information databases, and modernizing information systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re at a point where some traditional policing methods aren\u0026rsquo;t working anymore,\u0026rdquo; Deeb-Swihart said. \u0026ldquo;How do we take their existing methods and support them with technology? We can\u0026rsquo;t fully replace them, but we can support them.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTechnology gaps exist in collaboration and communication across law enforcement agencies. Departments \u0026mdash; including ones investigating the same cases \u0026mdash; may use different computing tools, which complicates the investigative process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDeeb-Swihart said there\u0026rsquo;s also a need for tools that are accessible at all levels of computer literacy. \u0026ldquo;How do we develop tools that work across all different backgrounds?\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Julia Deeb-Swihart, Alex Endert, and Amy Bruckman. 2019. \u0026ldquo;Understanding Law Enforcement Strategies and Needs for Combating Human Trafficking.\u0026rdquo; (CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019), May 4\u0026ndash;9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA first-of-its-kind study from Georgia Tech examines the role of technology in law enforcement investigations of human trafficking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A first-of-its-kind study from Georgia Tech examines the role of technology in law enforcement investigations of human trafficking."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-04-25 13:12:37","changed_gmt":"2019-07-25 18:48:47","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623684":{"id":"623684","type":"image","title":"Juila Deeb-Swihart","body":null,"created":"1564080465","gmt_created":"2019-07-25 18:47:45","changed":"1564080465","gmt_changed":"2019-07-25 18:47:45","alt":"Julia Deeb-Swihart","file":{"fid":"237543","name":"julia-deeb-swihart.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/julia-deeb-swihart.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/julia-deeb-swihart.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":15508,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/julia-deeb-swihart.jpg?itok=Rf5JO4Ox"}}},"media_ids":["623684"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"},{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"62081","name":"human trafficking"},{"id":"1027","name":"chi"},{"id":"166848","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"7640","name":"law enforcement"},{"id":"181121","name":"labor trafficking"},{"id":"167768","name":"sex trafficking"},{"id":"181122","name":"Julia Deeb-Swihart"},{"id":"112421","name":"alex endert"},{"id":"8472","name":"amy bruckman"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell Key\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623407":{"#nid":"623407","#data":{"type":"news","title":"October Events: Dolphin Communication, Wearable Computing Center Forum and GVU Research Showcase","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe future of wearable computing and other technology is the focus of three events happening this month.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIPaT Distinguished Lecture, Dolphin Communication: Cracking the Code\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOn October 20th, IPaT and the College of Computing will host the first IPaT Distinguished Lecture,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EDolphin Communication: Cracking the Code\u003C\/em\u003E. Scientists have struggled to understand dolphin vocalizations, but new computer tools to both track dolphins and decode their complex vocalizations are now emerging. Dr. Denise Herzing has been studying Atlantic spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis, in the Bahamas for over three decades. Her video and acoustic database encompasses a myriad of complex vocalizations and dolphin behavior. Dr. Thad Starner works on mining this dataset and decoding dolphin sounds, and has created a wearable underwater computer, CHAT (Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry), to help establish a bridge for communication between humans and dolphins. Starner and Herzing will present this cutting-edge work and recent results, including perspectives on the challenges of studying this aquatic society, and decoding their communication signals using the latest technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/dolphin-communication-cracking-the-code-tickets-18741812265\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERSVP for the lecture\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E|\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/why-scheller\/visit-campus\/directions-parking.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDirections and parking\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe next day on October 21st, two more events related to wearable computing and future technology \u0026ndash; The Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center Forum, and the GVU Fall Research Showcase.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Wearable Computing Center Forum\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing last year\u0026rsquo;s success, the Wearable Computing Center Forum is now an annual endeavor. The WCC Forum is an opportunity to hear from pioneers in wearable technology about the state of the art in the field. Experts in important application areas will also speak to how wearable technology might help solve problems unique to these areas; healthcare or wearables in the workplace for example.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe forum keynote speaker is Brian Ballard, CEO \u0026amp; Co-Founder of APX Labs where he is working on the next industrial revolution - using smart glasses to create powerful ways for the workforce to interact with the digital and physical world. Brian has been on the forefront of developing software solutions that enable revolutionary new scenarios for smart glasses in the enterprise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTalented and multi-strumentalist Rh\u0026ograve; will perform at the forum. He studied music extensively when he was growing up thanks to a kindly uncle who saved him from playing football every night with the other kids. Born Rocco Centrella, the young maverick has a unique relationship with sound. Balance is key to the work of Rh\u0026ograve;, whose voice travels to some unusual and very Italian harmonic vistas, mixing folk and electronic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/content\/wcc-forum-2015\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERegister for the Wearable Computing Center Forum\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EGVU Fall Research Showcase\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat will be the next great innovation in wearable computing, mobile apps, and digital design? Explore and interact with future technology at the GVU Fall Research Showcase. Experience a hands-on vision of the ideas and applications that you may carry in your pocket or use in the workspace in the future. Test drive many of the 80+ demos including: the latest social media research, artificial intelligence that crowdsources plots for interactive stories, and computational remixing of hip hop.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/gvu-fall-research-research-showcase\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMore info about the GVU Fall Research Showcase\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe future of wearable computing and other technology is the focus of three events happening this month.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The future of wearable computing and other technology is the focus of three events happening this month."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 19:46:19","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 19:46:19","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"448141":{"id":"448141","type":"image","title":"Dolphin Communication: Cracking the Code","body":null,"created":"1449256246","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:10:46","changed":"1475895189","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:09","alt":"Dolphin Communication: Cracking the Code","file":{"fid":"203260","name":"lecture_flyer.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lecture_flyer_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/lecture_flyer_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":487047,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/lecture_flyer_0.jpg?itok=EpoVYDaU"}}},"media_ids":["448141"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623404":{"#nid":"623404","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IPaT Director Beth Mynatt Discusses Georgia Tech Aware Home on Radio Program","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIPaT Director Beth Mynatt was part of a discussion about long-term care planning on the weekly talk financial radio program\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.wlkf.com\/client-data\/shows\/dollarsSense.aspx\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDollars and Sense\u003C\/a\u003E, broadcast on WLKF in Lakeland, Florida. She talked about IPaT\u0026#39;s research, the Georgia Tech Aware Home, and how technology can impact independent living.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMynatt appeared on the March 2nd edition of the show. 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Nearly 2,000 scholars, artists, and curators from North America and Europe will attend the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re serving two audiences with this exhibition,\u0026rdquo; said Gregory Zinman, co-curator of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMORE LIGHT\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. \u0026ldquo;One is the art community of Atlanta; we wanted to do an exhibition that we hadn\u0026rsquo;t quite seen in Atlanta, which was to focus solely on media arts and ideas of different forms of the moving image. We also want to show off the Atlanta community to this other audience, which is all of these visiting folks coming in for the conference who may be less familiar with what\u0026rsquo;s going on in Atlanta.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nVisitors of the exhibition will see works using 16 mm film, augmented reality, video games, and even larger than life projections from the rooftop of the gallery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re used to looking at images and movies on our phones, tablets, laptops, or when we go to the cinema. But there are so many other manifestations of the moving image that we can think about, and the way technology shapes those images,\u0026rdquo; said Zinman. \u0026ldquo;So if you decide to use a VCR, how is it different than a digital projector? We wanted to get people to think about that by putting all of these different methods and materials in conversation with one another.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech-related works include:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EMOSAIC: Mobile Cinematics\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Georgia Tech professor Jay Bolter and Maria Engberg, associate professor of media technology at Malm\u0026ouml; University in Sweden, which uses audio interviews, Twitter streams, and Flickr images to create a mosaic that probes people\u0026rsquo;s use of these mediums.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003ENightmare\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Georgia Tech Digital Media master\u0026rsquo;s student Kristan Woolford, an experimental observational documentary that merges archival video and footage of the protest of Troy Davis\u0026rsquo; execution at The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in 2011. Woolford uses a first-person perspective to immerse the audience into the protest experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPioneering video artist Dara Birnbaum will also be contributing newly-digitized documentation of her now-lost\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ERio VideoWall\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(1989), commissioned for the Rio Shopping and Entertainment Complex, once located at the corner of Piedmont and North Avenue. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EVideoWall\u003C\/em\u003Ewas the first public artwork of its kind in the United States, combining an unedited live-stream from CNN glimpsed through the moving silhouettes of mall patrons with a video record of the site\u0026rsquo;s natural landscape from the time before the mall\u0026rsquo;s construction.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEyedrum Art \u0026amp; Music Gallery is hosting the exhibition, which will span all of the gallery\u0026rsquo;s spaces, including the music room, gallery, and rooftop. Eyedrum has been the center of the Atlanta arts community for over 20 years and is part of an emerging arts scene in downtown Atlanta.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;The Southeast has been long underrepresented in the national conversation around the arts. It\u0026rsquo;s underrepresented at major museums; it\u0026rsquo;s certainly underrepresented as soon as you get outside of the United States,\u0026rdquo; said Zinman. \u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t mind beating the drum a little bit as a point of pride to say, there\u0026rsquo;s a lot of great work being done here, take a look.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EMORE LIGHT\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;runs from March 31st \u0026ndash; April 2nd at Eyedrum, 88 Forsyth St, Atlanta GA, 30303. It\u0026rsquo;s free for SCMS members and $5 for the general public. For more information, visit:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/morelight.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Emorelight.lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new gallery exhibition sponsored in part by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E, will open to the public later this month.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new gallery exhibition sponsored in part by Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Literature, Media, and Communication, will open to the public later this month."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 19:38:12","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 19:38:12","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623402":{"id":"623402","type":"image","title":"More Light exhibit","body":null,"created":"1563219375","gmt_created":"2019-07-15 19:36:15","changed":"1563219375","gmt_changed":"2019-07-15 19:36:15","alt":"More Light exhibit","file":{"fid":"237418","name":"more_light2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/more_light2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/more_light2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":341635,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/more_light2.jpg?itok=ZyQFyCUx"}},"516771":{"id":"516771","type":"image","title":"MORE LIGHT: Media Art from Atlanta","body":null,"created":"1458923959","gmt_created":"2016-03-25 16:39:19","changed":"1475895282","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:42","alt":"MORE LIGHT: Media Art from Atlanta","file":{"fid":"206011","name":"1azdxc9.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1azdxc9.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1azdxc9.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":736691,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1azdxc9.jpg?itok=-Mv0xB9M"}}},"media_ids":["623402","516771"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623391":{"#nid":"623391","#data":{"type":"news","title":"WCC, MODA to Host Wearable Technology Panel Discussions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStarting this month, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Wearable Computing Center\u003C\/a\u003E, in partnership with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/museumofdesign.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMuseum of Design Atlanta (MODA)\u003C\/a\u003E, will host a series of panel discussions on the future of wearable technology. The discussions complement the exhibit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.wabe.org\/post\/museum-design-atlanta-opens-user-centered-design-exhibits?utm_source=dailydigest\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_campaign=july5\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EOn You: Wearing Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, on display at MODA through October 2nd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTopics and panelists for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/content\/wearing-future-series\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWearing the Future\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;include:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EHealth and Wearable Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E, July 28th at 7pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBeth Mynatt (moderator) - Professor, Georgia Tech College of Computing and Executive Director, Institute for People and Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJiten Chhabra - Researcher, Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRaja Schaar - Design Instructor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJuliet Sekandi - Assistant Professor, University of Georgia College of Public Health\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAthletics and Wearable Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E, August 6th at 2pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBrad Stenger (moderator) - Journalist, consultant and researcher\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nA.J. Scola - Manager of Minor League Operations, Atlanta Braves\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPeter Presti - Co-director, Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center and Senior Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EIndustry and Wearable Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E, August 27th at 2pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThad Starner (moderator) - Professor of Computing, Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSam Kellet, Jr. - Chairman, CEO, and Co-founder, United Sciences, LLC\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EArts \u0026amp; Media and Wearable Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E, September 22nd at 7pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMadison Cario (moderator) - Director, Georgia Tech Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMaribeth Gandy Coleman - Dir., Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Center and Co-director, Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nVu Ha - Software Engineer, Funomena\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLane Conville-Canney - Special Events and Grants Coordinator, Georgia Tech Ferst Center for the Arts \/ Office of the Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EFashion and Wearable Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E, September 29th at 7pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nClint Zeagler (moderator) - Program Manager, Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLucy Dunne - Founder, Wearable Technology Lab\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nKevin Knaus - Professor of Fashion Marketing and Luxury Management, Savannah College of Art and Design\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSusan Spencer - Founder and Product Manager, Valentina\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAdmission to the panels is free with regular admission to MODA, but seating is limited so please\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.museumofdesign.org\/adult-programming\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eregister in advance\u003C\/a\u003E. If you can\u0026rsquo;t make it to the discussions in person, they will be broadcast online and recorded for later viewing. Each panel will also include a guided tour of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOn You: Wearing Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by one of its curators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe exhibit looks at the challenges along the road to making a consumer wearable computer like power and heat, networking, and mobile input. Consumer, professional, and \u0026ldquo;maker\u0026rdquo; devices from the past and present are on display. More than 50-thousand people have seen the exhibit; it\u0026rsquo;s been all over the world, traveling to Germany, China, and the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California before returning to Atlanta. Clint Zeagler, exhibit designer and curator, says it appeals to different audiences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Mountain View has so many people who have worked on technology in the computer industry, that a lot of the exhibit was very nostalgic for them. MODA has a more diverse and design focused audience, which is why we included personal stories.\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nA new part of the exhibit, created for MODA, is personal stories and images of local users and creators of wearable technology, including Georgia Tech Professor Melody Moore\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/fido.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFIDO project\u003C\/a\u003E, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EHhRitHHVoo\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPIXI dress\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;developed by Zane Cochran and Sonia McCall, graduate students at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLearn more about\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EOn You: Wearing Technology\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/museumofdesign.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Emuseumofdesign.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewcc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStarting this month, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Wearable Computing Center\u003C\/a\u003E, in partnership with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/museumofdesign.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMuseum of Design Atlanta (MODA)\u003C\/a\u003E, will host a series of panel discussions on the future of wearable technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Starting this month, the Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center, in partnership with the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), will host a series of panel discussions on the future of wearable technology."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 19:14:11","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 19:14:11","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-07-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623390":{"id":"623390","type":"image","title":"Wearing the Future","body":null,"created":"1563217932","gmt_created":"2019-07-15 19:12:12","changed":"1563217932","gmt_changed":"2019-07-15 19:12:12","alt":"Wearing the Future","file":{"fid":"237414","name":"wearing-large-header_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/wearing-large-header_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/wearing-large-header_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":402451,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/wearing-large-header_1_0.jpg?itok=zBC5nRor"}}},"media_ids":["623390"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623385":{"#nid":"623385","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mynatt and Clark Invited to White House Conference on Science and Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn October 13th, President Obama hosted a day-long conference that brought together researchers, business leaders, technologists, philanthropists, local innovators, and students to discuss building U.S. capacity in science and technology. Also in attendance at the invitation-only\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWhite House Frontiers Conference\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;in Pittsburgh were IPaT Executive Director Beth Mynatt and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/urbaninnovation.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Center for Urban Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Director Jennifer Clark.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAttendees participated in a national conversation about keeping America on the cutting edge of innovation in the decades to come, and shared work already in progress. The conference included the participation of more than 700 innovators from across academia, industry, government, and civil society, who discussed different frontiers of innovation, including:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n* Personal frontiers in health care innovation and precision medicine\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n* Global frontiers in accelerating the clean energy revolution and developing advanced climate information, tools, services, and collaborations\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n* Interplanetary frontiers in space exploration, including our journey to Mars\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMynatt participated in the National Frontiers track, where attendees discussed harnessing the potential of artificial intelligence, including data science, machine learning, automation, and robotics. 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Through that, I ended up learning more about augmented reality, and every time I would research stuff online I kept seeing Georgia Tech over and over again, especially papers by Blair MacIntyre. It was at that point that I realized Georgia Tech would be a great fit for grad school.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow has your experience been at Georgia Tech?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIt\u0026rsquo;s been really cool being exposed to all sorts of interesting projects here at Georgia Tech. Everybody\u0026rsquo;s brilliant and I\u0026rsquo;ve been able to have all sorts of opportunities with some of the leading researchers in the field. It\u0026rsquo;s just been really amazing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat are your plans after graduation?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nI\u0026rsquo;ve considered academia, but I\u0026rsquo;m definitely leaning more towards industry. On the one hand I do enjoy teaching and tutoring and I\u0026rsquo;ve done a lot of that in the past, so I could see myself doing some part time teaching. But I\u0026rsquo;ll probably go into industry first and perhaps eventually become a consultant and do something more entrepreneurial. I\u0026#39;ve also become increasingly interested in alternate (post-scarcity) economic systems in the last several years, so another thing I will definitely want to explore after I graduate is how we can use technology to introduce and facilitate new ways of living and working together as a society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EPhotos by: Joshua Preston\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGraphics by: Raul Perez\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGheric Speiginer is a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech, advised by Blair MacIntyre, professor in the School of Interactive Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Gheric Speiginer is a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing at Georgia Tech, advised by Blair MacIntyre, professor in the School of Interactive Computing."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 18:45:13","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 18:45:13","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623378":{"id":"623378","type":"image","title":"Gheric Speiginer displays his augmented reality interface that shows how robots are functioning","body":null,"created":"1563216171","gmt_created":"2019-07-15 18:42:51","changed":"1563216171","gmt_changed":"2019-07-15 18:42:51","alt":"Gheric Speiginer displays his augmented reality interface that shows how robots are functioning","file":{"fid":"237411","name":"gheric_0.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gheric_0_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gheric_0_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":884063,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gheric_0_0.png?itok=TbrD9zjV"}}},"media_ids":["623378"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623377":{"#nid":"623377","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Create AR Experiences for Entertainment and Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Digital Media master\u0026rsquo;s students Tica Lin and Logan Sand are creating the next generation of augmented reality experiences. They\u0026rsquo;re using the technology to educate, entertain, and immerse us into new worlds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Tica Lin, M.S. Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvisor:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Janet Murray, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs, Ivan Allen College Dean\u0026#39;s Professor in the School of LMC,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/etv.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EeTV Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EProject:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;AquaRium\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAquaRium is an augmented reality tour of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.georgiaaquarium.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Aquarium\u003C\/a\u003E, with the goal of creating a more interactive and immersive experience for visitors by bridging physical exhibits and digital resources.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Georgia Aquarium already has an official app with detailed information,\u0026rdquo; explained Lin. \u0026ldquo;But the searching feature and interaction make the contents difficult to approach. I chose augmented reality as the tool to bridge people\u0026#39;s desire to learn and the contents in the digital library.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nShe used Unity3D to prototype an app that shows an active menu with 3D modeled marine animals floating 360 degrees in AR view, allowing aquarium visitors to easily access the featured animals by clicking on the model for their location and additional information.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe idea originated from Lin\u0026rsquo;s interest in designing digital experiences for exhibits and museums. She formed her ideas after investigating museums with extensive digital experiences like Chicago\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.msichicago.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMuseum of Science and Industry\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mim.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPhoenix Musical Instrument Museum\u003C\/a\u003E, and has been working in Janet Murray\u0026rsquo;s eTV\u0026nbsp;Lab to develop her design. Although she doesn\u0026rsquo;t officially work with Georgia Aquarium on her project, she has volunteered there weekly since September in order to gain more insight for both research and testing her tour experience design. \u0026ldquo;I look forward to testing my design on site or proposing ideas to Georgia Aquarium.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;*\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStudent:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Logan Sand, M.S. Digital Media\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAdvisor:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Michael Nitsche, Associate Professor, School of Literature, Media and Communication,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/dwig.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDigital World \u0026amp; Image Group\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EProject:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/silver.skiles.gatech.edu\/~lsand6\/ThesisWebsite\/SandLoganThesis.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAugmented Reality Comic Book\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSand is using comic book theorists Scott McCloud and Will Eisner\u0026rsquo;s ideas on graphic novel gutters, or the space between panels, to create an augmented reality comic book. He wants to divide the user\u0026rsquo;s attention as equally as possible between the physical artifact of the comic book and the companion app.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe goal of Sand\u0026rsquo;s project is to address the instability that is created in hybrid media when the user\u0026rsquo;s attention switches between the digital and physical artifacts. For example, apps\u0026nbsp;that use QR codes as markers obscure\u0026nbsp;the codes, removing\u0026nbsp;them from view. Or for\u0026nbsp;things\u0026nbsp;that focus heavily on\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;physical object,\u0026nbsp;the app is almost always optional or incidental.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMany game companies, both video and tabletop, have begun to research and develop for augmented reality. But according to Sand, their designs are flawed. \u0026ldquo;It becomes apparent that they are only just tiptoeing outside of their comfort zones in the creation of artifacts,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;The companies that are used to designing purely digital games use the tangible creation as just a tool for image recognition without focusing too much on its design aside from pure utilitarianism, and the companies that are used to designing tabletop games use the augmented reality as minimal enhancement that\u0026rsquo;s usually optional for gameplay.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EPhotos by: Joshua Preston\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGraphics by: Raul Perez\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Digital Media master\u0026rsquo;s students Tica Lin and Logan Sand are creating the next generation of augmented reality experiences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Digital Media master\u2019s students Tica Lin and Logan Sand are creating the next generation of augmented reality experiences. "}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 18:40:54","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 18:40:54","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623360":{"#nid":"623360","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Creative Collisions Project Recognized With Festival Appearance, Design Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn IPaT-sponsored project combining art and technology is one of four Georgia Tech projects selected to appear next month at a festival in Washington, D.C. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/acceleratefestival.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival\u003C\/a\u003E, October 13-15 at the National Museum of American History, celebrates creativity and innovation with a focus on science, engineering, art, and design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe festival features performances, conversational talks, and nearly 50 interactive installations from 15 ACC schools.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\/content\/accelerate-festival-smithsonian-features-four-georgia-tech-projects\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech will send four projects\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;created by students, faculty, and researchers, including\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/when-art-and-technology-collide\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECreative Collisions\u003C\/a\u003E. The project is a collaboration between Georgia Tech Research Scientists Laura Levy, Clint Zeagler, and Scott Gilliland and Los Angeles-based performance artist Katherine Helen Fisher. Last fall, the group facilitated a series of workshops to discuss how artists and technologists can work together; they also created an interactive garment. \u0026ldquo;Le Monstre\u0026rdquo; is a fun, \u0026ldquo;Fraggle Rock\u0026rdquo; type of creation that includes sensors and accelerometers and encourages audience participation. Fisher wore the garment in her performance piece\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECharacters\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;last March at the Ferst Center for the Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team behind Creative Collisions also recently won a design award at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), September 11-15 in Maui, Hawaii. Their paper, Le Monstre: An Interactive Participatory Performance Costume won the Best Design Exhibition Award in the Aesthetics category. ISWC, held in conjunction with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ubicomp.org\/ubicomp2017\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUbicomp 2017 conference\u003C\/a\u003E, brings together researchers, fashion designers, product vendors and other related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. This year,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/596144\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe conference accepted 11 Georgia Tech papers\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPartners on\u0026nbsp;Creative Collisions\u0026nbsp;include the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Wearable Computing Center\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOffice of the Arts\u003C\/a\u003E. The project is funded by IPaT as part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/gvu-ipat-research-and-engagement-seed-grants-0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EResearch and Engagement Seed Grants Program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about Creative Collisions and the team\u0026rsquo;s participation in ACCelerate at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/upcoming\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGVU Center Brown Bag\u003C\/a\u003E, September 28 at 11:30 a.m. in the Technology Square Research Building.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn IPaT-sponsored project combining art and technology is one of four Georgia Tech projects selected to appear next month at a festival in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"An IPaT-sponsored project combining art and technology is one of four Georgia Tech projects selected to appear next month at a festival in Washington, D.C."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 18:04:39","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 18:04:57","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623359":{"id":"623359","type":"image","title":"Le Monstre","body":null,"created":"1563213772","gmt_created":"2019-07-15 18:02:52","changed":"1563213772","gmt_changed":"2019-07-15 18:02:52","alt":"Le Monstre by Clint Zeagler and Katherine Helen Fisher","file":{"fid":"237406","name":"LeMonstre2_pinkBG.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LeMonstre2_pinkBG.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LeMonstre2_pinkBG.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":169348,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/LeMonstre2_pinkBG.jpg?itok=Udwq2GgH"}}},"media_ids":["623359"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623338":{"#nid":"623338","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Human Side of Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.project-safe.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EProject Safe\u003C\/a\u003E, located in Athens, Georgia, started as an informal network of safe homes in the 1970s when volunteers opened their homes to victims of domestic violence. The non-profit became incorporated in 1991 and now works to end domestic violence through supportive services like long-term housing and support groups, prevention and education, and systems change advocacy. They also offer crisis intervention \u0026ndash; an emergency shelter, financial assistance, a hotline, and more recently a text line for teens and young adults.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProject Safe launched the Breaking Silence dating violence text line in 2012. That year, a report named Georgia the number one state in the country for teen dating violence.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;As we were processing this information, we also had to face the fact that we weren\u0026rsquo;t really working with teens,\u0026rdquo; said Joan Prittie, executive director of Project Safe. \u0026ldquo;Here we are in Athens with the University of Georgia, other universities, and several high schools. Apart from going in and doing a few presentations here and there, we weren\u0026rsquo;t hearing from teens and young adults.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe text line, according to Prittie, is a way to assist teens through a familiar mode of communication. Trained text line interns are \u0026ldquo;near peers\u0026rdquo; \u0026ndash; local college students studying subjects like criminal justice and social work. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s like talking to a really smart older brother or sister,\u0026rdquo; said Mary Haddon, Project Safe youth educator \u0026amp; advocate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWhen Breaking Silence began, a group of interns had one smartphone, which they handed off to each other between shifts. \u0026ldquo;That worked for a while,\u0026rdquo; explained Prittie. \u0026ldquo;We were just starting out and kind of feeling our way.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConnecting with Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the program expanded it became difficult for interns to keep up with the surge of texts coming in, especially after staff members promoted the text line during school presentations. They also discovered an uneven distribution of texts. Some interns would be bombarded, while others wouldn\u0026rsquo;t receive any messages. That\u0026rsquo;s when Project Safe board member Margaret Wagner Dahl had an idea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;I said to Joan, I think we should talk to Georgia Tech through the Institute for People and Technology. That\u0026rsquo;s an appropriate place to try and sort this out,\u0026rdquo; she said. Wagner Dahl, who is also Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s associate vice president of Health IT, connected Project Safe with Jeremy Johnson, a senior research scientist with IPaT and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center (IMTC)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn 2015, Johnson and a team of Georgia Tech undergraduate and graduate students began developing a web-based interface that addresses several concerns. Instead of sharing one phone, the software allows interns to receive texts on multiple, individual phones. Incoming messages are distributed in a round robin fashion, solving the problem of uneven distribution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;I think we fail to appreciate just how useful text messaging alone can be in addressing the need for certain applications,\u0026rdquo; said Johnson. \u0026ldquo;People often think they need a flashy, cross-platform application. You can accomplish a lot for certain types of applications just using a purely text-based interface.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nText line managers can also review transcripts of conversations, which helps with supervision and training. \u0026ldquo;The cool thing about the technology is if an intern has a text and they\u0026rsquo;re not sure how to respond, we can go in and look at the whole conversation from our phones and help them,\u0026rdquo; said Adrienne Shook, Project Safe text line manager.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince Project Safe started using the new system in August 2016, the text line has steadily grown from about 30 clients a month to around 50. Staff members are promoting Breaking Silence statewide, and can now receive text messages from across Georgia. Prittie predicts, \u0026ldquo;Over time, this is going to become more likely the way that hotline type services are offered in our movement.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nShe hopes to continue collaborating with Georgia Tech and says the partnership has not only been beneficial for Project Safe, but also for the Georgia Tech students who worked on the project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;I think it was very interesting [for students] to see how their skills could help solve human problems and make life safer and better for people through the use of technology.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJohnson, who is the father of two young daughters, agrees. He volunteered some of his time in order to complete the project. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a wonderful cause. What Project Safe is doing is tremendous and impacts the lives of so many young people who are having moments of crisis. I just really believed in their mission and what they\u0026rsquo;re trying to accomplish.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFebruary is teen dating violence awareness month. To learn more about Project Safe\u0026rsquo;s programs and services, visit their\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.project-safe.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers and students collaborate with Athens-based Project Safe to expand the organization\u0026#39;s domestic violence text line.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers and students collaborate with Athens-based Project Safe to expand the organization\u0027s domestic violence text line."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 17:04:23","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 17:04:43","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623335":{"id":"623335","type":"image","title":"Breaking Silence","body":null,"created":"1563209964","gmt_created":"2019-07-15 16:59:24","changed":"1563209964","gmt_changed":"2019-07-15 16:59:24","alt":"Breaking Silence text line","file":{"fid":"237394","name":"breaking_silence.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breaking_silence.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breaking_silence.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":204658,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/breaking_silence.jpg?itok=i6b3CH03"}}},"media_ids":["623335"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623302":{"#nid":"623302","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Future of Job Training","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn August 2014, Emory University Hospital received national and international attention when it became the first hospital in the United States to treat a patient with Ebola virus disease. Dr. Kent Brantly, a medical missionary, contracted the disease in Liberia, a focal point for the worst Ebola outbreak in history.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAfter nearly two weeks in the hospital, Brantly recovered. Then, over the next two months, Emory treated three more Ebola survivors\u0026mdash;another missionary, a doctor volunteering with the World Health Organization, and a nurse who became infected while caring for a patient with the Ebola virus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJosia Mamora remembers that time vividly. He had recently relocated to Atlanta from Southern California and joined Emory\u0026rsquo;s Serious Communicable Disease Unit (SCDU) as a surgical ICU nurse. \u0026ldquo;I was privileged to take care of all four of our Ebola patients here at Emory,\u0026rdquo; he recalled. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not like anything I\u0026rsquo;ve done before. It\u0026rsquo;s a lot different and a lot harder.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIt takes specialized training to care for highly infectious patients; Mamora leads this training every quarter at Emory. Hospital staff learns how to put on and remove PPE, or personal protective equipment, which they wear to minimize exposure to the virus. \u0026ldquo;Some of the skills that you build up\u0026mdash;even basic skills like starting an IV\u0026mdash;can get hard if you\u0026rsquo;re wearing a PPE,\u0026rdquo; said Mamora.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThey also have to be extremely careful not to spread the virus. It\u0026rsquo;s common for Ebola patients to expel bodily fluids, which carry the virus. Mamora trains staff how to properly clean up fluid spills while continuing to monitor patients.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHe currently uses a checklist-based system for training. In a conference room, he and other instructors demonstrate step-by-step, proper PPE procedures and how to clean up a simulated spill. According to Mamora, the training lacks realism. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s hard to impress upon new team members what it\u0026rsquo;s like to take care of these patients\u0026mdash;the limitations in mobility with the [PPE] suit, the claustrophobia that you might experience.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAugmented Reality Training\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe SCDU team is now working with Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IMTC) to create an augmented reality (AR) version of the training. Each trainee will have a first-person roleplaying experience where they practice the spill cleanup protocol rather than watching an instructor demonstrate it. IMTC research scientists used techniques from virtual reality video games to develop the training program. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a more immersive, situated style of experience, including a rich audio environment that intentionally creates stress and distractions for the trainee so that it\u0026rsquo;s more realistic,\u0026rdquo; said Scott Robertson, research scientist and associate director of IMTC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRobertson, and IMTC research scientists Jiten Chhabra, Maribeth Gandy Coleman, Laura Levy, Jeff Wilson, and Clint Zeagler are all working on the project. They interviewed Mamora and other nurses to get an idea of what to include in the training, which uses Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s HoloLens, a see-through AR head-mounted display (HMD).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDuring a training session, trainees will see virtual, AR elements realistically situated in the room around them, including a virtual spill, a patient in the hospital bed, and a patient care nurse. At critical points during the protocol, trainees will watch instructional videos and complete manual tasks like mimicking a spill cleanup. During a testing phase, they\u0026rsquo;ll have to recall each step of the protocol, all while listening to simulated sounds of a patient in distress.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIMTC is currently writing scripts, creating AR graphics and environmental audio, and filming instructional videos with Emory staff who will act as a patient and a nurse.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBesides being a training tool, Robertson says the AR program can help to answer research questions. \u0026ldquo;One problem with these kinds of AR and VR (virtual reality) training systems is they\u0026#39;re often difficult for the end user to configure. It might not be intuitive for someone who\u0026rsquo;s never used one of these systems.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRobertson will conduct a series of user studies to test different AR\/VR configuration techniques. Do users prefer to learn traditional tapping and grasping hand gestures associated with AR\/VR? Or do they prefer fiducials?\u0026mdash;printed 2D barcodes that they can place on most surfaces to indicate where to overlay virtual objects. \u0026ldquo;The idea is to make these training systems easy for the end user who\u0026rsquo;s not an AR\/VR or 3D expert to configure and modify on their own.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are creating an augmented reality training program that helps Emory University Hospital treat and protect its most critical patients.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers are creating an augmented reality training program that helps Emory University Hospital treat and protect its most critical patients."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-12 17:44:30","changed_gmt":"2019-07-12 17:44:30","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623301":{"id":"623301","type":"image","title":"Augmented Reality Training","body":null,"created":"1562953305","gmt_created":"2019-07-12 17:41:45","changed":"1562953305","gmt_changed":"2019-07-12 17:41:45","alt":"Scott Robertson, research scientist and associate director of the Interactive Media Technology Center","file":{"fid":"237378","name":"scott-robertson.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/scott-robertson.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/scott-robertson.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":417464,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/scott-robertson.jpg?itok=E5doOLEy"}}},"media_ids":["623301"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623263":{"#nid":"623263","#data":{"type":"news","title":"For the Fans","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe field of sports data analytics has been around for 15 years, most notably for capturing and examining player data in baseball. The Oakland Athletics are considered the first professional sports team to use data analytics, as shown in the 2003 book and Academy Award-winning movie\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMoneyball.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;With an influx of new and more complex data, statistical tables are no longer as effective. Data visualization, a more recent phenomenon in sports, is a way of clearly and efficiently communicating information through the use of imagery\u0026ndash;statistical graphs, plots, and infographs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJournalists and other communicators have used visualization for years to summarize sports statistics. Coaches and trainers use it, too, for training regimens, understanding injury patterns, and mapping the movement of players on the court and field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the growing popularity of fantasy sports leagues, fans are becoming more engaged with player stats and performance and getting in on the data vis action. We\u0026#39;re also more visually literate\u0026mdash;comfortable digesting bar graphs and scatter plots\u0026mdash;according to School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Rahul Basole.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;People are getting more data savvy and hungry, and the tools have gotten easier across the board,\u0026rdquo; said Basole. \u0026ldquo;We are visual creatures. We like to have [data] summarized visually and in an aesthetic and compelling fashion.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBasole also says there\u0026rsquo;s just simply more data out there on a wide range of sports, ready to be analyzed.\u0026nbsp;He and fellow interactive computing Professor John\u0026nbsp;Stasko\u0026nbsp;are currently examining\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/stats\/shotlinkintelligence\/overview.html\u0022\u003EShotLink\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;data\u0026nbsp;from the PGA Tour, which tracks every shot from every player across all courses.\u0026nbsp;The organization has made the raw data available to academic researchers for novel analyses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Our goal is to visualize ShotLink data to make sense of individual player performance as well as their overall patterns across time and different courses,\u0026rdquo; said Basole.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe and Stasko plan to visualize the data in an interactive dashboard for a user-oriented perspective. \u0026quot;As with many domains, vis alone is not the sweet spot for sports. It\u0026#39;s great for communicating and presenting; it\u0026#39;s also great for sensemaking. But it\u0026#39;s the combination with analytics that can truly provide insights.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E* * *\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom USB-enabled cup holders and massive LED scoreboards and displays to the fastest wi-fi at any sporting venue in North America, SunTrust Park is considered one of the most technologically advanced stadiums in the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We view technology as an enabler,\u0026quot; said Greg Mize, senior director of marketing \u0026amp; innovation, Atlanta Braves. \u0026quot;One of our sayings is, \u0026lsquo;Don\u0026rsquo;t pursue and integrate technology for the sake of technology.\u0026rsquo;\u0026quot; It has to provide value for fans in the form of entertainment, engagement, or information according to Mize. \u0026quot;Our goal is to create the best experience for fans as possible, and technology plays a massive part in that.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESunTrust Park and the Battery Atlanta are using artificial intelligence to help visitors navigate shops and services, and augmented reality technology to educate visitors about historical artifacts on display at Monument Garden.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is also partnering with the Atlanta Braves to enhance the fan experience at SunTrust Park. Last season, graduate students studied how long visitors waited in concession lines and how long it took to prepare their food. The Braves then used this research to streamline the process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology\u0026nbsp;Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IMTC) is using augmented reality to give fans an in-depth look at SunTrust Park and Braves players. A high-resolution camera feeds a live view of the entire baseball field to a computer located in the Verizon Lounge. Using a 55-inch touchscreen, lounge visitors can explore the stadium and the live game by interacting with augmented reality (AR) graphics integrated into the camera video feed. Interactive AR graphics include showing the current lineup on the field and individual player statistics. They can also explore SunTrust Park and read little-known facts about the ballpark. Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Braves will launch the augmented reality experience later this spring.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re so lucky to have one of the foremost research and technology universities in Georgia Tech right in our backyard,\u0026quot; said Mize. \u0026quot;So it made perfect sense to align with Georgia Tech and form that partnership.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScott Robertson, research scientist and IMTC associate director, is envisioning the future of the project.\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Right now this is a standalone system so all of the content is static, but the next version could include live information sources,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;One thing we\u0026rsquo;re interested in doing is, when a player comes up to bat, rendering a transparent heat map on the field which shows where they\u0026rsquo;re statistically likely to hit the ball.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERobertson and IMTC researchers are also exploring streaming AR content to mobile devices and installing more cameras for additional views around the ballpark.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E* * *\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers are also making sports more engaging for a community that venues have historically overlooked: the deaf and hard of hearing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iacaptions.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECaptions for Life\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a real-time, personal captioning system developed by Leanne West, a principal research scientist at Georgia Tech who has a background in optical physics, and Ethan Adler, a former computer scientist at Georgia Tech. It works by collecting captions on a server in one of three ways\u0026mdash;through voice, typing them in real-time, or pre-recorded text. The captions are then sent out via wi-fi or cellular service and displayed on a smartphone screen or on electronic eyewear like Google Glass.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInitially designed for movie theaters, Captions for Life is now meant for use in classrooms, churches, and sports venues. \u0026ldquo;The idea is that wherever you are at a sports venue, you can get the color commentary to whatever degree they\u0026#39;re doing it at the stadium, and it goes with you. You are not tied to a seat or screen,\u0026rdquo; said West. Using multiple channels, venues can also provide captions in different languages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWest and Adler developed the system in 2000, and the following year received funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) through Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.wirelessrerc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies (Wireless RERC)\u003C\/a\u003E. Back then there weren\u0026rsquo;t many captioning options for the deaf and hard of hearing, but according to West things have changed over the past 15 years. \u0026ldquo;Now, people are much more aware. Venues are starting to be more proactive, so we think that\u0026rsquo;s a good sign.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETechnology advancements are shaping the sports experience for fans.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Technology advancements are shaping the sports experience for fans."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-11 20:30:11","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 20:31:15","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623262":{"id":"623262","type":"image","title":"Augmented Reality at SunTrust Park","body":null,"created":"1562876800","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 20:26:40","changed":"1562876800","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 20:26:40","alt":"Augmented Reality at SunTrust Park","file":{"fid":"237356","name":"players.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/players.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/players.png","mime":"image\/png","size":3607418,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/players.png?itok=t410MqIP"}},"623261":{"id":"623261","type":"image","title":"Augmented Reality at SunTrust Park","body":null,"created":"1562876717","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 20:25:17","changed":"1562876717","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 20:25:17","alt":"augmented reality at SunTrust Park","file":{"fid":"237355","name":"field_trivia2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/field_trivia2.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/field_trivia2.png","mime":"image\/png","size":3055352,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/field_trivia2.png?itok=HOv2QFs9"}}},"media_ids":["623262","623261"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell Key\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623259":{"#nid":"623259","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sports Technology Innovation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Our vision is to establish Atlanta as the world leader in sports technology and innovation.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a lofty goal, for sure, but Doug Allvine is determined to achieve it. As Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s assistant athletics director for innovation, it\u0026rsquo;s his job to bring together athletics, researchers, and industry. He\u0026rsquo;s been in the newly-created position for about a year and is concentrating on three areas\u0026mdash;sports performance, fan experience, and operations. Allvine and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ramblinwreck.com\/genrel\/111501aab.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Athletic Association\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;are also spearheading the creation of the Center for Sports Innovation, which focuses on entrepreneurship innovation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We want to create an entity that brings together Georgia Tech first and then brings together what makes Atlanta so special, which is all these pro teams within a stone\u0026#39;s throw.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe center is working with other units on campus, including the Institute for People and Technology, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/OIC\u0022\u003EOffice of Industry Collaboration\u003C\/a\u003E. It\u0026rsquo;s all about bridging the gap.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Georgia Tech is unique because we\u0026#39;re situated in Atlanta and situated next to a vibrant and growing entrepreneurial ecosystem, and that\u0026#39;s where the differential advantages for Georgia Tech athletics come from,\u0026rdquo; said Bill Cutts, senior director, Georgia Tech Office of Industry Collaboration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIt\u0026rsquo;s the same idea that\u0026rsquo;s behind innovation neighborhoods like Tech Square in Midtown Atlanta that attract not only entrepreneurs but also large companies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;This\u0026nbsp;isn\u0026#39;t just an idea out of left field that doesn\u0026#39;t fit in. It\u0026#39;s an idea that walks in and suddenly fits in with what we\u0026#39;ve been trying to do.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudents and student-athletes are also critical to this strategy. \u0026ldquo;We want to give them opportunities to be involved in sports innovation, whether it\u0026rsquo;s from a testbed standpoint or a research standpoint and make them have a greater awareness of some of these ecosystems that we have in place, whether it\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECreate-X\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atdc.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EATDC\u003C\/a\u003E. There are so many different programs that we have here,\u0026rdquo; said Allvine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeasuring Joint Sounds\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a former student-athlete, and now a researcher, Omer Inan has unique insight into the physical challenges that athletes face and how technology can address them. The All-American collegiate discus thrower joined Georgia Tech in 2013 as an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;I had this interest and passion for allowing people to get better information about their health and possibly their performance\u0026mdash;from an athletic standpoint\u0026mdash;outside of clinical and lab settings,\u0026rdquo; said Inan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHe had an idea to use his background in audio engineering to develop a knee brace that measures the popping and cracking sounds inside joints. Sensors are attached to the skin, while two types of miniature microphones detect sound. One catches soundwaves in the air, and the other senses vibrations on the skin\u0026rsquo;s surface in response to acoustic energy inside the body.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThanks to funding from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/warrior-web\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDARPA\u0026rsquo;S Warrior Web program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to develop wearable technologies for soldier rehabilitation, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504739\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESmart and Connected Health program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;from NSF and NIH, Inan along with collaborators in ECE and the College of Sciences are building better, less expensive microphones and sensors. They\u0026rsquo;re also examining what the sounds mean for determining if joints need further rehabilitation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;For example, if we inject saline into the knee capsule to mimic swelling, how does that impact the sounds?\u0026rdquo; explained Inan. His team is conducting cadaver studies, including performing small meniscal tears, which simulate one of the most common knee injuries in athletes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInan recently expanded his research to study more complex joints\u0026mdash;elbows and shoulders\u0026mdash;and is working with the Georgia Tech baseball team to take measurements from pitchers and infielders throughout the season. His team is trying to determine markers of joint overuse that could be used to predict the risk of overuse injury.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore broadly, this research could also impact people living with arthritis or those who are just trying to stay active. \u0026ldquo;Maybe\u0026nbsp;we\u0026#39;re recreational tennis players, or maybe we go for a jog, and we want to understand if we should back off that day. I think that having in-depth physiological information about joint health with non-invasive sensors would be a huge win.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProtecting the Brain\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA bump or blow to the head that rattles the brain and disturbs normal function is known as traumatic brain injury, or TBI. It\u0026rsquo;s a complicated injury, with a wide range of symptoms from a headache to memory loss and even seizures. In athletics, from youth to professional, mild concussion is the most frequent type of traumatic brain injury.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAt the college level, the NCAA and the U.S. Department of Defense have embarked on the largest-ever study of concussion in sports with the goal of better understanding and preventing these injuries. Preliminary data from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/about\/resources\/media-center\/news\/researchers-discuss-initial-care-concussion-study-findings\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECARE Consortium study\u003C\/a\u003E, released in January, indicates that attitudes about concussion among student-athletes, medical providers, and athletic programs have changed over the past 17 years. Campuses are emphasizing adequate recovery time, which could result in fewer repeat concussions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2016, Georgia Tech President G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson became chair of the NCAA Board of Governors, the NCAA\u0026rsquo;s highest governing authority. Last April, the board increased its emphasis on the importance of safeguarding student-athlete health and safety by endorsing nine areas that the NCAA\u0026rsquo;s Sport Science Institute has identified as priorities, including concussion, cardiac health, and mental health.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;The NCAA has established the health and safety of its athletes as one of the Association\u0026rsquo;s top priorities,\u0026rdquo; said Georgia Tech President G.P. \u0026ldquo;Bud\u0026rdquo; Peterson. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re already learning a great deal from the concussion study launched by the NCAA and the U.S. Department of Defense in 2014. In addition, we\u0026rsquo;re addressing other areas that impact health, well-being, academic and athletic performance. The NCAA is taking a holistic approach. It reminds me of the way we bring together expertise in multiple disciplines at Georgia Tech. Our internal and external collaborations many times result in breakthroughs that wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have been discovered otherwise.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDr. Peterson has invited the NCAA\u0026rsquo;s first chief medical officer, Dr. Brian Hainline, to visit Georgia Tech in the fall to explore collaborations between Georgia Tech, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Children\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta in the area of concussion research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E*\u0026nbsp; *\u0026nbsp; *\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMichelle LaPlaca, associate professor in Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s and Emory\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bme.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EDepartment of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, has been researching TBI for more than 20 years. She says whether the injury is mild or severe, it\u0026rsquo;s difficult to figure out what\u0026#39;s going on in the brain and how that contributes to function. Researchers study TBI in several ways: at the cellular level by mechanically injuring cells and observing how they break down; they also use computer-generated simulations and animal models. There\u0026rsquo;s always one thing missing, though: how to connect all these levels of research to human TBI.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;You can\u0026rsquo;t directly measure what happens in the brain of a human during a traumatic brain injury,\u0026rdquo; said LaPlaca. She calls TBI \u0026ldquo;a heterogeneous injury.\u0026rdquo; It manifests itself in different ways\u0026mdash;memory problems in one person, a headache in another. Doctors consider underlying health issues, and gender, too. Then there\u0026rsquo;s the nature of the injury itself. Was the athlete hit from the front or the back? Were they wearing a helmet? LaPlaca examines all of these variables and how they contribute to the brain injury.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Part of the motivation is to better understand those tolerances so that we can design better protective gear. Protective gear like helmets are designed to guard against skull fractures, but can\u0026#39;t prevent movement of the brain within the skull.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nShe also says there\u0026rsquo;s a need for more tools that can quickly and objectively assess concussion. LaPlaca and David Wright of Emory University\u0026nbsp;have developed DETECT or Display Enhanced Testing for Cognitive Impairment and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. After a suspected concussion, an athlete puts on a head-mounted display and earphones, which reduces outside distraction and creates a more immersive test-taking experience. Using a controller, they take a shortened neuropsychological test measuring memory and reaction time, as well as balance and eye movement. By covering multiple neurological domains, DETECT can better guide clinical management of the concussion. The assessment results also take into account off-the-field factors like learning disabilities and medications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have tested DETECT with high school and college football players and find that it is accurate in distinguishing concussed players from those without a head injury.\u0026nbsp;LaPlaca emphasizes, though, that DETECT is meant to enhance the knowledge and expertise of athletic trainers, not replace it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;[Athletic trainers] have a lot of experience, and we don\u0026#39;t want to dismiss that,\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;We want to figure out a way to integrate the human experience into our algorithms for decision making.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nShe says although academics and athletics don\u0026#39;t typically work together, \u0026ldquo;there\u0026rsquo;s a lot of willingness on both sides\u0026rdquo; to work together to advance innovative ideas that benefit athletes on and off the field.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s not just a return to the field. It\u0026rsquo;s also a return to life, and a return to the classroom.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EGraphics by: Raul Perez\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech academic and athletic units are working together to advance ideas that benefit athletes on and off the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech academic and athletic units are working together to advance ideas that benefit athletes on and off the field."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-11 20:20:11","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 20:20:11","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623257":{"id":"623257","type":"image","title":"Student Opportunities","body":null,"created":"1562876031","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 20:13:51","changed":"1562876031","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 20:13:51","alt":"student opportunities","file":{"fid":"237353","name":"student-opp.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/student-opp.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/student-opp.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":427278,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/student-opp.jpg?itok=V_u0rNtS"}},"538931":{"id":"538931","type":"image","title":"Prof. Omer Inan is developing knee listening device","body":null,"created":"1464703200","gmt_created":"2016-05-31 14:00:00","changed":"1475895326","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:26","alt":"Prof. Omer Inan is developing knee listening device","file":{"fid":"216414","name":"gt.prof_.omer_.inan_.face_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gt.prof_.omer_.inan_.face_.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/gt.prof_.omer_.inan_.face_.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1549917,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/gt.prof_.omer_.inan_.face_.jpg?itok=EqgUmL0F"}},"623258":{"id":"623258","type":"image","title":"NCAA Football Players","body":null,"created":"1562876070","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 20:14:30","changed":"1562876070","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 20:14:30","alt":"NCAA Football Players","file":{"fid":"237354","name":"ncaa-football-graphic.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ncaa-football-graphic.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ncaa-football-graphic.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":434602,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ncaa-football-graphic.jpg?itok=ZQZNBsIb"}},"599427":{"id":"599427","type":"image","title":"Michelle LaPlaca DETECT","body":null,"created":"1512161811","gmt_created":"2017-12-01 20:56:51","changed":"1512161811","gmt_changed":"2017-12-01 20:56:51","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228533","name":"15C10302-P2-032.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15C10302-P2-032.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/15C10302-P2-032.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2499901,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/15C10302-P2-032.jpg?itok=cTe_u8aP"}}},"media_ids":["623257","538931","623258","599427"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell Key\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMarketing Communications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"623256":{"#nid":"623256","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Preserving the History of Georgia\u0027s Rural Churches","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) received an $86,000 grant this week from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Endowment for the Humanities\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(NEH) to support\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe Digital Drawer: A Crowd-Sourced, Curated, Digital Archive Preserving History and Memory\u003C\/em\u003E. The Digital Drawer project will pilot a platform and method of gathering, curating and disseminating crowd-sourced community memory, initially, the history of Georgia\u0026rsquo;s rural churches contained in endangered records in private collections dispersed across the state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe 18-month grant from the NEH\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/grants\/odh\/digital-humanities-advancement-grants\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDigital Humanities Advancement Grants program\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will fund the design and development of a pilot version of the Digital Drawer platform to gather, curate and disseminate \u0026ldquo;crowd-sourced\u0026rdquo; community memory. The goal of the Digital Drawer is to create a methodology and mechanism for collecting and distributing digital collections of rural church histories that will become an international, open-source platform to be used by humanities scholars and the general public to access collections of these historical and often lost voices in our past.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis digital humanities project is unique in that it will be designed to accommodate the usability needs of an anticipated older demographic with disabilities. The platform will be a cloud-hosted media and metadata repository with data sharing service available to the public through their public libraries or partner websites. The archive will be free and accessible for all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Digital Drawer will be developed by a collaboration of IPaT\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center (IMTC)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/digitalscholarship.emory.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEmory University\u0026rsquo;s Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS)\u003C\/a\u003E, in partnership with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hrcga.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHistoric Rural Churches of Georgia (HRCGA)\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiahumanities.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Humanities\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgialibraries.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Public Library Service\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.libs.uga.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDigital Archives of the University of Georgia\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProject director, Scott Robertson (Institute for People and Technology, Georgia Tech) will direct the Digital Drawer project with co-project director, Jesse Karlsberg (Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Emory University).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIPaT receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a digital humanities collection platform.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IPaT receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a digital humanities collection platform."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-11 20:10:54","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 20:12:07","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623218":{"id":"623218","type":"image","title":"Powelton Church","body":null,"created":"1562870438","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 18:40:38","changed":"1562875877","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 20:11:17","alt":"Powelton Church","file":{"fid":"237330","name":"Powelton Methodist exterior.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Powelton%20Methodist%20exterior.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Powelton%20Methodist%20exterior.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":480693,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Powelton%20Methodist%20exterior.jpg?itok=9z7ejetQ"}}},"media_ids":["623218"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"}],"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":[],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"376831":{"#nid":"376831","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center Announces Its First Engagement Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe WCC announces its first engagement grant program, open to faculty, students, and research scientists of Georgia Tech. Grants can be used to support the development of new hardware or new applications; fund the design and evaluation of new wearable technologies; or create new opportunities for internal or external collaboration, such as through workshops or speaker series.\u0026nbsp; Our hope is that the engagement grant will help inspire a sense of collaboration, and will help aid in the creations of projects showcasing wearable technology\u0026rsquo;s potential.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nApplications are due on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EOctober 24th, 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E, and the WCC will announce the winner or winners of the 2014 WCC engagement grant at the inaugural Wearable Computing Center Forum on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ENovember 11, 2014\u003C\/strong\u003E. More information about awards, eligibility, and the application process can be found on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/content\/engage2014\u0022\u003EWCC website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe WCC announces its first engagement grant program, open to faculty, students, and research scientists of Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The WCC announces its first engagement grant program, open to faculty, students, and research scientists of Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2015-02-10 17:48:36","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 15:16:03","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-10-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"376821":{"id":"376821","type":"image","title":"Engage grant","body":null,"created":"1449246205","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:25","changed":"1475894344","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:04","alt":"Engage grant","file":{"fid":"75170","name":"engage.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/engage.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/engage.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5542,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/engage.jpg?itok=BLJFvTBj"}}},"media_ids":["376821"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"470601":{"#nid":"470601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Understanding Campus Life Through Digital Data","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECan aspects of a student\u0026rsquo;s life, such as mental health and academic performance, be predicted by evidence of their digital footprint as they live their daily lives? It\u0026rsquo;s a question Georgia Tech researchers want to explore with a new project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe project is an extension of Dartmouth College\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/studentlife.cs.dartmouth.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStudentLife study\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDuring a recent GVU Center Brown Bag talk, Dartmouth College professor Andrew Campbell, who started the StudentLife project, asked, \u0026ldquo;Who are the students that are going to excel? Who are the students who are going to struggle? And who are the students that are going to drop out?\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EWATCH:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gvu.gatech.edu\/event\/brown-bag-archive\/gvu-center-brown-bag-seminar-series-andrew-campbell\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGVU Center Brown Bag Seminar Series - Dartmouth College\u0026rsquo;s Andrew Campbell discusses StudentLife study\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCampbell says no one really knows because many factors impact academic performance and student life. StudentLife sought to answer these questions, though, using a continuous sensing app that assessed the day-to-day impact of workload on stress, sleep, activity, mood, sociability, mental health and academic performance of a small class of Dartmouth students over 10 weeks. Results from the StudentLife study show a number of significant correlations between smartphone data and mental health and educational outcomes of the student body. As the academic year progressed and workload increased, stress rose considerably, while positive affect, sleep, conversation and activity dropped off. Using this data, researchers accurately predicted student GPA, and in the future hope StudentLife will help students boost their academic performance while living a balanced life on campus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTogether with Dartmouth, Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University, researchers at Georgia Tech are proposing to expand the study, now called CampusLife, by collecting data from a larger group of students through their interactions with mobile and wearable technology, social media, and the environment itself. In addition to providing valuable data for activity recognition in ubiquitous computing, the project has inspired researchers to think more boldly about a university campus as a testbed for understanding wellness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;What drives this project is both a human goal of understanding wellness of young adults, as well as how one can perform such experimentation and address the significant security and privacy challenges,\u0026rdquo; said Georgia Tech College of Computing professor Gregory Abowd.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAbowd, along with College of Computing assistant professor Munmun de Choudhury, led a discussion about CampusLife as part of the IPaT Thursday Think Tank series. Faculty and staff from Georgia Tech and Emory also joined the brainstorming session.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe discussion focused on three questions regarding CampusLife: Who are the project stakeholders, what data should be collected, and with whom should researchers partner? Think Tank attendees agreed that the format of data collection is important; students may be more hesitant to provide information in an official capacity versus a more informal format such as social media. Offering value on top of data was also discussed. For example, going beyond data collection and using it to help students achieve work-life balance. Finally, the group talked about potential partners for the CampusLife project. One idea was to partner with health insurance companies as students reach the age where their parent\u0026rsquo;s insurance no longer covers them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearchers are working toward starting the CampusLife project during the 2017 academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECan aspects of a student\u0026rsquo;s life be predicted by evidence of their digital footprint as they live their daily lives? It\u0026rsquo;s a question Georgia Tech researchers want to explore with a new project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Can aspects of a student\u2019s life be predicted by evidence of their digital footprint as they live their daily lives? It\u2019s a question Georgia Tech researchers want to explore with a new project."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2015-11-17 11:32:55","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 15:05:36","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"396711":{"id":"396711","type":"image","title":"Gregory Abowd","body":null,"created":"1449246361","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:26:01","changed":"1475895112","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:52","alt":"Gregory Abowd","file":{"fid":"75680","name":"grregory_abowd_chi2015.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/grregory_abowd_chi2015.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/grregory_abowd_chi2015.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":69190,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/grregory_abowd_chi2015.jpg?itok=mTrf27QV"}},"378191":{"id":"378191","type":"image","title":"Munmun de Choudhury","body":null,"created":"1449246205","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:25","changed":"1475894385","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:45","alt":"Munmun de Choudhury","file":{"fid":"75208","name":"munmun-dechoudhury1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/munmun-dechoudhury1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/munmun-dechoudhury1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27072,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/munmun-dechoudhury1.jpg?itok=CIvEa8MY"}}},"media_ids":["396711","378191"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"},{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"148281","name":"Andrew Campbell"},{"id":"7843","name":"campus life"},{"id":"148271","name":"Dartmouth College"},{"id":"11002","name":"Gregory Abowd"},{"id":"12888","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"148261","name":"IPaT Thursday Think Tank"},{"id":"89321","name":"Munmun De Choudhury"},{"id":"170831","name":"StudentLife"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute for People and Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"391741":{"#nid":"391741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Augmented Reality: Teaching Kids About Their World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow do you teach kids about unseen forces? For example, the force that causes a ball to roll down a ramp. Teachers use demonstrations, experiments, and of course textbooks. Now, Georgia Tech and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/responsibility\/education\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVerizon Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E want to add augmented reality to the list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center (IMTC)\u003C\/a\u003E is developing and testing a prototype of an augmented reality mobile application. Its purpose: get kids excited about STEM education by using fun, interactive and compelling experiences. IMTC recently tested the prototype with kids ranging from six to 14 years old. They tested four demos \u0026ndash; cubes (learning how to calculate volume and density), a train (setting up an experiment and testing hypotheses about forces and mass), a catapult (understanding the paths of projectiles), and lasers (teaching optics via a game controlled by virtual light beams, mirrors, and prisms). The app is designed as a collaborative, social experience, which enhances learning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EWATCH:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BgPF6FTlEcg\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EA demo of IMTC\u0026#39;s augmented reality mobile app\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAugmented reality, or AR, is overlaying virtual information on the physical world. This typically means visual information delivered through a handheld device like a tablet, phone or head-mounted display. Sports fans see it on television all the time \u0026ndash; on the football field marking a first down or tracking a swimmer as she glides through the pool.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s great about those augmentations is they\u0026rsquo;re so elegantly integrated into the physical world,\u0026rdquo; said Maribeth Gandy, director of the IMTC. \u0026ldquo;They look like they\u0026rsquo;re part of the field, they look like they\u0026rsquo;re coming up out of the goal post, they\u0026rsquo;re attached to the NASCAR as it\u0026rsquo;s moving around. It doesn\u0026rsquo;t just look cool; it provides real value. It reduces the cognitive load that it requires for you to interpret the information.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGandy said a lot of kids are technologically savvy and have already experienced AR in their daily lives through video games and mobile apps. So the challenge is producing a prototype that\u0026rsquo;s polished, educational and engaging. Feedback from the kids is invaluable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We forget that they\u0026rsquo;re cognitively different, they\u0026rsquo;re physically different, their mental model of how technology works or how the world works is really different,\u0026rdquo; said Gandy. \u0026ldquo;They didn\u0026rsquo;t understand things that seem obvious to an adult - like why the train didn\u0026rsquo;t go the same distance every time no matter how much stuff you put in the bed of the train - because they don\u0026rsquo;t have an intuition about physics the way that older kids or adults do.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAnother hurdle is the handheld aspect. Researchers used a tablet for testing, but discovered that some of the younger kids struggled to hold it because they have small hands.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGandy and her team will now take the data they collected, make tweaks and eventually make the app available to the public. They\u0026rsquo;ll also create physical and virtual \u0026ldquo;exploration kits\u0026rdquo; for students in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/responsibility\/education\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVerizon\u0026rsquo;s Innovative Learning Schools\u003C\/a\u003E and other schools across the country. Augmentations will be personalized to each student, with grade-appropriate content.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;The opportunity for today\u0026rsquo;s students to better understand complex STEM concepts is so important,\u0026rdquo; said Kristin Townsend, Manager - CSR Program Development, Verizon Foundation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Leveraging technology to help students not only understand but see everyday examples of STEM principles in their lives not only facilitates learning, but it inspires students to consider STEM fields that tend to be very abstract.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC) is developing and testing a prototype of an augmented reality mobile application."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2015-03-30 15:10:02","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 14:47:28","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"391761":{"id":"391761","type":"image","title":"Students play with augmented reality prototype designed by IMTC for Verizon Foundation","body":null,"created":"1449246332","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:32","changed":"1475895078","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:18","alt":"Students play with augmented reality prototype designed by IMTC for Verizon Foundation","file":{"fid":"75566","name":"screen_shot_2015-03-25_at_10.56.54_am.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-03-25_at_10.56.54_am.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2015-03-25_at_10.56.54_am.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2102243,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2015-03-25_at_10.56.54_am.png?itok=zk-XAZt-"}}},"media_ids":["391761"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"10553","name":"app"},{"id":"1597","name":"Augmented Reality"},{"id":"122861","name":"IMTC"},{"id":"122851","name":"Interactive Media Technology Center"},{"id":"96091","name":"Maribeth Gandy"},{"id":"34741","name":"mobile app"},{"id":"167258","name":"STEM"},{"id":"122871","name":"Verizon Foundation"},{"id":"122881","name":"Verizon Innovative Learning Schools"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"304711":{"#nid":"304711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Launches Wearable Computing Center","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers have been studying wearable computing for 20 years. Experts in the areas of computer science, electrical engineering, augmented reality, psychology and even fashion have worked together to build and test applications and invent technologies. Potential users of wearable computing\u0026nbsp;have been involved, too, helping to discover how to apply wearable computing concepts to the \u0026quot;real world.\u0026quot; The technology\u0026#39;s potential reaches many areas - manufacturing, health and wellness, architecture and public safety and entertainment, just to name a few.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDespite many advances, the average consumer does not have access to wearable devices and applications. Historically, the technology has often been expensive, fragile, or both. Consumers also weren\u0026#39;t ready to embrace wearable computing. Now, with the rise of more durable, cost-effective devices, coupled with the recent explosion of mobile devices and head-mounted displays from companies such as Google and Oculus, the stage has been set for the emergence of wearable computing for consumers. There\u0026#39;s still more work to be done, though, to make the transition from the research lab into our everyday lives. That\u0026#39;s where Georgia Tech comes in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGT has taken advantage of the interest in wearable computing by launching the Wearable Computing Center. The goal of the center is to bring together world-class wearable computing researchers for meaningful collaborations. \u0026quot;Our goal is to provide a structure that supports the significant interdisciplinary research that is needed to tackle the grand challenges in wearable computing,\u0026quot; said Center Director Maribeth\u0026nbsp;Gandy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMembers also have the opportunity to be on the cutting edge of a new computing paradigm by joining the Industry Partners Program. Members will meet quarterly to discuss topics\u0026nbsp;relevant to the wearable computing industry such as policy concerns, market research and tech developments. Other benefits include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnnual Open House\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;- The consortium will hold an annual open house every November. Events will include workshops, hands-on tutorials for developers, and a special wearable industry day.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Consulting\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;- Members of the consortium have the ability to access an interdisciplinary group of research scientists who will provide technical consulting to help guide a company\u0026#39;s internal wearable projects. A portion of the membership fee is used as a retainer to cover researcher\u0026rsquo;s time. (\u003Cstrong\u003EWATCH:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TVhIzOSvDY4\u0026amp;list=UU7M6wv3Yz7wtgYqFOlkfC4w\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Researcher Rob Solomon demonstrates how the Google Glass app, Captioning on Glass, works.\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollaborative Projects\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;- The consortium may operate as a vehicle for collaborative projects among members.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EImpact Industry Standards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;- The consortium will develop standards for wearable devices. Interoperability and protocol standards will be necessary to achieve interoperable wearable devices.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENetworking Opportunities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;- Quarterly meetings and the annual open house will provide networking opportunities to consortium members.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUser Testing\u003C\/strong\u003E - Members may engage consortium researchers to perform user testing of their internally developed devices.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The program helps companies understand the potential of wearable computing by keeping them abreast of the past, present, and future of wearable technology, policy, and applications,\u0026quot; said Gandy. \u0026quot;We will work with them to identify how wearable technologies can be applied to their business and help their organization gain the expertise needed to make these ideas a reality.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSupport levels for the Industry Partners Program are designed to attract both small and large companies. Contact Maribeth Gandy at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maribeth@imtc.gatech.edu?subject=Industry%20Partners%20Program\u0022\u003Emaribeth@imtc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or Peter Presti\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:peter.presti@imtc.gatech.edu?subject=Industry%20Partners%20Program\u0022\u003Epeter.presti@imtc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for more information.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the center is to bring together world-class wearable computing researchers for meaningful collaborations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The goal of the center is to bring together world-class wearable computing researchers for meaningful collaborations."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2014-06-24 09:11:03","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 14:34:54","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"96091","name":"Maribeth Gandy"},{"id":"96101","name":"Peter Presti"},{"id":"10353","name":"wearable computing"},{"id":"96081","name":"Wearable Computing Center"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39541","name":"Systems"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"304691":{"#nid":"304691","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Developments for FIDO Project","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWearable tech isn\u0026#39;t just for people. College of Computing Associate Professor Melody Jackson and her team, including researchers Thad Starner and Clint Zeagler, are making significant progress on FIDO, or Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations. The high-tech vest for dogs is a wearable computer designed to help assistance dogs communicate with their handlers. By activating one of the sensors on the high-tech vest, dogs can send either audible cues or text notifications to their handler\u0026rsquo;s smartphone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nJackson and the FIDO team continue to develop and test new features for the device. \u0026quot;We have created and tested nine different sensors for dogs to activate, and tested them with eight dogs,\u0026quot; said Jackson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe team has also created a haptic bodysuit that allows users to silently communicate with working dogs, and is studying touch screens for dogs. Beyond helping disabled people, FIDO also has applications for bomb-sniffing dogs and rescue dogs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing Associate Professor Melody Jackson and her team, including researchers Thad Starner and Clint Zeagler, are making significant progress on FIDO, or Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"College of Computing Associate Professor Melody Jackson and her team, including researchers Thad Starner and Clint Zeagler, are making significant progress on FIDO, or Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2014-06-24 08:54:53","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 14:33:25","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"96051","name":"Canine"},{"id":"9873","name":"clint zeagler"},{"id":"2542","name":"dogs"},{"id":"96061","name":"FIDO"},{"id":"11726","name":"Institute for People and Technology"},{"id":"96031","name":"Melody Jackson"},{"id":"96041","name":"Melody Moore Jackson; Thad Starner"},{"id":"10353","name":"wearable computing"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"408031":{"#nid":"408031","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Highlighting Technology in the Classroom at the Educator Showcase","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvery day, Georgia educators are using technology to inspire and engage students. On May 12th, the third annual Educator Showcase highlighted those technology initiatives. The event, hosted by STEM@GTRI, CEISMC, and IPaT included a poster session and panel discussion, and gave educators the opportunity to expand their professional networks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWatch the video to learn about some of the projects featured at the showcase.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe third annual Educator Showcase highlighted technology initiatives in Georgia classrooms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The third annual Educator Showcase highlighted technology initiatives in Georgia classrooms."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2015-05-28 14:22:54","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 14:22:12","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"408051":{"id":"408051","type":"image","title":"Educator Showcase","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895134","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:14","alt":"Educator Showcase","file":{"fid":"202166","name":"p9129847.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/p9129847_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/p9129847_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2269248,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/p9129847_0.jpg?itok=cLeQg34Q"}}},"media_ids":["408051"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"42921","name":"Exhibitions"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"411","name":"CEISMC"},{"id":"127131","name":"Educator Showcase"},{"id":"3447","name":"K-12"},{"id":"170709","name":"STEM@GTRI"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer, Institute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"470531":{"#nid":"470531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wearable Tech Musical Garment Featured at WCC Forum\u202c\u202c","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0026rsquo;s Wearable Computing Center Forum was a huge success, with 200 registered attendees. The forum included an expert panel on wearable technology, a show and tell of wearable computing gadgets, and a keynote on wearable technology in the workplace from Brian Ballard, CEO \u0026amp; Co-Founder of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.apx-labs.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAPX Labs\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe forum wrapped up with a reception and musical performance by Italian artist Rocco Centrella, also known as Rh\u0026oacute;. Centrella performed with a wearable tech musical garment designed and built by Georgia Tech researchers. Research Scientists Clint Zeagler and Scott Gilliland created the garment called \u0026ldquo;The Hood\u0026rdquo; for a music project by Centrella.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;The design takes inspiration from a hood in order to create something very dramatic and connected with my identity,\u0026rdquo; said Centrella. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s a controller, but it is a very comfortable dress as well.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe functionality of the garment is something new, though, as it allowed Centrella to play and create music through a Bluetooth connection to his music making software.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nZeagler and Centrella discussed creating The Hood after meeting last year in Rome. WCC Forum organizers then decided to feature the garment at its late afternoon showcase. Centrella arrived in Atlanta one week prior to the forum, which provided a short time to work on The Hood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Working with Rh\u0026oacute; was very exciting for both Scott and myself,\u0026quot; said Zeagler. \u0026quot;In just one week we learned what he needed to be able to control for his musical performance, and he learned of our wearable textile interface capabilities.\u0026nbsp; The performance was beautiful, and we are excited to see what can come from a longer collaboration.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;I\u0026#39;ve learned a lot of things about technology as the guys (Zeagler and Gilliland) learned about music,\u0026rdquo; said Centrella. \u0026ldquo;This was a very intense exchange on different levels, culturally and professionally. I think that only a great research university that trusts its faculty, like Georgia Tech, could create an opportunity of learning as the one we shared.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLearn more about Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWearable Computing Center\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rhomusic.net\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERh\u0026oacute;\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0026#39;s Wearable Computing Center Forum included a musical performance by Italian artist Rh\u0026oacute;, who performed with a wearable tech musical garment designed and built by Georgia Tech researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This year\u0027s Wearable Computing Center Forum included a musical performance by Italian artist Rh\u00f3, who performed with a wearable tech musical garment designed and built by Georgia Tech researchers."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2015-11-17 10:59:26","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 13:32:04","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"470541":{"id":"470541","type":"image","title":"Rocco Centrella aka Rh\u00f3","body":null,"created":"1449257176","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:16","changed":"1475895220","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:40","alt":"Rocco Centrella aka Rh\u00f3","file":{"fid":"203893","name":"hood_centrella.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hood_centrella_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hood_centrella_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":410089,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hood_centrella_0.jpg?itok=NNbkZ_9Z"}}},"media_ids":["470541"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42931","name":"Performances"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"148181","name":"APX Labs"},{"id":"148171","name":"Brian Ballard"},{"id":"9873","name":"clint zeagler"},{"id":"1309","name":"music technology"},{"id":"148191","name":"musical garment"},{"id":"148151","name":"Rho"},{"id":"148161","name":"Rocco Centrella"},{"id":"171444","name":"Scott Gilliland"},{"id":"148141","name":"WCC Forum"},{"id":"10353","name":"wearable computing"},{"id":"96081","name":"Wearable Computing Center"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute for People and Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"533711":{"#nid":"533711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Using Design Studio Techniques to Create a Community of Learners","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUsing augmented reality (AR) technology, three Georgia Tech professors are integrating design studio teaching methods to improve STEM learning for undergraduate students in computer science classes. The goal of their project is to motivate students to collaboratively learn computer science.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe research project is being conducted in two sections of the Computational Media class, an introductory computer science course for students who are not computer science or engineering majors. One section is a taught with a traditional lecture-style, while the other is taught in room with AR technology that mimics a studio environment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Computer science classes can be very defensive. Students typically don\u0026rsquo;t raise their hand to ask questions or contribute, except to show off what they know,\u0026rdquo; said School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Betsy DiSalvo. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re trying to move that culture to a culture of collaborative learning, where students are willing to work with each other, ask each other questions, and contribute in the classroom more openly.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn the studio section, the visual media that students have manipulated with computational code is projected onto the walls for the entire class to see.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We have noticed where some students will say, \u0026lsquo;That looks really cool, how did you do that?\u0026rsquo; We hope this is starting conversations among students asking for input and offering help,\u0026rdquo; said DiSalvo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Computing Professor Mark Guzdial is leading the studio section of the class, while School of Interactive Computing Associate Professor Blair MacIntyre developed the augmented reality-based technology installed in the classroom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn addition to creating a community of learners, DiSalvo hopes the collaborative environment might encourage more diversity in computer science.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;The students who are the most prepared when they come into CS1 courses are oftentimes white or Asian males because they were encouraged to take robotics camp or given introductory programming courses when they were young,\u0026rdquo; explained DiSalvo. \u0026ldquo;They\u0026rsquo;re very well prepared, which is great, but it makes some students who are not in that majority feel like outsiders in those spaces, which discourages them from pursuing computer science.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe next step is to push the technology further\u0026mdash; make the wall projections more interactive, and work on design interactions that are productive and intuitive for teachers and students.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe project is funded by a gift from Microsoft Research, and a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/gvu-ipat-research-and-engagement-seed-grants-0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGVU\/IPaT Research and Engagement Grant\u003C\/a\u003E, which provides seed funding to conduct interdisciplinary research. Research grants promote research activities involving faculty and students from the many disciplines represented in the GVU Center, while engagement grants are designed to foster new sorts of engagements and collaboration, whether internally or externally.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDiSalvo says being a grant recipient gave her team leverage to ask for space in the Technology Square Research Building.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Without the grant in place we wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have been able to get as far as we have, even if the technology had been developed. There are advantages to the grant that go beyond the financial benefits, it is an issue of legitimacy as well.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIPaT and GVU recently announced the call for proposals for Research and Engagement Grants for 2016-2017. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/request-proposals-2016-2017-gvu-ipat-research-engagement-grants\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EApply here\u003C\/a\u003E before the June 1st deadline.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EUsing augmented reality (AR) technology, three Georgia Tech professors are integrating design studio teaching methods to improve STEM learning for undergraduate students in computer science classes\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Using augmented reality (AR) technology, three Georgia Tech professors are integrating design studio teaching methods to improve STEM learning for undergraduate students in computer science classes"}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2016-05-06 13:00:12","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 13:24:04","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"533691":{"id":"533691","type":"image","title":"Computational Media class","body":null,"created":"1462809600","gmt_created":"2016-05-09 16:00:00","changed":"1475895317","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:17","alt":"Computational Media class","file":{"fid":"88777","name":"edited-3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/edited-3_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/edited-3_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":241584,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/edited-3_0.jpg?itok=pjZPvYjh"}}},"media_ids":["533691"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"1597","name":"Augmented Reality"},{"id":"11961","name":"betsy disalvo"},{"id":"1600","name":"Blair MacIntrye"},{"id":"10013","name":"computational media"},{"id":"1051","name":"Computer Science"},{"id":"10469","name":"Mark Guzdial"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute for People and Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"533401":{"#nid":"533401","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Decoding Your Dog Using Wearable Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERemember the old Dr. Dolittle stories? A doctor discovers he has the ability to talk to and understand animals. While humans can\u0026rsquo;t yet decipher animal language, researchers have found a way to bridge the gap of communication using wearable technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are working with Norcross-based animal technology company \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/agltechnology.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAGL\u003C\/a\u003E to develop a platform that combines dog behavior algorithms built at GTRI with sensors and data-sharing capabilities. AGL Vetrax is the first system sophisticated enough to distinguish and quantify various dog behaviors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Multi-dimensional data is collected from a sensor that is mounted on a dog\u0026rsquo;s collar. The data is then processed through an animal behavior algorithm that quantifies the behaviors associated with the dog \u0026ndash; for example scratching, shaking, running, walking,\u0026quot; said Georgia Tech Research Engineer Jason Zutty, who developed the quantified behavior algorithms. \u0026quot;These quantified behaviors are reported to the veterinarian to best manage wellness and chronic care programs for their animal patients.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMonitoring a dog\u0026rsquo;s behavior is one of the most challenging problems faced by veterinarians, and pet owners who may not be at home for most of the day. Behavior such as excessive scratching can be an indicator of allergies to food, environment, or insects.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Even though we have a standard itchiness scale that we hand owners and ask them to rate the level of itchiness, it is still based on our observations,\u0026rdquo; said Dr. Joel Griffies, veterinary dermatologist at Animal Dermatology Clinic in Marietta. \u0026ldquo;So the nice thing about this device is, it allows us to have a much more objective measurement that doesn\u0026rsquo;t require human observation.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAnimal Dermatology Clinic is testing AGL Vetrax by sending the sensor device home with pet owners and collecting data. Veterinarians will\u202frecommend the sensor device for dogs that need to be regularly monitored, including those with dermatological conditions, arthritis or obesity. They can then monitor the effects of therapies in real time.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;My hope is a new approach to data-driven medicine,\u0026rdquo; said Zutty. \u0026ldquo;All of this data is out there and we can learn and take action from what the data tells us. If you have different patient descriptors you can look at how different courses of treatment affected similar patients. This enables a physician to make much better, more confident treatment plans.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAGL President and CEO Marcel Sarzen, who is also a Georgia Tech alumnus, called the animal behavior algorithms the company\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;special sauce.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;I always had this vision that I could go down to Georgia Tech, and with all of the great capabilities that they had down there, license some sort of intellectual property and bring it into one of my ventures that I was going into. And that became true here with AGL,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAGL Vetrax is expected to become more widely available to veterinary clinics later this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGTRI researchers bridge the dog-human communication gap using wearable technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GTRI researchers bridge the dog-human communication gap using wearable technology."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2016-05-05 16:41:35","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 13:22:56","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"170741","name":"AGL"},{"id":"3167","name":"algorithm"},{"id":"416","name":"GTRI"},{"id":"170742","name":"Jason Zutty"},{"id":"170743","name":"Vetrax"},{"id":"132141","name":"wearables"},{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute for People and Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"544791":{"#nid":"544791","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Mynatt Honored at ACM Awards Banquet While Sporting Wearable Tech Wrap","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe world\u0026rsquo;s leading computing society has honored IPaT Executive Director Beth Mynatt for her significant contribution to the development and application of computing. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) named Mynatt a new Fellow in December for her work in human-centered computing and the development of health information technologies, and formally recognized her at its annual awards banquet on June 11th in San Francisco.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The awards ceremony honored the top tier of the computing field, including the two Turing award winners. It was an amazing event and I\u0026rsquo;m deeply honored to be recognized as an ACM Fellow,\u0026rdquo; said Mynatt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMynatt established her\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.cc.gatech.edu\/ecl\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEveryday Computing Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech in 1999, which investigates emerging interaction techniques, research methods, and applications that are compelling and effective in a world where computing technologies are ubiquitously available yet integrated into the social fabric of everyday life. Mynatt\u0026rsquo;s focus on everyday computing requires understanding people in the context of their everyday lives, so she often assembles multidisciplinary teams with psychologists, designers, and healthcare workers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/mynatt-selected-new-acm-fellow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELearn more about Mynatt\u0026rsquo;s work at Georgia Tech and with other nationally and internationally-recognized organizations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMynatt showed off a wearable tech wrap at the awards banquet that was designed and built by Ceara Byrne, Jessica Pater, and Clint Zeagler\u0026nbsp;of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Wearable Computing Center\u003C\/a\u003E. Mynatt asked to wear\u0026nbsp;the garment in order to\u0026nbsp;highlight Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s work in human-centered and wearable computing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPlayfully dubbed \u0026quot;Professor on Fire,\u0026quot; the wrap includes a detachable modular structure made up of aluminum rods. The structure\u0026#39;s honeycomb shape is a nod to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Zeagler designed and created the structure that housed LED lights and a microphone. Byrne programmed the lights to provide a personal spotlight and react to sound captured by the built-in microphone, while Pater created the textile component, knitting a shawl out of black raw silk.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;Combining the shawl with a wearable tech device beautifully blends together traditional and modern handicrafts,\u0026quot; said Pater.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nACM recognized 42 of its members for their contributions to the development and application of computing in areas from data management and spoken-language processing to robotics and cryptography. Additional information about the 2015 ACM Fellows is available on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/awards.acm.org\/fellow\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EACM website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBeth Mynatt showed off a wearable tech wrap at the ACM awards banquet that was designed and built by the Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Beth Mynatt showed off a wearable tech wrap at the ACM awards banquet that was designed and built by the Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center"}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2016-06-14 15:46:51","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 13:18:45","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"544781":{"id":"544781","type":"image","title":"Beth Mynatt at ACM Awards","body":null,"created":"1465934400","gmt_created":"2016-06-14 20:00:00","changed":"1475895336","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:36","alt":"Beth Mynatt at ACM Awards","file":{"fid":"91030","name":"beth_acm.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/beth_acm.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/beth_acm.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3866692,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/beth_acm.jpg?itok=3_FhbH6J"}}},"media_ids":["544781"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"42951","name":"Student Art"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3047","name":"ACM"},{"id":"55631","name":"ACM Awards"},{"id":"10989","name":"Beth Mynatt"},{"id":"172127","name":"Ceara Byrne"},{"id":"9873","name":"clint zeagler"},{"id":"42621","name":"jessica pater"},{"id":"96081","name":"Wearable Computing Center"},{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute for People and Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"582978":{"#nid":"582978","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CIC Returns With Three New Categories for Fall Semester","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition (CIC)\u003C\/a\u003E is back for another semester, and we\u0026rsquo;re looking for innovative student ideas in three new categories.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe CIC, produced by IPaT and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rnoc.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC)\u003C\/a\u003E, is a bi-annual competition dedicated to helping students create products and experiences with the support of campus resources and industry sponsors. The Fall competition is campus-focused, and categories are determined by our campus partners. Categories for the Fall 2016 competition, which are aligned with IPaT\u0026rsquo;s research priorities, include:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ELifelong Health and Wellbeing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEntries should focus on new or reimagined solutions for patients, communities, and\/or those involved in the continuum of care (caregivers, doctors, hospitals, insurers, employers).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESmart Cities and Healthy Communities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEntries should focus on solutions for individuals, communities, business and community stakeholders, and government service providers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ESocio-Technical Systems and Human-Technology Frontier Innovation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEntries will demonstrate new platforms, services, and devices ranging from the Internet of Things (IoT), Software Defined Networking (SDN), automotive and wearable computing devices, mixed and augmented Reality, data science and analytics, collaboration and communication tools.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWhile the CIC is not tied to any specific Georgia Tech course, students are often able to take advantage of class partnerships where lecture and lab content and projects are aligned with competition categories. GT-RNOC research assistants provide technical support and guide teams through the competition process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCIC entries are due on November 11th; teams will create a project name, logo and webpage, plus a supporting video that demonstrates their project in action.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;Finalists in the CIC are judged across multiple criteria, and winning projects showcase innovation, user experience and viability in the real world,\u0026quot; said Siva Jayaraman,\u0026nbsp;IPaT Strategic Partnerships Manager.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFinalists will present their projects on November 16th at a demo and judging event held at IPaT. Past CIC winners have gone on to commercialization, other competitions, as well as internship and job opportunities strengthened by their competition experience.\u0026nbsp;To learn more about the CIC, including how to submit your project or become a sponsor, visit the competition website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecic.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) is back for another semester, and we\u0026rsquo;re looking for innovative student ideas in three new categories.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) is back for another semester, and we\u2019re looking for innovative student ideas in three new categories."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2016-10-24 14:29:40","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 13:13:39","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"582976":{"id":"582976","type":"image","title":"Fall 2016 Convergence Innovation Competition","body":null,"created":"1477319200","gmt_created":"2016-10-24 14:26:40","changed":"1477319200","gmt_changed":"2016-10-24 14:26:40","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222234","name":"cic-banner-ipat.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cic-banner-ipat.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cic-banner-ipat.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":521000,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cic-banner-ipat.jpg?itok=b35l7JMi"}}},"media_ids":["582976"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"63931","name":"CIC"},{"id":"63951","name":"Convergence Innovation Competition"},{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer, Institute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"584144":{"#nid":"584144","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Game-Changing Way to Take Tests","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe path to college and a career can be a complicated journey for young students. 17-year old high school senior Jordan Harris has grappled with questions of whether to join the military after graduation, or go to college and study aerospace engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Through JROTC I was exposed to a lot of opportunities dealing with the military, and recruiters make it enticing to want to join,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;But I love the idea of being able to create and invent, and most of my family has gone to college so that\u0026rsquo;s really the only route I know.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMultiple choice assessments measuring personality, interests and abilities have helped students like Harris narrow down their choices, but tests can be stressful. \u0026ldquo;I get extremely nervous taking tests,\u0026rdquo; he explained. \u0026ldquo;If it\u0026rsquo;s a big test, I usually can\u0026rsquo;t focus on anything else. It\u0026rsquo;s a relief when it\u0026rsquo;s all over.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStudies show a nervous test taker can produce responses that aren\u0026rsquo;t a true reflection of their knowledge or traits. Some people might deliberately choose answers that indicate more desirable personality qualities, and traditional testing formats could inaccurately measure characteristics like creativity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearchers at Georgia Tech and ACT, Inc. are now exploring video games as an alternative to conventional assessments. In a study of more than 200 people presented at the recent DiGRA-FDG Conference in Dundee, Scotland, researchers looked at the differences in results between a traditional personality assessment and a custom, gamified version of the same assessment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThey found study participants were consistent in their responses to each type of assessment, which shows that game mechanics didn\u0026rsquo;t interfere with a player\u0026rsquo;s answers. They also discovered that responses in the game corresponded with specific personality traits. For example, game players who collided with the most jellyfish were found to be more extraverted and less agreeable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nA second smaller study by Georgia Tech and ACT used a video game emphasizing multitasking to examine player action and behavior. Researchers then compared the results to three traditional assessments, including ACT Engage, which measures ten factors that have been shown to accurately predict academic performance and persistence in college students. Once again they found connections between game play behaviors and scores from the traditional assessments, such as the relationship between the time students spent reviewing their scores in the game and low self-confidence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearchers can use the results of these studies as a roadmap for developing future game assessments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;Engagement is only one of the potential benefits of game-based assessment,\u0026quot; said Maribeth\u0026nbsp;Gandy, co-author of both studies and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWearable Computing Center\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026quot;Yes, playing a game can be much more fun and motivating than taking a traditional stress-inducing standardized test. But we believe the benefits can go far beyond that. A game environment allows us to create much more sophisticated scenarios where the test-taker \u0026#39;answers\u0026#39; via rich interactions and complex decisions rather than picking an answer from a multiple-choice list. We hypothesize that by leveraging game design along with the complex science of test design, we can create more valid assessments and that we can assess many more dimensions of human ability which are increasingly relevant to the school and career success in our modern world.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGandy said another possible benefit of gamification is the creation of an online resource that students can return to as they evolve. \u0026ldquo;What ACT is interested in for the future is, rather than a gatekeeper to get to the next level of education, the assessment is about self-enrichment and empowerment.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis work is supported through grants from the National Science Foundation and ACT, Inc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EMaribeth Gandy, et al., Grouches, Extraverts, and Jellyfish: Assessment validity and game mechanics in a gamified assessment\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003EMaribeth Gandy, et al., Actions Speak Louder Than Words: An exploration of game play behavior and results from traditional assessments of individual differences\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Studies reveal video games are an effective assessment tool"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech and ACT, Inc. are exploring video games as an alternative to conventional assessments.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers at Georgia Tech and ACT, Inc. are exploring video games as an alternative to conventional assessments."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2016-11-21 20:04:07","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 13:12:42","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"584145":{"id":"584145","type":"image","title":"Bubble Trip","body":null,"created":"1479758797","gmt_created":"2016-11-21 20:06:37","changed":"1479758797","gmt_changed":"2016-11-21 20:06:37","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222715","name":"bubble_trip.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bubble_trip.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bubble_trip.png","mime":"image\/png","size":163692,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bubble_trip.png?itok=D2beYykp"}}},"media_ids":["584145"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"42911","name":"Education"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"13205","name":"act"},{"id":"198","name":"game"},{"id":"172774","name":"gamified"},{"id":"96091","name":"Maribeth Gandy"},{"id":"172775","name":"Maribeth Gandy Coleman"},{"id":"3217","name":"video game"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer, Institute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"587706":{"#nid":"587706","#data":{"type":"news","title":"When Art and Technology Collide","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA unique collaboration between Georgia Tech researchers, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOffice of the Arts\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and a Los Angeles-based performing artist is exploring how artists and technologists can work together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe Office of the Arts recently hosted a series of workshops as part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECreative Collisions\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;project to learn about engineering and technology creative processes, and to share their own methods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Both artists and technologists are very creative,\u0026rdquo; said Laura Levy,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECreative Collisions\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;principal investigator and Interactive Media Technology Center research scientist. \u0026ldquo;They describe their processes very differently as you can imagine, but there\u0026rsquo;s also a lot of commonalities, particularly iterative design. So trying something out, seeing if it works, then improving on it is something that is shared between both of these groups.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAlthough art is an effective way to showcase cutting-edge and advanced technologies, barriers often exist in resources, access, communication and collaboration. The goal of the workshops is to break down those barriers and provide a blank slate for artists and technologists to create together. The workshops also offer artists the opportunity to view technology prototypes and brainstorm ways to incorporate them in their work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re bringing together researchers and artists who may be performing here at the Ferst Center to build something new,\u0026rdquo; said Lane Conville-Canney, special events and grants coordinator, Georgia Tech Office of the Arts. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re not finishing each other\u0026rsquo;s project but working together to find one idea.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe project concludes with\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECharacters\u003C\/em\u003E, a new dance work choreographed and performed by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t\u0026amp;rct=j\u0026amp;q=\u0026amp;esrc=s\u0026amp;source=web\u0026amp;cd=1\u0026amp;ved=0ahUKEwjhqcOLt5XSAhWLOiYKHX23BlAQFggaMAA\u0026amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fkatherinehelenfisher.com%2F\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNGVojJ8ssYjg7soJUaTm4AvgzW3FQ\u0026amp;sig2=n0CgPIliumrEH2g9lzXCTg\u0026amp;bvm=bv.147134024,d.eWE\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EKatherine Helen Fisher\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in collaboration with electronic musician Nelly Kate and designers Leslie Rogers, Valincy-Jean Patelli, Jeepneys and Milan DelVecchio. Through dance and visual media, the piece explores the connection between identity and technology and the human need for ritual.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECharacters\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;also features a wearable tech costume created by Fisher and Clint Zeagler, IMTC research scientist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The garment Katherine and I have worked on together will aid in audience interaction,\u0026quot; said Zeagler. \u0026quot;Specifically, the audience will physically touch it during her performance, creating an engaging experience. The garment is called Le Monstre and it\u0026#39;s a jumping, frolicking, happy thing that lights up, and helps control the stage experience through touch.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cem\u003ECharacters\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;debuts at the Ferst Center for the Arts on March 5th at 5:00pm.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPartners on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECreative Collisions\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;include the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Wearable Computing Center\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInteractive Media Technology Center,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the Office of the Arts. The project is funded by IPaT as part of our\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/gvu-ipat-research-and-engagement-seed-grants-0\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EResearch and Engagement Grants Program\u003C\/a\u003E. Each year IPaT and the GVU Center support research initiatives committed to building on our success in interdisciplinary research and innovation in the human experience of computing. Research Grants provide seed funding to conduct interdisciplinary research, while Engagement Grants are designed to foster new sorts of engagements and collaboration, whether internally or externally.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\/content\/artstech-presents-katherine-helen-fisher-characters\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPurchase tickets for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ECharacters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Creative Collisions project culminates with a mixed-media performance at the Ferst Center on March 5th.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Creative Collisions project culminates with a mixed-media performance at the Ferst Center on March 5th."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2017-02-21 17:35:04","changed_gmt":"2019-07-10 20:20:57","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"587704":{"id":"587704","type":"image","title":"Le Monstre","body":null,"created":"1487698095","gmt_created":"2017-02-21 17:28:15","changed":"1487698095","gmt_changed":"2017-02-21 17:28:15","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223981","name":"LeMonstre2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LeMonstre2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/LeMonstre2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":169348,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/LeMonstre2.jpg?itok=h9a8HlfN"}}},"media_ids":["587704"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/gvu-ipat-research-and-engagement-seed-grants-0","title":"GVU\/IPaT Research and Engagement Grants"}],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"42891","name":"Georgia Tech Arts"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42931","name":"Performances"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"181703","name":"HTF"},{"id":"125","name":"art"},{"id":"623","name":"Technology"},{"id":"77691","name":"wearable technology"},{"id":"173536","name":"Creative Collisions"},{"id":"173537","name":"Laura Levy"},{"id":"9873","name":"clint zeagler"},{"id":"173538","name":"Lane Conville-Canney"},{"id":"8517","name":"characters"},{"id":"260","name":"Ferst Center"},{"id":"22851","name":"Ferst Center Artist in Residence"},{"id":"121251","name":"Katherine Helen Fisher"},{"id":"4251","name":"dance"}],"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\u003EAlyson Powell\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer, Institute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ealyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"591251":{"#nid":"591251","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Redefining Reality","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe line between our physical world and the digital world is continually blurring. While virtual reality completely immerses you in a computer-generated environment, augmented reality (AR)\u0026mdash;overlaying virtual information on the real world\u0026mdash;has shown more potential. As the technology behind AR continues to rapidly improve, companies and consumers are taking notice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/01\/13\/apple-augmented-reality-glasses-gene-munster-vs-robert-scoble.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EApple is rumored to be working on augmented\/mixed reality glasses\u003C\/a\u003E, while\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/facebook-augmented-reality-smart-glasses-risky-could-3d-tv-2017-4?r=UK\u0026amp;IR=T\u0022\u003EFacebook announced this month that it\u0026#39;s building AR hardware\u003C\/a\u003E. And of course there\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPok\u0026eacute;mon GO\u003C\/em\u003E. The hugely popular gaming phenomenon that had millions of people glued to their phones beginning last summer made augmented reality mainstream, and gave consumers a glimpse of what\u0026rsquo;s to come in the future. Augmented reality isn\u0026rsquo;t all fun and games, though. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying the technology in diverse domains.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeyond Gaming\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMedical error is the eighth most common cause of death the U.S., with up to 98-thousand patients dying each year from preventable mistakes. While teamwork and communication skills are crucial in reducing these errors, interdisciplinary teams of healthcare staff that work together in hospitals are often trained separately. Another problem: training focuses on power differences between healthcare workers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile augmented reality has been used in medical technical skills training, it hasn\u0026rsquo;t seen widespread use in nontechnical and team training. Georgia Tech researchers are working with faculty, residents, and students from Emory School of Medicine\u0026rsquo;s Department of Anesthesiology to develop an AR scenario that puts operating room trainees in each other\u0026rsquo;s shoes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A lot of the bad outcomes in a surgery are because of communication breakdown,\u0026rdquo; said Maribeth Gandy, director of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/imtc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Interactive Media Technology Center\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWearable Computing Center\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026ldquo;What we want is an environment where you can become the surgeon and see the surgery from their point of view.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nParticipants in the simulation acted out emergency situations in a real-life operating room where they were able to see virtual co-workers and hear their inner thoughts. It\u0026rsquo;s all about empathy according to Gandy. \u0026ldquo;That guy looked like a jerk, but when I\u0026rsquo;m in his mind I\u0026rsquo;m realizing that he\u0026rsquo;s freaked out because the patient has been under anesthesia for too long.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAfter completing the scenario, participants said they saw the potential of augmented reality training for practicing new medical skills, crisis and code simulation training, and improving reaction time in critical situations. They also believed that compared to traditional training, AR could better simulate the emotional nature of clinical scenarios. Researchers are now working toward full mission simulation\u0026mdash;realistically simulating an entire medical intervention with a full healthcare team in the operating room.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;* \u0026nbsp;*\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGandy and IMTC are also working with Georgia State to use augmented reality in social psychology research. They\u0026rsquo;re trying to figure out what leads people to engage in either peaceful protests or violent attacks, specifically, terrorist acts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFor years, Georgia State has used online text-based scenarios to collect data from study participants, but they wanted to administer more realistic experiments. So researchers collaborated with a screenwriter and filmed scenes with professional actors to create an AR experience. Through video montages and first-person narration, participants took on the persona of a member of a fictional oppressed minority group. They also listened to dialogue from two virtual actors who try to persuade them to join a peaceful, student-led protest, or join a violent resistance movement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You can imagine this AR experience being applicable to all kinds of scenarios,\u0026rdquo; said Gandy. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s really relevant in our current world where we\u0026rsquo;re having a lot of cultural conflict.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGSU and Georgia Tech will soon start a study using the augmented reality system, and will compare the results to the online version.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECreating Augmented Reality Experiences\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing AR to present educational content has been around for years. It\u0026rsquo;s shown to be effective and compelling, and at least one school in the Atlanta area has\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/thejournal.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/19\/atlanta-kindergarten-tries-augmented-reality-for-reading-math.aspx\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eadopted the technology in its kindergarten class\u003C\/a\u003E. However, designing successful educational content for AR is another story. It requires input from a diverse and essential group of people\u0026mdash;teachers, students, technologists and artists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThree years ago, Georgia Tech and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.verizon.com\/about\/responsibility\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVerizon Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;began a partnership to explore the elements of good AR design for kids in school. Using Georgia curriculum guidelines, researchers developed a STEM-related augmented reality application, and built and tested six different tablet-based AR prototypes based on physics concepts. Some of the prototypes are very hands-on\u0026mdash;launching a catapult or manipulating a cube\u0026mdash;while others have more virtual content. Other design choices include group vs. single user, and game elements vs. no game mechanics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter testing the prototypes with students and teachers, researchers realized there were some factors that they missed\u0026mdash;how AR fits into the classroom environment, the possible overstimulation of kids, and their physical limitations. During the testing sessions it became clear that young students, with their small hands, couldn\u0026rsquo;t hold the tablet for long periods of time.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearchers will use the knowledge they gained to create better educational AR experiences. It\u0026rsquo;s also knowledge that can be shared. \u0026ldquo;The impact of this kind of project is this body of knowledge that can inform game designers who want to build AR for kids, or teachers wanting to understand how these things might be integrated into the classroom,\u0026rdquo; said Gandy.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;*\u0026nbsp; *\u0026nbsp; *\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech is also making it possible for people to create augmented reality experiences using web technologies.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/argon.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EArgon\u003C\/a\u003E, an augmented reality web browser, is on its recently-released fourth iteration. The goal of the project is to make AR accessible to the widest possible group of developers and users through a web-centric platform.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBlair MacIntyre, professor in the School of Interactive Computing and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ael.gatech.edu\/lab\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAugmented Environments Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for over a decade, started working on Argon in 2009.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We started thinking about\u0026mdash;from a research perspective\u0026mdash;what are the things that both makes the web a unique and powerful platform for doing AR?\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;With the web ecosystem, the fact that you don\u0026rsquo;t have to build and deploy apps is a unique capability that makes it easier to produce augmented reality experiences.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUsing the web can also be more secure and cost-effective than building an app, and easier for people who don\u0026rsquo;t have a lot of development experience.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMacIntyre and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/ipat-depth-spotlight-gheric-speiginer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGheric Speiginer, Georgia Tech PhD student in human centered computing\u003C\/a\u003E, are also exploring how Argon can support users running multiple independently-authored AR applications at the same time, and across different platforms such as mobile phones or head-worn displays. \u0026ldquo;In the future, augmented reality is going to only really be useful\u0026mdash;especially for consumers\u0026mdash;if you can see virtual content from a lot of applications or services at once,\u0026rdquo; said MacIntyre.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe team is working toward making AR an add-on feature for webpages, similar to adding video or a social media button. This opens up more possibilities for developers and consumers, like taking an augmented reality tour of Georgia Tech even if you\u0026rsquo;re not physically on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Future of Augmented Reality\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScientists will soon be able to use augmented reality in an unexpected way - to support their research. MacIntyre, Speiginer and Georgia Tech College of Engineering Professor Magnus Egerstedt are developing a tool that would allow scientists to debug their robots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We didn\u0026rsquo;t set out to use augmented reality as a debugging tool,\u0026rdquo; said Egerstedt. \u0026ldquo;But now, in a very concrete way, we can use it to see what the robots are thinking and why they\u0026rsquo;re not acting right. This has been extremely powerful and a little surprising.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUsing a smartphone with the AR debugging interface, scientists can see things like a robot\u0026rsquo;s sensor measurements, power levels and communication functions. The interface is currently only available to Georgia Tech researchers, but Egerstedt expects to make it more widely available this year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe interface is a tool in the Robotarium, a one-of-a-kind lab that allows roboticists from around the world to remotely conduct experiments on over 100 ground and aerial robots located at Georgia Tech. They upload their own programming code, watch the robots in real-time via livestream and receive data of the results. To date, over 200 researchers, including those from universities in the United States, Japan, Canada and England have used the lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;*\u0026nbsp; *\u0026nbsp; *\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPhones and tablets have been the entry point for consumers using augmented reality, and there are already a multitude of available AR apps, from games and tours to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/1\/5\/10712686\/hyundai-augmented-reality-owners-manual-video-ar-ces-2016\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Evirtual car maintenance\u003C\/a\u003E. Head mounts like Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s HoloLens\u0026nbsp;could be the next wave for consumers, but MacIntyre says developers first have to ask, what are the things that we would want access to all the time? He believes vertical market applications will come first, perhaps with hospital workers or delivery drivers using head mounts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s easy to imagine wearing a HoloLens for a few hours here and there as part of your job if it\u0026rsquo;s giving you some very specific benefits. And then once people get used to that, we\u0026rsquo;ll start seeing the add-ons.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVu Ha agrees. Ha, a software engineer and Georgia Tech graduate in Computational Science and Computational Media, has created augmented reality experiences for independent game studio\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.funomena.com\/\u0022\u003EFunomena\u003C\/a\u003E. He thinks that the next AR milestone will be replacing mobile phones and monitor-based laptops and desktops with virtual displays.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Eventually we won\u0026rsquo;t have a giant machine that we do most of our work on. Instead, we\u0026rsquo;ll have virtual displays that are all around us any time we want. And this affects every part of software, from games to enterprise to education \u0026ndash; anything that\u0026rsquo;s currently digital,\u0026rdquo; said Ha.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRemoving the hardware could also create more socialization in computing, says Ha, an advantage that augmented reality has over virtual reality.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Virtual reality technology is very singular; the person in the headset is really the only person enjoying the experience. While ideally, augmented reality allows you to interact with other people, see their faces and communicate directly.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPrivacy and security may soon be a big concern with augmented reality. Not only do AR devices have cameras, they also build 3D models of your space. 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