{"599274":{"#nid":"599274","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Capturing the Wind","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt the corner of Fifth and Spring Streets in Tech Square, attached to a light pole, is a small sensor you\u0026rsquo;ve likely never noticed. It\u0026rsquo;s constantly monitoring environmental conditions in the area\u0026mdash;temperature, air pressure, and humidity\u0026mdash;and collecting and storing data. By the end of the year, a new environmental sensing device with a suite of measuring instruments will join it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;This one will be a little more flashy because the interior portion will spin with the wind, so it may catch a few more eyes,\u0026rdquo; explained Noah Posner, research scientist with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spav.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spav.gatech.edu\/imagine-lab\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIMAGINE Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, who is part of the team that designed and built the open-source sensor device.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe new, more feature-rich sensor will gather data on wind speed and direction, light, and possibly even sound. It will be integrated into an existing network of 24 sensors across campus called the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.urbanclimate.gatech.edu\/HOBO.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Climate Network\u003C\/a\u003E. The goal of the network, established by the Urban Climate Lab, is to \u0026ldquo;identify the location of hot spots, measure the impact of ongoing development on micro-climatic conditions, and assess how the use of vegetation and cool materials around campus can moderate warming trends,\u0026rdquo; according to the lab\u0026rsquo;s website.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWhile the existing sensors run on coin cell batteries, which researchers change manually, the new sensor is solar-powered. It collects data in real-time and periodically transmits the data using a long range, low power wireless platform called LoRa.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;The primary intention of this project is to provide an open platform of spatially distributed environmental sensors,\u0026quot; said Matthew Swarts, project team member and senior research faculty in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECollege of Design\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0026quot;This allows students and faculty to more easily explore and test novel algorithms for sensing human activity at the urban scale.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe 8-inch-wide\u0026nbsp;carousel-shaped sensor is made of PETG, a tough, UV-resistant plastic commonly used to make food containers. Using the plastic, researchers can easily and inexpensively fabricate the sensor enclosure in small quantities. They\u0026rsquo;ll deploy the first sensor by the end of December, and 19 more by next spring.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis research is part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/2017-ipat-smart-connected-communities-data-pilot-grants\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIPaT\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/2017-ipat-smart-connected-communities-data-pilot-grants\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Smart \u0026amp; Connected Communities Data Pilot Grant program\u003C\/a\u003E. The grants provide funding for one semester to further data-centric, interdisciplinary research in the area of Smart \u0026amp; Connected Communities. Learn more about the project on Friday, December 1 at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/593323\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESmart Cities Speaker Series at Atlanta City Hall\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew sensors will gather wind speed data, and more, to better understand micro-climates.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"New sensors will gather wind speed data, and more, to better understand micro-climates."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2017-11-29 20:18:12","changed_gmt":"2019-10-07 14:47:50","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"557991":{"id":"557991","type":"image","title":"Matthew Swarts 2016","body":null,"created":"1470160556","gmt_created":"2016-08-02 17:55:56","changed":"1475895361","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:56:01","alt":"Matthew Swarts 2016","file":{"fid":"218244","name":"swarts_matthew.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/swarts_matthew.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/swarts_matthew.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":125271,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/swarts_matthew.jpg?itok=0-JBt6BZ"}}},"media_ids":["557991"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"594329","name":"Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167987","name":"smart cities"},{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"},{"id":"176365","name":"Matthew Swarts"},{"id":"176366","name":"Noah Posner"},{"id":"5874","name":"imagine lab"},{"id":"176367","name":"Center for Spatial Planning Analytics and Visualization"},{"id":"168831","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"176368","name":"micro-climate"},{"id":"807","name":"environment"},{"id":"167318","name":"sensor"},{"id":"2329","name":"wind"},{"id":"176369","name":"Georgia Tech Climate Network"}],"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\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":""}},"623306":{"#nid":"623306","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IPaT Executive Director Participates in Congressional Briefing on Intelligent Infrastructure Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn January 30, Elizabeth Mynatt, distinguished professor and executive director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech, co-organized and presented at a U.S. congressional briefing on intelligent infrastructure in Washington, D.C.\u0026nbsp;The \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cra.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EComputing Research Association\u003C\/a\u003E sponsored\u0026nbsp;the briefing, along with honorary co-hosts Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chair of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), ranking member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAs the closing speaker, Mynatt described three key gaps that could prevent communities from reaping the economic rewards of infrastructure investments: productive access to broadband capabilities, innovative systems for effective training and job creation, and forward-looking data platforms and policies to spur open innovation. Dan Lopresti, professor and chair of the computer science and engineering department at Lehigh University, moderated the panel. Other panelists included:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EHenning Schulzrinne\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor of computer science at Columbia University and former chief technology officer for the Federal Communications Commission, who discussed the need for resiliency and adaptability and the ability of the intelligent infrastructure to cope with extreme or unexpected circumstances.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew Wansley\u003C\/strong\u003E, general counsel of nuTonomy, a startup focused on developing technologies for driverless vehicles. He talked about the need for robustness and interoperability and bringing together the data from large numbers of independent sensing systems to achieve shared common goals in realizing intelligent transportation systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ENadya Bliss\u003C\/strong\u003E, director of the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University, who explained the need for security and trustworthiness. She said the transition to intelligent infrastructure allows us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build in security and reliability from the start.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nRead more about the briefing on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.org\/govaffairs\/blog\/2018\/01\/computing-researchers-make-case-intelligent-infrastructure-congressional-briefing\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EComputing Research Association\u0026#39;s website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn January 30, Elizabeth Mynatt, distinguished professor and executive director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech, co-organized and presented at a U.S. congressional briefing on intelligent infrastructure in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On January 30, Elizabeth Mynatt, distinguished professor and executive director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech, co-organized and presented at a U.S. congressional briefing on intelligent infrastructure in Washington, D.C."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-12 17:59:54","changed_gmt":"2019-10-07 14:45:17","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-31T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623305":{"id":"623305","type":"image","title":"Congressional Briefing on Intelligent Infrastructure","body":null,"created":"1562954181","gmt_created":"2019-07-12 17:56:21","changed":"1562954181","gmt_changed":"2019-07-12 17:56:21","alt":"Congressional Briefing on Intelligent Infrastructure","file":{"fid":"237379","name":"intelligentinfrastructurepanel_sm.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/intelligentinfrastructurepanel_sm.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/intelligentinfrastructurepanel_sm.png","mime":"image\/png","size":634099,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/intelligentinfrastructurepanel_sm.png?itok=lUhm3TLv"}}},"media_ids":["623305"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"594329","name":"Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167987","name":"smart cities"},{"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\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":""}},"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":""}},"623406":{"#nid":"623406","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Solving the Internet\u0027s Identity Crisis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn the Internet, \u0026ldquo;nobody knows you\u0026rsquo;re a dog,\u0026rdquo; is the joke behind a famous New Yorker cartoon with a canine at the keyboard. But identity trust is a serious problem for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who are responsible for routing billions of users to the right destination every day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are working on a new, multi-year project funded by the National Science Foundation, called \u0026ldquo;Resource Public Key Infrastructure,\u0026rdquo; to help end Internet trickery. It begins with new tools that allow ISPs to better verify the true owner of a network and legitimate traffic paths.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We know it\u0026rsquo;s easy to lie on the Internet,\u0026rdquo; says primary investigator Russ Clark, research scientist with the Institute for People and Technology. \u0026ldquo;It happens because of a weakness in the trust relationship between routing protocols. Those protocols were not designed to recognize imposters and especially not fake ISPs.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nClark, along with Cas D\u0026rsquo;Angelo and Scott Friedrich from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Office of Information Technology and undergraduate student Sam Norris (EIA), will address the Internet identity problem with new protocols such as RPKI, the Resource Public Key Infrastructure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTrust is determined in the router and the server resources alongside. To verify that network owners are legitimate, Georgia Tech will add a new type of server to the routing infrastructure as a first step. Next, it will update the software inside routers, gradually deploying the changes through the Southern Crossroads Internet Exchange (SoX), documenting observations, and creating a recipe for others across the United States to follow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;This solution has been known for about the past five years, but network operators are reluctant to try it out of fear of slowing down traffic for customers in the interim,\u0026rdquo; Clark says. \u0026ldquo;The NSF tasked Georgia Tech with moving deployment along. We\u0026rsquo;re going to prove that it\u0026rsquo;s possible, work through the pains, and show others how to do it.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe deployment will happen in phases.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn addition to Georgia Tech researchers and labs, Clark and his team help manage the Southern Crossroads (SoX) regional network where 21 member institutions come together for shared network services. The project team expects to deploy over SoX in the next year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;In the quest to make the Internet faster, we\u0026rsquo;ve often tried to find the shortest route to a website. This is making us vulnerable,\u0026rdquo; Clark says. \u0026ldquo;Now, we need to find the smartest route.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn the Internet, \u0026ldquo;nobody knows you\u0026rsquo;re a dog,\u0026rdquo; is the joke behind a famous New Yorker cartoon with a canine at the keyboard.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On the Internet, \u201cnobody knows you\u2019re a dog,\u201d is the joke behind a famous New Yorker cartoon with a canine at the keyboard."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-15 19:43:31","changed_gmt":"2019-07-15 19:43:31","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"357321":{"id":"357321","type":"image","title":"Russ Clark compressed","body":null,"created":"1449245767","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:07","changed":"1475895091","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:31","alt":"Russ Clark compressed","file":{"fid":"201445","name":"russ-clark.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/russ-clark_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/russ-clark_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13656,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/russ-clark_0.jpg?itok=lcZKTEpG"}}},"media_ids":["357321"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"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":[],"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":""}},"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":""}},"623250":{"#nid":"623250","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Convergence Innovation Competition Introduces New Categories, Partner","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIPaT and the Research Network Operations Center (RNOC) are producing our bi-annual student innovation event, the Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition (CIC)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;again this semester. For the fall 2018 competition, we\u0026rsquo;re introducing two new categories as well as a new campus partner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis semester, with increased attention globally on climate change and its effects, we\u0026rsquo;ve added a \u0026ldquo;Climate Solutions\u0026rdquo; category to the CIC. In a new partnership with the Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/globalchange.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGlobal Change Program\u003C\/a\u003E, this category focuses on developing practical solutions related to climate change. Examples of solutions include limiting carbon emissions; coping with environmental, social, or business changes; and promoting a greater understanding of how climate change impacts well-being and prosperity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;In an era when we\u0026rsquo;re reminded every day about the grim impacts of climate change, I\u0026rsquo;m excited to unleash our amazing Georgia Tech students to help bring climate solutions into the hands of people who want to be a part of the solution, but don\u0026rsquo;t necessarily know where to start,\u0026quot; said Kim Cobb, director of the Global Change Program and professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe second new category in this semester\u0026rsquo;s CIC is \u0026ldquo;Active Aging.\u0026rdquo; This category promotes the vision that all individuals\u0026mdash;regardless of age, socioeconomic status or health\u0026mdash;fully engage in life; sustaining relationships, independence and quality of life while continuing to learn, grow, and contribute to society.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFinally, a category introduced during the Spring 2018 CIC is returning for the fall. \u0026ldquo;Players and Fans\u0026rdquo; encompasses innovations that benefit athletes, artists, entertainers, esports gamers, fans, or owners, whether amateur, youth, or professional. Solutions could focus on improving performance, expanding access and interest in the craft, lowering financial or other barriers to participation, skills acquisition, injury prevention, or enhancing the fan experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompetition organizers say CIC categories are intended to shape student ideas, not exclude them. Matt Sanders, co-director of RNOC, said, \u0026quot;Over the life of the CIC, we\u0026rsquo;ve seen innovation and value creation across a broad spectrum of technologies and domains. We look forward to seeing students develop core technologies that can be applied in targeted ways to one or more of these important category areas. For example, how a ride-sharing service can apply its core technologies to food delivery, flu shots, or last mile access to public transit to provide value to fans attending a game, aging adults, and those who want to reduce their carbon footprint.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rnoc-lab-staff@lists.gatech.edu?subject=Convergence%20Innovation%20Competition\u0022\u003EEmail RNOC staff\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;with questions about project ideas. Faculty in any college interested in incorporating the CIC into their courses for the spring semester should contact RNOC Co-Directors\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:msanders@gatech.edu?subject=Convergence%20Innovation%20Competition\u0022\u003EMatt\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:msanders@gatech.edu?subject=Convergence%20Innovation%20Competition\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Sanders\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:russ.clark@gatech.edu?subject=Convergence%20Innovation%20Competition\u0022\u003ERuss Clark\u003C\/a\u003E, while companies interested in leveraging the benefits of CIC sponsorship should contact\u0026nbsp;IPaT Partnerships Manager\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jsiva@gatech.edu?subject=Convergence%20Innovation%20Competition\u0022\u003ESiva Jayaraman\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe CIC encourages students at all levels and disciplines on the Atlanta and Georgia Tech-Lorraine campuses to create innovative, viable products and experiences whether they are projects for classes or individual or group side projects. Campus, industry, and community partners inform our categories; winning entries will include a working end-to-end prototype and a clear value proposition. CIC winners have gone on to other competitions, commercialization opportunities, as well as internships and future jobs strengthened by their competition experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe submission deadline for the Fall 2018 CIC is\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESunday, November 11\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;by midnight. IPaT and RNOC will host invitation-only live demo and judging events in Atlanta and France on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWednesday, November 14\u003C\/strong\u003E. To learn more, visit the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECIC website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the fall 2018 competition, we\u0026rsquo;re introducing two new categories as well as a new campus partner.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"For the fall 2018 competition, we\u2019re introducing two new categories as well as a new campus partner."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-11 19:59:54","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 19:59:54","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623249":{"id":"623249","type":"image","title":"Team Player 2","body":null,"created":"1562874858","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 19:54:18","changed":"1562874858","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 19:54:18","alt":"Team Player 2","file":{"fid":"237350","name":"player2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/player2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/player2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":344357,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/player2.jpg?itok=Iw031OAK"}}},"media_ids":["623249"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"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":""}},"623244":{"#nid":"623244","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Winning Projects Announced in Fall 2018 Convergence Innovation Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeventeen student teams gathered at the Institute for People and Technology in Atlanta and Georgia Tech-Lorraine on November 14th for the finale of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFall 2018 Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC)\u003C\/a\u003E. The competition encourages Georgia Tech students at all levels and disciplines to create innovative, viable products and compelling experiences.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIPaT and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rnoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EResearch Network Operations Center (RNOC)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;sponsor the CIC each year in November and April; industry, campus, and community partners help to shape the competition\u0026rsquo;s categories. This semester, we introduced two new categories \u0026ndash; Climate Solutions and Active Aging \u0026ndash; and resumed a third: Players and Fans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHere are the winning teams in each category, plus the People\u0026rsquo;s Choice award:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EClimate Solutions \u0026ndash; Citatem allows travelers to discover and book carbon-friendly destinations and routes based on group preferences mined from photo album metadata.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPlayers and Fans \u0026ndash; SCATTER is a mobile SCAT-5 concussion assessment tool that enables sports trainers to test and monitor an athlete\u0026rsquo;s performance.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EActive Aging \u0026ndash; Stumble is an Android mobile and wearable app for elderly adults that can detect falls and send an alert to their emergency contacts.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPeople\u0026rsquo;s Choice \u0026ndash; Hingama helps people embrace positivity in their lives through self-analysis, peer support, and encouragement to reach out for help.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESee photos from the competition on\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.2493156997368653\u0026amp;type=1\u0026amp;l=105ed5132f\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIPaT\u0026rsquo;s Facebook page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe CIC is now in its 12th year overall and fifth year at Georgia Tech-Lorraine. Faculty in any college interested in incorporating the CIC into their courses for the spring semester should contact RNOC Co-Directors\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:msanders@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMatt Sanders\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:russ.clark@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERuss Clark\u003C\/a\u003E, while companies interested in leveraging the benefits of CIC sponsorship should contact IPaT Partnerships Manager\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jsiva@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESiva Jayaraman\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeventeen student teams gathered at the Institute for People and Technology in Atlanta and Georgia Tech-Lorraine on November 14th for the finale of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFall 2018 Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seventeen student teams gathered at the Institute for People and Technology in Atlanta and Georgia Tech-Lorraine on November 14th for the finale of the Fall 2018 Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC)."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-11 19:40:35","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 19:40:35","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"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":""}},"623243":{"#nid":"623243","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Children on Medicaid May Lack Sufficient Access to Dental Care","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDebra McCollister has been a health hygienist with the Georgia Department of Public Health for nearly a decade. The Tennessee native loves her job, and her warm and lively personality immediately makes her young, and sometimes nervous, patients feel at ease. She cracks jokes with sullen pre-teens. \u0026ldquo;Are you married? No? Well, it\u0026rsquo;s probably best to finish school first.\u0026rdquo; To the younger children, McCollister offers small toys or stickers featuring animated characters. \u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t know who has more fun, me or the kids,\u0026rdquo; she said with a laugh.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMcCollister is always on the move. She travels to six North Georgia county health clinics every week and sees between 40 and 50 children a month. She takes x-rays, cleans teeth, and educates caregivers and children about good oral hygiene and nutritional habits. \u0026ldquo;I talk about how much sugar is in juice, that type of thing.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDepending on the county, half to nearly all of McCollister\u0026rsquo;s patients are on Medicaid or CHIP, the Children\u0026rsquo;s Health Insurance Program. In the United States, these programs cover more than 73 million adults, children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities who can\u0026rsquo;t afford health insurance. As part of Medicaid and CHIP, states are required to provide dental benefits for kids \u0026mdash; general maintenance of dental health and treatment of tooth decay.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIt\u0026rsquo;s often difficult for low-income children to access dental care, according to McCollister and others in the oral health community. Parents or caregivers take unpaid time off of work; families travel long distances by public transportation or taxi, get rides from friends and family, and some even walk to and from their appointments. \u0026ldquo;It just breaks my heart,\u0026rdquo; McCollister said. \u0026ldquo;There are a lot of hoops and hurdles for parents to go through.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E*\u0026nbsp; *\u0026nbsp; *\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTwo recent nationwide Georgia Tech studies \u0026mdash; the first to examine Medicaid capacity at the provider level \u0026mdash; confirm the experiences of oral health providers and recipients of publicly-funded dental insurance: children who rely on Medicaid for dental care may not have adequate access to providers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nNicoleta Serban, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\u003C\/a\u003E, compared provider and Medicaid data to state access information reported by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ada.org\/en\/science-research\/health-policy-institute\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHealth Policy Institute (HPI)\u003C\/a\u003E, a branch of the American Dental Association. HPI produces research related to the U.S. oral health care system and is considered a leading expert on the topic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDuring a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ada.org\/en\/science-research\/health-policy-institute\/publications\/webinars\/measuring-access-to-dental-care-in-every-state\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMay 2017 webinar\u003C\/a\u003E, HPI Chief Economist and Vice President Marko Vujicic said, \u0026ldquo;\u0026hellip;nationwide, the majority of publicly-insured children live within 15 minutes of a Medicaid dentist, and in some states, it\u0026rsquo;s as high as 99-percent.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSerban wanted to know more about HPI\u0026rsquo;s statistic, so she examined publicly-available provider information and Medicaid data for 43 states. The result is a more holistic view of the U.S. Medicaid program, including the most important information about dental providers, according to Serban: whether or not they\u0026rsquo;re accepting new Medicaid patients.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Dentists dedicate a small portion of their caseload to children on Medicaid, and many dentists don\u0026rsquo;t accept new patients,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFor example, HPI\u0026rsquo;s data shows that 30-percent of dentists accept Medicaid in Florida, but according to a recent survey of nearly all of the state\u0026rsquo;s licensed dentists, a limited number reported accepting new Medicaid-enrolled children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother factor which skews access numbers is the patient-to-provider ratio. HPI estimates, on average, one provider sees 500 children a year. Serban found, though, that less than a quarter of dentists nationwide provide care for 500 or more children on Medicaid.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETraveling for Dental Care\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/jphd.12285\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EA second, more in-depth study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;of dental care access from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/healthanalytics.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Health Analytics Group\u003C\/a\u003E, co-led by Serban, looked at distance \u0026mdash; how far children on Medicaid and their families travel to receive dental care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAmanda Black\u0026rsquo;s children \u0026ndash; 11 and 4-years-old \u0026ndash; have received Medicaid benefits their entire lives. The family lives in rural Union County, and twice a year, Black drives two hours round trip to the closest dental provider at the Gilmer County Health Department where her kids receive regular dental check-ups and cleanings. The single mother takes unpaid time off of work from her job as a home health aide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;When you lose income, it\u0026#39;s for the whole household,\u0026rdquo; Black said. \u0026ldquo;When you live in a small town, it\u0026rsquo;s almost like you\u0026rsquo;re being punished. People in big cities don\u0026rsquo;t have to travel; what\u0026rsquo;d we do wrong?\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFamilies like Black\u0026rsquo;s aren\u0026rsquo;t uncommon. Serban estimates in Georgia, 23-percent of Medicaid-eligible children exceed state standards for travel distance \u0026mdash; 30 miles for urban communities and 45 miles for rural.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Needless to say, 30 to 45 miles of travel means missing a whole school day and hours of time off from work,\u0026rdquo; she said. Meanwhile, families that pay out of pocket for dental care or have private insurance experience shorter travel distances.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSerban and her research team examined data from 39 states and also found that the number of Medicaid-enrolled children per dentist varied by location and the type of provider. Urban and suburban communities have higher numbers than rural areas (which may be driven by demand), while pediatric dentists often see more patients than general dentists. Specialists generally treat few children on Medicaid. Overall, dentists see fewer patients than the minimum caseload amount outlined by HPI.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E*\u0026nbsp; *\u0026nbsp; *\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEstimating access is more than a matter of data, noted Serban and Scott Tomar, a study co-author, and professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dental.ufl.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUniversity of Florida\u0026rsquo;s College of Dentistry\u003C\/a\u003E. HPI presents its estimates to state health policy committees, which control the Medicaid program at the state level.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;In my state of Florida, testimony has been given before the state legislature to oppose other proposed workforce models. The HPI data was used as justification to deny funding for dental therapists,\u0026rdquo; said Tomar, who is also a consultant with the American Dental Association.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;The takeaway message is, there\u0026rsquo;s not really a problem with access.\u0026rdquo; He continued, \u0026ldquo;Families are getting hurt when the HPI information is used to stave off other programs and other models that might be effective in increasing access to care.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWithout access to preventive care, dental issues like tooth decay can worsen and require emergency care.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ada.org\/~\/media\/ADA\/Science%20and%20Research\/HPI\/Files\/HPIBrief_0415_2.ashx\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOver 212-thousand children in the U.S. had dental emergency visits in 2012\u003C\/a\u003E; more than two-thirds were covered by Medicaid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHPI\u0026#39;s Response\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring presentations to Medicaid policymakers, HPI\u0026rsquo;s Marko Vujicic acknowledges that HPI\u0026rsquo;s data shows approximately where enrolled providers are located relative to Medicaid patients, but not whether they\u0026rsquo;re accepting new patients. He said determining the level of Medicaid access is a complex issue. \u0026ldquo;There is no gold standard way of measuring access.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn a statement provided to the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), HPI congratulated Serban and Tomar on their study published in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/jphd.12285\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJournal of Public Health Dentistry\u003C\/a\u003E, and said it enhanced its own findings:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe applaud these authors\u0026rsquo; efforts to build on our analysis and advance the policy discussion in Florida and Georgia. The Health Policy Institute is currently collaborating with government agencies in several states on a much more refined analysis of access to and utilization of dental care services among publicly insured children and adults, based on detailed administrative and claims data as well as innovative primary data we are helping to collect. We will continue to help advance this important area of health policy research, including collaborating with outside researchers, and welcome additional feedback on our work as it evolves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/hpi-statement\u0022\u003E(Read the Health Policy Institute\u0026#39;s full statement)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSerban said her studies also have limitations; providers don\u0026rsquo;t always file claims or have missing or inactive identification numbers. She said, though, that these findings can help states begin to gauge the level of dental care provided to Medicaid-insured children.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn September 2018, Serban and Tomar received a $1.5 million grant from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/funding\/r01.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Institutes of Health\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to continue researching access to preventive dental care for children. IPaT, the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/choa.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EChildren\u0026rsquo;s Healthcare of Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;have previously provided funding for this research. IPaT also provides access to multiple years of Medicaid data to support a deeper understanding of the challenges and patterns surrounding healthcare access.\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\u003ETwo nationwide studies from Georgia Tech show a more complete picture of the US\u0026rsquo; publicly-funded dental care program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two nationwide studies from Georgia Tech show a more complete picture of the US\u2019 publicly-funded dental care program."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2019-07-11 19:32:55","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 19:32:55","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623221":{"id":"623221","type":"image","title":"Debra McCollister","body":null,"created":"1562870694","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 18:44:54","changed":"1562870694","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 18:44:54","alt":"Debra McCollister","file":{"fid":"237333","name":"mccollister.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mccollister.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/mccollister.png","mime":"image\/png","size":850525,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/mccollister.png?itok=hXcgB1UC"}},"623235":{"id":"623235","type":"image","title":"Medicaid Dental Care in Florida","body":null,"created":"1562871383","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 18:56:23","changed":"1562871383","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 18:56:23","alt":"Medicaid Dental Care in Florida","file":{"fid":"237346","name":"dentist-graphic (2).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dentist-graphic%20%282%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dentist-graphic%20%282%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":334962,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dentist-graphic%20%282%29.jpg?itok=V1nRjrSS"}},"623234":{"id":"623234","type":"image","title":"Travel Distance for Dental Care","body":null,"created":"1562871331","gmt_created":"2019-07-11 18:55:31","changed":"1562871331","gmt_changed":"2019-07-11 18:55:31","alt":"Travel Distance for Dental Care","file":{"fid":"237345","name":"dentist-graphic-2 (2).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dentist-graphic-2%20%282%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dentist-graphic-2%20%282%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":671407,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dentist-graphic-2%20%282%29.jpg?itok=zxipbaAQ"}}},"media_ids":["623221","623235","623234"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"398","name":"health"},{"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":""}},"623240":{"#nid":"623240","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Spring 2019 Convergence Innovation Competition Winners Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn April 9-10, 27 student teams at gathered at Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s campuses in Atlanta and Metz for the demo and judging finale of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CIC). The semester-long competition encourages students to create innovative and viable products and experiences with the support of campus resources and industry guidance.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCongratulations to the winning teams in the Spring 2019 competition:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EHealth and Wellness\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1st place -\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECare Connect\u003C\/strong\u003E, leveraging technology to connect families with their loved ones.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n2nd place -\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWildfire Lookout\u003C\/strong\u003E, an app that helps California residents get accurate up-to-date alerts, evacuation plans, and other relevant information during wildfires.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EClimate Solutions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1st place -\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003Emyshadow\u003C\/strong\u003E, an app to help makeup users find eyeshadow swatches that feature products on models with a skin tone similar to their own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n2nd place -\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFly Aware\u003C\/strong\u003E, an air travel carbon footprint calculator in the form of a Chrome extension.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EPlayers and Fans\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n1st place -\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWanderShop\u003C\/strong\u003E, an all-in-one travel planner, bringing the e-commerce experience to travel booking.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n2nd place -\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETeamUp\u003C\/strong\u003E, aims to aid in and enhance transdisciplinary team formation to spark technical projects that producing meaningful solutions to significant social problems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe CIC is open to all Georgia Tech students, both graduate and undergraduate; graduates enrolled in the previous semester are also eligible to participate. 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The company wanted to test the hub in a realistic environment, so they approached Georgia Tech about using the Aware Home. The 4-floor home provided the perfect space to install over 130 nodes from different vendors including: automated blinds, light switches and IP light bulbs, plus a thermostat, window air conditioning unit, and even a connected piggy bank.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n(\u003Cstrong\u003EWATCH\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=70HrRnGCNWc\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EConnected home technology in the Georgia Tech Aware Home\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;The infrastructure of the home has been of real value,\u0026rdquo; said Kenji Takeuchi, Vice President of Product Management at Flextronics. \u0026ldquo;But also the access to the students and faculty that have a lot of knowledge and experience. 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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? 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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. 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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":""}},"299521":{"#nid":"299521","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech at the Forefront of the Internet of Things","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor more than 10 years, technology experts have predicted the Internet of Things (IoT) - small, usually hidden\u0026nbsp;computers attached to objects.\u0026nbsp;The devices sense and transmit data about the environment or offer new ways of controlling it. IoT has always been constrained by two things, though: range and longevity. Technology such as\u0026nbsp;wi-fi doesn\u0026#39;t work under\u0026nbsp;appliances like dishwashers, refrigerators\u0026nbsp;or washing machines because the signal has to transmit through the air back to a hub. Recently though, with new enabling technologies, the\u0026nbsp;IoT\u0026nbsp;and connected home industries have exploded. Universities are also on board, including Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;(WATCH: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OLBgkCOpQlo\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026quot;The Human Edge of the Internet of Things\u0026quot; at IPaT\u0026#39;s 2013 People \u0026amp; Technology Forum\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nTech is\u0026nbsp;at the forefront of the IoT\u0026nbsp;trend with the development of WallyHome.\u0026nbsp;The technology\u0026nbsp;was first researched at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.awarehome.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026#39;s Aware Home\u003C\/a\u003E by\u0026nbsp;College of Computing Professor Dr. Gregory Abowd, and his PhD students Shwetak Patel and Erich Stuntebeck. While working on power line-based technologies, they discovered Wally\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;underlying wireless technology. WallyHome uses a home\u0026#39;s electrical wiring to detect environmental hazards. It monitors moisture, temperature and humidity changes. Sensors are placed with appliances or in hazard-prone spaces and Wally alerts users of impending disaster or damage as soon as it occurs.\u0026nbsp;(WATCH: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zTVYSWFO0OA#t=13\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESee how WallyHome works\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;We use a completely different approach to wirelessly sending data from our sensors to a central hub,\u0026quot; said Patel. \u0026quot;By using the electrical wiring in your home as a large antenna, this allows us to dramatically reduce the power consumption of the sensor while increasing the range. Consequently, we can produce wireless sensors that have whole-home range and last 10+ years.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAfter receiving his PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, Patel became the first Tech alum to win a MacArthur Fellowship. He also started two companies using Georgia Tech research, including SNUPI\u0026nbsp;Technologies, the company behind the WallyHome\u0026nbsp;system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;(It\u0026#39;s) very gratifying to see research ideas have a practical value and, potentially, be commercially validated,\u0026quot; said Dr. Abowd. \u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s not the first time for me (or for Shwetak), but the feeling of personal achievement does not diminish.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;They (Georgia Tech)\u0026nbsp;have been very supportive of Wally and have been very easy to work with through the whole licensing process,\u0026quot; said Jacquelyn Jaech, SNUPI Technologies VP\u0026nbsp;of Marketing and Sales. \u0026quot;Streamlining the commercialization process is key to the proliferation of great ideas created within a university and into the hands of experienced entrepreneurs.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWallyHome continues to grow; this month, the company announced a\u0026nbsp;24-hour concierge service to users.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is at the forefront of the Internet of Things trend with the development of WallyHome- a consumer friendly, state-of-the-art sensor network that monitors changes in moisture, temperature and humidity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech is at the forefront of the Internet of Things trend with the development of WallyHome- a consumer friendly, state-of-the-art sensor network that monitors changes in moisture, temperature and humidity."}],"uid":"28008","created_gmt":"2014-05-23 14:21:10","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 14:40:53","author":"Bobby Macedonia","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zTVYSWFO0OA#t=13","title":"See How WallyHome Works"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.awarehome.gatech.edu\/","title":"Aware Home Research Initiative"}],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"},{"id":"8678","name":"Aware Home"},{"id":"93921","name":"erich stuntebeck"},{"id":"11002","name":"Gregory Abowd"},{"id":"68951","name":"Internet of Things"},{"id":"171123","name":"shwetak patel"},{"id":"93911","name":"wallyhome"}],"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\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:apowell41@mail.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eapowell41@mail.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["apowell41@mail.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"329601":{"#nid":"329601","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Journey: Enriching the Campus Experience","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt\u0026rsquo;s something most new students experience: going into a classroom, choosing a random seat and possibly being stuck in that seat for the semester. Some students luck out and snag the perfect spot; it\u0026rsquo;s comfy and situated near an electrical outlet. For others, the chair might be broken or it\u0026rsquo;s in a Wi-Fi dead spot.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYing Yao realizes that finding the perfect seat is a small problem, but it\u0026rsquo;s one she wanted to tackle. So she and two other Georgia Tech students decided to build a web-based application.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;So you know when you look online and book a flight?\u0026rdquo; she said. \u0026ldquo;You wanna know where\u0026rsquo;s the best place to sit. So we wanted to apply that issue to classroom seating.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESeatMe\u003C\/em\u003E is a crowdsourced app; students can log in, find the appropriate building and classroom and rate their seat based on specific criteria. The evaluation is represented via a heat map\u0026mdash;a two-color scale of good and bad. (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X3tSWN4gvNY\u0026amp;feature=youtu.be\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWATCH: A demo of \u003Cem\u003ESeatMe\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYao\u0026rsquo;s team developed the app in 2012 as part of Tech\u0026rsquo;s bi-annual \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/a\u003E. The competition is open to all Georgia Tech undergraduate and graduate students, including those studying abroad. Applications, services and prototypes developed during the Fall CIC benefit the Georgia Tech community; winning apps are then made available in the official \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/m.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGT Mobile\u003C\/a\u003E platform.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fall CIC is sponsored through the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtjourney.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT Journey\u003C\/a\u003E initiative, which provides resources as well as technical support and space to work. What makes the competition unique, though, is the access students have to campus data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAndrew Nelson, who helped Yao to develop the \u003Cem\u003ESeatMe\u003C\/em\u003E app, is currently working with Facilities Management to open up their data on how much electricity is flowing to buildings on campus. He\u0026rsquo;s also taken campus crime data and developed it into an API format.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Programmers could go in and pull in all of the crime data live as it\u0026rsquo;s posted,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBrighton Jegarajan leveraged GT Journey transportation data to develop a Google Glass app that tells users when the next bus or trolley will arrive.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Once you have this (data), it\u0026rsquo;s up to users and the students here to think of innovative ways of using it,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;So there\u0026rsquo;s a lot of innovation and creativity engaged by making this data available to students here.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/28\/nyregion\/students-inventing-programs-to-streamline-their-colleges-data.html?_r=2\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ecolleges and universities\u003C\/a\u003E aren\u0026rsquo;t as comfortable with allowing students to access campus data. They\u0026rsquo;re concerned about student privacy and find it\u0026rsquo;s easy to just say no.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Georgia Tech is able to provide access to data and protect that data appropriately because it has developed API\u0026#39;s which enforce access controls specific to the data being accessed. This allows developers to create applications using those API\u0026#39;s without having direct access to another student\u0026#39;s data, and without ever having to handle the students password,\u0026quot; said Matt Sanders, Associate Director of the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC) which hosts the CIC. \u0026quot;These API\u0026#39;s also allow data which is normally not accessible to students to be made available in scalable and secure ways which do not impact production systems.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYao believes student-built apps developed with campus data help to enrich the campus experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have such smart students,\u0026rdquo; said Yao. \u0026ldquo;They want to be able to not only practice their professional skillset, but also contribute something to the campus community as well.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fall GT Journey CIC is underway right now. Organizers are hosting weekly information sessions and tutorials, and there\u0026rsquo;s a four-day Hack Break starting October 11th. Entries are due October 31st; for more information, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/cic.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtjourney.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/gtjourney.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents use Georgia Tech data to develop applications, services and prototypes as part of the Convergence Innovation Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Students use Georgia Tech data to develop applications, services and prototypes as part of the Convergence Innovation Competition."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2014-09-29 14:37:33","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 14:29:26","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"329611":{"id":"329611","type":"image","title":"Ying Yao and Andrew Nelson","body":null,"created":"1449245090","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:04:50","changed":"1475895041","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:41","alt":"Ying Yao and Andrew Nelson","file":{"fid":"200316","name":"ying_andrew.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ying_andrew_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ying_andrew_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":256448,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ying_andrew_0.jpg?itok=5nkYYezA"}}},"media_ids":["329611"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"42941","name":"Art Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"},{"id":"104881","name":"Andrew Nelson"},{"id":"5157","name":"applications"},{"id":"104911","name":"Brighton Jegarajan"},{"id":"63931","name":"CIC"},{"id":"63951","name":"Convergence Innovation Competition"},{"id":"104931","name":"Georgia Tech Research and Network Operations Center"},{"id":"82341","name":"Google Glass"},{"id":"47801","name":"gt journey"},{"id":"104901","name":"GT Mobile"},{"id":"104921","name":"GT-RNOC"},{"id":"104861","name":"Matt Sanders"},{"id":"169017","name":"SeatMe"},{"id":"104871","name":"Ying Yao"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlyson Powell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["alyson.powell@ipat.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"408011":{"#nid":"408011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IBM\u2019s Watson Joins Georgia Tech to Solve Complex Problems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen you have a quick question, how do you find the answer? Probably by consulting an Internet search engine like Google, right? It\u0026rsquo;s fast, and if you find a reliable source, provides tried and true answers. But when scientists and engineers face complex problems, they sometimes need more innovative solutions, something that\u0026rsquo;s never before been considered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSome scientists are turning to nature for answers, a movement called biologically-inspired design or biomimicry, which seeks sustainable solutions by copying nature\u0026rsquo;s time-tested strategies. For example, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2014-10-biologically-strategy-zoo-atlanta.html]\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Estudying flamingos\u0026rsquo; beaks to design a better water filter\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProfessor Ashok Goel of the School of Interactive Computing and his students are now working to combine biomimicry with a Google-like search engine to create powerful tool. And they\u0026rsquo;re doing it with the help of IBM supercomputer Watson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFans of \u003Cem\u003EJeopardy!\u003C\/em\u003E remember Watson as the computer that beat 74-time winner Ken Jennings in 2011. Watson is more than a game show champ, though. According to the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/smarterplanet\/us\/en\/ibmwatson\/index.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EIBM Watson website\u003C\/a\u003E, the supercomputer is \u0026ldquo;built to mirror the same learning process we have \u0026ndash; through the power of cognition.\u0026rdquo; In other words, Watson makes decisions the same way humans do \u0026ndash; by observing, interpreting, and evaluating.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGoel and his Computational Creativity class have inputted 500 biology articles and over 1200 question-answer pairs into Watson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EWATCH:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL44rHkM-p0hu5H7oS3OXYgK9qDkVajyqY\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVideos from the Spring 2015 Computational Creativity Class\u0026nbsp;- Bioinspired\u0026nbsp;invention using Watson\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;They\u0026rsquo;ve trained Watson so that if you ask any question similar to the questions it knows about, it knows which article to find,\u0026rdquo; said Goel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUnlike Google, this new class of search engine uses cross-domain selection. Goel uses the example of lifting water from the ground to the top of a tall building.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;If you input the problem of how to lift water 100 feet high, Google will give you all of the traditional designs,\u0026rdquo; Goel explained. \u0026ldquo;So imagine a new version of Google. You type in, \u0026lsquo;how do I lift water 100 feet high?\u0026rsquo; then it goes to nature and the right systems and articles and brings them to you.\u0026ldquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nOne of those articles could reference the redwood tree, the largest and tallest tree in the world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EWatson and healthcare\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGoel is also studying Watson\u0026rsquo;s potential to sort through a glut of information to help medical professionals stay on top of the latest cancer research. Experts say the amount of available medical information doubles about every three years, and the process of discovery \u0026ndash; finding the right drug to block cancer \u0026ndash; can take 20 years of research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGoel wants to know, \u0026ldquo;Can we use computational technology to do it in two years?\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWatson would find similarities between patient cases and cancer articles to point researchers in the right direction much faster than humans can. Goel hopes to receive government funding to support this work in cancer research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;Our vision is that we would use artificial intelligence to provide access to all of this information that\u0026rsquo;s out there in the world to really creative people \u0026ndash; scientists, and engineers, and people who invent things - and discover things in a language that a human being understands.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Ashok Goel of the School of Interactive Computing and his students are working to combine biomimicry with a Google-like search engine to create powerful tool with the help of IBM supercomputer Watson.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Ashok Goel of the School of Interactive Computing and his students are working to combine biomimicry with a Google-like search engine to create powerful tool with the help of IBM supercomputer Watson."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2015-05-28 14:16:25","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 14:21:06","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":[],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"},{"id":"112431","name":"ashok goel"},{"id":"20121","name":"biologically inspired design"},{"id":"7688","name":"biomimicry"},{"id":"385","name":"cancer"},{"id":"280","name":"Cancer research"},{"id":"1126","name":"ibm"},{"id":"12208","name":"watson"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"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 \u0026amp; 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":""}},"489001":{"#nid":"489001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT-RNOC Helps to Launch \u2018Tech Eats\u2019 App","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELooking for something to eat on campus? Georgia Tech Campus Services, in partnership with the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (RNOC), has launched the Tech Eats app on the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/m.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT Mobile platform\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUsers are shown a list of restaurants sorted by walk distance, which can then be filtered by categories such as which restaurants are currently open, if they deliver, and if they have vegan or vegetarian cuisine. The app also has menus for the majority of the locations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We consider Tech Eats a discovery application,\u0026rdquo; said James Pete, senior director of the Campus Services Information Technology Group. \u0026ldquo;That is, the application allows users to be aware of what is around them with regards to food options.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWhat users won\u0026rsquo;t see is the behind the scenes development work completed by Campus Services and RNOC to create an authoritative repository of location data, including a self-service user interface. They also built APIs for the mobile application to utilize.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;It was important for GT Dining to be able to quickly and easily update menus, promotions, and even temporary changes in hours of operation. The self-service MVC application serves that role, which allows the API to seamlessly keep the Tech Eats app updated and relevant,\u0026quot; said Stephen Garrett, application developer manager, Campus Services Information Technology Group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe lab staff at RNOC built the front end application and deployed it on GT Mobile, while the Information Technology Group was responsible for the data repository and API building. Both teams leveraged each other\u0026rsquo;s expertise to come together to launch a new service on campus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;RNOC and Campus Services have long worked together to enhance the campus experience and are partners in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtjourney.gatech.edu\/live\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT Journey initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, which aims to make for a more open and accessible campus,\u0026quot; said RNOC Research Scientist Siva Jayaraman. GT Journey is an opportunity for all members of the Georgia Tech community to collaborate on applications and solutions that benefit the campus by making campus data available as APIs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGT Mobile is a web portal, built and maintained by RNOC, for the deployment of web applications. It\u0026rsquo;s a resource that benefits the Georgia Tech community by providing a place where students, staff, alumni, and faculty can host their applications or services. The web portal is open to the entire Georgia Tech community.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Campus Services, in partnership with the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (RNOC), has launched the Tech Eats app on the GT Mobile platform.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Campus Services, in partnership with the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (RNOC), has launched the Tech Eats app on the GT Mobile platform."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2016-01-21 12:06:03","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 13:25:14","author":"Alyson Key","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"488971":{"id":"488971","type":"image","title":"Tech Eats restaurants","body":null,"created":"1453395600","gmt_created":"2016-01-21 17:00:00","changed":"1475895245","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:05","alt":"Tech Eats restaurants","file":{"fid":"204391","name":"screenshot_2016-01-12-14-20-32.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-20-32_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-20-32_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":684465,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-20-32_0.png?itok=YzUxUmhr"}},"488991":{"id":"488991","type":"image","title":"Tech Eats filters","body":null,"created":"1453435200","gmt_created":"2016-01-22 04:00:00","changed":"1475895245","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:05","alt":"Tech Eats filters","file":{"fid":"204393","name":"screenshot_2016-01-12-14-21-37.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-21-37.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-21-37.png","mime":"image\/png","size":592509,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-21-37.png?itok=k7ZVs8eU"}},"488981":{"id":"488981","type":"image","title":"Tech Eats map","body":null,"created":"1453395600","gmt_created":"2016-01-21 17:00:00","changed":"1475895245","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:05","alt":"Tech Eats map","file":{"fid":"204392","name":"screenshot_2016-01-12-14-21-05.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-21-05_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-21-05_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1205652,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screenshot_2016-01-12-14-21-05_0.png?itok=47Z18G3E"}}},"media_ids":["488971","488991","488981"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179311","name":"platforms"},{"id":"2530","name":"application"},{"id":"10257","name":"campus services"},{"id":"1151","name":"dining"},{"id":"116","name":"food"},{"id":"104921","name":"GT-RNOC"},{"id":"169834","name":"Tech Eats"}],"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, Institute 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":""}},"582983":{"#nid":"582983","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leading the Future of Data Transfer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHigh in the mountains of Chile, construction has begun on a telescope that can map the entire visible sky in just a few nights. Each panoramic snapshot of the The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lsst.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELarge Synoptic Survey Telescope\u0026rsquo;s (LSST)\u003C\/a\u003E 3200-megapixel camera will cover an area 40 times the size of the full moon. All of that power comes with a lot of data to be transferred to scientists in the United States at a mind-boggling rate of 100 gigabits per second. That\u0026rsquo;s where Georgia Tech comes in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nResearchers at Georgia Tech and Florida International University (FIU) have launched the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atlanticwave-sdx.net\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAtlanticWave SDX\u003C\/a\u003E project to develop a network controller that will prioritize and route large amounts of data on research and education networks without slowing down the internet for everyone else. Sean Donovan, lead software developer and research scientist with IPaT and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rnoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT-RNOC\u003C\/a\u003E, presented the first version of the network controller at a recent conference where he received feedback from network operators and engineers and discussed challenges of the project, including discovering that not everyone understands how bandwidth works.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;You know to get 30, 50 or 100-megabit internet for your home, but you may not actually know what that translates to,\u0026rdquo; said Donovan. \u0026ldquo;Thirty megabits is fine if you want to watch Netflix, but if you want to transfer a 50 gigabyte dataset overnight you need to know how long that\u0026rsquo;s going to take.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHe found that scientists think about data transfers in terms of time, not the amount of bandwidth needed\u0026mdash;for instance, do they need the dataset today, or next week? The AtlanticWave SDX team defined new, common protocols to prioritize data flow by time sensitivity, size, or privacy requirements. They\u0026rsquo;re also working on a more streamlined internetwork connection, which currently takes several network operators one week and a dozen emails to set up. The new system will take seconds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s the end goal \u0026ndash; to make it so that it\u0026rsquo;s simple for a researcher to use, not just the network operators getting on the phone talking to each other to set up a connection,\u0026rdquo; explained Donovan.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn the future, AtlanticWave SDX could impact how individual Internet Service Providers (ISPs) prioritize data, with users paying the cost of the bandwidth or extra performance when needed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026quot;While this current work is focused on scientific use cases, the results will also have important applications to our smart communities projects where we are dealing with increasingly large datasets and complex interactions of different applications,\u0026quot; said Russ Clark, co-director of GT-RNOC and a principal investigator for the project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech and FIU are partnering on the project, in part, because the Institute houses and operates Southern Crossroads (SoX) in Atlanta\u0026mdash;a high-speed, large-scale internet network that joins together academic communities in the southeast and around the world. GT-RNOC also develops and tests new network infrastructure. In addition to Clark and Donovan, Georgia Tech PhD student Joaquin Chung, and MS students Ankita Lamba and John Skandalakis are also working on AtlanticWave SDX.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe team is planning an updated demonstration of the network controller during the Supercomputing 2016 Conference in November. The first prototype will be released by the end of the year, with deployments starting in early 2017. AtlanticWave SDX is supported and funded by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENational Science Foundation\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.geni.net\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGENI\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;The project builds on previous work in Campus SDN and Regional SDX supported by the GENI Project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Partners With Florida International University (FIU) on AtlanticWave SDX Project"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech and Florida International University (FIU) have launched the AtlanticWave SDX project to develop a network controller that will prioritize and route large amounts of data on research and education networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers at Georgia Tech and Florida International University (FIU) have launched the AtlanticWave SDX project to develop a network controller that will prioritize and route large amounts of data on research and education networks."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2016-10-24 14:37:25","changed_gmt":"2019-07-11 13:14:58","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":{"582981":{"id":"582981","type":"image","title":"Large Synoptic Survey Telescope","body":null,"created":"1477319670","gmt_created":"2016-10-24 14:34:30","changed":"1477319670","gmt_changed":"2016-10-24 14:34:30","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222239","name":"Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescope (1).png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescope%20%281%29.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescope%20%281%29.png","mime":"image\/png","size":794813,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Large_Synoptic_Survey_Telescope%20%281%29.png?itok=LzLFgRc6"}}},"media_ids":["582981"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"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\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":""}},"587709":{"#nid":"587709","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Computer Science Student Develops New Official Georgia Tech App","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow many people can say they really love the work they do? That it brings them joy and a sense of accomplishment? Alex Perez can. He has been interested in app development and programming for nearly a decade, and will graduate this spring from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science. In between his studies, and internships at Apple and Uber, the Woodstock native took on another big project doing what he loves \u0026ndash; creating a new official app for Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHe worked on the project for a year and a half. \u0026ldquo;I took some breaks, and then there were months I worked on it every day. It took a lot of polishing and getting the details right,\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe app has several new features, including a map showing real-time locations of Georgia Tech buses and trolleys, and a module with photos and information about each of the nearly 300 buildings on campus. Buildings are sorted by type \u0026ndash; housing, sports, greek, academic and food. In the food section, app users can find out which restaurants are currently open and which will soon close. The new app also has campus events, student organizations, news and social media feeds.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;We wanted to build a completely new app from the ground up that looked great on all of the new screen sizes and had a ton of new features that had been missing or severely lacking in the old version,\u0026rdquo; said Perez.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPerez put a lot of time into the app, working with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rnoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Network Operations Center (GT-RNOC)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to receive access to data, resources and advice. Jeremy Johnson, Georgia Tech Senior Research Scientist, was instrumental in the app\u0026rsquo;s development and launch. Geunbae Lee, a graduate student in the Human Computer Interaction program, and Graduate Research Assistant in RNOC, informed aspects of the design. RNOC also has a Device Lending Library, where Perez was able to test the app on an assortment of phones and tablets running different versions of the operating system. \u0026ldquo;I have one model of the iPhone,\u0026rdquo; he explained. \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s at least four different screen sizes I needed to test the app on to make sure that it looks right.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThrough RNOC\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtjourney.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGT-Journey\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;initiative, which gives the Georgia Tech community the opportunity to collaborate on applications and solutions that benefit the campus, Perez obtained access to data, something other colleges and universities aren\u0026rsquo;t always comfortable doing for student developers. Working closely with partners from virtually every part of campus, RNOC also hosts the app\u0026rsquo;s server. GT Journey provides application developers access to data through APIs with appropriate controls specific to the data being accessed, facilitating smart campus academic research and entrepreneurship broadly. Perez believes having open access to real data enriches the quality of apps that students can make.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;As an app developer, having access to APIs and data sources where you can just easily tap into and build any app you want \u0026ndash; that\u0026rsquo;s just an amazing thing. If I was at a different university that didn\u0026rsquo;t have that sort of thing, it would be so much harder to build the apps I build because I would have to build the entire data source myself.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMatt Sanders, co-director of GT-RNOC, worked with Perez throughout the project. He said,\u0026ldquo;While Georgia Tech has no shortage of talented developers, Alex stands out because he balanced his vision and skills with thoughtfully dealing with a variety of challenges and saw the project to completion. Because of his dedication, he was able to leverage and improve upon the resources we provided and leaves a legacy that future students can build upon.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIllustrating how rewarding and motivating he finds his work, Perez said, \u0026ldquo;I had a huge sense of accomplishment that I can have any app I want as long as I can write it.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHe\u0026#39;s now working with students to support the iOS version of the app, and to develop it for Android.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPerez\u0026rsquo; love of programming and app development and the knowledge he gained at Georgia Tech will stay with him in the next phase of his life. After graduation, he\u0026rsquo;s planning a cross country road trip and move to San Francisco to begin a job with Uber.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/appsto.re\/i67P4C6\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDownload the Georgia Tech app for iOS\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlex Perez gathered data for the app through the GT Journey initiative.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alex Perez gathered data for the app through the GT Journey initiative."}],"uid":"27980","created_gmt":"2017-02-21 17:49:59","changed_gmt":"2019-07-10 20:24:06","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":{"587708":{"id":"587708","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech Computer Science Student Alex Perez","body":null,"created":"1487699224","gmt_created":"2017-02-21 17:47:04","changed":"1487699224","gmt_changed":"2017-02-21 17:47:04","alt":"Georgia Tech Computer Science Student Alex Perez","file":{"fid":"223982","name":"alex_web.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alex_web.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/alex_web.png","mime":"image\/png","size":848012,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/alex_web.png?itok=WSsOUO5u"}}},"media_ids":["587708"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"173432","name":"Alex Perez"},{"id":"10553","name":"app"},{"id":"2530","name":"application"},{"id":"173539","name":"iOS"},{"id":"104921","name":"GT-RNOC"},{"id":"47801","name":"gt journey"},{"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\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":""}}}