{"672563":{"#nid":"672563","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Craft Lab Installs New Ultra-High-Definition 3D Printer ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Craft Lab has a new industrial 3D printer, a 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus. This machine, purchased in collaboration with College of Computing through tech fees, is the first of its kind on campus, replacing an older Projet previously run in the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT)\/GVU labs. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis new printer is capable of rapid production of high-quality plastic parts with a suite of materials ranging from high-performance engineering materials, USP-VI (bio-compatible) certified materials, and flexible elastomers. Additionally, it allows for rapid fabrication of watertight, high-resolution parts (up to 1600 x 900 DPI with 32 micron layers) while yielding fully cured parts direct from the machine.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI think it\u0027s a really exciting addition to the suite of additive manufacturing capabilities on campus,\u201d said Tim Trent, manager of the Craft Lab and faculty member of IPaT. \u201cThese are industry-standard machines that provide us the opportunity to experiment with some different capabilities that complement the capabilities of other equipment on campus. In particular, the bio-compatible materials is a super exciting feature as it means we can do proof-of-concept prototypes in materials that would be acceptable for medical devices.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EPrevious projects leveraging the technology of Craft Lab 3D printers include:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E* The Wild Dolphin Project from the Contextual Computing Group. Compared to traditional fused deposition modeling machines, the resin-based multi-jet process allowed the team to fabricate fully waterproof cases to house their custom electronics for deployment in the Atlantic Ocean.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E* A. Fatih Sarioglu\u0027s work in cancer research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/3d-printed-device-finds-needle-haystack-cancer-cells-removing-hay\u0022\u003Ebuilding 3D-printed traps lined with antigens\u003C\/a\u003E to capture the white blood cells in a sample. The fine resolution needed for the microfluidics work combined with the need for a bio-compatible material made the previous generation Projet an ideal choice. Sarioglu is an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Craft Lab\u2019s newest ultra-high-definition 3D printer will continue to support work like the projects mentioned above while advancing material options, reducing manufacturing time, and providing support for new features previously unavailable in the older model.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Craft Lab:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bThe Craft Lab is a unique makerspace sponsored by the Institute for People and Technology which is designed to promote craft and algorithmic making. The equipment in the lab is particularly well-suited for wearable\/flexible electronic systems and is available to anyone interested in making soft objects. The lab includes equipment like sewing machines, CNC knitting and embroidery machines, soldering irons, and 3D printers. Lab users must complete a lab training session before being allowed to access the lab. It is located in the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB), Room 225B. Questions about the lab should be directed to Tim Trent, lab manager, at tim.trent@gatech.edu.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Craft Lab has a new industrial 3D printer, a 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Craft Lab has a new industrial 3D printer, a 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus. 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In her role with the networking and telecommunications group, Zegura\u2019s work fell into a category of computing research that many would consider \u201cmore traditional\u201d \u2014 but she never saw things through a traditional lens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne of the things that really stands out to me from those early years is that the College very deliberately hired in a way that was pushing the boundaries of what people thought of as computing,\u201d said Zegura. \u201cThey hired key faculty in traditional areas of research like mine but were intentional about also hiring people (like Amy Bruckman) who were thinking in creative and new ways about what computing could be.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the first 10 years of her career, Zegura focused on digging into the incredible amount of work expected of a new faculty member. In the early days of the College of Computing, it was not uncommon for computing faculty to be asked to step in to fill teaching gaps in areas that were not yet staffed up by new instructors. For example, Zegura was asked to teach a discrete math course even though that was outside of her research area. She jumped in wholeheartedly and ended up loving her work with the undergraduate students in the course \u2014 so much that she has returned today to teaching a discrete math course with more than 250 students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis passion for new challenges and dedication to her role as a teacher have become hallmarks of Zegura\u2019s career at Georgia Tech. It was also during the first 10 years of her faculty career that Zegura began to build her community at Tech \u2014 friendships that would transform her future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe job is challenging. You\u2019re prepared for some of it, but you\u2019re not prepared for all of it. I really valued my faculty friends from the beginning because they became my critical support system. The people that you\u2019re hired with become good friends. And especially later, when my kids were born and my colleagues\u2019 kids were born, it was so important to have that community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt was during what Zegura sees as the second phase of her career when things became \u201csurprising.\u201d In 2002, she was asked to step in as interim dean of the College of Computing during the search for Dean Peter Freeman\u2019s successor. Prior to this, she was asked to oversee space planning for the College during a critical growth period. These two new roles began what Zegura jokingly calls the \u201cslippery slope of administration.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter Rich DeMillo was hired as the new dean, Zegura was asked to take on the role of associate dean during another transformative time in the life of the College. It was during that period that Schools were first formed within the College, and Zegura was named as the first chair of the School of Computer Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring her time as chair, the Computing for Good collective was launched as a social good initiative consisting of Georgia Tech faculty, partners, and computer science students. Zegura, Santosh Vempala, and Michael Best created a computing course with a focus on issues of social justice, and the course was taught for eight years (and is still taught, in a different iteration, as part of today\u2019s Online Master of Science in Computer Science program). These years were filled with impactful collaborations with programs like the Carter Center\u2019s Mental Health Program in Liberia, which empowered students in the Computing for Good course to assist with software and support for a national monitoring program for mental health resources.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZegura then moved to other methods for involving students in social good projects, including a six-year summer internship program called Civic Data Science, and, most recently, establishing a Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) team called Bits of Good.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe served as the chair of the School of Computer Science until 2012. It was an exhilarating time, and it was also an incredibly busy time. At that point in Zegura\u2019s career, she was ready for a well-deserved sabbatical.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHer sabbatical year took a surprising turn when she decided to take one of Beki Grinter\u2019s Human-Centered Computing courses. Grinter initially offered alternatives to Zegura taking the course alongside the other students. But Zegura persisted and showed up for class every Wednesday, completed all the assignments, and gained new knowledge to enhance her ability for expanded human-centered research consistent with social good.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen the Quality Enhancement Plan for the Institute opened the call for topic proposals in 2014, Zegura collaborated with other faculty concerned about community activism and issues of social justice and put together a concept paper for what would ultimately become Georgia Tech\u2019s Serve-Learn-Sustain program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI had an itch to do research that was in line with my educational focus on computing for good,\u201d said Zegura. \u201cI discovered that there is a set of people at Tech who are interested in trying to help students work in their communities and bring value to their communities through that work. I wanted to discover how my research could further that goal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking closely with program co-creator Beril Toktay, professor of operations management and the Brady Family Chairholder in the Scheller College of Business, Serve-Learn-Sustain proposed a path for Georgia Tech students to learn to create sustainable communities through engagement with content and context. Since its launch in 2016, the program has grown to encompass six Signature Programs that include a Sustainable Cities minor, the Sustainable Communities Summer Internship Program, the Innovating for Social Impact Program, RCE Greater Atlanta, and an array of events and workshops.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI really think the focus on sustainability and community engagement \u2014 those ideas were a bit ahead of their time. To be talking in 2014 [when this idea was first developed] about sustainability, climate change, the importance of community \u2014 that\u2019s very much in the national conversation now, but it wasn\u2019t as much at that time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThen, seemingly just as Zegura was settling into a new phase of her work, which includes her current role as a Regents\u2019 Professor and the Stephen Fleming Chair in the College of Computing, the Covid-19 pandemic hit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think we all went through something very challenging and unimaginable,\u0022 said Zegura. \u201cIt changed things, and it\u2019s going to take time to settle into a new version of how education works. I believe that learning has a significant social and community component \u2014 that\u0027s an idea that is central to my work. This [the pandemic] impacted all of that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs campus adjusted and sought a new normal, one thing that crystalized even further for Zegura is that internet access is directly related to issues of equity. As a result, one of her current projects involves creating an Android-based app to help tribal and other\u0026nbsp;communities across the U.S. take network coverage measurements and have those measurements reported to the Federal Communications Commission.\u0026nbsp;This ongoing Rockefeller Foundation-funded project is part of a process challenging a lack of cellular provider coverage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a researcher, Zegura has big ideas about exciting, impactful projects. As a teacher, she remains deeply passionate about her work with Georgia Tech students. As a woman in computing, she feels excited about the collective of female faculty who now lead in computing \u2014 and across campus. As only the second woman to receive Georgia Tech\u0027s Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award, she hopes she\u2019ll see many more women awardees in the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI feel proud and grateful. I\u2019m proud to receive this award, and I\u2019m so grateful for my relationships with my students and collaborators over these 30 years,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m continually looking for ways to do something big, beyond my own research, and I\u2019m excited for what\u2019s to come for the future of my work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESomething big is surely in Zegura\u2019s future, but ask any of her colleagues or students, and they will assure you that something big has already been accomplished.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQuotes From Colleagues\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe field of computing often falls into the trap of focusing on advancing itself while neglecting its impact on society. Ellen is one of those educators who intentionally resists this trap, teaching her students to use their skills to solve problems in their own communities. She is teaching the next generation to think of computing holistically, as a major factor in social problems and solutions. Ellen is an innovative teacher who cares deeply, and I am glad to see her recognized for it.\u201d - Charles Isbell, Dean of the College of Computing and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEllen\u0027s technical excellence and passion for contributing to societal good have made her a role model for many faculty in our School and College. Her research achievements in networking include the development of an influential internet topology model and the foundations of Software-Defined Networking. Her dedication to teaching is evidenced by the fact that she has taught classes at every level (from 1000 to 8000) and created a unique course on Technology and Sustainable Community Development (SLS 3110) as part of Georgia Tech\u0027s Serve-Learn-Sustain QEP. Her internal and external service and leadership have been exemplary, including serving as chair of the Computing Research Association board, an organization that represents all Ph.D.-granting computer science departments in the U.S. It is truly a joy to see Ellen receive this well-deserved recognition.\u201d - Vivek Sarkar, Chair of the School of Computer Science and Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications in the College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEllen Zegura has been an ally and advocate for women in the College of Computing for the 17 years that I have known her. She is someone who has a vision and expedites it. We are all better off for having her in our community!\u201d - Rosa Arriaga, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, School of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEllen has often mentioned that, while on leave, she took a class from me. Obviously, she was a fantastic student, and I was delighted to have her be part of a community of scholars all focused on human-centered computing. Since then, her research has continued to balance a deep knowledge of the fundamentals of how technology works, with a constant attention to the people who will have that computing experience. It\u2019s a very impressive balancing act that she has managed for many years now. On a more personal note, Ellen has been a mentor and friend to me ever since I arrived at Georgia Tech. Her leadership has been a major inspiration to me, and I\u0027m thrilled that she\u2019s won this award. Thank you, Ellen!\u0022 - Beki Grinter, Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development, School of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs an advisor and mentor, Ellen is unrivaled. Her decades of experience in networking research, her visionary ability to apply computing to under-supported social problems, and her warm, fun-loving personality make every conversation with her transformative. If I acquire but a small fraction of her skills \u2014 working across disciplines to address pressing challenges and create sustainable partnerships \u2014 while studying under her, I will be thrilled.\u0022 -Eric Greenlee, Computer Science Ph.D. Student\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPassion for new challenges and dedication to her role as a teacher have become hallmarks of Ellen Zegura\u2019s career at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Passion for new challenges and dedication to her role as a teacher have become hallmarks of Ellen Zegura\u2019s career at Georgia Tech."}],"uid":"33878","created_gmt":"2023-04-13 15:06:48","changed_gmt":"2023-04-14 20:48:41","author":"Darin Givens","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670521":{"id":"670521","type":"image","title":"Ellen Zegura","body":null,"created":"1681398762","gmt_created":"2023-04-13 15:12:42","changed":"1681398762","gmt_changed":"2023-04-13 15:12:42","alt":"Ellen Zegura","file":{"fid":"253399","name":"ellenzegura2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura2.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura2.png","mime":"image\/png","size":42849,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura2.png?itok=ySH10q-q"}},"670522":{"id":"670522","type":"image","title":"Ellen Zegura","body":null,"created":"1681398762","gmt_created":"2023-04-13 15:12:42","changed":"1681398762","gmt_changed":"2023-04-13 15:12:42","alt":"Ellen Zegura","file":{"fid":"253400","name":"ellenzegura3.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura3.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura3.png","mime":"image\/png","size":562865,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura3.png?itok=7zNdh9fw"}},"670523":{"id":"670523","type":"image","title":"Ellen Zegura","body":null,"created":"1681398762","gmt_created":"2023-04-13 15:12:42","changed":"1681398762","gmt_changed":"2023-04-13 15:12:42","alt":"Ellen Zegura","file":{"fid":"253401","name":"ellenzegura.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":70446,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/04\/13\/ellenzegura.jpeg?itok=1JEh2exz"}}},"media_ids":["670521","670522","670523"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/features\/2021\/10\/recipients-class-1934-distinguished-professor-award-georgia-tech","title":"Recipients of the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1300","name":"Institute Communications"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"67871","name":"Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award"},{"id":"11003","name":"Ellen Zegura"}],"core_research_areas":[],"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\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bprice9@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrittany Aiello\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFaculty Communications Program Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"672055":{"#nid":"672055","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Challenges of Regulating Artificial Intelligence","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn 1950, Alan Turing asked, \u201cCan machines think?\u201d More than 70 years later, advancements in artificial intelligence are creating exciting possibilities and questions about its potential pitfalls.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA recent executive order issued by President Joe Biden seeks to establish \u0022new standards for AI safety and security\u0022 while addressing consumer privacy concerns and promoting innovation. Georgia Tech experts have examined the key elements of the order and offer their thoughts on its scope and what comes next.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EA Precautionary Tale\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe order calls for the development of standards, tools, and tests to ensure the safe use of AI. From voice scams and phishing campaigns to larger-scale threats, the technology\u2019s potential dangers have been widely documented. But \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/margaret-e-kosal\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMargaret Kosal\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, says that additional context is often needed to dispel hysteria.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022No one is going to be hooking up AI to launch nuclear weapons, but AI capabilities may enable targeting, or enable the command and control and the decision-making time to be compressed,\u201d she said. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThe order will create an AI Safety and Security Board tasked with addressing critical threats. Companies developing foundation models that \u0022pose a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety\u201d will be required to notify the federal government when training the model and required to share the results of all red-team safety tests \u2014 a simulated cyberattack to test a system\u0027s defenses.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/11\/28\/ai-like-chatgpt-is-creating-huge-increase-in-malicious-phishing-email.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ea CNBC report\u003C\/a\u003E details a 1,267% rise in phishing emails. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~srijan\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESrijan Kumar\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the College of Computing, attributes the increase to the technology\u0027s availability and an inability to rein in \u0022bad actors.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe says these scams will only continue to get more sophisticated and personalized. They \u201ccan be created by knowing what you might be willing to fall prey to versus what I might fall prey to,\u201d said Kumar, whose systems have influenced misinformation detection on sites like X (formerly Twitter) and Wikipedia. \u201cAI is not going to autonomously do all of those bad things, but this order can ensure there are consequences for people who misuse it.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EA Delicate Balance\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBuilding an AI platform requires large amounts of data regardless of its intended application. Two primary goals of the executive order are protecting privacy and advancing equity.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo protect personal data, the order tasks Congress with evaluating how agencies collect and use commercially available information and address algorithmic discrimination.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAcknowledging that everyone should be allowed to have their voice represented in the outputs of AI data sets, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/desai\/index.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDeven Desai,\u003C\/a\u003E associate professor in the Scheller College of Business, noted, \u0022There are people who don\u0027t want to be part of data sets, which is their right, but this means their voices won\u0027t be reflected in the outputs.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe order also includes sections to address intellectual property concerns among inventors and creators, though legal challenges will likely set new precedents in the years ahead.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen that time comes, Kosal says that \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/27\/business\/media\/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Edefining \u201ctheft\u201d in the context of AI becomes the true challenge\u003C\/a\u003E and that, ultimately, money will play a significant role. \u0022If you spit out a Harry Potter book and read it yourself, nobody will care. It\u0027s when you start selling it to make money, and you don\u0027t share proceeds with the original people, then it becomes an issue,\u0022 she said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EWhat Does AI-Generated Mean?\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe order instructs the Department of Commerce to develop guidelines for content authentication and watermarking to label AI-generated content. Desai questions what it means for something to be truly created by AI.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn important distinction lies between using AI to assist a writer in organizing their thoughts and using the technology to generate content. He likens the trend to the music industry in the 1980s.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Synthesizers really changed people\u0027s ability to generate music and, for a while, people thought that was horrible. They can just program the music. They\u0027re not. I am still the human responsible for that music, or that article in this case, so what is the point of the label?\u0022 he asks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs AI assistance becomes commonplace in content creation, trusting the source of information is increasingly important. Recently, articles published on Sports Illustrated\u0027s website \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/futurism.com\/sports-illustrated-ai-generated-writers\u0022\u003Efeatured AI-generated content\u003C\/a\u003E provided by a third-party company that had used a machine to write the content and create fake bylines. Sports Illustrated, which may not have known of the problem, ran the material without disclosure to readers. CEO Ross Levinsohn was ousted shortly after the story broke.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPerhaps if the third party had disclosed its use of AI software, SI would have been able to assess how much AI was used and then chosen not to run the material, or to run it with a disclaimer that AI helped write the material,\u201d Desai said. \u0022Of course, even if they label the content as AI-generated, a reader still won\u0027t know exactly how much of the content came from AI or a human.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAI and the Workforce\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs AI systems and models become more sophisticated, workers may become more concerned about being replaced. To counteract these concerns, the order calls for a study to examine AI\u2019s potential impact on labor markets and investments in workforce training efforts.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKumar compares the rise of AI to similar technological innovations throughout history and sees it as an opportunity for workers and industries to adapt. \u0022It\u0027s less a matter of AI replacing workers and more of reskilling people to use the new technology. It\u0027s no different from when assembly lines in the auto industry were created.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EPromoting Innovation and Competition\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe power to harness the full potential of AI has initiated a race to the top. Desai believes that part of the executive order providing resources to smaller developers can help level the playing field.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There is a possibility here for markets to open up. Current players using models that weren\u0027t built with transparency in mind might struggle, but maybe that\u0027s OK.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe issue of reliability and transparency comes into focus for Desai, especially as it relates to government usage of AI. The order calls on agencies to \u0022acquire specified AI products and services faster, more cheaply, and more effectively through more rapid and efficient contracting.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen taxpayer dollars are at stake, government can\u2019t afford to trust a technology it doesn\u2019t fully understand \u2014 a topic Desai \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2959472\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehas explored elsewhere\u003C\/a\u003E. \u0022You can\u2019t just say, \u2018We don\u2019t know how it works, but we trust it.\u2019 That\u2019s not going to work. So that\u2019s where there may be a slowdown in the government\u2019s ability to use private sector software if they can\u2019t explain how the thing works and to show that it doesn\u2019t have discriminatory issues.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EWhat\u0027s Next\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPromoting and policing the safe use of AI cannot be done independently. Georgia Tech experts agree that participation on a global scale is necessary. To that end, the European Union will unveil its comprehensive EU AI Act, which includes a similar framework to the president\u0027s executive order.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDue to the evolving nature of AI, the executive order or the EU\u0027s actions will not be all-encompassing. Law often lags behind technology, but Kosal points out that it\u0027s crucial to think beyond what currently exists when crafting policy.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExperts also agree that AI cannot be regulated or governed through a single document and that this order is likely the first in a series of policymaking moves. Kosal sees tremendous opportunity with the innovation surrounding AI but hopes the growing fear of its rise does not usher in another AI winter, in which interest and research funding fade.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"As innovation surrounding artificial intelligence continues, Georgia Tech experts offer their thoughts on the scope of the recent executive order and the challenges ahead in regulating AI."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs innovation surrounding artificial intelligence continues, Georgia Tech experts offer their thoughts on the scope of the recent executive order and the challenges ahead in regulating AI.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As innovation surrounding artificial intelligence continues, Georgia Tech experts offer their thoughts on the scope of the recent executive order and the challenges ahead in regulating AI."}],"uid":"36418","created_gmt":"2024-01-11 19:25:53","changed_gmt":"2024-04-10 21:07:00","author":"sgagliano3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-01-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672744":{"id":"672744","type":"image","title":"Artificial Intelligence and Policy","body":null,"created":"1705003002","gmt_created":"2024-01-11 19:56:42","changed":"1705003002","gmt_changed":"2024-01-11 19:56:42","alt":"Artificial Intelligence and Policy","file":{"fid":"256040","name":"GettyImages-1191080384.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/01\/11\/GettyImages-1191080384.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/01\/11\/GettyImages-1191080384.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":15716234,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/01\/11\/GettyImages-1191080384.jpg?itok=QW7a-19y"}}},"media_ids":["672744"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/ai-am-i","title":"AI: Am I...The Future of Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"66220","name":"Neuro"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"8144","name":"Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Steven.gagliano@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESteven Gagliano\u003C\/a\u003E - Institute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Steven.gagliano@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"671335":{"#nid":"671335","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Convergence Innovation Competition Names Two Winners","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBoth \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fadpad.us\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Efadpad\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E and NaloPack won this year\u2019s Georgia Tech Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) for fall 2023. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe CIC judges felt both teams deserved to be named winners based on their innovative ideas. Sponsored twice every year by Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;(IPaT), the\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/cic\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E is dedicated to helping students create and showcase innovative, viable products and experiences with the support of campus and industry resources along with guidance.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFadpad is a multilayered add-on that goes directly on top of a menstrual pad to collect a blood sample. The blood sample is then shipped to a lab for testing. The fadpad team has shown that their approach can effectively detect biomarkers present in diseases like HPV, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections. They recently earned one of the top prizes at the 2023 Collegiate Inventors Competition at the National Inventors Hall of Fame.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe fapad team includes Rhea Prem, who graduated with a bachelor of science in computer engineering; Netra Gandhi, who graduated with a bachelor of science in biomedical engineering; Ethan Damiani, who will graduate with a bachelor of science in biochemistry this fall; and Girish Hari, who will be completing a master of science in computer science this fall.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENaloPak is a design-driven carry sling bag allowing a wearer to quickly access two Naloxone nasal sprays to quickly reverse an opioid overdose. The specially designed bag system also advertisers that the wearer is carrying this lifesaving medicine. Instructions to use Naloxone are also highly visible if the medicine needs to be rapidly deployed to save a life.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENaloPak was envisioned by Rae Bloom who is an industrial design student graduating next spring 2024.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis year\u2019s sole finalist was a product application named \u201cbecalming.\u201d The future vision of her app is to combat bad mental health practices. It\u2019s a product that is still in the early stages of design and development. Becalming is spearheaded by Sai Sanjana Prakash, who is pursuing a bachelor of science in both biomedical engineering and computer science.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThis year\u2019s fall 2023 competition judges were:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERussell Clark\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERahul Saxena\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, CREATE-X at Georgia Tech\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBoth \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fadpad.us\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Efadpad\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E and NaloPack won this year\u2019s Georgia Tech Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) for fall 2023. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Both fadpad and NaloPack won this year\u2019s Georgia Tech Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) for fall 2023. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2023-11-30 22:20:53","changed_gmt":"2023-11-30 22:21:52","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672484":{"id":"672484","type":"image","title":"CIC winners and finalist fall 2023","body":"\u003Cp\u003E(left-to-right) Ethan \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDamiani, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003ERae Bloom (CIC fall 2023 winners) and \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESai\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E Sanjana Prakash (finalist).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1701382620","gmt_created":"2023-11-30 22:17:00","changed":"1701382768","gmt_changed":"2023-11-30 22:19:28","alt":"CIC winners and finalist fall 2023","file":{"fid":"255729","name":"IMG_0055 Large.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/30\/IMG_0055%20Large.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/30\/IMG_0055%20Large.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":348386,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/30\/IMG_0055%20Large.jpeg?itok=Cd5NOHQl"}}},"media_ids":["672484"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"671077":{"#nid":"671077","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Craft Lab Hosts Student Community-building Event","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMid-November\u2019s autumn transition foreshadows the stress of preparations for the Thanksgiving holiday, the imminent wrap up of final projects, and the near-term arrival of final exams as the end of the semester approaches. To alleviate some of the forthcoming stress, Hannah Hendricks, a master\u2019s student in digital media (DM), and Allie Teixeira Riggs, a doctoral student in DM, hosted a fun community event for DM students using the Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) Craft Lab resources.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe purpose of the event was to let students relax, decompress, bond, and gain new insight into the capabilities of the Craft Lab which provides equipment such as industrial sewing machines, knitting and embroidery machines, 3D printers, and a number of other tools. Tim Trent, manager of the Craft Lab, and Arianna Mastali, a graduate research assistant in the lab, hosted 12 DM students at this community event.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EStudent feedback from the event included:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIt was a supersensory experience for me. Throughout my life, I feared the sewing machine, but the experience yesterday of understanding the mechanics of it and the wonderful workings of the sewing machine after using it has made me mindful of the possibilities. Also, the aspect of community building through knitting is an exciting concept and takeaway.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe [Craft Lab] experience was transformative, I learned quite a few things, and it was a safe space to be outside my comfort zone in terms of trying out something new. It was a great opportunity to meet new people within different fields of expertise.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIt was interesting to learn about and see a nitty gritty industrial sewing machine and the rotational knitting machine. I learned more about the equipment in the Craft Lab.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI liked the bringing people together aspect of the event, sharing what we know, crafts we have done, and the digital media\/computational craft we can do [using the lab].\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cI could definitely see this event happening again where we meet and do a particular craft for a day.\u201d \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIt is incredibly rewarding to see student-led events like this happen,\u201d said Trent. \u201cWhen I first envisioned the Craft Lab, I was excited by the potential to take equipment that was already being used for research and open its accessibility and use to create a community space for folks to explore and learn new things. The feedback and energy over the past year, as seen in events like this DM student night, have re-affirmed the importance of the lab spaces IPaT provides, and I\u0027m excited to see where we can progress forward.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAbout the Craft Lab:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cspan\u003EThe Craft Lab is a unique makerspace sponsored by IPaT which is designed to promote craft and algorithmic making. The equipment in the lab is particularly well-suited for wearable\/flexible electronic systems and is available to anyone interested in making soft objects. The lab includes equipment like sewing machines, CNC knitting and embroidery machines, soldering irons, and 3D printers. Lab users must complete a lab training session before being allowed to access the lab.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHannah Hendricks, a master\u2019s student in digital media (DM), and Allie Teixeira Riggs, a doctoral student in DM, hosted a fun community event for DM students using the Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) Craft Lab resources.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Hannah Hendricks, a master\u2019s student in digital media (DM), and Allie Teixeira Riggs, a doctoral student in DM, hosted a fun community event for DM students using the Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) Craft Lab resources."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2023-11-15 19:14:18","changed_gmt":"2023-11-15 19:15:12","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672392":{"id":"672392","type":"image","title":"Arianna Mastali (MS-HCI) demonstrates the use of the Craft Lab knitting machine. 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Zeagler is also serving as the interim co-director of strategic partnerships for IPaT.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Emerging Leaders Program is a collaboration between the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty. Over the course of six months, participants take part in several activities\u2014workshops, small-group work, and coaching\u2014to contribute to leadership development. Zeagler is joining the eighth cohort of Georgia Tech\u2019s Emerging Leaders Program. This is the first year the program has been open to senior and principal non-tenure track faculty and research faculty.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EZeagler\u2019s research background encompasses industrial design, fashion design, and human centered computing. During his time at Georgia Tech, he has taught and created new and interdisciplinary coursework for the College of Computing, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Design. Zeagler became part of the IPaT team in 2013 helping create the Wearable Computing Center and acted as its program manager. As IPaT\u2019s co-director of strategic partnerships for IPaT, he is engaging with both external and internal partners to develop rewarding research and scholarly endeavors.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EHis interest in fashion (Master of Arts in fashion, Domus Academy, Milan), industrial design, textiles (Bachelor of Science, industrial design, Georgia Tech, minor in textile manufacturing) and computing (Ph.D. in human centered computing, Georgia Tech) drives his research on electronic textiles and on-body interfaces at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a member of the NASA Wearable Technology Cluster and interacts with the NASA Georgia Space Grant Consortium \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s eighth cohort of faculty members selected for the Emerging Leaders Program can be \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/provost.gatech.edu\/emerging-leaders\u0022\u003Efound here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EClint Zeagler, principal research scientist in the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), was selected to join Georgia Tech\u2019s Emerging Leaders Program for 2023-2024. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Clint Zeagler, principal research scientist in the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), was selected to join Georgia Tech\u2019s Emerging Leaders Program for 2023-2024. 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It must\u2014because it plays music with you.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMade from beautifully fabricated steel and eight mobile arms, medus\u003Cem\u003Eai\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;can play percussion and strings with human musicians, dance with human dancers, and move in time to multiple human observers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt uses AI-driven computer vision to know what human observers are doing and responds accordingly through snake gestures, music, and light.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/music.gatech.edu\/gil-weinberg\u0022\u003EGil Weinberg\u003C\/a\u003E, the director of Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cmt.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Music Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, knows it\u2019s unsettling. 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The seminar provided training to 11 community leaders from Honduras, Bangladesh, Samoa, Mozambique, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Tanzania, Nepal, Belize, and\u0026nbsp;Brazil. The participants spent one week in Atlanta and one week in Savannah, learning\u0026nbsp;strategies for building social, environmental, and economic resilience. Numerous CEAR Hub projects were featured as case studies in the seminar, including the Hub\u2019s smart sea-level sensor network in coastal Georgia; emergency management support in Chatham County, GA; resilience planning work in the Gullah Geechee community of Pin Point (Savannah, GA); community garden development and youth engagement in Hudson Hill (Savannah, GA); K-12 education programs at Savannah State University; and environmental health research in Brunswick, GA. Through these examples, participants gained a deeper understanding of climate adaptation options, nature-based solutions, equitable community engagement, and the importance of collaboration in achieving community resilience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CEAR Hub lead principal investigator is Russell Clark, senior research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology and faculty member of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT). Several members of the CEAR Hub team are affiliated with IPaT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the CEAR Hub\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECoastal flooding, extreme heat, and other climate hazards are growing threats to communities throughout Georgia\u2019s coast. These threats are especially critical for historically marginalized groups,\u0026nbsp;who often face the most severe impacts and have the least ability to cope.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECEAR Hub is a project that joins community organizations, local governments, and educational institutions together to develop the knowledge, tools, and strategies that make our communities more resilient. 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The other research co-sponsors were the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS). The IDEaS grant also involved other interdisciplinary research co-sponsors at Georgia Tech. A complete list of IDEaS awardees are listed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ideas-awards-2023-seed-grants-seven-interdisciplinary-research-teams\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCongratulations to this year\u2019s grant awardees, which bring together a diverse set of scholars advancing important new lines of interdisciplinary inquiry,\u201d said Michael Best, executive director of IPaT. \u201cThe funded projects in the arts, assistive healthcare, AI, and beyond will further Georgia Tech\u2019s impact at the intersections of people and technology.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the IPaT\/GTRI co-sponsored research and engagement grants for 2023-2024 is to promote research activities involving faculty and students from many disciplines represented in IPaT. Five winning projects were selected based on their early-stage research which have a high probability of leading to extramural funding and include a strong interdisciplinary component. Engagement grants are also designed to foster new engagements and collaborations, whether internal or external to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the IPaT\/IDEaS co-sponsored research include identifying prominent emerging research directions on the topics of artificial intelligence (AI), shaping IDEaS future strategy in this initiative area, and building an inclusive and active community of Georgia Tech researchers. Proposals could include external collaborators, identifying and preparing groundwork for competing in large-scale grant opportunities in AI, and AI use in other research fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECongratulations to the winning project teams listed below:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Artificial Intelligence Based Abstract Review Assistant (AIARA)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Michael Cross, research scientist, GTRI; Paula Gomez, senior research engineer, GTRI; Mark Riedl, professor, associate director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center, School of Interactive Computing\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward and sponsors:\u003C\/strong\u003E $20,000 (IPaT\/GTRI)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOverview:\u003C\/strong\u003E Scientific committee members are promoting the use of artificial intelligence tools such as Google\u2019s BARD and OpenAI\u2019s Chat GPT to help with the blind review process to support the peer review process such as articles submitted for annual science-related conferences. Considering that the peer review process is made up of well-structured tasks that include analysis of a set number of abstract components (title, keywords, structure, outcomes, references) or paper components (the introduction, methods, results, discussion, length, clarity and structure), peer review is an excellent candidate for trained AI to address topics such as duplicate submissions, self-plagiarism, incomplete reviews, comment quality assessment, and the overall standardization of scores for the final selection of articles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Toward Fairer Diagnosis and Care of Type 2 Diabetes: A Long-Term and Pipeline-Level View\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Gabriel Garcia, assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Juba Ziani, assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Jovan Julien, postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward and sponsors:\u003C\/strong\u003E $16,034 (IPaT)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOverview:\u003C\/strong\u003E Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States, affecting about 10% of Americans. While T2DM is irreversible, its early disease stages \u2013 i.e., pre-diabetes \u2013 are reversible. Accordingly, early screening, detection, and treatment are critical to reducing the rates of progression to T2DM and mitigating the adverse effects of T2DM among those who already have it. Yet, in the United States, T2DM can often go undetected until its later stages with each missed detection stage leading to worsening health outcomes and increasing financial burden. Further, people from disadvantaged and underserved groups often face lower access to care, leading to more missed detection and greater downstream disease burden. In this research, our goal is to build a mathematical model to optimize investments across screening and treatment resources while reducing disparities across disadvantaged populations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E ASTRO! - Manysourcing the Design and Behavior of Future Robotic Guide Dogs\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Bruce Walker, professor, School of Psychology and School of Interactive Computing\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward and sponsors:\u003C\/strong\u003E $15,375 (IPaT)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOverview:\u003C\/strong\u003E ASTRO! is an interdisciplinary collaborative project to engage many people in the ideation and creative design of future robotic guide dogs. As the technology and engineering advance towards a robotic assistant, we also must consider design and human-robot interaction issues. We will ask many people--through interviews, focus groups, and surveys--what capabilities a robotic guide should have. We will also ask how they should look and feel. We will consider how they will behave. And finally, we will investigate how humans and robotic assistants will communicate. Students in many classes at Georgia Tech and beyond will study various aspects of this research and design challenge. We will also host a weekend \u201cdesign-a-thon\u201d for ideating and brainstorming robot designs and interaction patterns, and crafting up all kinds of prototypes and mockups. The outcomes of this project will influence the design of robotic assistants, and more broadly will help us design advanced technology so it is accepted into society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Data-Driven Platform for Transforming Subjective Assessment into Objective Processes for Artistic Human Performance and Wellness\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Milka Trajkova, research scientist, School of Literature, Media, and Communication; Brian Magerko, professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward and sponsors:\u003C\/strong\u003E $15,000 (IPaT\/IDEaS)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOverview:\u003C\/strong\u003E Artistic human movement at large, stands at the precipice of a data-driven renaissance. By leveraging novel tools, we can usher in a transparent, data-driven, and accessible training environment. The potential ramifications extend beyond dance. As sports analytics have reshaped our understanding of athletic prowess, a similar approach to dance could redefine our comprehension of human movement, with implications spanning healthcare, construction, rehabilitation, and active aging. Georgia Tech, with its prowess in AI, HCI, and biomechanics is primed to lead this exploration. To actualize this vision, we propose the following research questions with ballet as a prime example of one of the most complex types of artistic movements: 1) What kinds of data - real-time kinematic, kinetic, biomechanical, etc. captured through accessible off-the-shelf technologies, are essential for effective AI assessment in ballet education for young adults?; 2) How can we design and develop an end-to-end ML architecture that assesses artistic and technical performance?; 3) What feedback elements (combination of timing, communication mode, feedback nature, polarity, visualization) are most effective for AI- based dance assessment?; and 4) How does AI-assisted feedback enhance physical wellness, artistic performance, and the learning process in young athletes compared to traditional methods?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Voice+: Locating the Human Voice in a Technology-Driven World\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Andrea Jonsson, assistant professor, School of Modern Languages; Stuart Goldberg, associate professor, School of Modern Languages\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAward and sponsors:\u003C\/strong\u003E $3,800 (IPaT)\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOverview:\u003C\/strong\u003E The Voice + Research Lab is an Interdisciplinary Voice Studies Lab that explores the human voice from a variety of perspectives and integrates knowledge and methodologies from different disciplines. It encompasses a wide range of topics related to the voice, including vocal production, vocal health, cultural and historical aspects of vocal expression, and the artistic and expressive use of the voice. Interdisciplinary voice studies aim to provide a holistic understanding of the voice and its multifaceted aspects, fostering collaboration among experts in various fields to explore sound and structures of the human voice.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Institute of People and Technology at Georgia Tech (IPaT) co-sponsored more than $70,000 in grant awards to five research projects. The other research co-sponsors were the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS).\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute of People and Technology at Georgia Tech (IPaT) co-sponsored more than $70,000 in grant awards to five research projects. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2023-10-24 15:24:34","changed_gmt":"2024-08-20 14:04:13","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672156":{"id":"672156","type":"image","title":"IPaT Seed Grant Winners 2023","body":"\u003Cp\u003EIPaT Seed Grant Winners 2023\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1698160861","gmt_created":"2023-10-24 15:21:01","changed":"1698160899","gmt_changed":"2023-10-24 15:21:39","alt":"IPaT Seed Grant Winners 2023","file":{"fid":"255346","name":"SeedGrant-Artowrk-IPaT-2023 copy-smaller.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/24\/SeedGrant-Artowrk-IPaT-2023%20copy-smaller.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/24\/SeedGrant-Artowrk-IPaT-2023%20copy-smaller.png","mime":"image\/png","size":538024,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/24\/SeedGrant-Artowrk-IPaT-2023%20copy-smaller.png?itok=15Dss8nG"}}},"media_ids":["672156"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"670789":{"#nid":"670789","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Foley Scholars 2023 Winners and Finalists ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology. Winners and finalists for the 2023 Foley Scholar Award were celebrated at Georgia Tech\u2019s hotel and convention center on October 30, 2023. The event was hosted by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E with its executive director, Michael Best, serving as the master of ceremonies as each finalist was recognized for their innovative research. James Foley, professor emeritus and for whom the awards are named for, joined in the evening\u2019s festivities to celebrate the achievements of all finalists.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cCongratulations to the two awardees and all the finalists who represent the best that Georgia Tech has to offer,\u201d said Michael Best. \u201cDeparting from previous years, this year we only awarded two prizes making them even more precious. Next year we will return to awarding multiple prizes among the finalist,\u201d said Best.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECongratulations to the newly named Foley Scholars for 2023-2024 who are:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKarthik Seetharama Bhat\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing, in the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\tin the doctoral category who was awarded $5,000.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArianna Mastali\u003C\/strong\u003E, master\u2019s student in Human-Computer Interaction, in the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\tmaster\u2019s category who was awarded $1,000.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe finalists in the Ph.D. category were Karthik Seetharama Bhat, Arpit Narechania, Sachin Pendse, and Alexandra Teixeira Riggs. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe finalists in the master\u2019s category were Arianna Mastali and Josey Benandi. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA short description of each finalists\u2019 unique research along with their Georgia Tech faculty advisor is listed below:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKarthik Seetharama Bhat\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing and is advised by Neha Kumar. Bhat\u2019s research explores the future of carework by studying how emerging technologies can support and augment caregiving interactions and relationships. His research examines telehealth efforts in India to understand technology adoption for formal and informal caregiving across socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural boundaries. He is designing new technologies and technology-aided workflows as probes into the potential futures of telehealth. He is also examining the role that emerging AI and data-driven technologies (like conversational agents) could play in informal care environments.\u0026nbsp;He has partnered with ARMMAN\u2014a Mumbai-based NGO that is employing mHealth technologies towards improving maternal and child health outcomes through information provision and care delivery to pregnant women and new mothers. He is also working on the design and deployment of a chatbot that can perform automated tasks that reduce burdens on community health workers who moderate a chat-based online health community for maternal and child health.\u0026nbsp;This is a collaborative study with researchers at IIIT Delhi, India, and SWACH Foundation\u2014an NGO in Haryana, India, that runs multiple WhatsApp-based online health communities for maternal and child health, serving thousands of pregnant women and new mothers from rural and urban regions of north India.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArpit Narechania\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, advised by Alex Endert. Narechania designs mixed-initiative, guidance-enriched interfaces that facilitate visual communication of appropriate and timely guidance between users and systems, and promotes the design of new visualization tools for enhanced human-data experiences from data preparation through analysis. He also develop tools that augment visualization interfaces with the querying power of natural language. A recent team research project of his examined how misrepresentation using fertility maps could change how funds are distributed to different locales and how people perceive the state of fertility in India. This project involved 16 cartographers and GIS experts from 13 global organizations such as the World Bank, UN, NASA, CDC. His team findings revealed that even the most expert map-makers find choosing appropriate binning methods challenging; this is due to limited knowledge, lack of awareness of harmful implications of using arbitrary binning methods, and organizational protocols conflicting with cartographic principles and map-maker\u2019s preferences. His research team invented \u201cResiliency\u201d, a new \u201cgoto\u201d binning method. As a result of this research, the World Bank invited him, Dr. Clio Andris, and Dr. Alex Endert [fellow team members] to give a talk, and the United Nations offered to integrate this new map-making method into their website.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESachin Pendse\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in Human-Centered Computing and is advised by Munmun De Choudhury and Neha Kumar. Pendse is addressing mental health challenges and the positive role that technology can play. There are diverse and effective approaches to treating mental health concerns, but the process of being diagnosed and finding care can be extremely intimidating. Individuals in distress are confronted with diverse barriers, including the stigma associated with being labeled as mentally ill, the trial-and-error process of determining the medication or forms of therapy that work best for an individual, and economic or cultural factors that limit access. Navigating the pathway to care can be an ordeal as taxing as the experience of mental illness itself. He is working to better understand where technology-mediated support may be able to reduce and eliminate mental health-related barriers. He examines the role that identity and culture play in how people experience distress, and studies people from diverse backgrounds, including people in geographically sparse areas, people with limited financial means to access care, and people from minority backgrounds. He is using a mixed methods approach to understand the role that technology-mediated mental health support systems (such as helplines, online support communities, or Google search results) play in helping connect individuals in distress with effective, culturally valid support as they journey upon a pathway to care.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra Teixeira Riggs\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Ph.D. student in Digital Media, advised by Anne Sullivan. One of Riggs\u2019s research projects, entitled \u201cButton Portraits: Embodying Queer History with Interactive Wearable Artifacts,\u201d is a wearable experience that explores Atlanta\u2019s queer history using artifacts from the Gender and Sexuality Collections at Georgia State University. The project uses archival buttons from the collection to reveal oral histories of two Southern queer activists, linking the activists\u2019 own objects to specific audio fragments.\u0026nbsp;As a case study, \u201cButton Portraits\u201d offers insights on how wearability, embodiment, and queer archival methods can shape the design and experience of tangible historical narratives and their ability to call for reflection on our relationships to archival materials and history.\u0026nbsp;By designing tangible experiences that center around queer community, history, and identity, she hopes to continue to express, loudly and proudly, that queer and trans people have always existed and will continue to exist, and that the design of technology, importantly, must center these histories, communities, and identities. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArianna Mastali\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u2019s student in Human-Computer Interaction, advised by Melody Jackson. Mastali has been working on a wearable activity and gait detection monitor for sled dogs and other canine athletes, called WAG\u2019D. During her last undergraduate semester, she discovered the field of animal-centered computing. The WAG\u2019D device consists of an IMU and a load cell and is focused on measuring gait anomalies\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eand pull force in order to minimize injuries within sled dog racing. Her research team conducted several interviews with mushers and veterinarians who have been a part of the Iditarod in order to learn about the most common injuries in sled dogs and the existing methods to detect them. This work has significance as it will not only help better detect injuries, but will help dog owners and veterinarians better monitor dogs in order to prevent injuries.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJosey Benandi\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u2019s student in Human-Computer Interaction, advised by Agata Rozga. Benandi is currently working on a project called the Care Coordination Study, which is funded by the AI-CARING Institute through the National Science Foundation. This project involves conducting qualitative research in the form of semi-structured interviews with people diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment and their informal caregivers, so that we may better understand how these folks manage their day-to-day activities, what challenges they face in doing so, and how they go about overcoming those challenges.\u0026nbsp;The Care Coordination Study has been a joint effort between myself, Dr. Agata Rozga, Dr. Tracy Mitzner, and other students, where Josey has taken the lead role in all research activities.\u0026nbsp;She is seeking to create a qualitative codebook of the findings\u0026nbsp;which will serve as a guide for other researchers within AI-CARING and beyond whose work may require precedent real-world data regarding the experiences of those diagnosed with and those coordinating care for those diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the James D. Foley Endowment\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/foley-endowment\u0022\u003EJames D. Foley Endowment\u003C\/a\u003E, established in 2007, is named for Dr. James D. Foley, professor and founder of the GVU Center (now integrated with IPaT as of January, 2023) at Georgia Tech. The award was established by Dr. Foley\u0027s colleagues and GVU alumni to honor his significant contributions in the field of computing, his influence on the work of others, and his dedication to the development of new research directions.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EFunds from the Foley Endowment are used to support the students and research activities of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), including the Foley Scholars Fellowships, awarded annually to two graduate students on the basis of personal vision, brilliance, and potential impact. Foley Scholars are selected by an advisory board comprised of alumni, current faculty, and industry partners during the fall semester.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWinners and finalists for the 2023 Foley Scholar Award were celebrated at Georgia Tech\u2019s hotel and convention center on October 30, 2023. The event was hosted by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E with its executive director, Michael Best, serving as the master of ceremonies as each finalist was recognized for their innovative research.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology. 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Then left-to-right are \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EArianna Mastali, Josey Benandi\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EKarthik Seetharama Bhat\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EArpit Narechania\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESachin Pendse\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E, and \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAlexandra Teixeira Riggs\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1698758117","gmt_created":"2023-10-31 13:15:17","changed":"1698758393","gmt_changed":"2023-10-31 13:19:53","alt":"Foley Scholar 2023 Finalists","file":{"fid":"255428","name":"Foley-Finalists-Group copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/31\/Foley-Finalists-Group%20copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/31\/Foley-Finalists-Group%20copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1627654,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/31\/Foley-Finalists-Group%20copy.png?itok=g0wMC87M"}}},"media_ids":["672221","672222"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"670598":{"#nid":"670598","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Aging With Disability Renews Grant","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn the United States, 46% of Americans 75 and older and 24% of those 65 to 74 report having a disability, according to estimates from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/data.census.gov\/table?q=disability\u0022\u003ECensus Bureau\u2019s 2021 American Community Survey\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EProjects associated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/techsage.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ERehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Technologies to Support Aging Among People With Long-Term Disabilities\u003C\/a\u003E, also known as \u201cTechSAge,\u201d are exploring the potential of technology to support people aging with disabilities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETechSAge recently received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research to support another five years of work \u2014 the project\u2019s third five-year grant.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWe aren\u2019t starting from scratch,\u201d said Elena Remillard, TechSAge project coordinator who also serves as the site principal investigator for Georgia Tech. \u201cOur team has spent years establishing an infrastructure of research resources, like our participant registry, building technology prototypes, and contributing to the limited knowledge base on aging with disability. We\u2019re ready to dive into the research.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETechSAge projects include a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/awarehome\/smartbathroom\/\u0022\u003ESmart Bathroom\u003C\/a\u003E developed to optimize the environment for safe transfers by individuals with limited mobility, a Zoom-based tai chi exercise program, fall detection devices for wheelchair users, robotic showers, wayfinding robots, and rehabilitation training programs.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe goal of TechSAge is to meet the needs of people aging with long-term disabilities where they live, work, and play by conducting advanced engineering research and developing innovative technologies. \u201cIt\u2019s about more than meeting basic needs at home,\u201d Remillard said. \u201cPeople with disabilities are living longer, working longer, and should be able to continue engaging in all the activities they need and want to do. We\u2019re developing user-centered tech solutions to support a wide range of everyday activities, from self-care to exercise.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETechSAge started at Georgia Tech 10 years ago, first led by Tech faculty members Jon Sanford, Wendy Rogers, and Tracy Mitzner as co-directors. Today, the RERC is a multi-site center including faculty from Georgia Tech, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Georgia State University. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe current project director is Laura Rice, associate professor of kinesiology and community health at Illinois. The leadership team includes Sanford, now research professor of occupational therapy at Georgia State; Rogers, now professor of kinesiology and community health at Illinois; Mitzner, principal research scientist at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.personindesign.com\/\u0022\u003EPerson in Design\u003C\/a\u003E; and Remillard, senior research scientist at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cidi.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Inclusive Design and Innovation\u003C\/a\u003E in the College of Design at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe research projects engage students at all levels, including undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs, and emphasize training in universal design and accessibility. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOver the last five years, the team has focused on ramping up their interventions and technology solutions to assist older adults with long-term disabilities. Sanford and Georgia Tech researcher Brian Jones have spearheaded the smart bathroom utilizing \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/awarehome\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Aware Home\u003C\/a\u003E, directed by Jones and supported by Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology. It is a three-story, 5,000-square-foot facility designed to facilitate research and develop innovations in a controlled home environment.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWe developed the smart bathroom to explore how the bathroom environment should automatically adjust to the changing needs of older adults with disabilities over the course of a day or the long term. That goal requires real-time measurement as a user approaches the bathroom and as they interact with the bathroom environment and fixtures during the process of transferring on and off the toilet, or into and out of the bathtub, or shower,\u201d said Jones.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cWe have instrumented the space with sensors in the floor, the toilet seat, and the grab bars used for toilet transfer or bathing. We have designed everything to allow for lots of flexibility in the environment, which allows users to adjust the fixtures to their preferences. The Aware Home at Georgia Tech is a valuable resource for this research. During this next phase of funding, we will advance our bathroom transfer studies while further automating the smart bathroom environment and repackage some of the components to move into real homes with a long-term goal of reducing falls.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn the United States, 46% of Americans 75 and older and 24% of those 65 to 74 report having a disability, according to estimates from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/data.census.gov\/table?q=disability\u0022\u003ECensus Bureau\u2019s 2021 American Community Survey\u003C\/a\u003E. Projects associated with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/techsage.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ERehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Technologies to Support Aging Among People With Long-Term Disabilities\u003C\/a\u003E, also known as \u201cTechSAge,\u201d are exploring the potential of technology to support people aging with disabilities. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETechSAge recently received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research to support another five years of work \u2014 the project\u2019s third five-year grant.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"TechSAge recently received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research to support another five years of work \u2014 the project\u2019s third five-year grant."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2023-10-23 17:50:26","changed_gmt":"2023-11-07 13:51:21","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672137":{"id":"672137","type":"image","title":"Smart Bathroom","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESmart Bathroom\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1698083544","gmt_created":"2023-10-23 17:52:24","changed":"1698083586","gmt_changed":"2023-10-23 17:53:06","alt":"Smart Bathroom","file":{"fid":"255325","name":"GT Aware Home_5 copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/23\/GT%20Aware%20Home_5%20copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/23\/GT%20Aware%20Home_5%20copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1416387,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/23\/GT%20Aware%20Home_5%20copy.png?itok=-goHlRVq"}},"672138":{"id":"672138","type":"image","title":"TechSAge Team Members","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETechSAge Team Members\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1698083674","gmt_created":"2023-10-23 17:54:34","changed":"1698083699","gmt_changed":"2023-10-23 17:54:59","alt":"TechSAge Team Members","file":{"fid":"255326","name":"TechSAge 3 rev copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/23\/TechSAge%203%20rev%20copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/23\/TechSAge%203%20rev%20copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":858214,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/23\/TechSAge%203%20rev%20copy.png?itok=4k4wt0yF"}}},"media_ids":["672137","672138"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"669931":{"#nid":"669931","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Morning With Walt Disney Animation Studios","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOn Sept. 22, representatives from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/disneyanimation.com\/\u0022\u003EWalt Disney Animation Studios\u003C\/a\u003E visited Georgia Tech to describe career opportunities available with the animation filmmaking division. The event was hosted by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E (IPaT)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ENicole M\u00e9ndez Dial, associate manager for school relations, and Erika Becerra, senior recruiter, both from Walt Disney Animation Studios, delivered career information about Disney in a panel format with four Georgia Tech faculty members who have expertise in animation and filmmaking. Joining Dial and Becerra were:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJohn Thornton, senior academic professional and director of film and media production, Ivan Allen College.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBrian Magerko, professor and director of graduate studies in digital media, Ivan Allen College.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMaribeth Coleman, Regents\u0027 Researcher and director of research, IPaT.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJay Bolter, professor and director of computational media, Ivan Allen College.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOpening remarks and introductions were delivered by Kelly Ritter, chair of the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Clint Zeagler, co-director of strategic partnerships with IPaT, ended the event with information and closing remarks.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe discussion started with interdisciplinary collaboration and the future of work in animation and film. It ended with detailed information about animation careers with Walt Disney Animation Studios, including computer graphics, animation, visual effects, storytelling, production, and technology. Disney also stressed the importance of attending SIGGRAPH, the international Association for Computing Machinery\u0027s special interest group on computer graphics and interactive techniques, which holds a major conference each year. Dial said that Disney\u2019s animation studios interact with the research community through global collaborations. Their publications can be found here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/disneyanimation.com\/publications\/\u0022\u003Edisneyanimation.com\/publications\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELocated in California, Walt Disney produced its first animated film, \u003Cem\u003ESnow White and the Seven Dwarfs\u003C\/em\u003E, in 1937. The studio is marking 100 years of animation filmmaking since its inception in 1923.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOn Sept. 22, representatives from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/disneyanimation.com\/\u0022\u003EWalt Disney Animation Studios\u003C\/a\u003E visited Georgia Tech to describe career opportunities available with the animation filmmaking division. 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Last year, Trent, a faculty member of IPaT and a computer science graduate of Georgia Tech, helped unveil the Craft Lab, Georgia Tech\u2019s newest makerspace \u2014 and one of several makerspaces he manages. The Craft Lab, located in the Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) Room 225B, is a unique makerspace that offers students hands-on industrial tools to delve into computational craft, e-textiles, and soft electronics. The equipment in the lab is particularly well-suited for wearable and flexible electronic systems and making soft goods. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe Craft Lab is a new makerspace launched during GVU\u2019s 30th anniversary. What is exciting to me is that we\u2019ve gathered crafting tools and industrial precision machines in a single location,\u201c said Trent. \u201cI have never seen a makerspace at Georgia Tech with the types of capabilities we have concentrated in our new lab.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETrent also supports the IPaT\/GVU prototyping lab. This lab houses 3D printers, a waterjet, CNC mills, CNC Router, saws, metal grinders, drill press, and other tools found in traditional makerspaces including surface-mount printed circuit board production and silk screening. The prototyping lab is located in the TSRB basement, Room S21.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe Craft Lab has industrial machines that can really help folks when they have gotten past the initial prototype stage of their research,\u201d said Trent. \u201cFor example, if someone needed to make 100 versions of something like sensor embedded clothing to deploy it, being able to have the speed and consistency of our industrial sewing machines could be critical to meet research timelines and prototype creation needs.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn addition to managing laboratories, Trent provides diverse operational support for IPaT that spans audiovisual services, website management and programming, and event support.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cTim is an asset to IPaT and the IPaT community. He never hesitates\u0026nbsp;to assist in any capacity,\u201d said Cynthia Moore, assistant director for business operations for IPaT.\u0026nbsp;\u201cDuring our annual Foley Scholars event, Tim was readily available and jumped in where needed, from assisting with A\/V needs to providing tours of IPaT\u0027s labs. As a research technologist, Tim has become the go-to person for all things lab support, A\/V needs, and so much more for IPaT.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cTim Trent and his research faculty colleagues at IPaT are a critical component of Georgia Tech\u2019s complex research enterprise,\u201d said Maribeth Gandy Coleman, director of research for IPaT and a Regents\u2019 Researcher. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThe mission of IPaT is to advocate for and support the use of human-centered techniques throughout the research life cycle. Toward this goal, IPaT provides a variety of core facilities and services for the campus community, which spans a wide array of disciplines. Tim\u2019s unique expertise lies at the intersection of technology, human computer interaction, and design coupled with many years of experience in research operations. This skill set allows him to support faculty and students throughout the human-centered design process of user experiences that involve the integration of computing devices with the physical world and objects. Tim helps researchers utilize our lab facilities to create a wide range of prototypes, starting with low fidelity prototypes using cardboards and paper all the way to systems ready for deployment with complex embedded hardware and tangible 3D components.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cHe is an experienced human computer interaction researcher, which means that he understands the methods employed by the IPaT community as well as the requirements of systems intended for scientific experiments. Tim\u2019s contributions to Georgia Tech research both catalyze new projects that otherwise might not be possible and amplify their impact, to the benefit of society,\u201d said Coleman.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETim Trent is known at Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) for his dedicated and enthusiastic research, operations, and makerspace support. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tim Trent is known at Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) for his dedicated and enthusiastic research, operations, and makerspace support. 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This large IPaT community event focused on people and technology, past and present, and kicked off with a GVU Brown Bag lecture presented by IPaT\u0027s new executive director, Michael Best. His talk was titled, \u201cConsidering IPaT: Celebrating the Past and Inventing the Future.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAfter the lecture, IPaT offered a tour of its labs, a panel discussion featuring distinguished members of the Georgia Tech community in a continuing discussion about people and technology, and ended with a high-spirited reception for guests and speakers. More than 115 people across Georgia Tech, Emory, and other organizations attended Best\u2019s talk delivered to this standing-room-only crowd in the first-floor ballroom in the Technology Square Research Building. This was followed by another large crowd that attended the panel discussion held later in the afternoon. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe panel discussion, focused on the future of people and technology, was moderated by Maribeth Gandy Coleman, director of research for IPaT and a Regents\u2019 Researcher. She is a computer scientist focused on developing novel and scientifically validated systems at the \u201chuman technology frontier\u201d designed for purposes such as training, rehabilitation, and cognitive therapy.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEight distinguished Georgia Tech faculty members across academic disciplines participated in the discussion:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGen. Philip Breedlove, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe and distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMargarita Gonzalez, principal researcher and senior technologist for digital innovation at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in the Information and Communications Lab.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETansu Celikel, chair of the School of Psychology, College of Sciences.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMatthew Gombolay, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELisa Marks, assistant professor in the School of Industrial Design, College of Design.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESabir Khan, associate professor and director of the Architecture International Education Program in the School of Architecture, College of Design.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EKirk Bowman, Regents\u0027 Entrepreneur and John R. Wilcox Term Professor of Global Development and Identity in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERuthie Yow, service learning and partnerships specialist, Serve-Learn-Sustain.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJulia Kubanek, Georgia Tech\u2019s vice president for Interdisciplinary Research, delivered closing remarks for the event.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConsidering IPaT: Celebrating the Past and Inventing the Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u201cThis is a really exciting time to be part of the IPaT family. What IPaT is doing in my estimation cannot be underestimated in terms of the intellectual promise and real-world impact,\u201d said Best. \u201cIn addition to IPaT moving to a brand-new space on campus, we\u2019ve also merged with the GVU Center, which has combined two intellectual and research powerhouses along with extraordinary communities where useful synergies and economies of scale will let us build not 1+1=2, but 1+1=20.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003EBest, who just started his first year as IPaT\u2019s executive director, is looking for ways to build on IPaT\u2019s strengths to make sure that Georgia Tech\u2019s interdisciplinary community is thinking about the people and technology nexus so that it\u2019s meaningful, creative, and fun when conducting research in partnership with IPaT.\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cThere is nothing out there, whether it\u0027s climate change or political upheaval, that do not have a profound people and technology interface,\u201d said Best. \u201cIf you care about global challenges and responding to them, IPaT is the place to be. This is where it\u0027s happening.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBest went on to connect his global perspective to responses to any global challenge. \u201cI\u0027m a professor in the Sam Nun School of International Affairs, I\u2019ve worked with the United Nations, and all of my research work prior to the pandemic occurred outside of the U.S. I\u0027m going to bring my global and international perspective to what I do as the executive director of IPaT. I think that there\u0027s an enormous amount of opportunity for building global engagements, especially if we\u2019re focusing on global challenges.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIPaT is one of 10 Georgia Tech interdisciplinary research institutes (IRI). The goal of these IRIs is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to address topics of strategic importance to Georgia Tech. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIPaT activities encompass industry and community partnership programs, industry engagement projects, and providing research infrastructure and laboratories. It also provides thought leadership, performs outreach and communication to the general public about research, provides research seed and engagement grants, and organizes symposiums and speaker events. This is in addition to the research engineers and scientists who also provide software design and development support.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPanelists Share Thoughts on the Future of People and Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMaribeth Gandy Coleman, director of research for IPaT, encouraged each panelist to share challenges or opportunities in the future related to people and technology. Here are some of the thoughts they shared:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EGen. Philip Breedlove recalled major advances in cockpit fighter technology ranging from better aircraft handling, new laser range targeting, and the arrival of night vision inside pilot helmets. He envisions artificial intelligence (AI) assisting fifth-generation aircraft fighter pilots by processing data from a myriad of sensors, synthesizing the data to the most important things, and displaying this information in a way that is immediately usable and visible to the pilot to fulfill the need for different types of missions. He also stated that sixth-generation fighter planes are probably being designed with new pilot-plane advancements further incorporating AI.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMargarita Gonzalez commented that although AI advances seem to be accelerating, AI cannot imitate human empathy, emotional understanding, human imagination, human intuition, and our human capacity to self-reflect. She \u003Cspan\u003Eacknowledged Peter-Paul Berbeek\u2019s work on technology mediation theory, and more broadly the morality of technology. \u003C\/span\u003EShe remarked, \u201cOne of the greatest challenges that we face is to holistically understand the implications of our technology-mediated existence.\u201d According to Gonzalez, \u201cThe future opportunity in the people and technology space is to update or upgrade our normative framework, the set of ethical principles and values that guide our behavior, and creative technology integration through our lives.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETansu Celikel said, \u201cwe\u2019re entering a new era where AI will be integrated into everything \u003Cspan\u003Eand it\u2019s time to start thinking about human AI core evolution.\u003C\/span\u003E\u201d He was referring to the cognitive evolutionary pressure for humans to be able to keep up with the additional AI intelligence that is emerging alongside human intelligence. He remarked that new cognition for humans and human-made devices will give rise to new technologies that will then become part of society and we\u2019ll need to be co-evolving with these advancements as a community.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMatthew Gombolay previously worked with the U.S. Navy to help improve ship defenses with decision support tools to help a naval tactical action officer decide what weapons and countermeasure defenses to deploy, along with when, where, and how, among a set of distributed ships to defend themselves against a raid of enemy anti-ship missiles. He stated, \u201cThere is actually no middle ground where a machine and the human are collaborating and communicating to decide what are my possible lifesaving options?\u201d He stressed that cultural factors, team factors, and profession-related factors influence decision-making in different settings. \u201cI think that we need to invest a lot in defining cultural-specific components for AI, and then enabling end users to actually be able to communicate with these systems and decide what is the most efficacious course of action and collaborate on making that happen.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ELisa Marks commented that the best invention humans have created was string. And the invention of string led to spindles and whorls, which became the basis for gears and pulleys, in combination with the invention of the loom, which became a basis for computation and computers. \u201cWhen I started working at Georgia Tech, I did not expect that my research in lace was going to go to outer space and the depths of the ocean,\u201d said Marks. She said that AI will be helping to create new, complex structures, such as coral building objects, or other objects with specific properties to help solve more of tomorrow\u2019s problems such as the loss of coral or the collection of space debris.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAccording to Sabir Khan, \u201cHistory is full of examples where technology was partly responsible for the destruction of people, cultures, and society.\u201d He said AI will be part of the future in warfare. He also said that we\u2019ll need to be more mindful of the intersection of society and technology as advancements are achieved. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EKirk Bowman emphasized that new technologies can empower one group over another and more inequality can result, such as the invention of barbed wire to separate or corral people. He also noted that new technology can help bridge inequality such as the use of Velcro, instead of pins, by female football players to help keep their head scarves attached to enable them to play in a world championship. He stressed that one of the opportunities that we have is think more deeply about whether local communities need a new technology or need, perhaps, a lower technology solution.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERuthie Yow said, \u201cIn our group, we imagine that communities are not people in places with problems, but rather they are people in places with gifts and strengths.\u201d She utilizes asset-based community development, which is about the identification of assets, the connection of assets, and the mobilization of assets in a local community. She recalled a project requiring seniors to interact with an app to help save home energy, but the problem was seniors couldn\u2019t use the app. The solution was to pair young people in the community with seniors to help them use the app. This intergenerational collaboration delivered many benefits to both the seniors and the teens and made a positive impact in the community. She sees future technology opportunities as a way to mobilize gifts and to draw together the strengths of communities.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJulia Kubanek closed the event by saying, \u201cOur goal [at Georgia Tech] is to be able to open our minds, use the imagination that technology does not bring us, immerse ourselves in an environment that\u0027s new to us, like the new communities that Ruthie deals with, and teach our students and ourselves how to think more critically to solve problems and make new discoveries.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EOn Aug. 24, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) sponsored its first fall program aptly named Considering People and Technology. This large IPaT community event focused on people and technology, past and present, and kicked off with a GVU Brown Bag lecture presented by IPaT\u0027s new executive director, Michael Best. His talk was titled, \u201cConsidering IPaT: Celebrating the Past and Inventing the Future.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On Aug. 24, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) sponsored its first fall program aptly named Considering People and Technology. 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As the first Interdisciplinary Research Institute executive director with a primary faculty appointment in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Best plans to build on IPaT\u2019s greatest strength: the reason that \u201cpeople\u201d come first in the institute\u2019s name.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIPaT is and will continue to be the heart and soul of Georgia Tech\u2019s research enterprise, bringing a human-centered approach to understanding the impact and potential of a very broad range of technological innovations,\u201d says Best. \u201cIt\u2019s the Interdisciplinary Research Institute that most robustly unites the humanitarians, policy experts, and social scientists of Ivan Allen College with designers, architects, artists, ethicists, scientists, and engineers.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhen IPaT brings together these different mindsets, each with an equal seat at the table, Best says, they can have the greatest possible impact on humanity\u2019s challenges. He cites the explosion of capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) \u2014 and the attendant problems that are also emerging \u2014 as one example of how this approach puts people at the center of any inquiry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe need to put the questions of responsible and sustainable AI first and foremost,\u201d he says. \u201cAny time we\u2019re thinking about the next deep learning algorithm, we need to have all the right people in the room \u2014 ethicists; policymakers; cultural anthropologists \u2014 experts capable of addressing the whole range of issues we\u2019re seeing.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnderstanding Challenges Around the Globe\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBest also believes that a global perspective, as well as getting out of the lab and into the field, are key to IPaT\u2019s future. He wants to expand the institute\u2019s international footprint. He has conducted most of his research outside the United States, primarily focusing on understanding the impact of information and communication technologies \u2014 such as mobile phones \u2014 on social, economic, and political development. He was also director of research for the Georgia Tech-Shenzhen campus and founding director of the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society in the People\u2019s Republic of China.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we try to solve our global challenges from a domestic, blinkered viewpoint, we actually won\u2019t solve them at all,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can\u2019t solve a global challenge without understanding the challenge from a global perspective.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile leading IPaT, Best will retain his appointment as a professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing, where he directs the Technologies and International Development Lab. He says that his students are always in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy students are conducting research, working with community partners, engaged with civil society or community-based organizations,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is always life-changing for them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Living Organization\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince its inception, IPaT has gained recognition for its work in health and assistive technologies, in addition to smart cities and infrastructure technology. Best sees IPaT\u2019s focus broadening to include human-centered approaches to a wider range of technological innovations in areas such as sustainability, entertainment and the arts, and others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn consultation with its stakeholders, faculty, and staff, IPaT will be looking to identify some of these new challenges and potential new directions over the next few months. Best expects they will look closely at areas where people and technology intersect with political and social justice issues.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Best\u2019s view, this is very much in keeping with IPaT\u2019s history and character.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIPaT is a living organization and always has been \u2014 rethinking, recommitting, and occasionally pivoting,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are identifying what the next generation of research challenges will be. We\u2019re a research community, and we know that every once in a while, you need to embrace a new question.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENote: The College of Computing\u0027s GVU Center merged with IPaT in 2023.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAs the first Interdisciplinary Research Institute executive director with a primary faculty appointment in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Best plans to build on the greatest strength of the Institute for People and Technology: the reason that \u201cpeople\u201d come first in its name.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"As the first Interdisciplinary Research Institute executive director with a primary faculty appointment in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Best plans to build on the greatest strength of the Institute for People and Technology: the reason that \u201cpe"}],"uid":"35777","created_gmt":"2023-08-10 15:09:35","changed_gmt":"2025-07-07 13:39:42","author":"Stephanie Kadel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-08-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671372":{"id":"671372","type":"image","title":"Michael Best, Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Best began his new role as executive director of the Institute for People and Technology on Aug. 1, 2023.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1691698765","gmt_created":"2023-08-10 20:19:25","changed":"1691698765","gmt_changed":"2023-08-10 20:19:25","alt":"Michael Best, executive director of the Institute for People and Technology, seated in a round chair.","file":{"fid":"254408","name":"Mike Best3647RTP (1).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/08\/10\/Mike%20Best3647RTP%20%281%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/08\/10\/Mike%20Best3647RTP%20%281%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":453255,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/08\/10\/Mike%20Best3647RTP%20%281%29.jpg?itok=e4Tgc8Df"}}},"media_ids":["671372"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/michael-best-selected-executive-director-institute-people-and-technology","title":"Michael Best Selected as Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology"}],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"907","name":"Michael Best"},{"id":"12888","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stephanie.kadel@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EStephanie N. 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Researchers from four Ivan Allen College units recently published research on various aspects of the pandemic response, from the importance of community responses and government emergency policies, to how information and communication technologies were affected by the pandemic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of these researchers, Salimah LaForce of the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), said it\u2019s clear that Covid-19 changed many aspects of our lives, and we need to continue studying those changes to prepare for an ever-more uncertain future.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Covid-19 pandemic ushered in a sea change for how we engage,\u201d LaForce said. \u201cIt\u2019s changed how we work and how we receive health services, even attitudes about the same. I think and hope, in some cases, that those changes are here to stay. So it\u2019s exceedingly important that we continue to evaluate the technology-mediated ways in which we engage with one another and our systems to understand the intended and unanticipated outcomes, and to develop strategies and policies to mitigate, if not eliminate, negative consequences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003EHere\u2019s a roundup of some of the pandemic-related research recently published by Ivan Allen College faculty:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EHow Ivan Allen College Researchers Helped Make Covid-19 Tests Better\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.ade4962\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Critical Role of Engineering in the Rapid Development of COVID-19 Diagnostics: Lessons from the RADx Tech Test Verification Core\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESarah Farmer and Amanda Peagler, research scientists, Center for Advanced Communications Policy\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFarmer and Peagler wrote this paper with authors from Georgia Tech and Emory University whose work involves evaluating Covid-19 tests under a federal grant. It details the characteristics of successful tests and the team\u2019s evaluation process as part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative. Georgia Tech and CACP\u2019s HomeLab were crucial partners in that effort.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers found three main characteristics led to the success of these diagnostic tests. They found that tests using samples from the nose were more likely to be approved because it is easier to process those samples than those taken from saliva or breath. They also found that tests using signals such as color changes or fluorescence to indicate results were more successful than tests using other methods. Finally, the most successful tests came from companies that considered manufacturing and human factors early in the design process \u2014 a particularly crucial consideration for Farmer, Peagler, and their colleagues in CACP.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe pandemic accelerated a shift in diagnostic testing. Previously, testing mainly occurred in clinics, hospitals, and labs. Now, testing happens where the patient is, in places such as clinics, schools, workplaces, and homes,\u201d Farmer said. \u201cAnyone can do these tests instead of just trained professionals. It\u2019s more important than ever to make the tests easy to use for all kinds of users and in all kinds of environments.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNow we need to make sure tests are more accessible, improve accuracy and speed, and incorporate detection of additional viruses such as flu and RSV. 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They analyzed data from more than 100 countries and found that\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Estrict\u202fpublic health policies\u202f\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ewith stringent mobility restrictions\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Esuch as lockdowns and travel restrictions\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E increased \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ehousehold financial worrie\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Es. 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Sciences\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E Research called \u201cTechnological \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EInnovations in Response to \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECovid\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E-19.\u201d\u202f\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe chapter focuses on the social implications of the rapid adoption of 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It discussed how the transition to online learning placed a heavy burden on caregivers who were unable to offer sufficient assistance due to work schedules, lack of familiarity with technology, and other related challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan lang=\u0022EN-US\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201c\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EWhen we add an ever-increasing reliance on technology, digital inequity, and a pandemic that forced a massive, overnight migration to online education, inevitably, some students were left behind\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u201d LaForce said. \u201cT\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Ehis was despite law and policy already in place to prevent the expansion of educational disparities and the homework gap. In fact, they were magnified. So\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E my question was\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E how can technology be both the problem and the solution? And \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eh\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eow can we effectively implement ed\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eucation \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Etech\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Enology\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E solutions that are\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E \u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eappropriate for\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E all students and their supporters?\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA look at some recent research on Covid-19 policies from Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A look at some recent research on Covid-19 policies from Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2023-06-16 13:20:33","changed_gmt":"2023-06-26 15:22:54","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"670986":{"id":"670986","type":"image","title":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty continue to research the Covid-19 pandemic looking for ways public policy can help reduce suffering from the next pandemic.","body":"\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty continue to research the Covid-19 pandemic looking for ways public policy can help reduce suffering from the next pandemic. 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The event provides Ph.D. and master\u2019s students with the chance to promote their research and design work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA keynote speech by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.incontextdesign.com\/karen-holtzblatt-3\/\u0022\u003EKaren Holtzblatt\u003C\/a\u003E, co-founder of InContext Enterprises and co-creator of contextual inquiry, kicked off the half-day event. Contextual inquiry is considered industry standard practice for gathering field data to understand how technology impacts the way people work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter the keynote, MS-HCI students made one-minute pitches about their work to industry representatives for potential employment opportunities. Along with Ph.D. students representing IPaT, the MS-HCI students then showcased their research through a two-hour poster and networking session.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think this event is unique,\u201d said Dick Henneman, director of the MS-HCI program at Georgia Tech. \u201cOther programs might have a job fair, but our students are making connections with alumni and other company-sponsored projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRight now, there\u2019s a bit of a slump in the tech market. Our students have something unique that sets them apart, and that\u2019s being from our MS-HCI program, which distinguishes them from the person who went to a 12-week UX bootcamp.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECompanies participating in Interactivity@GT included Starbucks, Cox Enterprises, Delta Air Lines, FanDuel, HSBC, NCR, State Farm, Infoblox Home Depot, and Verizon.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECarrie Bruce, the assistant director of the MS-HCI program, said the program has built a strong network of connections since it started almost 30 years ago. MS-HCI alumni have provided a stable core for that network.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019ve pushed out a lot of fabulous students who\u2019ve been in industry for 10 years or more, and now they\u2019re in leadership positions,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got people who know our program from varied perspectives at companies around the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPai said he connected with an MS-HCI alumni working at Starbucks who was happy to advise him on his first-year research project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShe gave us some much-needed industry feedback and guided us on how we\u2019re supposed to do something or what we could have done better,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking with the alumna, Pai gained insight into how Starbucks customers think about their environment when they\u2019re using the app. Pai found that many customers use the app to order items they are already familiar with, and they are unlikely to deviate from their routine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPai suggested the idea of drink maps, which tell customers which menu items are trending at nearby stores. Seeing a drink they haven\u2019t tried trending at other stores might persuade customers to try something new.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe experience gives us immediate insight into what is expected of us in industry,\u201d Pai said. \u201cWe\u2019re learning the methods in class but also learning how they are applied in industry, which helps us to build things and processes that would work in industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe MS-HCI program at Georgia Tech is a four-semester interdisciplinary program and a collaborative effort among four Georgia Tech schools \u2014 the School of Interactive Computing, the School of Industrial Design, the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and the School of Psychology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the program and the admission process, visit the MS-HCI\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mshci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/interactivitygt-offers-networking-opportunities-ms-hciipat-students\u0022\u003EVisit the original story posted by the College of Computing to see more pictures.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThrough the Master\u2019s Program in Human-Computer Interaction (MS-HCI) at Georgia Tech, students like Rajath Pai don\u2019t have to wait long to gain first-hand industry experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Through the Master\u2019s Program in Human-Computer Interaction (MS-HCI) at Georgia Tech, students like Rajath Pai don\u2019t have to wait long to gain first-hand industry experience."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-02-13 21:25:32","changed_gmt":"2024-02-13 21:30:17","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-02-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673071":{"id":"673071","type":"image","title":"Rajath Pai","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPai, a first-year student in the two-year MS-HCI program, has already helped Starbucks design its app to entice customers to try new menu items.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1707859381","gmt_created":"2024-02-13 21:23:01","changed":"1707859470","gmt_changed":"2024-02-13 21:24:30","alt":"Rajath Pai","file":{"fid":"256424","name":"IMG_2598 copy 2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/02\/13\/IMG_2598%20copy%202.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/02\/13\/IMG_2598%20copy%202.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":53471,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/02\/13\/IMG_2598%20copy%202.jpg?itok=f7yxnUK4"}}},"media_ids":["673071"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"673070":{"#nid":"673070","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Earn $1.8M to Increase Air Pollution Data Literacy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers Jessica Roberts, Alex Endert, and Jayma Koval earned a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to boost their efforts in promoting air pollution data literacy among middle school students and the public.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe grant will fund the researchers\u2019 top two projects \u2014 designing and installing a public information kiosk and organizing a summer camp that uses environmental data to teach data literacy to middle schoolers.\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAir Quality Index (AQI) data that is readily available helps people decide whether it\u2019s safe for a morning jog or to send their kids outside to play. However, the researchers want to help people understand the big picture.\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe AQI is good for helping make just-in-time decisions,\u201d said Roberts, an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing who researches how technology influences social learning experiences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cIt doesn\u2019t help us think about what\u2019s causing all this. \u2018How can I allocate my resources toward pollution mitigation efforts? What should I do as far as where I live and the situation around me?\u2019\u201d\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EData visualization provides perspective\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERoberts said most people know enough about AQI that they understand safe and dangerous levels, which helps them in the present. However, environmental and air quality data that provides insight into long-term trends and solutions tends to be more complex.\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are a lot of questions about how to get from this AQI value \u2014 this little number on your phone \u2014 to all the complex online data repositories that are available,\u201d she said. \u201cAir quality sensors spit out data all the time, but people don\u2019t know how to access them. There\u2019s nothing that bridges this simple number with these complex numbers.\u201d\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo solve this problem, Roberts approached Endert, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing and faculty member of the Institute for People and Technology, who designs interactive visualization tools that make data more understandable.\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat excites me about this project is that it allows people to reason about their data through the visualization of air quality and places where they live and allows them to ask questions,\u201d Endert said. \u201c\u2018Why is it worse over here but not as bad where I live? What\u2019s causing that? 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However, Georgia Tech researchers and marine biologists from the Wild Dolphin Project have been swimming with the two for more than a decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Wild Dolphin Project is the world\u2019s longest-running underwater dolphin research project, and this week, the organization is celebrating its 40th anniversary.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is marking the occasion with a\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/YhopeQKbpZA?si=MEbiZvycODcfK6eA\u0022\u003Efun and engaging video illustrating the interactive computing technology its researchers have created to help marine biologists\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Estudying dolphin behavior and communication in the open ocean.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EReferred to as the \u201cJane Goodall of the sea\u201d by National Geographic, Denise Herzing is the founder and research director of the\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wilddolphinproject.org\/\u0022\u003EWild Dolphin Project\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E. She and Georgia Tech College of Computing Professor Thad Starner began collaborating in 2011 on interactive technologies to aid the project\u2019s study of a specific pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESee how Scott\u003C\/span\u003E Gilliland, \u003Cspan\u003Esenior research scientist in Georgia Tech\u0027s Institute for People and Technology, is supporting their research as he demonstrates the CHAT (cetacean hearing augmented telemetry) device.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/video-illustrates-interactive-tech-created-help-understand-dolphin-communication\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERead the full article and view the video from the College of Computing \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EComputers and dolphins don\u2019t typically occupy the same space. 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Founded in 2007, the competition is organized by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E (IPaT) and has been sponsored in the past by AT\u0026amp;T, Verizon, Google, Cisco, Siemens, Panasonic, NTT, and other companies.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECIC aims to build entrepreneurial confidence, people-centered mindsets, and encourage innovation while responding to today\u2019s global challenges and opportunities. Innovative projects in the contest are expected to align with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\u0022\u003E17 United Nations sustainability goals\u003C\/a\u003E and can fall within \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/research\u0022\u003EIPaT\u2019s current research focus areas\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cIt seemed only natural that the Convergence Innovation Competition would one day expand beyond our campus walls,\u201d said Michael Best, executive director of IPaT and professor with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. \u201cGeorgia Tech attracts talent across the world and our researchers collaborate with many international institutions and faculty. With the Asian expansion of CIC, we are creating a competition where global teams can tackle global challenges, showcasing meaningful innovations which align with IPaT\u2019s people-centered research.\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDuring his most recent and very tightly scheduled Asian innovation competition roadshow tour this spring, Best visited Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Ze University in Taiwan; Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Universiti Malaya, Multimedia University, and Universiti Putra in Malaysia; and King Mongkut\u0027s University of Technology North Bangkok in Thailand.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAll of these universities were excited to partner with Georgia Tech and be among the first southeast Asian anchor universities to help sponsor and support the competition according to Best who is also a professor in the School of Interactive Computing. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBest was specifically seeking to identify faculty fellows at each university who would be responsible for advertising the CIC Asia opportunity among students at their university, encouraging team submissions, while also providing advice and mentorship to participating student teams.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAs added support, the Shenzhen Georgia Tech Education Foundation is helping to organize this year\u2019s competition with the assistance of Shelton Chan, managing director of the foundation. \u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ECIC semi-finalists will receive travel support to attend a gala competition on December 7th in Taiwan. The finalist will go on to receive travel support to visit innovation events and engage with entrepreneurship programs at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. In addition, the semi-finalist teams will receive $1,000 while the finalist team will receive $2,000 to help launch their ideas.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EDetailed information about this year\u2019s Asian Convergence Innovation Competition can be found here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/cic\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/cic\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/cic\u0022\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/a\u003E (CIC), one of Georgia Tech\u2019s oldest and most storied innovation competitions, is expanding to five Asian countries.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC), one of Georgia Tech\u2019s oldest and most storied innovation competitions, is expanding to five Asian countries."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-04-04 14:13:06","changed_gmt":"2024-04-04 14:14:17","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673611":{"id":"673611","type":"image","title":"Andri Andriyana","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EMichael Best with professor Andri Andriyana, director, International Relations Centre at the Universiti Malaya.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1712239709","gmt_created":"2024-04-04 14:08:29","changed":"1712239780","gmt_changed":"2024-04-04 14:09:40","alt":"Michael Best with professor Andri Andriyana, director, International Relations Centre at the Universiti Malaya.","file":{"fid":"257027","name":"Mike-and-Andri-Andriyana-copy-v2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/04\/Mike-and-Andri-Andriyana-copy-v2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/04\/Mike-and-Andri-Andriyana-copy-v2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":98273,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/04\/Mike-and-Andri-Andriyana-copy-v2.jpg?itok=zer9x1qY"}},"673612":{"id":"673612","type":"image","title":"Shelton Chan","body":"\u003Cp\u003EShelton Chan, managing director of the Shenzhen Georgia Tech Education Foundation, with Michael Best\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1712239812","gmt_created":"2024-04-04 14:10:12","changed":"1712239922","gmt_changed":"2024-04-04 14:12:02","alt":"Shelton Chan, managing director of the Shenzhen Georgia Tech Education Foundation, with Michael Best","file":{"fid":"257028","name":"Shelton-and-Mike.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/04\/Shelton-and-Mike.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/04\/Shelton-and-Mike.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":220802,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/04\/Shelton-and-Mike.jpeg?itok=tz5qdD4e"}}},"media_ids":["673611","673612"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674165":{"#nid":"674165","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researcher to Advise WHO on Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new initiative to raise global awareness of loneliness and social isolation and to reduce their impact.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo stay informed by global experts as it plans potential policies on the subject, the WHO has created the \u003Cstrong\u003ETechnical Advisory Group on Social Connection\u003C\/strong\u003E (TAG-SC). The 20-member committee will serve as an advisory body to guide the WHO on how it can increase political visibility, measure the extent of the problem, and identify effective interventions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMunmun De Choudhury, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, is one of three U.S. experts on the internationally diverse committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDe Choudhury is renowned for her research on the role of social media and how it shapes and influences mental health. She will serve a two-year term on the advisory group, providing insight to the TAG-SC on how social media and other technologies can affect loneliness and social connection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTAGs are the highest level of technical advisors at WHO and are noted to wield significant power as an independent body in shaping evidence-based policies and reforms on issues threatening global health,\u201d De Choudhury said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy involvement will center around how social media use relates to mental health and well-being outcomes, spanning varied populations, platforms, and cultural contexts, including the Global North and the Global South.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe advisory group\u2019s findings will be part of a report that the WHO shares with its member states and partners. The report could guide relevant discussions within the United Nations General Assembly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re thinking about this question on a global stage, and an organization like WHO can help make this a global focus,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s an issue that is of significance everywhere in the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe WHO estimates that loneliness and social isolation can increase the risk of mortality by 14-32%, which is on par with other well-known risk factors such as smoking and excessive drinking. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe harmful effects of loneliness are not just harmful mentally, but there are physical health aspects,\u201d De Choudhury said. \u201cStudies have shown that people who felt lonely have shorter life spans than those who felt supported.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is an increased risk of things like cardiovascular disease or stroke, and suicide rates are also higher. To ensure our society wants to feel good and healthy, we must tackle this as a problem.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe TAG-SC will advise the Secretariat of the WHO Commission on Social Connection, which comprises two co-chairs and nine commissioners tasked with making the harms of social isolation and loneliness a global health priority.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDe Choudhury said the first step for TAG-SC is to measure the global impact of loneliness. They will do this by developing culturally aware measurement tools to assess the problem in different parts of the world. The process will inform any research, data collection initiatives, or interventions WHO may recommend.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo take on this challenge, we must figure out the extent of the problem,\u201d she said. \u201cBefore we can collect any data or identify potential mitigation strategies, we need to know what we should be measuring, and that\u2019s where this committee plays a role.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis recognition is the second major committee appointment De Choudhury has received in the last two years. She recently advised the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) on a 250-page report in December detailing \u003Cstrong\u003Esocial media\u2019s impact on the health of adolescents and children\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhoto by Terence Rushin\/College of Computing.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.who.int\/groups\/commission-on-social-connection\u0022\u003Einitiative\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to raise global awareness of loneliness and social isolation and to reduce their impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new initiative to raise global awareness of loneliness and social isolation and to reduce their impact."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-04-12 15:09:54","changed_gmt":"2024-04-12 15:12:48","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673698":{"id":"673698","type":"image","title":"Munmun De Choudhury","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMunmun De Choudhury, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, is one of three U.S. experts on the internationally diverse committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1712934479","gmt_created":"2024-04-12 15:07:59","changed":"1712934507","gmt_changed":"2024-04-12 15:08:27","alt":"Munmun De Choudhury","file":{"fid":"257127","name":"EECS_86A9182-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/12\/EECS_86A9182-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/12\/EECS_86A9182-Enhanced-NR.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40998,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/12\/EECS_86A9182-Enhanced-NR.jpg?itok=bhuMZLTb"}}},"media_ids":["673698"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan Deen\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ndeen6@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674185":{"#nid":"674185","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Safe and Secure Elections Require Interdisciplinary Collaboration","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs nearly half of the world\u2019s voting population heads to the polls this year, technology\u2019s impact on elections will be front and center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a complex issue that is, unfortunately, awash in misunderstanding and misinformation. What\u2019s more, according to Richard DeMillo, professor and founder of the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) at Georgia Tech, there is a tendency in technology fields to hyperfocus on technical problems at the expense of complex social realities. \u201cThere are famous mathematicians who trained their students to not worry about the real world,\u201d DeMillo says. \u201cBut the real world has a way of intruding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a new dean at Georgia Tech in the early 2000s, DeMillo saw voting technology burst into national headlines after the highly contested presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. 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"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-04-15 18:19:28","changed_gmt":"2024-04-15 18:20:11","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-04-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673709":{"id":"673709","type":"image","title":"Voting","body":null,"created":"1713204933","gmt_created":"2024-04-15 18:15:33","changed":"1713204961","gmt_changed":"2024-04-15 18:16:01","alt":"Voting","file":{"fid":"257138","name":"iStock-1203196311 copy-smaller.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/15\/iStock-1203196311%20copy-smaller.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/15\/iStock-1203196311%20copy-smaller.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1324563,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/15\/iStock-1203196311%20copy-smaller.jpg?itok=YN6iox4f"}}},"media_ids":["673709"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674213":{"#nid":"674213","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NSF Award to Launch Study of How Older Adults Interact With Robots","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith the number of older adults in the U.S. population rising and straining the systems in place to take care of them, Matthew Gombolay sees a solution \u2014 robots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGombolay received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for research that could make assistive robots the standard of care for older adults. 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Gombolay will then use that data to create algorithms that can be deployed in assistive robots and understand the needs of older adults.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/nsf-award-launch-study-how-older-adults-interact-robots\u0022\u003EREAD MORE \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith the number of older adults in the U.S. population rising and straining the systems in place to take care of them, Matthew Gombolay sees a solution \u2014 robots.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"With the number of older adults in the U.S. population rising and straining the systems in place to take care of them, Matthew Gombolay sees a solution \u2014 robots."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-04-16 17:41:58","changed_gmt":"2024-04-16 17:42:44","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673723":{"id":"673723","type":"image","title":"Matthew Gombolay","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMatthew Gombolay\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1713289197","gmt_created":"2024-04-16 17:39:57","changed":"1713289215","gmt_changed":"2024-04-16 17:40:15","alt":"Matthew Gombolay","file":{"fid":"257152","name":"Matthew Gombolay.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/16\/Matthew%20Gombolay.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/04\/16\/Matthew%20Gombolay.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":34244,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/04\/16\/Matthew%20Gombolay.jpg?itok=tnxYNFqN"}}},"media_ids":["673723"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"674266":{"#nid":"674266","#data":{"type":"news","title":"L[ux] Lab Hosts Medical Device Usability Study","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ethos-medical.com\/\u0022\u003EEthos Medical\u003C\/a\u003E recently made use of the College of Design\u2019s L[ux] Lab to conduct a usability study of its needle guidance system prototype. Founded by Georgia Tech students (now alumni), Ethos Medical won the 2019 Georgia Tech InVenture Prize for their first-of-its-kind medical device.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUsing ultrasound imaging technology coupled with a custom-built guidance tool, they invented a guidance system to help physicians navigate needles into the spine accurately and safely. In 2020, they were awarded a Phase I grant from the National Science Foundation\u2019s Small Business Innovation Research program, followed by a Phase II grant in 2021.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEthos Medical\u2019s co-founders Cassidy Wang, CEO, and Lucas Muller, CTO, personally oversaw the study held in the Technology Square Research Building lab space, working with physicians from local hospitals to better understand the human factors of their novel device.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe study was designed and moderated by Maureen Carroll and Stephen Jones of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.creaturellc.com\/\u0022\u003ECreature\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.creaturellc.com\/\u0022\u003Ean award-winning industrial design firm based in Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCreature and our engineering partner, Enginuity Works, are working to improve the design, human factors, and usability of the system. By using the L[ux] Lab and bringing in emergency room doctors, we can observe physicians using the system and evaluate how well our system integrates with their work process,\u201d said Carroll, founder of Creature.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESeveral Georgia Tech students from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/simtigrate.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESimTigrate Design Lab\u003C\/a\u003E were also present, gaining hands-on experience with the planning and execution of such a study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPart of the study\u2019s goals are to assess how emergency room clinicians may adapt their existing workflow for performing lumbar punctures to one that incorporates this new needle guidance system while considering realistic procedural and safety constraints. A second goal is to evaluate the ability of clinicians to accomplish specific tasks that require interaction with the user interfaces of the system and identify interfaces and interactions that they perceive to be unintuitive or difficult to perform.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe L[ux] Lab, part of the SimTigrate Design Lab space, is an interdisciplinary research lab using evidence-based design to improve the medical experience for patients and providers. SimTigrate \u2013 combining concepts of simulation and integration \u2013 grew out of the Healthy Environments Research Group which involved Georgia Tech and Emory University with the goal of improving healthcare outcomes. The lab is affiliated with the Georgia Tech College of Design and is led by Jennifer DuBose, executive director of the SimTigrate Design Lab and principal research associate in the College of Design.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re fortunate that the L[ux] Lab\u2019s simulated clinical environment is so conducive to medical device usability testing, and we\u2019re grateful for all the support shown by Jennifer and the rest of the folks at SimTigrate,\u201d said Wang, CEO of Ethos Medical. \u201cWe\u2019ve already begun making improvements to address the friction points discovered during the clinicians\u2019 hands-on interactions. We\u2019re also seeing that many of these practitioners are excited about the capabilities our device brings to the point of care, both for lumbar punctures and beyond!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ethos-medical.com\/\u0022\u003EEthos Medical\u003C\/a\u003E recently made use of the College of Design\u2019s L[ux] Lab to conduct a usability study of its needle guidance system prototype.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ethos Medical recently made use of the College of Design\u2019s L[ux] Lab to conduct a usability study of its needle guidance system prototype. 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But, as consumer purchases of EVs have slowed, car makers have backtracked on planned EV manufacturing investments. A major roadblock to wider EV adoption remains the lack of a fully realized charging infrastructure. At just under 51,000 public charging stations nationwide, and sizeable gaps between urban and rural areas, this inconsistency is a major driver of buyer hesitance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHow do we understand, at a large scale, ways to make it easier for consumers to have confidence in public infrastructure? That is a major issue holding back electrification for many consumer segments.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003E- Omar Asensio, Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School | Director, Data Science \u0026amp; Policy Lab\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOmar Asensio, associate professor in the School of Public Policy and director of the Data Science and Policy Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his team have been working to solve this trust issue using the Microsoft CloudHub partnership resources. Asensio is also currently a visiting fellow with the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society at the Harvard Business School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CloudHub partnership gave the Asensio team access to Microsoft\u2019s Azure OpenAI to sift through vast amounts of data collected from different sources to identify relevant connections. Asensio\u2019s team needed to know if AI could understand purchaser sentiment as negative within a population with an internal lingo outside of the general consumer population. Early results yielded little. The team then used specific example data collected from EV enthusiasts to train the AI for a sentiment classification accuracy that now exceeds that of human experts and data parsed from government-funded surveys.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe use of trained AI promises to expedite industry response to consumer sentiment at a much lower cost than previously possible. \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing with Azure is a lot more scalable,\u201d Asensio said. \u201cWe hit a button, and within five to 10 minutes, we had classified all the U.S. data. Then I had my students look at performance in Europe, with urban and non-urban areas. Most recently, we aggregated evidence of stations across East and Southeast Asia, and we used machine learning to translate the data in 72 detected languages.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWe are excited to see how access to compute and AI models is accelerating research and having an impact on important societal issues. Omar\u0027s research sheds new light on the gaps in electric vehicle infrastructure and AI enables them to effectively scale their analysis not only in the U.S. but globally.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E- Elizabeth Bruce, Director, Technology for Fundamental Rights, Microsoft\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAsensio\u0027s pioneering work illustrates the interdisciplinary nature of today\u2019s research environment, from machine learning models predicting problems to assisting in improving EV infrastructure. The team is planning on applying the technique to datasets next, to address access concerns and reduce the number of \u201ccharging deserts.\u201d The findings could lead to the creation of policies that help in the adoption of EVs in infrastructure-lacking regions for a true automotive electrification revolution and long-term environmental sustainability in the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Christa M. 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The program offers virtual classes in computer science to help develop career pathways by exposing high school students to critical areas such as coding, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, sensors, and data visualization. The program is funded by the Georgia General Assembly.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative, launched in 2022, includes 16 school districts, 19 high schools, and has taught 1,329 students. Continued growth of the program is expected in 2024 as the number of districts participating will grow to 24 school districts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program is run by Lizanne DeStefano, director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECEISMC\u003C\/a\u003E), and Leigh McCook, director with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRI). There are now thirteen Georgia Tech employees supporting the program across CEISMC, GTRI, and IPaT.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe meeting was designed to gather feedback and envision future directions to make the program even more successful.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn March 25-26, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) hosted the spring gathering of rural Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in a state funded program to help high schoolers learn computer programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On March 25-26, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) hosted the spring gathering of rural Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in a state funded program to help high schoolers learn computer programming. 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The summer program is an opportunity for students wanting real-world experience related to research and community engagement. For 2024, the internship program duration is 12 weeks (May 13th to August 2nd) and all Georgia Tech students were invited to apply. This year\u2019s summer interns will receive up to $7,000 for a full-time internship paid bi-weekly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe seven selected Georgia Tech students for IPaT\u2019s 2024 summer research internship program, and projects, and their research mentors are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESameer Arora\u003C\/strong\u003E, a computer science sophomore, who will work with Peter Presti, senior research scientist, on the prolonged exposure therapy iOS mobile app.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESiddharth Jain\u003C\/strong\u003E, undergraduate student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeongjin Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E, an electrical engineering sophomore, who will work with Celeste Mason, research scientist, on a passive haptic learning and rehabilitation project.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENathan Lin\u003C\/strong\u003E, a computational media senior, who will work with Peter Presti and Brian Jones, principal research scientist, on the Aware Home smart bathroom project.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrace Littler\u003C\/strong\u003E, an architecture undergraduate, who will work with Jennifer DuBose, executive director of the SimTigrate Design Lab. 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Joseph N. Boakai, the 26th president of the Republic of Liberia, attended along with a Liberian delegation and representatives from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ucliberia.com\/\u0022\u003EUniversity Consortium for Liberia\u003C\/a\u003E (UCL). The UCL provides scholarships, facilitates student exchange programs, study abroad opportunities, and service-learning initiatives between Liberia and partner organizations worldwide. This was President Boakai\u2019s first official visit to the U.S. since becoming president in January.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEducation is the key to building a successful nation, and Georgia Tech is making great research and academic contributions to the Republic of Liberia and to the world,\u201d said President Boakai. \u201cThe OMSCS fellowship program will provide the people of Liberia with an additional opportunity to benefit from this relationship and help advance our country.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe OMSCS program, where coursework is done asynchronously, is one of Tech\u2019s most successful global degree programs and is designed for students seeking a top-ranked degree with the flexibility to fit their studies around work and family commitments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe purpose of the president\u2019s visit was to thank assembled UCL members for their partnership in Liberia\u2019s post-conflict development. In addition to Georgia Tech leadership, UCL members from Clark Atlanta University, Kennesaw State University, Fort Valley State University, Savannah State University, and the University of Georgia were also in attendance, along with Cynthia Blandford, UCL president.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBest, who also serves as a professor with Tech\u2019s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and School of Interactive Computing, has a longstanding relationship with Liberia. His involvement began in 2005, just two years after the end of their civil war. His research focuses on information and communication technologies for social, economic, and political advancement.\u0026nbsp;In Liberia, he has partnered in the development of their national information and communications technology and telecommunications policy, created and deployed technology-focused workforce development programs, outfitted computer facilities for public sector units, helped found the iLab Liberia technology and innovation hub, and developed novel digital systems to support that country\u2019s post-conflict healing and reconciliation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPresident Boakai\u2019s visit to Georgia Tech, just four months into his administration, underscores our deep ties and lasting partnership,\u201d said Best. \u201cThese new OMSCS fellowships were received with remarkable enthusiasm, demonstrating that the relationship between the Republic of Liberia and Georgia Tech continues to flourish.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E (IPaT) and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E have announced the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (\u003Ca\u003EOMSCS\u003C\/a\u003E) fellowship for students and faculty at the University of Liberia.\u0026nbsp;These fellowships cover full tuition for the degree program.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and the College of Computing have announced the Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) fellowship for students and faculty at the University of Liberia. 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The shock of his father going from no signs of illness to gone forever developed into a quest for medical answers that might keep other families from experiencing the pain and loss his family did \u2014 or at least making it less likely to happen.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYeo\u2019s own research and schooling in college pointed out a big problem when it comes to issues with sleep and how our bodies\u2019 systems perform \u2014 data. He became determined to invent a way to give medical doctors better information that would allow them to spot a problem like his father\u2019s before it became life-threatening.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis answer: a type of wearable sleep data system. Now very close to being commercially available, Yeo\u2019s device comes after years of working on the materials and electronics for an easy-to-wear, comfortable mask that can gather data about sleep over multiple days or even weeks, allowing doctors to catch sporadic heart problems or other issues. Different from some of the bulky devices with straps and cords currently available for at-home heart monitoring, it offers the bonuses of ease of use and comfort, ensuring little to no alteration to users\u2019 bedtime routine or wear. This means researchers can collect data from sleep patterns that are as close to normal sleep as possible.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMost of the time now, gathering sleep data means the patient must come to a lab or hospital for sleep monitoring. Of course, it\u2019s less comfortable than home, and the devices patients must wear make it even less so. Also, the process is expensive, so it\u2019s rare to get multiple nights of data,\u201d says Audrey Duarte, University of Texas human memory researcher.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuarte has been working with Yeo on this system for more than 10 years. 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Chandra and Jin point out\u0026nbsp;the limitations of LLMs for users and developers but also highlight their potential.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir XLingEval framework cautions non-English speakers from using chatbots as alternatives to doctors for advice. However, models can improve by deepening the data pool with multilingual source material such as their proposed XLingHealth benchmark.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFor users, our research supports what ChatGPT\u2019s website already states: chatbots make a lot of mistakes, so we should not rely on them for critical decision-making or for information that requires high accuracy,\u201d Jin said.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSince we observed this language disparity in their performance, LLM developers should focus on improving accuracy, correctness, consistency, and reliability in other languages,\u201d Jin said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing XLingEval, the researchers found chatbots are less accurate in Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi compared to English. By focusing on correctness, consistency, and verifiability, they discovered:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECorrectness decreased by 18% when the same questions were asked in Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnswers in non-English were 29% less consistent than their English counterparts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENon-English responses were 13% overall less verifiable.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EXLingHealth contains question-answer pairs that chatbots can reference, which the group hopes will spark improvement within LLMs. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe HealthQA dataset uses specialized healthcare articles from the popular healthcare website\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPatient\u003C\/em\u003E. It includes 1,134 health-related question-answer pairs as excerpts from original articles.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELiveQA is a second dataset containing 246 question-answer pairs constructed from frequently asked questions (FAQs) platforms associated with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor drug-related questions, the group built a MedicationQA component. This dataset contains 690 questions extracted from anonymous consumer queries submitted to MedlinePlus. The answers are sourced from medical references, such as MedlinePlus and DailyMed.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their tests, the researchers asked over 2,000 medical-related questions to ChatGPT-3.5 and MedAlpaca. MedAlpaca is a healthcare question-answer chatbot trained in medical literature. Yet, more than 67% of its responses to non-English questions were irrelevant or contradictory.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe see far worse performance in the case of MedAlpaca than ChatGPT,\u201d Chandra said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe majority of the data for MedAlpaca is in English, so it struggled to answer queries in non-English languages. GPT also struggled, but it performed much better than MedAlpaca because it had some sort of training data in other languages.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGaurav Verma\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and postdoctoral researcher\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/snowood1.github.io\/\u0022\u003EYibo Hu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;co-authored the paper.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJin and Verma study under\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~srijan\/\u0022\u003ESrijan Kumar\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering, and Hu is a postdoc in Kumar\u2019s lab. Chandra is advised by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/strong\u003E, an associate professor in the\u0026nbsp;School of Interactive Computing.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EThe team will present their paper at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www2024.thewebconf.org\/\u0022\u003EThe Web Conference\u003C\/a\u003E, occurring May 13-17 in Singapore. The annual conference focuses on the future direction of the internet. The group\u2019s presentation is a complimentary match, considering the conference\u0027s location.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEnglish and Chinese are the most common languages in Singapore. The group tested Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi because they are the world\u2019s most spoken languages after English. Personal curiosity and background played a part in inspiring the study.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cChatGPT was very popular when it launched in 2022, especially for us computer science students who are always exploring new technology,\u201d said Jin. \u201cNon-native English speakers, like Mohit and I, noticed early on that chatbots underperformed in our native languages.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing communications officer Nathan Deen and School of Computational Science and Engineering communications officer Bryant Wine contributed to this report.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of researchers from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech has developed a framework for assessing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). 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That kind of play involves a somewhat limited set of interactions between the child and the toy. But what happens when the two children play together using the same toys?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe actions are similar, but the choices and outcomes are very different because of the dynamic changes they\u2019re making with the other person,\u201d says Brian Magerko, Regents\u2019 Professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Literature, Media, and Communication. \u201cIt\u2019s a thing that humans do all the time, and computers don\u2019t do with us at all.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWelcome to the next frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) \u2014 not just generating but collaborating in real-time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMagerko and his colleagues, Georgia Tech research scientist Milka Trajkova and Kennesaw State University Associate Professor of Dance Andrea Knowlton, are putting a collaborative AI system they\u2019ve developed to the ultimate test: the world\u2019s first collaborative AI dance performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDance Partner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expressivemachinery.gatech.edu\/projects\/luminai\/\u0022\u003ELuminAI\u003C\/a\u003E is an interactive system that allows participants to engage in collaborative movement improvisation with an AI virtual dance partner projected on a nearby screen or wall. LuminAI analyzes participant movements and improvises responses informed by memories of past interactions with people. In other words, LuminAI learns how to dance by dancing with us.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation-supported project began about 12 years ago in a lab and became an art installation and public demo. LuminAI has since moved into a different phase as a creative collaborator and education tool in a dance studio.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re looking at the role LuminAI can play in dance education. As far as we\u2019re aware, this is the first implemented version of an AI dancer in a dance studio,\u201d says Trajkova, who was a professional ballet dancer before becoming a research scientist on the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo prepare LuminAI to collaborate with dancers, the research team started by studying pairs of improvisational dancers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re trying to understand how non-verbal, collaborative creativity occurs,\u201d Knowlton says. \u201cWe start by trying to understand influencing factors that are perceived as contributing to improvisational success between two artists. Through that understanding, we applied those criteria to an AI system so it can have a similar experience with co-creative success.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re working on a creative arc,\u201d adds Trajkova. \u201cSo instead of the AI agent just generating movements in response to the last thing that happened, we\u2019re working to track and understand the dynamics of creative ideas across time as a continuous flow, rather than isolated instances of reaction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents from Knowlton\u2019s improvisational dance class at Kennesaw State spent two months of their spring semester working routinely with the LuminAI dancer and recording their impressions and experiences. One of the purposes the team discovered is that LuminAI serves as a third view for dancers and allows them to try ideas out with the system before trying it out with a partner.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe classroom experiment will culminate in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/events\/item\/673929\/luminai-performance-collaboration-dance\u0022\u003Ea public performance on May 3 at Kennesaw State\u2019s Marietta Dance Theater\u003C\/a\u003E featuring the students performing with the LuminAI dancer. \u003Ca\u003EAs far as the research team is aware the event is the world\u2019s first collaborative AI dance performance.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile not all the dancers embraced having an AI collaborator, some of those who were skeptical at first left the experience more open to the possibility of collaborating with AI, Knowlton says. Regardless of their feelings toward working with AI, Knowlton says she believes the dancers gained valuable skills in working with specialized technology, especially as dance performances evolve to include more interactive media.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERefined Movement\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESo, what\u2019s next for LuminAI? The project represents at least two possible paths for its learnings. The first includes continued exploration about how AI systems can be taught to cooperate and collaborate more like humans.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith the advent of generative AI these past few years, it\u2019s been really clear how great a need there is for this sort of social cognition,\u201d says Magerko. \u201cOne of the things we\u2019re going to be getting off the ground is sense-making with large language models. How do you collaborate with an AI system \u2013 rather than just making text or images, they\u2019ll be able to make \u003Cem\u003Ewith\u003C\/em\u003E us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe second involves the body movements LuminAI has been cataloging and analyzing over the years. Dance exemplifies highly refined motor skills, often exhibiting a level of detail surpassing that found in various athletic disciplines or physical therapy. While the tools designed to capture these intricate movements\u2014through cameras and AI\u2014are still nascent, the potential for harnessing this granular data is significant, Trajkova says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat exploration begins on May 30 with a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/artisticaiperformance\/\u0022\u003Etwo-day summit\u003C\/a\u003E being held at Georgia Tech to discuss its application for transforming performance athletics, with interdisciplinary participants in dance, computer vision, biomechanics, psychology, and human-computer interaction\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003Efrom Georgia Tech, Emory, KSU, Harvard, Royal Ballet in London, and Australian Ballet.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s about understanding AI\u0027s role in augmenting training, promoting wellness as well as diving deep in decoding the artistry of human movements. 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This initiative offers co-teaching lessons prepared by Georgia Tech faculty and offers virtual classes in computer science to expose Georgia high school students to a variety of technical topics and career pathways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program was conceived by \u003Ca\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECEISMC\u003C\/a\u003E)\u0026nbsp;and the Georgia Tech Research Institute, specifically \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/stem\u0022\u003ESTEM@GTRI\u003C\/a\u003E, to create and launch a pilot program for rural Georgia school districts with support from Georgia\u2019s legislators to bring technical knowledge directly into high school classrooms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve created and taught Java professional development courses for high school teachers to learn and use in their classes,\u201d said Peeler. \u201cPart of my job is to be on call for instructors who need me to troubleshoot problems. In addition, we typically have a week of in-class instruction where I virtually beam into the class to teach directly, then we introduce a project for them to try and tackle on their own based from the in-class material that we taught. I really like what I\u2019m doing for Georgia high schools.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPeeler has also created an instructional module introducing students to robotic programming. 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They hold positions in colleges and centers across campus, and will be instrumental in promoting transdisciplinary collaborative research and engagements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBACKGROUND: In the fall of 2023, the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) went through a strategic planning exercise and redefined its research concentrations to better align with its values. These new concentrations are also aspirational, encouraging IPaT researchers and academics to engage in new research domains that IPaT is uniquely equipped for generating new innovation. IPaT is one of Georgia Tech\u2019s ten interdisciplinary research institutes (IRIs) that bring together researchers from different disciplines to address topics of strategic importance to Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EIPaT RESEARCH INITIATIVE LEAD DETAILS:\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1. \u201cGlobal Health Equity and Wellbeing\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eresearch will be led by \u003Cstrong\u003ERudy Gleason\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch concentration:\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;From pediatrics to aging, we are protecting health both locally and worldwide. IPaT\u0027s continuum of healthcare research is working to promote and enable vibrant and lifelong physical and mental health. Accomplished scholars and clinicians work together to transform healthcare delivery systems by creating novel and easily accessible health and wellness technologies. IPaT has led breakthroughs in health information technology, approaches for increasing patient engagement and treatment adherence, clinical process improvements, and new healthcare delivery knowledge.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Rudolph (Rudy) L. Gleason is a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering. Gleason\u2019s research program has two key and distinct research aims. The first research aim is to quantify the link between biomechanics, mechanobiology, and tissue growth and remodeling in diseases of the vasculature and other soft tissues. The second research aim is to translate engineering innovation to combat global health disparities and foster sustainable development in low-resource settings around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2. \u201cJust, Resilient, and Informed Communities\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eresearch will be led by \u003Cstrong\u003EDanielle Willkens\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch concentration:\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;Discovering strategies that benefit and inform communities from all walks of life. IPaT\u2019s work in this area focuses on the daily lives of communities \u2013 how they live, work, and play. We are finding innovative approaches to shaping sustainable cities with research that thinks globally while acting locally. We\u0027re examining the transformative role of technology in transportation, civic engagement, and disaster recovery focusing on novel communication and information technologies to aid communities.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Danielle Willkens is an associate professor in the School of Architecture in the College of Design. Willkens, Assoc. AIA, FRSA, LEED AP BD+C, is a practicing designer, researcher, and FAA Certified Remote Pilot who is particularly interested in bringing architectural engagement to diverse audiences through interactive projects. Her experiences in practice and research include design\/build projects, public installations, and on-site investigations as well as extensive archival work in several countries. She was an inaugural Mellon History Teaching Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, exploring the project \u201cFrom Plantation to Protest: Visualizing Cultural Landscapes of Conflict in the American South.\u201d She currently has several research, documentation, and visualization projects in Selma, AL and Atlanta, GA supported by National Park Service\u2019s African American Civil Rights Grants. She is also leading efforts on heritage documentation and sustainable tourism, alongside a number of collaborators, at the Penn Center, SC, Valencia, Spain, and Petra, Jordan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3. \u201cResponsible and Ethical Technologies\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eresearch will be led by \u003Cstrong\u003EAllen Hyde\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch concentration:\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;Evaluating potential consequences to mitigate negative effects. IPaT is shaping the human-technology frontier by growing human capabilities at every level. We\u0027re exploring new ideas in user experiences that foster creativity, stimulate learning and enable productive collaboration. Through this initiative, we\u0027re researching a variety of wearable computing, assistive, augmented reality, and gaming technologies. In addition, to insuring the alignment of these and other future technologies with responsible and ethical practices.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio: \u003C\/strong\u003EAllen T. Hyde is an associate professor in the School of History and Sociology in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Hyde is a quantitative scholar whose main research areas are stratification and inequality, urban sociology, work and occupations, climate and disaster resilience, and immigration. He is currently conducting research on the effects of race\/ethnicity and immigration status on homeownership, social and demographic change in Clarkston, GA (known as the most diverse square mile in America), and Principal Investigator for the Youth Advocacy for Resilience to Disasters Program research project funded by the National Science Foundation\u0027s Civic Innovation Challenge. He has also been Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut and has published research articles in journals like \u003Cem\u003ESocial Science Research, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Social Currents, Environmental Sociology, Social Indicators Research, City \u0026amp; Community, and Sociological Perspectives\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E4. \u201cArts, Expression, and Creative Technologies\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eresearch will be led by \u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Marks\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EResearch concentration:\u003C\/em\u003E Using advanced technology to enhance creative processes, artistic expression, and innovation. Through our research, IPaT is merging physical and digital worlds with innovative creative ideas. The creative uses of technology are endless. We seek to identify, nurture, and grow creative and artistic ideas which may unlock new processes, inspire practical solutions with outside the box thinking, or simply lead to new forms of art expression.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Lisa Marks is an assistant professor in the School of Industrial Design in the College of Design. Marks is a designer and educator teaching studio courses in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Georgia Tech. Her current research focuses on methods of combining endangered and traditional handcraft with algorithmic modeling in order to produce new modes of production. 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A chatbot, like ChatGPT, only perceives and acts within the chat dialog.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMacLellan immersed VAL into an open-sourced, simplified version of the popular Nintendo cooperative video game Overcooked to discover how well the agent can function as a teammate. In Overcooked, up to four players work together to prepare dishes in a kitchen while earning points for every completed order.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHow Fast Can Val Learn?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a study with 12 participants, MacLellan found that users could often correctly teach VAL new tasks with only a few examples.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFirst, the user must teach VAL how to play the game. Knowing that a single human error could compromise results, MacLellan designed three precautionary features:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhen VAL receives a command such as \u0022cook an onion,\u0022 it asks clarifying questions to understand and confirm its task. As VAL continues to learn, clarification prompts decrease.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAn \u201cundo\u201d button to ensure users can reverse an errant command.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVAL contains GPT subcomponents to interpret user input, allowing it to adapt to ambiguous commands and typos. The GPT subcomponents drive changes in VAL\u2019s task knowledge, which it uses to perform tasks without additional guidance.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe participants in MacLellan\u2019s study used these features to ensure VAL learned the tasks correctly.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe high volume of prompts creates a more tedious experience. Still, MacLellan said it provides detailed data on system performance and user experience. That insight should make designing a more seamless experience in future versions of VAL possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe prompts also require the AI to be explainable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen VAL learns something, it uses the language model to label each node in the task knowledge graph that the system constructs,\u201d MacLellan said. \u201cYou can see what it learned and how it breaks tasks down into actions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeyond Gaming\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMacLellan\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/tail.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeachable AI Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is devoted to developing AI that inexperienced users can train.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are trying to come up with a more usable system where anyone, including people with limited expertise, could come in and interact with the agent and be able to teach it within just five minutes of interacting with it for the first time,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis work caught the attention of the Department of Defense, which awarded MacLellan multiple grants to fund several of his projects, including VAL. The possibilities of how the DoD could use VAL, on and off the battlefield, are innumerable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201c(The DoD) envisions a future in which people and AI agents jointly work together to solve problems,\u201d MacLellan said. \u201cYou need the ability to adapt to what your teammates are doing to be an effective teammate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe look at the dynamics of different teaming circumstances and consider what are the right ways to team AI agents with people. The key hypothesis for our project is agents that can learn on the fly and adapt to their users will make better teammates than those that are pre-trained like GPT.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDesign Your Own Agent\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMacLellan is co-organizing a gaming agent design competition sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 2024 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2024.ieee-cog.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConference on Games\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E in Milan, Italy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/strong-tact.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Dice Adventure Competition \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Einvites participants to design their own AI agent to play a multi-player, turn-based dungeon crawling game or to play the game as a human teammate. The competition this month and in July offers $1,000 in prizes for players and agent developers in the top three teams.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team\u2019s success in any competitive environment often hinges on how well each member can anticipate the actions of their teammates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chrismaclellan.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher MacLellan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E thinks teachable artificial intelligence (AI) agents are uniquely suited for this role and make ideal teammates for video gamers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the help of funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, MacLellan hopes to prove his theory with a conversational, task-performing agent he co-engineered called the Verbal Apprentice Learner (VAL).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new AI teammate developed by Assistant Professor Christopher MacLellan could be the ideal co-opt video game partner."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2024-06-27 17:55:24","changed_gmt":"2024-07-17 14:05:01","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-06-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674252":{"id":"674252","type":"image","title":"VAL_86A1504-Enhanced-NR.jpg","body":null,"created":"1719510932","gmt_created":"2024-06-27 17:55:32","changed":"1719510932","gmt_changed":"2024-06-27 17:55:32","alt":"A female student wears the Meta Quest VR headset with two men standing behind her","file":{"fid":"257746","name":"VAL_86A1504-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/27\/VAL_86A1504-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/06\/27\/VAL_86A1504-Enhanced-NR.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":138089,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/06\/27\/VAL_86A1504-Enhanced-NR.jpg?itok=Oz9nUZQO"}}},"media_ids":["674252"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"91511","name":"Video gaming"},{"id":"2356","name":"gaming"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan Deen\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675196":{"#nid":"675196","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Middle Schoolers\u2019 Feedback Informs New Approach to AI-based Museum Exhibits","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech are creating accessible museum exhibits that explain artificial intelligence (AI) to middle school students, including the LuminAI interactive AI-based dance partner developed by Regents\u0027 Professor Brian Magerko.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. students Yasmine Belghith and Atefeh Mahdavi co-led a study in a museum setting that observed how middle schoolers interact with the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s important for museums, especially science museums, to start incorporating these kinds of exhibits about AI and about using AI so the general population can have that avenue to interact with it and transfer that knowledge to everyday tools,\u201d Belghith said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBelghith and Mahdavi conducted their study with nine focus groups of 24 students at Chicago\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.msichicago.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMuseum of Science and Industry\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The team used the findings to inform their design of AI exhibits that the museum could display as early as 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBelghith is a Ph.D. student in human-centered computing. Her advisor is Assistant Professor Jessica Roberts in the School of Interactive Computing. Magerko advises Mahdavi, a Ph.D. student in digital media in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBelghith and Mahdavi presented a paper about their study in May at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Honolulu, Hawaii.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir work is part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant dedicated to fostering AI literacy among middle schoolers in informal environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExpanding Accessibility\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile there are existing efforts to reach students in the classroom, the researchers believe AI education is most accessible in informal learning environments like museums.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a need today for everybody to have some sort of AI literacy,\u201d Belghith said. \u201cMany middle schoolers will not be taking computer science courses or pursuing computer science careers, so there needs to be interventions to teach them what they should know about AI.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers found that most of the middle schoolers interacted with ChatGPT to either test its knowledge by prompting it to answer questions or socialize with it by having human-like conversations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOthers fit the mold of \u201ccontent explorers.\u201d They did not engage with the AI aspect of ChatGPT and focused more on the content it produced.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMahdavi said regardless of their approach, students would get \u201ctunnel vision\u201d in their interactions instead of exploring more of the AI\u2019s capabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf they go in a certain direction, they will continue to explore that,\u201d Mahdavi said. \u201cOne thing we can learn from this is to nudge kids and show them there are other things you can do with AI tools or get them to think about it another way.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also paid attention to what was missing in the students\u2019 responses, which Mahdavi said was just as important as what they did talk about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNone of them mentioned anything about ethics or what could be problematic about AI,\u201d she said. \u201cThat told us there\u2019s something they aren\u2019t thinking about but should be. We take that into account as we think about future exhibits.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMaking an Impact\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers visited the Museum of Science and Industry June 1-2 to conduct the first trial run of three AI-based exhibits they\u2019ve created. One of them is LuminAI, which was developed in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/expressivemachinery.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMagerko\u2019s Expressive Machinery Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELuminAI is an interactive art installation that allows people to engage in collaborative movement with an AI dance partner. Georgia Tech and Kennesaw State recently held the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.kennesaw.edu\/arts\/news\/posts\/lumin_ai_performance_collaboration.php\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Efirst performance\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E of AI avatars dancing with human partners in front of a live audience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuri Long, a former Georgia Tech Ph.D. student who is now an assistant professor at Northwestern University, designed the second exhibit. KnowledgeNet is an interactive tabletop exhibit in which visitors build semantic networks by adding different characteristics to characters that interact together.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe third exhibit, Data Bites, prompts users to build datasets of pizzas and sandwiches. Their selections train a machine-learning classifier in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBelghith said the exhibits fostered conversations about AI between parents and children.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe exhibit prototypes successfully engaged children in creative activities,\u201d she said. \u201cMany parents had to pull their kids away to continue their museum tour because the kids wanted more time to try different creations or dance moves.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Georgia Tech are creating accessible museum exhibits that explain artificial intelligence (AI) to middle school students, including the LuminAI interactive AI-based dance partner developed by Regents\u0027 Professor Brian Magerko.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPh.D. students Yasmine Belghith and Atefeh Mahdavi co-led a study in a museum setting that observed how middle schoolers interact with the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBelghith and Mahdavi conducted their study with nine focus groups of 24 students at Chicago\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.msichicago.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMuseum of Science and Industry\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. 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Arora, an assistant professor at Northwestern University, is the first Georgia Tech alumna to win the award, which includes a prize of $20,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArora was a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing during the 2022-2023 academic year. She also earned her Ph.D. in computer science and her master\u2019s in human-computer interaction from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Northwestern, she directs the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vaklab.wordpress.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVAK Sustainable Computing Lab\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, which re-envisions computing from a sustainability-first approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award is the most prestigious recognition for doctoral research in our field,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/josiahhester.com\/cv\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJosiah Hester\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing who mentored Arora during her postdoc. \u201cThe award is a testament to the recipient\u0027s exceptional contributions to the field of computing, marking them as a world-class leader and innovator.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArora creates sustainable computational materials that harvest energy from their surrounding environments and can be responsibly disposed of at the end of their life cycles. Under the advisement of Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/thad-starner\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and former Georgia Tech Professor Gregory Abowd, she won the dissertation award for her work involving interactive sticky notes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe interactive sticky notes perform computing tasks and allow wireless communication without battery dependency.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough her \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/repository.gatech.edu\/entities\/publication\/2528c1f9-789b-4fd7-8184-b40933c0c6c4\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Edissertation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ESustainable Interactive Wireless Stickers: From Materials to Devices on Applications\u003C\/em\u003E, Arora demonstrated that interactive sticky notes can capture audio, store it as memory, and relay it to another location. For example, an Amazon Alexa user can communicate commands to Alexa without being nearby.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith rising climate change and e-waste, it is imperative to build computing technologies with a sustainability-first approach,\u201d Arora said. \u201cMy dissertation represents this core thinking. I am honored that ACM has recognized my research on sustainable computational materials. I am extremely grateful to my advisers, collaborators, friends, and family for their support.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer dissertation also earned Outstanding Dissertation recognition from Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing in 2023. She also won the college\u2019s 2022 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArora was a finalist in the 2022 Fast Company Design Innovation Competition. 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It allows students, engineers, product designers, CAD technicians, VFX artists, archeologists, game designers, and virtual reality app developers to create precise and workable 3D models out of a diverse range of physical objects and surfaces. The Artec Leo scanner captures an object as the user simply moves around the object as if filming a video. A 3D replica is built in real time on a display as the capture is occurring.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Artec Leo is a great addition to our capabilities. It is one of those tools that ups your game on what kind of work you can do,\u201d said Noah Posner, a research scientist in IPaT and manager of the Interactive Product Design Lab in the College of Design. \u201cIt is just so easy compared to other 3D scanners I have used in the past. It is fast, portable, and does a great job at capturing geometry. 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His research has informed the United Nations\u2019 algorithmic reparations policies and has been incorporated into the National Institute of Standards and Technology AI Risk Management Framework.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a massive honor to receive this recognition of my work,\u201d Ehsan said. \u201cThe Algorithmic Imprint remains a globally applicable Responsible AI concept developed entirely from the Global South. This recognition is dedicated to the participants who made this work possible. I want to take their stories even further.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile at BKC Harvard, Ehsan will develop a taxonomy of potentially harmful AI effects after a model is no longer used. He will also design a process to anticipate these effects and create interventions. 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"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-08-05 13:39:27","changed_gmt":"2024-08-05 13:41:14","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674488":{"id":"674488","type":"image","title":"Judy Hoffman and James Hays","body":"\u003Cp\u003EJudy Hoffman and James Hays\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1722864920","gmt_created":"2024-08-05 13:35:20","changed":"1722864949","gmt_changed":"2024-08-05 13:35:49","alt":"Judy Hoffman and James Hays","file":{"fid":"258023","name":"awards_announcements_ic.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/05\/awards_announcements_ic.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/05\/awards_announcements_ic.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":57351,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/08\/05\/awards_announcements_ic.jpg?itok=5zvq2XGH"}}},"media_ids":["674488"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENathan Deen\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"675794":{"#nid":"675794","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Research Interns Present Summer Projects","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeven Georgia Tech students selected for the 2024 summer research internship program sponsored by the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) presented their projects on August 2. The summer program is an opportunity for students looking to gain real-world experience related to research and community engagement. Summer interns received up to $7,000 for full-time research-related work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe students\u2019 2024 summer research projects included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrace Littler\u003C\/strong\u003E, a junior majoring in architecture, worked with Jennifer DuBose, executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/simtigrate.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESimTigrate Design Lab\u003C\/a\u003E. She helped gathered data for a NIH proposal from New Horizons, a group in Atlanta, studying sleep and environment issues. She also participated in research activities related to neurorehabilitation centers.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeongjin Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E, a sophomore majoring in electrical engineering, worked with Celeste Mason, research scientist at IPaT, and Thad Starner, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, on a passive haptic learning and rehabilitation project related to piano playing.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAccording to Kim, \u201cplaying musical instruments is beneficial for people\u0027s mental health and cognitive abilities, but it is also a time-consuming process. The Passive Haptic Learning (PHL) project aims to help people learn piano faster through wearable gloves that use actuator-caused haptic vibrations to stimulate the cutaneous sensory mechanoreceptors in the user\u0027s hands. This makes technical practice sessions more efficient as PHL gloves build up procedural memory, and it is a more efficient use of time as the learning process becomes passive, meaning that users may perform other tasks while wearing the gloves.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EOver the summer, the PHL gloves transitioned from using wired connections to flexible PCBs to enhance the glove\u0027s electromechanical integrity, and the flexible PCB design and assembly procedure has been simplified. Moreover, an ergonomic form factor was developed to complement the new circuitry.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShreya Sasmal\u003C\/strong\u003E, a junior majoring in computational media, worked with Kala Jordan, research scientist in IPaT, and Maribeth Coleman, director of research for IPaT. Her project\u2019s goal was to digitize instruction manuals focused on mechanical repair and maintenance to create a more efficient repair process and speed up knowledge transfer between workers.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENathan Lin\u003C\/strong\u003E, a senior majoring in computational media, worked with IPaT scientists Peter Presti, senior research scientist, and Brian Jones, senior research engineer, on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/awarehome\/\u0022\u003EAware Home\u003C\/a\u003E smart bathroom project. Lin programmed and built a full-stack application that can report data of deployable smart toilet seats for occupational therapists to review data.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESameer Arora\u003C\/strong\u003E, a sophomore majoring in computer science, worked with Peter Presti, senior research scientist, and associate professor, Rosa Arriaga in the School of Interactive Computing, on a prolonged exposure therapy iOS mobile app. He programmed and built the Prolonged Exposure Collective Sensing System for PTSD on iOS which was already available on Android devices. This programming project was funded by the National Science Foundation.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESiddharth Jain\u003C\/strong\u003E, a undergraduate student in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, who worked with Matt Sanders, director of research computing and data at Georgia Tech. Jain architected \u201cControl Point,\u201d a smart interface between legacy operating system built devices and smart environments. Control Point is a component for secure data transfer between legacy devices and modern systems, acting as a bridge that ensures efficient data flow and compliance with industry standards.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew Perry\u003C\/strong\u003E, a junior majoring in computer engineering, worked with Brian Jones, senior research engineer, at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/awarehome\/\u0022\u003EAware Home\u003C\/a\u003E. Perry previously worked for the Aware Home for five semesters as a student assistant. His summer research internship accomplishments were numerous\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe developed the third hardware revision of the Gait Speed Clinic Device from TechSage D3.3. The overall goal of this new printed circuit board was to reduce production time, reduce required experience, and reduce the cost of the system to allow for more clinics to access the device.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also revised and setup the Aware Home\u0027s network infrastructure to allow the two main floors of the home to be isolated yet managed as one. This was implemented by using new network hardware that allowed for VLANs and more detailed firewall rules. All devices on the old network, as well as new devices, were moved to this new network. Smart home devices on this network are controlled and collect data through \u201cHome Assistant\u201d granting future researchers in the home greater access to device history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, he developed the Smart Bathroom\u0027s (TechSage D1.1) grab bar system to allow automated and manual movement via actuators. He implemented a button box for physical therapists to move the grab bars to the desired position. 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The goal of the grants for 2024-25 is to promote research activities involving faculty and students from the many disciplines represented in IPaT. Engagement grants are also designed to foster new collaborations internal or external to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCongratulations to this year\u2019s four winning research teams,\u201d said Michael Best, executive director of IPaT. \u201cThese projects explore sustainability, AI, education, artistic learning, and critical computing. They all advance IPaT\u2019s goal to develop technologies that empower people from all walks of life.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECongratulations to these winning project teams:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Making Sustainability Data Public on the Georgia Tech Library Media Bridge\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam Members:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EYanni Loukissas, associate professor, School of Literature, Media and Communication; Emily Weigel, senior academic professional, School of Biological Sciences; Alison Valk, Jason Wright, and Charlie Bennett with the Georgia Tech Library; Steve Place, Jermaine Clonts, and Svetlana Sorok with the Georgia Tech Office of Sustainability.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Overview:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EOur research idea is to study the social effects of fostering creative, public experiences with real-time, sustainability-related data on campus with the long-term goal of learning what a resource-conscious campus community might look like. Our approach will be to develop an interactive data visualization prototype for the Georgia Tech Library Media Bridge that will visualize real-time water use data in 47 student housing buildings. This visualization will serve as an adaptable research instrument through which to explore the potential for public experiences with data. It will challenge student residents to reflect on and take practical steps to change the environmental footprint of the places where they live. This research project is co-funded with Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/sustainability\u0022\u003EBrook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Computational Design AI System to Empower Maker Educators\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E HyunJoo Oh, assistant professor, School of Industrial Design and School of Interactive Computing; Sehoon Ha, assistant professor, School of Interactive Computing; Sabrina Grossman, program director, Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch overview:\u003C\/strong\u003E The rise of design and fabrication tools like 3D printers and microcontrollers has expanded maker education from K-12 to higher education. However, access remains a challenge, especially for underprivileged youth. Teachers often struggle to lead maker-centered activities due to a lack of design and engineering expertise, which particularly affects students in low-resource districts where school activities may be their only exposure to creative learning. To address this, we propose developing a web-based AI system that empowers teachers to lead kinetic design and engineering projects. Through participatory design with experienced teachers, the system will assist with project design and offer customized instructional guidance by identifying challenging steps and potential recovery solutions and adapting content to meet teachers\u2019 needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Democratizing Creative Agency Through Interactive Technologies and Music Education\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Moeiini Reilly, research technologist, GTRI, and human-centered computing Ph.D. student with the School of Interactive Computing; Paul Brancato, research engineer, GTRI; Nicole Brancato, composer and music educator.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch overview:\u003C\/strong\u003E Artistic computing learning environments play a crucial role in promoting equity and inclusion in computing by offering diverse opportunities to learn computational thinking through culturally relevant programming. Despite advances in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) education, there remains a significant gap in understanding how learners interact with and design creatively in these constructionist settings, as well as how the materiality of computational artifacts influences learning processes, meaning-making, and creative agency. This research seeks to build a framework for centering social and cultural dimensions of artistic learning within computational environments augmented by low-cost, technology-enhanced music education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProposal Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Fostering the Landscape of \u201cCritical Computing\u201d at Georgia Tech\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam Members:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ERichmond Wong, assistant professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication; Heidi Biggs, assistant professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication; Carl DiSalvo, professor, School of Interactive Computing; Betsy DiSalvo, professor, School of Interactive Computing.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Overview:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ECritical computing interrogates the social values, normative orientations, and unintended consequences of computing applications, and it is quickly coming to occupy a central place in research and practice among Georgia Tech researchers and their larger research communities. We seek to build a transdisciplinary critical computing research community at Georgia Tech spanning computing, the social sciences, humanities, and related disciplines. Through a working group and symposium series, we will explore the methods, concepts, theories, history, funding, and evaluation of critical computing research. 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This year\u2019s event centered around the brain and neuro-related technologies, and touched on topics ranging from brain computer interaction, cognitive aids, psychology, the future of work, artificial intelligence and various other topics that surfaced due to audience questions. The event was sponsored by the Georgia Tech Institute of People and Technology (IPaT) and the Georgia Tech Neuro community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe keynote speaker this year was Thomas Reardon, vice president and head of neural interfaces at Meta Reality Labs. Reardon is a highly regarded neuroscientist and entrepreneur who founded CTRL-labs which was acquired by Meta (Facebook) in 2019. He currently leads a team of computational neuroscientists and biotech engineers working to connect neurons to machines via a novel non-invasive neural interface technology. Reardon\u2019s talk topic for this year\u2019s annual Industry Innovation Day was \u201cConsumer Neural Interfaces: View from Meta Reality Labs.\u201d In addition to providing an informative lecture about neural technology, he briefly displayed some of the capabilities of his Meta team\u2019s wrist-mounted, non-invasive device that was able to translate neuro hand activity into its corresponding robotic hand movements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur undergraduate degree in neuroscience is one of the Institute\u2019s most popular degrees,\u201d said Julia Kubanek, vice president for interdisciplinary research at Georgia Tech, who gave several introductory remarks. \u201cThe neuroscience area integrates many disciplines across campus such as the arts, humanities, social science, computer science, engineering, business, design, and the basic sciences and is a great example of the true integration of interdisciplinary research in many forms across Georgia Tech. We are particularly grateful for the participation today of companies and other organizations that collaborate with the Georgia Tech community of researchers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELeigh McCook, interim executive director of IPaT, emphasized the need to have dialogue and conversations between industry partners and community partners with Georgia Tech researchers to develop supportive research projects and create greater impact in the area of the human technology frontier.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe neuro space and the IPaT space are natural partners for each other,\u201d said Chris Rozell, professor and Julian T. Hightower Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. \u201cThis is a perfect day to come together and talk about what the human frontier looks like. Georgia Tech hired its first neuro engineer more than 30 years ago long before it was cool to be an engineer studying neuro. Today, we have more than a 100 faculty spanning six colleges studying neuro-related topics with the additional involvement of Emory University and Georgia State University. We\u2019ve had an incredible trajectory over the last decade and we\u2019ve fostered a growing and active community.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing Reardon\u2019s keynote were two interactive panel sessions. The first panel was focused on \u201cbrain computer input and output\u201d was led by moderator Michelle LaPlaca, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. 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He received his computer science and engineering bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBoth Chaouki Abdallah, executive vice president for research, and I see a bright future for IPaT with professor Michael Best coming onboard as executive director of IPaT,\u201d said Julia Kubanek, vice president for interdisciplinary research at Georgia Tech. \u201cMike is our first Interdisciplinary Research Institute executive director with a primary faculty appointment in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. He brings his deep experience integrating technology and social sciences to this new role. With the rapid deployment of AI in daily life, IPaT \u2013 now combined with the GVU Center \u2013 plays a critical role in addressing not only how people interface with new technologies, but also how people should control and direct technology to meet the needs of diverse communities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m especially appreciative of the search committee members and of professor Pinar Keskinocak for chairing the search. Together they brought forward an excellent slate of candidates. The IPaT community came out in force to meet with our four finalists and provided valuable feedback. In serving as interim executive director since January 2022, Leigh McCook has provided strong leadership and supported the merged IPaT and GVU community. Leigh will serve in this role until August 1, after which she will return to her earlier roles in IPaT and GTRI.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBest serves as associate editor for global computing with Communications of the ACM and co-founder and editor-in-chief emeritus of the journal Information Technologies and International Development. Best has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in books, journals, and conferences since joining Georgia Tech in 2003. He has delivered more than 100 invited and keynote lectures across the USA and internationally.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile research faculty at MIT, he served as a research fellow in the Center for International Development at Harvard University, conducting policy, strategy, and technical research in information and communication technologies for social and economic development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2015, Best took a leave of absence from Georgia Tech to become founding director of the UNU Institute on Computing and Society. UNU-CS was the \u201cpeople and technology\u201d research arm of the United Nations, and Best was responsible for strategic development, government relations, research visioning, budget, and administrative supervision. 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Located across five campus buildings, more than 40 demonstrations, hands-on STEAM activities, tours, and learning opportunities designed to engage and educate participants were offered by students, staff, and faculty volunteers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome of this year\u2019s demonstration topics included battery fuel cells, nanotechnology, DNA, immunoengineering, chemistry, engineering, superconductivity levitation, wastewater treatment, aerospace, space outreach, virtual reality, biology, robotics, computing, 3D printing, paper making, and much more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA parent attending from Peachtree City said, \u201cwe\u2019ve discovered our son has an affinity for math and science. He\u2019s handling tenth grade science level coursework, yet he\u2019s only in the seventh grade and can understand math formulas ahead of his age group. We brought him here to expose him to a variety of technologies and advanced equipment that he won\u2019t see or be exposed to in his middle school. The staff and professors here have been very kind to show him how to use some of the equipment we\u2019ve seen. And his eyes have gotten bigger all day because of these interactions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVirginia Howell, director of the Roberts C. Williams Museum of Paper Making in the Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech said, \u201cthe paper museum is delighted to be part of the Georgia Tech Science and Engineering Day. It\u0027s a great opportunity for people to learn more about the paper museum and get hands-on experience in making a sheet of paper to take home. We offer workshops, classes, and tours to students across the state of Georgia. Kids have been lined up all day to participate at our tables today.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDemonstrations included how to extract DNA, seeing LIDAR in action, experiencing heat sensing sensors, how x-rays are used, viewing scanning electron microscopes, playing a virtual reality game, experiencing chemical reactions, watching 3D printing, making slime, showing atom-level nano materials in synthesized materials, neuroscience demos, liquid nitrogen experiments, and many more.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresentation areas were hosted by the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology, the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, and the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences who provided valuable space in their buildings to house demonstrations. The Ford Environmental Science \u0026amp; Technology Building and Molecular Science \u0026amp; Engineering Building also donated space for demonstrations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother tour offering during Science and Engineering Day was the Flowers Invention Studio at Georgia Tech which offers more than 5,000 square feet of industrial makerspace equipment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are the largest student-run maker space in the nation,\u201d said Lillian Tso, president of the Invention Studio and a fourth-year mechanical engineering student. \u201cWe house industrial grade equipment for prototyping and manufacturing\u2014we support anything that students want to build. We\u0027re open for all students of all majors of all years. They can use our equipment for free which includes CNC machines, more than 50 3D printers, waterjets, laser cutters, and many other professional-level tools. This is our first year participating in the Georgia Tech Science and Engineering Day. We wanted to do a lot more outreach to the Georgia Tech campus and the greater Atlanta community.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELucas Garza, president-elect of the Invention Studio, added, \u201cwe\u2019ve had a busy day offering tours of our studio throughout the festival.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELocated in the mezzanine of the Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Ethan Sirak, a fourth-year aerospace student with the Georgia Space Grant Consortium, was providing kids with exposure to space facts and allowing them to perform crafts related to planets and space. The consortium is an organization under NASA which aims to promote STEM exposure to kids of all ages. He also assists with the Aerospace Engineering Outreach Program. He was partnered at his hands-on learning table with Bill McNutt Jr., a senior aerospace engineering student.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA young participant from Suwanee, Georgia, said, \u201cI want to go to school at Georgia Tech because of aerospace engineering. I want to go on good adventures in future space flight and design things.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis mom, a sixth-grade science teacher added, \u201cI love coming to science fairs to get new ideas for my students and I love to bring my family because we just have a great time. This is our very first science fair here at Georgia Tech. We\u0027ve been to ones in north Georgia because that\u0027s pretty close to where we live. But when we saw this was available, we\u0027re like, yeah, we\u0027re coming down to Tech for this today\u2014and having a great time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile attendees were able to get a peek into one of the nation\u2019s most research-intensive universities, the event also allowed the many researchers and students participating the opportunity to share their science and engineering work with the public.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the more unique tables was manned by Alison Reynolds, an instruction archivist with research services in the Georgia Tech library. She was displaying a selection of unique items from Georgia Tech\u2019s science fiction archives and special collections. She said, \u201cwe\u2019ve been teaching with science fiction since 1971 and our collection is now one of the largest science fiction collections in the United States. We wanted to display part of our special collection.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI had several Georgia school systems reach out to me that were interested in attending this event,\u201c said Leslie O \u0027Neill, education outreach manager with the Southeastern Nanotechnology Infrastructure Corridor (SENIC) at Georgia Tech. \u201cGeorgia Tech plays a vital part in its community. We wanted to showcase the campus; the student, faculty and staff research; and the amazing science and engineering being done. We\u2019ve had a fantastic turnout this year for this event.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than 1,500 parents and children across the Atlanta metropolitan area attended a jam-packed second annual Georgia Tech Science and Engineering Day held on Saturday, March 11 in conjunction with the tenth annual 2023 Atlanta Science Festival.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 1,500 parents and children across the Atlanta metropolitan area attended a jam-packed second annual Georgia Tech Science and Engineering Day held on Saturday, March 11 in conjunction with the tenth annual 2023 Atlanta Science Festival."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-08-27 14:55:57","changed_gmt":"2024-08-27 14:56:44","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674732":{"id":"674732","type":"image","title":"A young participant that is experiencing virtual reality for the first time at Georgia Tech","body":"\u003Cp\u003EA young participant that is experiencing virtual reality for the first time at Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1724770472","gmt_created":"2024-08-27 14:54:32","changed":"1724770496","gmt_changed":"2024-08-27 14:54:56","alt":"A young participant that is experiencing virtual reality for the first time at Georgia Tech","file":{"fid":"258291","name":"virtual-reality-v2a-3x5_ratio.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/27\/virtual-reality-v2a-3x5_ratio.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/27\/virtual-reality-v2a-3x5_ratio.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":670006,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/08\/27\/virtual-reality-v2a-3x5_ratio.jpg?itok=BP1NLODf"}}},"media_ids":["674732"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"676382":{"#nid":"676382","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Rural Georgia High Schools Computer Science Program Reaches New Heights","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech-led \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/rural-cs-initiative\u0022\u003EComputer Science for Rural Georgia High Schools Program\u003C\/a\u003E recently received additional financial support from the Georgia General Assembly for 2024-25. The program has exploded with unprecedented growth over the last year, going from 800 student participants to 4,400. Participating high school teachers across Georgia met at Georgia Tech Aug. 26 \u2013 27 to share ideas and best practices going into the new school year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaunched with funding from the state legislature in 2022, the program was developed collaboratively by Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECEISMC\u003C\/a\u003E) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/outreach\/stem-at-gtri\u0022\u003ESTEM@GTRI\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech Research Institute\u2019s K-12 outreach program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt focuses on developing coding, music, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity skills in high school students in rural parts of the state. During its pilot year, the program served 11 schools in eight school districts in Bartow, Chattooga, Effingham, Fayette, Gordon, Haralson, Liberty, and Walker counties.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday, it serves 39 schools and 24 school districts: Candler, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Clinch, Decatur, Dooly, Fannin, Grady, Hancock, Houston, Jeff Davis, Jones, Laurens, Lumpkin, Macon, Oglethorpe, Peach, Screven, Stephens, Tattnall, Thomas, Treutlen, and Twiggs counties.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EModules taught to students include introduction to coding, advanced coding, principles of cybersecurity, foundations of AI, introduction to robotics, intermediate coding, intermediate robotics, sensors and data science, website design, sensors, and data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis rural computer science initiative has been transformative for Twiggs County schools,\u201d said Mack Bullard, school superintendent. \u201cWe find it very difficult to find computer science teachers who are willing to come to rural Georgia to teach.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe called partnering with Georgia Tech professors \u201ctransformative for our school system. Experiences like robotics and coding in class have excited our kids now that they\u0027ve been able to see what\u0027s possible. From our collaborations with other teachers in this program, I can see future student projects in Twiggs County related to agriculture, such as the building and programming of probes. 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Workshop participants came from Georgia Tech, Emory University, Georgia State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, and the University of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeynote speaker Wei Gao, a professor of medical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, shared some of his latest wearable health technologies combining his chemical engineering background with the latest biochemical sensor technologies being developed in his lab at CalTech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second keynote speaker, Tabia Henry Akintobi, professor and chair of community health and preventive medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine, delivered a detailed overview of her prevention research center program, community health statistics, and touched on health outcomes for different racial and ethnic groups including those with disabilities. She stressed the path forward for wearable health devices included expansion of access to data, approaching technology access through a community-driven social marketing plan, and better representativeness of diverse populations in wearable innovations research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPoster sessions, panel discussions, and researcher lightning talks were held between the keynote speaker presentations with the event concluding with a reception and networking session at the end of the day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/event\/wearables-sep10-2024\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAgenda and details for the event (archived).\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe inaugural Wearable Innovations for Health Equity Workshop held on September 10, 2024 at Georgia Tech delivered a variety of new knowledge, insight, and exceptional networking opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The inaugural Wearable Innovations for Health Equity Workshop held on September 10, 2024 at Georgia Tech delivered a variety of new knowledge, insight, and exceptional networking opportunities."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-09-17 14:00:37","changed_gmt":"2024-09-17 14:09:54","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-09-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-09-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674988":{"id":"674988","type":"image","title":"Wearables Workshop","body":"\u003Cp\u003EWearable Innovations for Health Equity Workshop. Pictured clockwise: W. Hong Yeo, director of the Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center at Georgia Tech; Wei Gao, professor at CalTech; Michael Best, executive director of IPaT; Tabia Henry Akintobi, professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine; poster sessions; and lightning talks.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1726581225","gmt_created":"2024-09-17 13:53:45","changed":"1726581573","gmt_changed":"2024-09-17 13:59:33","alt":"Wearable Innovations for Health Equity Workshop. Pictured clockwise: W. Hong Yeo, director of the Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center at Georgia Tech; Wei Gao, professor at CalTech; Michael Best, executive director of IPaT; Tabia Henry Akintobi, professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine; poster sessions; and lightning talks. 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This initiative, known as Youth Advocacy for Resilience to Disasters (YARDs), aims to educate young people about environmental justice, civic engagement, and community resilience.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EOriginally funded by the National Science Foundation\u2019s Civic Innovation Challenge grant, this particular trip was supported by internal funds from both universities. The program\u0027s core objective is to help youth understand and address disasters and climate resilience through the lens of environmental justice.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants learn about their community\u0027s assets and vulnerabilities, engage in virtual mapmaking, and develop green and gray infrastructure solutions to present to local leaders.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearch support from the University of Minnesota was provided by Nisha Botchwey, dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. She was a co-principal investigator in the original NSF grant and previously worked at Georgia Tech. Katie O\u2019Connell, research scientist at the University of Minnesota, also participated in the project and teaches at both universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAllen Hyde, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology in Georgia Tech\u2019s Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, is the principal investigator for the YARDs project. He is also a research initiative lead for responsible and ethical technologies with Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we were invited to participate in the Sixth World Congress for Social and Racial Inequality in Cape Town, we wanted to leverage some existing connections with the project team and youth organizations in South Africa,\u201d said Hyde. \u201cWhile the goal was to provide educational opportunities for the youth in Cape Flats, the trip was a deep education on the social and historical conditions of Cape Town and South Africa, and lived experiences of Cape Flats youth for the research team.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECape Town was chosen for its unique challenges and existing personal connections among some research team members. Mustafa Shabazz, the YARDs project manager and lecturer for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Professional Education\u003C\/a\u003E, leveraged his ties with the Cape Flats YMCA to facilitate the program. Ricardo De Reuck, director at the Cape Flats YMCA, welcomed the team\u2019s project to engage the children. The team was also invited to present at the Sixth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Social Inequality at the University of the Western Cape, further solidifying the team\u2019s decision to conduct a program in South Africa.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECape Town\u0027s coastal location and climate makes it susceptible to both flooding and wildfires, particularly in densely populated areas like Cape Flats. However, upon engaging with the local youth, the team discovered that natural disasters were not their primary concern. Instead, issues like gang activity and crime dominated their daily lives. This insight led to a shift in focus, allowing the youth to develop action plans addressing social issues alongside natural disasters.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program, condensed into two days, involved 25 youth aged 12 to 16. Despite logistical challenges, such as limited electrical outlets and Wi-Fi connectivity, the participants actively engaged in drawing meaningful maps and creating action plans. The experience highlighted the importance of flexibility, understanding the community\u0027s needs, and pivoting when conducting a YARDs program.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team also explored potential collaborations with the YDentity Museum with the Cape Flats YMCA, which delves into the social and ethnic history of the area. This museum could play a significant role in future projects, amplifying the program\u0027s impact.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOverall, the YARDs program in Cape Town was a learning experience for both the participants and the organizers. It underscored the necessity of adapting to the community\u0027s needs and the potential for continued collaboration with the Cape Flats YMCA.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile Savannah, Georgia and Cape Town, South Africa have many differences in their social and economic contexts, both the youth participants and the research team saw many overlaps,\u201d said Hyde. \u201cOur communities in both countries are often unequal. Not only in terms of infrastructure, access to jobs, and educational opportunities, but also access to parks, green space, safety and exposure to violence, and youth programs.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYARDs helps youth imagine more resilient and thriving communities, whether that be due to exposure to acute climate disasters like hurricanes and flooding or simmering social disasters like a lack of economic and social opportunity and exposure to violence and gangs that becomes normalized due to everyday exposure. Youth are our future. We must ensure that their voices are heard as we plan, imagine, and design our communities. If ignored, then future generations will likely pay the price.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team from Georgia Tech and the University of Minnesota conducted a youth disaster resilience program at the Cape Flats YMCA in Cape Town, South Africa.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team from Georgia Tech and the University of Minnesota conducted a youth disaster resilience program at the Cape Flats YMCA in Cape Town, South Africa. 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The seed grant program is administered by BBISS in collaboration with the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI), the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), and the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT). The program nurtures promising areas for future large-scale collaborative sustainability research, research translation, and high-impact outreach; provides mid-career faculty with leadership and community-building opportunities; and broadens and strengthens the Georgia Tech sustainability community as a whole.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe call for proposals was modeled after the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research\u2019s (EVPR) \u201cMoving Teams Forward\u201d and \u201cForming Teams\u201d programs. All told, the work of 49 researchers \u2014 from 19 Schools in five Colleges, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), and external partners and research professionals from several of Georgia Tech\u2019s Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs) \u2014\u0026nbsp;will benefit from these grants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMoving Teams Forward\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EToward a Center on Effective Climate Communication; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/people\/bruce-n-walker\u0022\u003EBruce Walker\u003C\/a\u003E (Psych), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lozier-dr-susan\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E (EAS), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/music.gatech.edu\/claire-arthur\u0022\u003EClaire Arthur\u003C\/a\u003E (Music), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/jessica-roberts\u0022\u003EJessica Roberts\u003C\/a\u003E (IC), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cc.gatech.edu\/people\/carrie-bruce\u0022\u003ECarrie Bruce\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 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Muzna Raheel was awarded the first Peace Tech Fellowship and will partner with the Center\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cartercenter.org\/peace\/conflict_resolution\/index.html\u0022\u003EConflict Resolution Program\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGomen\u2019s research interests include democracy and technology, election administration, surveillance, censorship, and digital security education. She is pursuing a Master of Science in computer science at Georgia Tech. Gomen is also serving as a researcher for Assistant Professor Michael Specter, who has a joint appointment in computer science and cybersecurity and privacy. Gomen\u2019s fellowship is funded jointly by the Carter Center\u2019s Democracy Program and Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERaheel\u2019s research interests focus on Middle East conflicts, specifically major causes, players, and conflict dynamics and utilizing data analysis and geographic information systems\u0026nbsp;(GIS) to map conflict zones, humanitarian interventions, and peacekeeping operations. She is pursuing a Master of Science in global development at Georgia Tech. Her fellowship is funded jointly by the Center\u2019s Conflict Resolution Program and Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese research fellowships build on the long-term and ongoing collaboration between Georgia Tech and The Carter Center.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E###\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EIn Atlanta, Maria Cartaya, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maria.cartaya@cartercenter.org\u0022\u003Emaria.cartaya@cartercenter.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Carter Center\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWaging Peace. Fighting Disease. Building Hope.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, The Carter Center has helped to improve life for people in over 80 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; and improving mental health care.\u0026nbsp;The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and health worldwide.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EVisit our website\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cartercenter.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECarterCenter.org\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Cem\u003EFollow us on X\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cartercenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E@CarterCenter\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Cem\u003EFollow us on Instagram\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thecartercenter\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E@thecartercenter\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E | \u003Cem\u003ELike us on Facebook\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cartercenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFacebook.com\/CarterCenter\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;| \u003Cem\u003EWatch us on YouTube\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cartercenter\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYouTube.com\/CarterCenter\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;Georgia Institute of Technology,\u0026nbsp;or\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech,\u0026nbsp;is one of the top public research universities in the U.S., developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute offers\u202fbusiness, computing, design, engineering, liberal arts,\u202fand\u202fsciences\u0026nbsp;degrees. Its more than 47,000 undergraduate and graduate students, representing 50 states and more than 148 countries, study at the main campus in Atlanta, at campuses in Europe and Asia, and through distance and online learning. As a leading technological university, Georgia Tech is an engine of economic development for Georgia, the Southeast, and the nation, conducting more than $1.2 billion in research annually for government, industry, and society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EContact:\u003C\/strong\u003E Walter Rich, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto: walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewalter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology today announced the recipients of fellowships in which students will collaborate with The Carter Center during the fall 2024 academic semester.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Georgia Institute of Technology today announced the recipients of fellowships in which students will collaborate with The Carter Center during the fall 2024 academic semester."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-10-11 13:36:19","changed_gmt":"2024-10-15 19:58:32","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675288":{"id":"675288","type":"image","title":"Muzna Raheel and Delaney Gomen pictured (left-to-right).","body":"\u003Cp\u003ENew Carter Center Fellows \u003Cstrong\u003EMuzna Raheel\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EDelaney Gomen\u003C\/strong\u003E pictured (left-to-right).\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1728653318","gmt_created":"2024-10-11 13:28:38","changed":"1728679637","gmt_changed":"2024-10-11 20:47:17","alt":"Muzna Raheel and Delaney Gomen pictured (left-to-right).","file":{"fid":"258895","name":"IMG_6541 copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/11\/IMG_6541%20copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/11\/IMG_6541%20copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5628928,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/10\/11\/IMG_6541%20copy.jpg?itok=oiUWGJj_"}}},"media_ids":["675288"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677737":{"#nid":"677737","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gillian Hayes Receives IPaT Distinguished Alumni Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGillian Hayes, who received her doctorate in computer science from Georgia Tech in 2007, was honored with the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) Distinguished Alumni Award. The IPaT award, a successor to the GVU Alumni Award, recognizes impactful research through people-centered technologies that help to shape the global future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer research interests are in human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, assistive and educational technologies, and health informatics. She designs, develops, deploys, and evaluates technologies to empower people to use collected data to address real human needs in sensitive and ethically responsible ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHayes delivered IPaT\u2019s distinguished alumni lecture on October 17, 2024 in the ballroom of the Technology Square Research Building. Her lecture, \u201cCommunity-Engaged Research in Autism and ADHD Technologies,\u201d explored the trajectory of her innovative work, sustained community research partnerships, and emphasized key milestones in the development of autism and ADHD technologies by her lab. 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Through the recently\u0026nbsp;launched \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/watchthevoteatl.com\u0022\u003EWatchtheVoteAtl.org\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech and The BLK+Cross will track problematic online content and train students and the local community to rapidly identify and\u0026nbsp;counter such content\u0026nbsp;including misinformation during the November 2024 general election cycle.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have spent the last two decades examining the role, the promises, and the peril of information technology in political development\u0026nbsp;and democratic deepening,\u201d said Georgia Tech\u2019s Michael Best,\u0026nbsp;executive director of IPaT. \u201cThis project\u2019s hyper-focus on Fulton County allows us to have a real-world impact on our own home turf while also creating new globally generalizable methods to identify and respond to online electoral misinformation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe BLK+Cross is thrilled to be working with Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology again on such an important cause \u2014 disrupting misinformation and defending our democracy.\u0026nbsp;With the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw first-hand, the threat that mis- and disinformation posed to public health. Now that voting has been designated a social determinant of health, we are excited to be working with IPaT on yet another project that \u0026nbsp;addresses social vulnerability in social media, the new town square. As disinformation continues to run rampant, we are battling bots at this point. It is of critical importance to protect the power local communities have over their own digital narrative, as well as protect our collective right to vote,\u201d said Gail Brooks, principal of The BLK+Cross.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe BLK+Cross will work alongside\u0026nbsp;Amanda Meng, research scientist with the School of Computer Science, and Michael Best, who is also a professor with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, to recruit and train volunteers\u0026nbsp;to be part of a social media monitoring team,\u0026nbsp;research and identify key areas of\u0026nbsp;misinformation, and\u0026nbsp;participate as social media monitors during a high-intensity tracking\u0026nbsp;period around the election day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis\u0026nbsp;effort coincides with the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, when students led the campaign to register Black voters. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/watchthevoteatl.com\/\u0022\u003EWatchtheVoteATL.org\u003C\/a\u003E platform empowers today\u2019s students to stay informed about key election issues, political platforms, and policies, by helping them\u0026nbsp; determine truth from rhetoric. The initiative enables participants to share critical news and perspectives with their peers, families, and communities,\u0026nbsp;ultimately encouraging informed non-partisan voter registration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Georgia\u0026nbsp;Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology\u0027s (IPaT) goal is to maximize Georgia Tech\u2019s societal impact through people-centered innovation. They support and connect faculty and students across the entire Georgia Tech campus by blurring the lines between academic disciplines and partnering to translate research results into real-world use. Georgia Tech is at the forefront of science and technology research, and home to state-of-the-art facilities and world-renowned experts who are working every day to find answers to tough problems. IPaT brings together researchers, industry, and other partners to identify technology solutions that will shape our global future. IPaT was created in 2011 to embrace these opportunities and needs, to create a networked research ecosystem of Georgia Tech faculty and industry partners, and to amplify their combined thought leadership and on-the-ground results to create a positive economic and societal impact in critical areas that define much of everyday life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout The BLK+Cross\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe BLK+Cross brings over \u003Cstrong\u003E20 years experience\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eleveraging ethnographic and digital technologies to better understand and engage BIPOC, youth, and socially vulnerable populations through culture. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact information:\u003Cbr\u003EMartine Charles, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:martine@marcglobalcommunications.com\u0022\u003Emartine@marcglobalcommunications.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMitch Messinger, \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mitchell@marcglobalcommunications.com\u0022\u003Emitchell@marcglobalcommunications.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWalter Rich,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:%20walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewalter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThrough the recently launched WatchtheVoteAtl.org, Georgia Tech and The BLK+Cross will track problematic online content and train students and the local community to rapidly identify and counter such content including misinformation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Through the recently launched WatchtheVoteAtl.org, Georgia Tech and The BLK+Cross will track problematic online content and train students and the local community to rapidly identify and counter such content including misinformation."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-10-21 15:45:05","changed_gmt":"2024-10-28 13:19:15","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675374":{"id":"675374","type":"image","title":"WatchtheVoteAtl.org","body":"\u003Cp\u003EThrough the recently launched WatchtheVoteAtl.org, Georgia Tech and The BLK+Cross will track problematic online content and train students and the local community to rapidly identify and counter such content including misinformation.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1729525143","gmt_created":"2024-10-21 15:39:03","changed":"1729525170","gmt_changed":"2024-10-21 15:39:30","alt":"Through the recently launched WatchtheVoteAtl.org, Georgia Tech and The BLK+Cross will track problematic online content and train students and the local community to rapidly identify and counter such content including misinformation.","file":{"fid":"258988","name":"ATL-WTV-image-WR.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/21\/ATL-WTV-image-WR.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/21\/ATL-WTV-image-WR.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":252803,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/10\/21\/ATL-WTV-image-WR.jpg?itok=SHCxpwGt"}}},"media_ids":["675374"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677801":{"#nid":"677801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NASA Summer Camp Inspires Future Climate Leaders","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/\u0022\u003ECEAR\u003C\/a\u003E Hub partnered with the University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to host a week-long NASA Sea Level Changemakers Summer Camp, introducing 14 rising 7th-8th\u0026nbsp;graders to\u0026nbsp;how\u0026nbsp;coastal areas are changing due to sea level rise. CEAR Hub is a project that joins community organizations, local governments, and educational institutions together to develop the knowledge, tools, and strategies that make our communities more resilient.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESet at the UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium on Skidaway Island, the camp offered students hands-on activities and outdoor educational experiences, where they analyzed real data collected by NASA scientists and learned about community adaptations to flooding.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents interacted with experts from NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Georgia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, gaining insights into satellite observations, green infrastructure, environmental sensors, and careers related to sea level rise. The camp also included a visit to the Pin Point Heritage Museum, where students engaged with leaders from the historic Gullah Geechee community of Pin Point. The camp concluded with a boat trip to Wassaw Island, where students observed the effects of sea level rise on an undeveloped barrier island and compared these observations with earlier findings from urban environments. Funding from the NASA Science Activation Program ensured that the camp was accessible to all students, eliminating financial barriers for groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERussell Clark, a member of the Georgia Tech\u0027s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), is CEAR Hub\u0027s principal investigator\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArticle originally posted on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/post\/nasa-summer-camp-inspires-future-climate-leaders\u0022\u003ECEAR HUB news\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe CEAR Hub partnered with the University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to host a week-long NASA Sea Level Changemakers Summer Camp.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The CEAR Hub partnered with the University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant to host a week-long NASA Sea Level Changemakers Summer Camp"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-10-22 15:12:25","changed_gmt":"2025-07-17 18:09:52","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675397":{"id":"675397","type":"image","title":"CEAR-Nasa students","body":"\u003Cp\u003ERising Georgia 7th-8th\u0026nbsp;graders learn\u0026nbsp;how\u0026nbsp;coastal areas are changing due to sea level rise.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1729609265","gmt_created":"2024-10-22 15:01:05","changed":"1729609457","gmt_changed":"2024-10-22 15:04:17","alt":"Rising Georgia 7th-8th\u00a0graders learn\u00a0how\u00a0coastal areas are changing due to sea level rise.\u00a0","file":{"fid":"259014","name":"screen_724-nasa-cear.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/22\/screen_724-nasa-cear.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/22\/screen_724-nasa-cear.png","mime":"image\/png","size":9289519,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/10\/22\/screen_724-nasa-cear.png?itok=x71XwEYF"}}},"media_ids":["675397"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677826":{"#nid":"677826","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Russell Clark Named Interim Director of Sustainability","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERussell Clark, lead principal investigator of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/\u0022\u003ECoastal Equity and Resilience Hub\u003C\/a\u003E (CEAR) and senior research scientist at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E (IPaT), has been named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT where he can help drive the practice and culture of sustainability related to IPaT\u2019s research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSustainability has been an important and growing theme for Georgia Tech during the last several years as evidenced by Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustain.gatech.edu\/sustainability-next-plan\/\u0022\u003ESustainability Next plan\u003C\/a\u003E,\u201d said Clark. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to this new role which aligns with the Institute\u2019s strategic vision and goals.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EClark has been supporting IPaT in various roles for many years and continues with a joint appointment as faculty in the School of Computer Science. He earned his doctoral degree from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and was the co-director of the Georgia Tech Research Network Operations Center which supported a variety of research projects across campus.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was also part of the leadership team creating the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sealevelsensors.org\/\u0022\u003ESmart Sea Level Sensors\u003C\/a\u003E project that installed internet-enabled water level sensors across flood-vulnerable Chatham County via a working partnership between officials from the Chatham [County] Emergency Management Agency (CEMA), the City of Savannah, and Georgia Tech scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to IPaT\u2019s research, Clark is working to incorporate educational opportunities for Georgia K-12 students to learn more about resiliency, sustainability, and emergency preparedness. Sharing the latest environmental, economic, and social sustainability research topics are part of his community engagement vision which he has already done by working with Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECEISMC\u003C\/a\u003E) which enhances PreK-12 and post-secondary STEM education in the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the college level, Clark, through CEAR Hub, is establishing a new Vertically Integrated Projects Program team which engages undergraduate and graduate students in ambitious, long-term, large-scale, multidisciplinary projects. His resilience and sustainable knowledge expertise has been utilized to teach and co-advise students across campus in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Georgia Tech\u2019s Lorraine campus in France.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMy long and deep involvement with the Georgia coastal community where I live today has created a passion for pursuing research focused on resilience and sustainability,\u201d said Clark. \u201cI hope to build on Georgia Tech\u2019s rich history of sustainability to forge innovative relationships, elevate research and education, and improve the long-term economic and commercialization potential for the state of Georgia with our current and future research projects.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERussell Clark, lead principal investigator of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/\u0022\u003ECoastal Equity and Resilience Hub\u003C\/a\u003E (CEAR) and senior research scientist at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E (IPaT), has been named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Russell Clark, lead principal investigator of the Coastal Equity and Resilience Hub (CEAR) and senior research scientist at the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), has been named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-10-22 19:58:18","changed_gmt":"2024-10-22 19:59:18","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675406":{"id":"675406","type":"image","title":"Russell Clark named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT.","body":"\u003Cp\u003ERussell Clark named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1729626901","gmt_created":"2024-10-22 19:55:01","changed":"1729626988","gmt_changed":"2024-10-22 19:56:28","alt":"Russell Clark named the interim director of sustainability for IPaT.","file":{"fid":"259024","name":"Photo Oct 12-Russ-WR-ed3_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/22\/Photo%20Oct%2012-Russ-WR-ed3_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/10\/22\/Photo%20Oct%2012-Russ-WR-ed3_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2345786,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/10\/22\/Photo%20Oct%2012-Russ-WR-ed3_0.jpg?itok=I-C6IcHc"}}},"media_ids":["675406"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"677936":{"#nid":"677936","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building Resilient Communities: Insights from Kait Morano at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent interview on The Weather Channel, \u003Cstrong\u003EKait Morano\u003C\/strong\u003E, a research scientist from Georgia Tech, discussed disaster resilience and the strategies communities can adopt to withstand extreme weather events. The discussion was particularly focused on the aftermath of hurricanes and the opportunities for rebuilding that they present.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUnderstanding Resilience:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMorano emphasized that while events like Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton, and other powerful storms cause widespread devastation, they also provide unique opportunities for transformative change. \u0022Communities can take advantage of funding sources available after extreme events from the federal government, private equity firms, and philanthropic organizations to build back better,\u0022 she said. \u201cThe key is having post-disaster redevelopment plans in place to seize these opportunities and build resilience against increasing storm frequency and severity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Role of Zoning:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe conversation also touched on the controversial topic of zoning. Morano acknowledged that while zoning can be politically and publicly contentious, post-disaster scenarios create a window for necessary change. \u0022Often, zoning ordinances inadvertently encourage development in high-risk areas,\u0022 she explained. \u201cPost-disaster periods allow communities to reassess these policies and potentially shift development to lower-risk areas, enhancing overall safety and resilience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoving Forward:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMorano\u0027s insights highlight the need for proactive planning and policy reassessment to create safer, more resilient communities. As extreme weather events become more frequent, her expertise underscores the importance of seizing post-disaster opportunities to implement long-term, sustainable changes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor communities looking to weather the storms of the future, the message is clear: resilience is not just about surviving the next storm, but about preparing and planning to thrive in the face of inevitable challenges according to Morano.\u003Cbr\u003E---\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKait Morano is the resilience planning director for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/\u0022\u003ECEAR Hub\u003C\/a\u003E and research scientist with Georgia Tech. CEAR Hub, a research project supported by Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, is working with coastal communities to build a future informed by data, guided by strategy, and empowered by knowledge. 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The impact recognition award is given for strong examples of work that demonstrates or has clear potential to demonstrate real-world or practical impact.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHer paper, \u201cMending the Fabric: the Contentious, Collaborative Work of Repairing Broadband Maps,\u201d was co-authored by Elizabeth Belding at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Morgan Vigil-Hayes at Northern Arizona University, and Ellen Zegura, professor of computer science at Georgia Tech who also serves as Palacios Abad\u2019s advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer research paper shows that the repair of broadband data maps in the U.S. involves a complex interplay between competition and collaboration among various stakeholders, mediated by the government. The process disproportionately burdens marginalized groups, who are often tasked with correcting the official records that misrepresent their communities. Accurate, repaired maps are crucial for guiding substantial investments in broadband infrastructure, emphasizing the need for better tools and support for long-term, community-driven efforts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis study underscores the ongoing struggle for better broadband and the critical role of accurate data in shaping policy and infrastructure investments. The paper calls for a more inclusive approach to broadband map repair, recognizing the efforts and challenges faced by those working in digital inclusion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECITATION:\u003C\/strong\u003E Beatriz Palacios Abad, Ellen Zegura, et. al. \u201cMending the Fabric: the Contentious, Collaborative Work of Repairing Broadband Maps\u201d \u003Cem\u003EProc. ACM Hum.-Comput.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EVol. 8, CSCW2, Article 464 (November 2024). \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3687003\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3687003\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBeatriz Palacios Abad, a computer science doctoral student in Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing, won both a best paper award and impact recognition award at the 2024 ACM SIGCHI conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Beatriz Palacios Abad, a computer science doctoral student in Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Computing, won both a best paper award and impact recognition award at the 2024 ACM SIGCHI conference "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2024-11-12 14:42:08","changed_gmt":"2025-01-23 16:10:01","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675584":{"id":"675584","type":"image","title":"Beatriz Palacios Abad","body":"\u003Cp\u003EBeatriz Palacios Abad\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1731422426","gmt_created":"2024-11-12 14:40:26","changed":"1731422456","gmt_changed":"2024-11-12 14:40:56","alt":"Beatriz Palacios Abad","file":{"fid":"259224","name":"Bea--image-blend-copy-smaller.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/12\/Bea--image-blend-copy-smaller.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/12\/Bea--image-blend-copy-smaller.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1034655,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/11\/12\/Bea--image-blend-copy-smaller.png?itok=sQYZaKh-"}}},"media_ids":["675584"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto: walter.rich@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"678436":{"#nid":"678436","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Foley Scholars 2024 Winners and Finalists","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWinners and finalists for the 2024 Foley Scholar Awards were celebrated at Georgia Tech\u0027s hotel and convention center on November 12, 2024. The event was hosted by the Institute for People and Technology with its executive director, Michael Best, serving as the master of ceremonies as each finalist was recognized for their innovative research. James Foley, professor emeritus and for whom the awards are named for, once again delivered inspiring and valuable insight at the conclusion of the evening\u0027s festivities celebrating the achievements of all finalists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Congratulations to the awardees and finalists who represent the finest that Georgia Tech has to offer,\u0022 said Michael Best. \u0022Our judges had a difficult task of selecting winners this year because each finalist was so outstanding,\u0022 said Best.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECongratulations to the 2024 Foley Scholars who are:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMomin Siddiqui\u003C\/strong\u003E, M.S. student in computer science was awarded $1,000.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVanessa Oguamanam\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student in computer science was awarded $5,000.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Ramey\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D student in computer science was awarded $5,000.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJiawei Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D student in human centered computing was awarded $5,000.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finalists in the master\u0027s category were Jordan Brown, Jared Lim, Da Hee (Stephanie) Kim, and Momin Siddiqui.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finalists in the Ph.D. category were Beatriz Palacios Abad, Adam Coscia, Eric Greenlee, Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Vishal Sharma, Vanessa Oguamanam, Charles Ramey, and Jiawei Zhou.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA short description of each finalists\u0027 unique research along with their Georgia Tech faculty advisor is listed below:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJordan Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u0027s student in human computer interaction advised by Andrea Parker. Her research vision is to design and innovate technology that empowers and promotes the emotional and physical wellbeing for underrepresented groups, specifically Black women.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJared Lim\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u0027s student in computer science advised by Judith Uchidiuno. His primary research interest is providing computer science opportunities for children from low-resource communities through informal settings or settings outside the traditional classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDa Hee (Stephanie) Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u0027s student in human computer interaction advised by Mengyao Li. Her research is focused on leveraging robot-mediated intimacy to help couples in long-distance relationships maintain and deepen their emotional intimacy, using an interdisciplinary approach between philosophical, psychological, and human-robot interaction methods and theories.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMomin Siddiqui\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u0027s student in computer science advised by Chris MacLellan. His research wants to understand how to leverage artificial intelligence to build education technologies that foster a creative, adaptive, and constructionist learning experience for students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeatriz Palacios Abad\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in computer science advised by Ellen Zegura. Her research work lies at the intersection of networking, policy, and human centered computing, focusing on mobile broadband mapping. Her overall research vision is to inform policy and technological efforts in the pursuit of digital inclusion. Specifically, with the goal of supporting localized, community organizing efforts around broadband.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAdam Coscia\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in human centered computing advised by Alex Endert. His research vision is to develop and deploy responsible and trustworthy AI in education. The advent of generalizable and scalable AI models, namely large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, has catalyzed educational communities to begin integrating LLMs into novel adaptive learning tools, such as chatbots for answering questions about course material, or interactive conversational aids for learning and feedback. Yet LLMs have also been shown to introduce potential pedagogical risks and harms, such as responding with misinformation and discriminatory language and biasing scores when used for grading.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEric Greenlee\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in computer science advised by Josiah Hester and Ellen Zegure. His research aims to build relationships with historically marginalized communities and to co-design environmental sensing systems that promote their sovereignty and self-advocacy. He also develops novel electronic cyberinfrastructure that provides information about the environment in both a socially and environmentally sustainable manner.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlexandra Teixeira Riggs\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in digital media advised by Anne Sullivan. Their overarching research vision is to develop a set of design recommendations and approaches for queering, or critically reorienting, the design of tangible embodied interactive experiences that explore queer history. They are drawing from several prior projects to conceptualize a body of work, looking to how they have each involved archival ephemera, critical human computer interaction, and tangible making, towards reframing histories and empowering queer communities today.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVishal Sharma\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in human centered computing advised by Neha Kumar. As a sociotechnical researcher, he studies the design and use of digital technologies in supporting climate justice. He aims to expand the human-computer interaction scholarship on climate justice, paving the way for a future where technology actively supports sustainable development for all.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVanessa Oguamanam\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in computer science advised by Andrea Parker. Her research contributes to the fields of human-computer interaction, digital health equity, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. She conducts empirical research examining the utilization and perceptions of consumer digital health technologies to support mental health among perinatal Black women, assessing the extent to which these tools satisfy their needs. Her insights underscore the importance of nuanced approaches to digital interventions that can accommodate women\u0027s unique needs and perspectives with particular intersectional experiences and identities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles Ramey\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in computer science advised by Thad Starner and Melody Jackson. His research utilizes wearable and embedded computers, along with AI, to enable humans to communicate with, better care for, and work with non-human animals. He believes that advances gained in understanding the sensory, cognitive, and communicative abilities of non-human animals will create a world more empathetic to all species with whom we share our planet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJiawei Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in human centered computing advised by Munmun DeChoudhury. According to Zhou, information is integral to every aspect of our lives, from personal decisions to professional activities. Careful and mindful approaches to meeting informational needs are vital to navigating the abundance of available information, critically consuming content, and protecting ourselves from misinformation and manipulation. Her goal is to pursue a research agenda on the role of technologies in shaping individual wellbeing and social ecologies, as well as responsible communication and public education of technological capabilities and limitations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the James D. Foley Endowment\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/foley-endowment\u0022\u003EJames D. Foley Endowment\u003C\/a\u003E, established in 2007, is named for James D. Foley, professor and founder of the GVU Center (now integrated with IPaT as of January, 2023) at Georgia Tech. The award was established by Foley\u0027s colleagues and IPaT\/GVU alumni to honor his significant contributions in the field of computing, his influence on the work of others, and his dedication to the development of new research directions.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFunds from the Foley Endowment are used to support the students and research activities of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), including the Foley Scholars Fellowships, awarded annually to two graduate students on the basis of personal vision, brilliance, and potential impact. 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The workshop was sponsored by the Agile Systems Lab (run by Simon Sponberg in the School of Physics) through the Multidisciplinary Research Initiative with support from the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT). This hands-on workshop was spearheaded by Yash Sondhi, a postdoctoral researcher from the Agile Systems Lab at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIPaT\u2019s lab spaces (the Craft Lab and Prototyping Lab) provided both space and technical assistance for the workshop participants. IPaT faculty member Tim Trent manages both labs and provided generous assistance throughout the workshop to build the traps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe MothBox is an automated light trap that attracts and photographs moths and other nocturnal insects. A raspberry pi (mini-computer) controls a super high-resolution camera and lights, so that the MothBox can be deployed and programmed to collect data at a pre-defined schedule. A computer vision model then processes the images and automatically identifies the insects captured by the trap. Insect censuses are valuable tools for assessing the state of an ecosystem, especially insects\u2019 vast numbers, short lifespan, and proximity to the base of the food chain.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMothbox was selected as a 2024 WILDLABS Awards winner.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA detailed review of the workshop was posted by WILDLABS.NET discussing the construction of the moth boxes where participants gained hands-on experience building and testing them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wildlabs.net\/article\/mothbox-updates-recap-our-mothbox-v45-workshop-atlanta\u0022\u003ERead the full workshop article here \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tRgOkhtu4I0\u0022\u003EWatch Andy Quitmeyer\u0027s Mothbox lecture \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E he delivered as a keynote lecture at Georgia Tech on Oct. 29, 2024 in support of the workshop. Andy Quitmeyer, Ph.D., designs new ways to interact with the natural world. His transdisciplinary work spans scientific and design processes, from material exploration and natural experimentation to artistic outreach.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) along with the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award sponsored a two-day Mothbox science workshop held on October 28-29, 2024.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) along with the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award sponsored a two-day Mothbox science workshop held on October 28-29, 2024. 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Who gets to be in the room is determined by whose paper gets accepted,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eilab.gatech.edu\/mark-riedl.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMark Riedl\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, School of IC professor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInstead, we wanted the summit talks to speculate on future directions and what challenges we as a community should be thinking about going forward.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe two-day summit, held at Tech\u2019s Global Learning Center Oct. 28-30, convened to discuss consequential questions like:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIs society ready to accept more responsibility as greater advancements in technologies like AI are made?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EShould society stop to think about potential consequences before these advancements are implemented on its behalf, and what could those consequences be?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhat policies should be enacted for these technologies to mitigate harms and augment societal benefits?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA highlight of the summit\u2019s opening day was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meredithringelmorris\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMeredith\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ERingel\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EMorris\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0027s keynote address. As director of human-AI interaction research at Google DeepMind, she presented a possible future in which humans could use AI to create a digital afterlife.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn her remarks, Morris discussed AI clones, which are AI avatars of specific human beings with high autonomy and task-performing capabilities. Someone could leave such an agent behind as a memory for loved ones to enjoy once they are gone, and future generations could access it to learn more about an ancestor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the other hand, it could easily lead to loved ones experiencing extended grief because they have trouble moving on from losing a family member.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese AI capabilities are in development and will soon be publicly available. As industry and academic researchers continue to develop them, the public needs to learn about their eminent impacts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a lot that needs to be done in educating people,\u201d Morris said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for well-intentioned and thoughtful system designers to anticipate all the harm. We must be prepared some people are going to use AI in ways we don\u2019t anticipate, and some of those ways are going to be undesirable. What legal and education structures can we create that will help?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Morris\u2019s keynote, the summit\u2019s first day included 20 talks about future and emerging technologies in AI, sustainability, healthcare, and other fields.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second day featured eight talks on translating interventions and safeguards into policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDay-two speakers included:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOrly\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ELobel\u003C\/strong\u003E, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and director of the Center for Employment and Labor Policy at the University of California-San Diego. Lobel worked on President Obama\u2019s policy team on innovation and labor market competition, and she advises the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESorelle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFriedler\u003C\/strong\u003E, Shibulal Family Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. She worked in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) under the Biden-Harris Administration and helped draft the AI Bill of Rights.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJake\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EMetcalf\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eresearcher and program director for AI on the Ground at the think tank Data \u0026amp; Society. The organization produces reports on data science and equity for the US Government.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDivyansh\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EKaushik\u003C\/strong\u003E, Vice President of Beacon Global Strategies, has given testimony to the US Senate on AI research and development.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaushik earned a Ph.D. in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University before beginning his career in policy. He highlighted the importance of policymakers fostering relationships with academic researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPolicymakers think about what could go wrong,\u201d Kaushik said. \u201cAcademia can offer evidence-based answers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe summit also hosted a doctoral consortium, which allowed advanced Ph.D. students to present their research to experts and receive feedback and mentoring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBeing an interdisciplinary researcher is challenging,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/shaowenbardzell.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShaowen Bardzell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, School of IC chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe wanted the next generation to be in the room listening to the experts share their visions and also to provide our own experiences when possible on how to navigate the challenges and rewards of doing work in the intersection of AI, healthcare, sustainability, and policy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWith looming questions about AI\u0027s growing roles and consequences in nearly every facet of modern life, School of Interactive Computing organizers felt the time was right to diverge from traditional conferences focusing on past work and published research and establish an annual forward-thinking conference to address societal impacts of AI-driven technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Interactive Computing Chair has led a faculty initiative establishing an annual forward-thinking conference to address societal impacts of AI-driven technologies."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2024-11-12 16:43:34","changed_gmt":"2024-11-14 15:24:34","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-11-12T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675637":{"id":"675637","type":"image","title":" Meredith Ringel Morris, Google DeepMind director of human-AI interaction research speaking at the School of Interactive Computing\u2019s inaugural Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society.","body":null,"created":"1731595600","gmt_created":"2024-11-14 14:46:40","changed":"1731595600","gmt_changed":"2024-11-14 14:46:40","alt":" Meredith Ringel Morris, Google DeepMind director of human-AI interaction research speaking at the School of Interactive Computing\u2019s inaugural Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society.","file":{"fid":"259283","name":"Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society_86A9894-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/14\/Summit%20on%20Responsible%20Computing%2C%20AI%2C%20and%20Society_86A9894-Enhanced-NR.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/11\/14\/Summit%20on%20Responsible%20Computing%2C%20AI%2C%20and%20Society_86A9894-Enhanced-NR.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":27034,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/11\/14\/Summit%20on%20Responsible%20Computing%2C%20AI%2C%20and%20Society_86A9894-Enhanced-NR.jpg?itok=eDdLEdcM"}},"675595":{"id":"675595","type":"image","title":"School of IC\u0027s Josiah Hester (left) and Cindy Lin discuss AI\u0027s future impact on sustainability. 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These AI-generated videos, which can convincingly alter the appearance, voice, or actions of political figures, have become a powerful tool for misinformation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/mark-riedl-human-centered-artificial-intelligence-expert\u0022\u003EMark Riedl,\u003C\/a\u003E a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing and associate director of the Georgia Tech Machine Learning Center, shared his concerns about the implications of deepfakes in politics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMisinformation and the role of deepfakes are on everyone\u2019s mind as we go into election cycles,\u201d Riedl said. \u201cWhat we are seeing is that malicious actors are starting to use generative AI increasingly in the creation of misinformation campaigns.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this escalating conflict, battling the deepfakes, or aggressors, has become even more challenging.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we think of the arms race between the people who are using generative AI to create misinformation campaigns and the people using technology to detect them, the aggressors are well ahead,\u201d he noted. This imbalance is troubling, as current detection techniques often fail to identify deepfakes or mistakenly flag genuine content, leading to what Riedl describes as \u201cplausible deniability.\u201d This plausible deniability allows individuals to dismiss real events as fabrications, further eroding public trust.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDue to the increasing sophistication of deepfakes during election cycles, robust detection systems and regulatory measures are urgently needed to safeguard democratic processes. \u201cThere isn\u2019t a lot that regulation is really going to do to change the trajectory that we\u2019re on. More enforcement, faster enforcement, faster shutting down of the bots and things like that will still be important,\u201d Riedl explained.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs deepfakes become more prevalent, the challenge for technologists and policymakers is to stay ahead of malicious actors and ensure that the public can trust the media they consume. 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The two collaborated on a benchmark academic paper that examines the landscape of the ethical issues surrounding AI and copyright in industry and academic spaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are scenarios where courts may overreact to having a book corpus on your computer, and you didn\u2019t pay for it,\u201d Riedl said. \u201cIf you trained a model for an academic paper, as my students often do, that\u2019s not a problem right now. The courts could deem training is not fair use. That would have huge implications for academia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want academics to be free to do their research without fear of repercussions in the marketplace because they\u2019re not competing in the marketplace,\u201d Riedl said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/desai\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDesai\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is the Sue and John Stanton Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScheller College of Business\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. He researches how business interests and new technology shape privacy, intellectual property, and competition law. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eilab.gatech.edu\/mark-riedl.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERiedl\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is a professor at the College of Computing\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, researching human-centered AI, generative AI, explainable AI, and gaming AI.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir paper, \u003Cem\u003EBetween Copyright and Computer Science: The Law and Ethics of Generative AI\u003C\/em\u003E, was published in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu\/njtip\/vol22\/iss1\/2\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENorthwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E on Monday.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesai and Riedl say they want to offer solutions that balance the interests of various stakeholders. But that requires compromise from all sides.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers should accept they may have to pay for the data they use to train AI models. Content creators, on the other hand, should receive compensation, but they may need to accept less money to ensure data remains affordable for academic researchers to acquire.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho Benefits?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe doctrine of fair use is at the center of every copyright debate. According to the U.S. Copyright Office, fair use permits the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances, such as distributing information for the public good, including teaching and research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFair use is often challenged when one or more parties profit from published works without compensating the authors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAny original published content, including a personal website on the internet, is protected by copyright. However, copyrighted material is republished on websites or posted on social media innumerable times every day without the consent of the original authors.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn most cases, it\u2019s unlikely copyright violators gained financially from their infringement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut Desai said business-to-business cases are different. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/27\/business\/media\/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is one of many daily newspapers and media companies that have sued OpenAI for using its content as training data. Microsoft is also a defendant in The New York Times\u2019 suit because it invested billions of dollars into OpenAI\u2019s development of AI tools like ChatGPT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou can take a copyrighted photo and put it in your Twitter post or whatever you want,\u201d Desai said. \u201cThat\u2019s probably annoying to the owner. Economically, they probably wanted to be paid. But that\u2019s not business to business. What\u2019s happening with Open AI and The New York Times is business to business. That\u2019s big money.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpenAI started as a nonprofit dedicated to the safe development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2014 AI that, in theory, can rival human thinking and possess autonomy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese AI models would require massive amounts of data and expensive supercomputers to process that data. OpenAI could not raise enough money to afford such resources, so it created a for-profit arm controlled by its parent nonprofit.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesai, Riedl, and many others argue that OpenAI ceased its research mission for the public good and began developing consumer products.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf you\u2019re doing basic research that you\u2019re not releasing to the world, it doesn\u2019t matter if every so often it plagiarizes The New York Times,\u201d Riedl said. \u201cNo one is economically benefitting from that. When they became a for-profit and produced a product, now they were making money from plagiarized text.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpenAI\u2019s for-profit arm is valued at $80 billion, but content creators have not received a dime since the company has scraped massive amounts of copyrighted material as training data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe New York Times has posted warnings on its sites that its content cannot be used to train AI models. Many other websites offer a robot.txt file that contains instructions for bots about which pages can and cannot be accessed.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENeither of these measures are legally binding and are often ignored.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESolutions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesai and Riedl offer a few options for companies to show good faith in rectifying the situation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESpend the money. Desai says Open AI and Microsoft could have afforded its training data and avoided the hassle of legal consequences.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cIf you do the math on the costs to buy the books and copy them, they could have paid for them,\u201d he said. \u201cIt would\u2019ve been a multi-million dollar investment, but they\u2019re a multi-billion dollar company.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBe selective. Models can be trained on randomly selected texts from published works, allowing the model to understand the writing style without plagiarizing.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cI don\u2019t need the entire text of War and Peace,\u201d Desai said. \u201cTo capture the way authors express themselves, I might only need a hundred pages. I\u2019ve also reduced the chance that my model will cough up entire texts.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELeverage libraries. The authors agree libraries could serve as an ideal middle ground as a place to store published works and compensate authors for access to those works, though the amount may be less than desired.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cMost of the objections you could raise are taken care of,\u201d Desai said. \u201cThey are legitimate access copies that are secure. You get access to only as much as you need. Libraries at universities have already become schools of information.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesai and Riedl hope the legal action taken by publications like The New York Times will send a message to companies that develop AI tools to pump the breaks. If they don\u2019t, researchers uninterested in profit could pay the steepest price.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe authors say it\u2019s not a new problem but is reaching a boiling point.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn the history of copyright, there are ways that society has dealt with the problem of compensating creators and technology that copies or reduces your ability to extract money from your creation,\u201d Desai said. \u201cWe wanted to point out there\u2019s a way to get there.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo years since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT, dozens of lawsuits have been filed alleging technology companies have infringed copyright by using published works to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcademic AI research efforts could be significantly hindered if courts rule in the plaintiffs\u0027 favor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDesai and Riedl are Georgia Tech researchers raising awareness about how these court rulings could force academic researchers to construct new AI models with limited training data. 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The dataset provides a new resource to study how public correspondence affects businesses and markets.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjECTive-QA is the first human-curated dataset on question-answer pairs from earnings call transcripts (ECTs). The dataset teaches models to identify subjective features in ECTs, like clarity and cautiousness. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dataset lays the foundation for a new approach to identifying disinformation and misinformation caused by nuances in speech. While ECT responses can be technically true, unclear or irrelevant information can misinform stakeholders and affect their decision-making.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETests on White House press briefings showed that the dataset applies to other sectors with frequent question-and-answer encounters, notably politics, journalism, and sports. This increases the odds of effectively informing audiences and improving transparency across public spheres.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe intersecting work between natural language processing and finance earned\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2410.20651\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ethe paper\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E acceptance to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neurips.cc\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENeurIPS 2024\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS is one of the world\u2019s most prestigious conferences on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022SubjECTive-QA has the potential to revolutionize nowcasting predictions with enhanced clarity and relevance,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/shahagam4.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAgam Shah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the project\u2019s lead researcher.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIts nuanced analysis of qualities in executive responses, like optimism and cautiousness, deepens our understanding of economic forecasts and financial transparency.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E[\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/neurips-2024\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMICROSITE: Georgia Tech at NeurIPS 2024\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E]\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjECTive-QA offers a new means to evaluate financial discourse by characterizing language\u0027s subjective and multifaceted nature. This improves on traditional datasets that quantify sentiment or verify claims from financial statements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dataset consists of 2,747 Q\u0026amp;A pairs taken from 120 ECTs from companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange from 2007 to 2021. The Georgia Tech researchers annotated each response by hand based on six features for a total of 49,446 annotations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group evaluated answers on:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERelevance: the speaker answered the question with appropriate details.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClarity: the speaker was transparent in the answer and the message conveyed.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOptimism: the speaker answered with a positive outlook regarding future outcomes.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESpecificity: the speaker included sufficient and technical details in their answer.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECautiousness: the speaker answered using a conservative, risk-averse approach.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAssertiveness: the speaker answered with certainty about the company\u2019s events and outcomes.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group validated their dataset by training eight computer models to detect and score these six features. Test models comprised of three BERT-based pre-trained language models (PLMs), and five popular large language models (LLMs) including Llama and ChatGPT.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll eight models scored the highest on the relevance and clarity features. This is attributed to domain-specific pretraining that enables the models to identify pertinent and understandable material.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe PLMs achieved higher scores on the clear, optimistic, specific, and cautious categories. The LLMs scored higher in assertiveness and relevance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn another experiment to test transferability, a PLM trained with SubjECTive-QA evaluated 65 Q\u0026amp;A pairs from White House press briefings and gaggles. Scores across all six features indicated models trained on the dataset could succeed in other fields outside of finance.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Building on these promising results, the next step for SubjECTive-QA is to enhance customer service technologies, like chatbots,\u201d said Shah, a Ph.D. candidate studying machine learning.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to make these platforms more responsive and accurate by integrating our analysis techniques from SubjECTive-QA.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubjECTive-QA culminated from two semesters of work through Georgia Tech\u2019s Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVIP Program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is an approach to higher education where undergraduate and graduate students work together on long-term project teams led by faculty.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate students earn academic credit and receive hands-on experience through VIP projects. The extra help advances ongoing research and gives graduate students mentorship experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EComputer science major\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/pardawalahuzaifa.me\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHuzaifa Pardawala\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and mathematics major\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/siddhantsukhani\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESiddhant Sukhani\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E co-led the SubjECTive-QA project with Shah.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFellow collaborators included\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/veerkejriwal\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVeer Kejriwal\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/abhipi\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbhishek Pillai\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rohan-bhasin-356aa41a0\/?originalSubdomain=in\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERohan Bhasin\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/andrew-dibiasio-96164721a\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAndrew DiBiasio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tarun-mandapati-a90443206\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETarun Mandapati\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dhruv-adha-ba5142215\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDhruv Adha\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. All six researchers are undergraduate students studying computer science.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/chava\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESudheer Chava\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E co-advises Shah and is the faculty lead of SubjECTive-QA. Chava is a professor in the Scheller College of Business and director of the M.S. in Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF) program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChava is also an adjunct faculty member in the College of Computing\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Leading undergraduate students through the VIP Program taught me the powerful impact of balancing freedom with guidance,\u201d Shah said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAllowing students to take the helm not only fosters their leadership skills but also enhances my own approach to mentoring, thus creating a mutually enriching educational experience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresenting SubjECTive-QA at NeurIPS 2024 exposes the dataset for further use and refinement. NeurIPS is one of three primary international conferences on high-impact research in AI and ML. The conference occurs Dec. 10-15.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe SubjECTive-QA team is among the 162 Georgia Tech researchers presenting over 80 papers at NeurIPS 2024. The Georgia Tech contingent includes 46 faculty members, like Chava. These faculty represent Georgia Tech\u2019s Colleges of Business, Computing, Engineering, and Sciences, underscoring the pertinence of AI research across domains.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Presenting SubjECTive-QA at prestigious venues like NeurIPS propels our research into the spotlight, drawing the attention of key players in finance and tech,\u201d Shah said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe feedback we receive from this community of experts validates our approach and opens new avenues for future innovation, setting the stage for transformative applications in industry and academia.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have created a dataset that trains computer models to understand nuances in human speech during financial earnings calls. 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The winning team won $2,000 dollars plus each team member were given ACER laptops and other prizes. The team\u2019s faculty sponsor was Alex Wei, dean of the Industrial Academy at Yuan Ze University.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir innovative membrane biosensor platform offered a rapid, accurate, and cost-effective solution for disease detection, revolutionizing diagnostic systems, and enabling early intervention for improved patient outcomes and control the pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECIC is a competition recognizing student innovation and entrepreneurship responding to today\u2019s global challenges and opportunities. Founded in 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia, CIC is organized by IPaT at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the competition expanded globally to Asia to forge new partnerships and foster more collaborations with universities across the Asian continent. IPaT\u2019s CIC Asia Faculty Fellows helped cultivate team projects and the students so they could showcase their innovative ideas in this competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe CIC students, the competition finale, and the forum all far exceeded my expectations,\u201d said IPaT executive director Michael Best. \u201cAll four of the student finalist projects represented the very best in people-centered technologies responding to global challenges.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECIC Asia is distinct in how it brings teams from multiple countries together to interact and network. Most innovation competitions are single university or country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe three remaining finalist teams each received $1,000 dollars in prize money. The CIC Asia finalist team projects and team members are shown below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBurnUp\u003C\/strong\u003E was a project from the students at Fulbright University Vietnam. 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It uses technologies such as rtCGM, AI, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things to integrate the collection and analysis of relevant user data, the hospital-side SaaS system, and the personal health management app to form a closed loop of digital health monitoring and management inside and outside the hospital. The medical care operation and service system built by GLU@U, as well as the Internet cloud computing platform support system, constitute the full-scene, multi-dimensional operation of GLU@U\u0027s \u0022artificial intelligence + chronic disease\u0022 intelligent monitoring and digital medical and health management.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ETeam members included: Jiao Fenglei, Zhang Hua, Jiang Anqi. The team\u2019s faculty sponsor was Iskandar Ishak, associate professor of Computer Science at Universiti Putra Malaysia.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGuardian Crossing\u003C\/strong\u003E is a project from a student team at Universiti Tenaga Nasional. Guardian Crossing is a safety device that leverages deep learning to enhance indicators aimed in reducing accident risk for pedestrians with limited ability when crossing the road.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ETeam members included: Nur Zafirah binti Mohd Zaini, Wan Qistina binti Wan Izahan Zameree, Syabil Fikri bin Sabri,Muhammad Danial bin Noor Shamsudin. The team\u2019s faculty sponsor was Nur Laila Ab Ghani, lecturer of infomatics at Universiti Tenaga Nasional.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGlobal Technology Strategy and Workforce Development Forum\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CIC event took place alongside the Global Technology Strategy and Workforce Development Forum which was also organized by IPaT. The forum featured panel discussions on innovation and entrepreneurship, talent development, artificial intelligence (AI), and sustainable business practices. 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IC faculty earned industry recognition from Google and Sony, and the Institute of People and Technology (IPaT) announced its winners of the 2024 Foley Scholarships.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/school-ic-reels-best-papers-industry-awards-and-foley-scholar-awards\u0022\u003ERead more from the College of Computing\u0027s article \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENovember was a banner month for the School of Interactive Computing as faculty and students earned numerous industry, conference, and Georgia Tech accolades and awards.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"November was a banner month for the School of Interactive Computing as faculty and students earned numerous industry, conference, and Georgia Tech accolades and awards."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-01-06 18:09:37","changed_gmt":"2025-01-06 18:11:10","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-11-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675945":{"id":"675945","type":"image","title":"IC Faculty Awards Nov 2024","body":null,"created":"1736186990","gmt_created":"2025-01-06 18:09:50","changed":"1736187031","gmt_changed":"2025-01-06 18:10:31","alt":"IC Faculty Awards Nov 2024","file":{"fid":"259627","name":"ic_faculty awards_roundup story.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/01\/06\/ic_faculty%20awards_roundup%20story.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/01\/06\/ic_faculty%20awards_roundup%20story.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":49933,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/01\/06\/ic_faculty%20awards_roundup%20story.jpg?itok=_RCRsmtY"}}},"media_ids":["675945"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"679338":{"#nid":"679338","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Innovate and Collaborate: Inside TSRB\u2019s Maker Spaces","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) at Georgia Tech houses two invaluable community maker spaces that embody Tech Square\u0027s ethos of collaboration: the IPaT Prototyping Lab and Craft Lab. These spaces, overseen by research technologist Tim Trent, offer more than cutting-edge equipment; they create hubs of interdisciplinary collaboration, skill-building, and innovation among students, faculty, artists, startups, and external partners.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETim Trent, a research technologist in IPaT (the Institute for People and Technology) with years of experience at Georgia Tech, is passionate about maker spaces\u0027 unique role in education and community-building. \u201cMaker spaces are a physical manifestation of Tech Square\u2019s collaborative spirit,\u201d he says. \u0022They bring people together through technology, fostering connections across institutes, departments, and beyond.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more about the TSRB labs from an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.techsquareatl.com\/tech-square-news\/2025\/1\/7\/innovate-and-collaborate-inside-tsrbs-maker-spaces\u0022\u003Earticle published by TSQ ATL\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.tsrb.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ETechnology Square Research Building (TSRB)\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech houses two invaluable community maker spaces that embody Tech Square\u0027s ethos of collaboration: the IPaT Prototyping Lab and Craft Lab.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) at Georgia Tech houses two invaluable community maker spaces that embody Tech Square\u0027s ethos of collaboration: the IPaT Prototyping Lab and Craft Lab. 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Environmental disruptions such as hurricane damage, coastal erosion, flood damage, extreme heat, and wildfire destruction are occurring more frequently and with greater economic costs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn November 21, 2024, a team from Georgia Tech met with nine other organizations at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/places\/south-carolina-penn-center.htm\u0022\u003EPenn Center\u003C\/a\u003E on St. Helena Island in South Carolina to work towards developing targeted resilience strategies to cope with environmental disaster events. More specifically, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.penncenter.com\/\u0022\u003EPenn Center\u003C\/a\u003E workshop\u2019s overall goal was the co-creation of paths toward building community-led and -engaged, scientifically supported resilience hubs, addressing the unique challenges faced by coastal and inland vulnerable communities in the Southeastern United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA common definition of community resilience is \u201cthe sustained ability of a community to use available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPart of the process to build these action research partnerships and resilience plans is to bring together community leaders, government representatives, and an interdisciplinary team of researchers\u2014many of whom are from Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech researchers bring expertise from science, engineering, design, humanities, and social sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the workshop, 15 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/beaufort-county\/news\/penn-center-georgia-tech-st-helena-beaufort\/article_09132312-c796-11ef-b461-bf701014c3f0.html\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech architecture students presented their design models\u003C\/a\u003E for a multipurpose 20,000 square-foot building designed for the Penn Center campus which is steeped in African American history.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome of the researchers at Georgia Tech attending the workshop and supporting the development of Southeastern community-focused resilience strategies included:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESof\u00eda P\u00e9rez-Guzm\u00e1n, assistant professor in the School of Civil \u0026amp; Environmental Engineering;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAllen Hyde, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, and faculty member of the Institute for People and Technology;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDanielle Willkens, associate professor in the School of Architecture and faculty member of the Institute for People and Technology;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlexander Robel, associate professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJennifer Hirsch, director of the Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education at Georgia Tech; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EValerie M. Thomas, Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems and professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJoe F. Bozeman III, assistant professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ERussell Clark, lead principal investigator of the Coastal Equity and Resilience Hub and senior research scientist at the Institute for People and Technology;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENicole Kennard, assistant director for community-engaged research in the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems; and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJung-Ho Lewe, senior research engineer in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EParticipating partner organizations in addition to the Penn Center include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E7 Dimensions Outreach\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAtlanta Preservation Center\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECenter for Sustainable Communities\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECoastal Conservation League\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECommunity Church Atlanta\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFurman University\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGullah Geechee Futures Project\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUniversity of South Carolina: Arnold School of Public Health, the EJ Strong Program, and the Department of Environmental Health Science\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWillson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work is supported by a Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/2024-sustainability-next-seed-grant-awards\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESustainability Next research seed grant\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E. 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The Rural Computer Science Initiative, designed by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRI) and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing\u003C\/a\u003E (CEISMC), is redefining computer science education for underserved school districts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program, inspired by Georgia state representative Todd Jones, connects Georgia Tech faculty and students with rural schools to co-teach engaging computer science lessons while supporting local teachers in developing the skills needed to independently teach these subjects. As Rep. 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Lizanne DeStefano, CEISMC\u2019s executive director, emphasizes this point: \u201cThe way that we\u0027ve designed the Rural CS Initiative is that the student work is embedded in real-life problems, particularly those that affect our rural communities.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPreparing for the Future Workforce\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeyond classroom learning, the program is helping shape Georgia\u2019s future workforce to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Rep. Jones highlights the initiative\u0027s broader implications: \u201cWe\u2019ve given [students] that opportunity and that springboard to be able to do things they possibly may never have had the opportunity to do. 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Yates served as moderator and has been directly or indirectly involved in assisting hundreds of tech companies and entrepreneurs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis year\u0027s interactivity event brought together an amazing group of students demonstrating an exciting range of the best people-centered technologies on campus,\u201d said Michael Best, executive director of IPaT. \u0026nbsp;\u201cIn addition, the Atlanta innovation panel was spectacular and delivered insightful commentary about the optimistic growth and state of entrepreneurship in our city during these uncertain times.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJin Kim, a first-year MS-HCI student, presented three projects including a project with the U.S. Coast Guard where she helped develop decision making guidelines related to health care sourcing and supporting resource readiness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe get excited about interactivity every year because it\u2019s a great opportunity for our wonderful students to get exposed to the greater Atlanta community,\u201d said Richard Henneman, director of the MS-HCI program at Georgia Tech. \u201cOur students are looking for full time jobs and internships, and this is a great opportunity to talk about their substantial project work with attendees.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditional MS-HCI student projects presented included Emily Layton\u2019s sponsored project with Sam\u2019s Club to improve member and associate interactions with their tire and battery centers which resulted in the design of a mobile app. Saba Alemayehu helped redesign a shipping dashboard for United Parcel Service (UPS) allowing small business owners to prioritize features based on their business needs. 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The ACM fellowship acknowledges her \u201ccontributions to the theory of Markov chains and programmable active matter.\u201d Her research in randomized algorithms and stochastic processes connects computer science, discrete mathematics, and statistical physics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Starner is being honored as an ACM Fellow for \u201ccontributions to and leadership in the wearable computing research community.\u201d His research combines wearable and ubiquitous computing technologies with AI, pattern recognition, and human-computer interaction.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarner, Randall, and Bailey are longstanding\u0026nbsp;ACM\u0026nbsp;members. 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The lab includes equipment like sewing machines, industrial-grade CNC knitting and embroidery machines, fiber twisting, wire bending, soldering irons, and 3D printers making it unique among Georgia Tech labs to make soft and flexible materials embedded with technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEllisor has worked with arts communities locally and internationally including Georgia, Texas, Florida, Massachusetts, Washington DC, New York, Guatemala, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and The United Kingdom.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe has been awarded the choreography award at the University of Houston, The Walthall Fellowship through Wonderroot, \u201cTop 20 people to watch in 2013\u0022 by Atlanta\u2019s Creative loafing, an Atlanta Beltline Grant in 2014, an artist in residency award with the Lucky Penny in 2015, and the \u201cBest Choreography Award\u201d at the Houston Fringe Festival in 2019 \u2013 a festival that highlights dance, theater and visual art.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEllisor welcomes the opportunity to engage with students in the classroom as mentor, guest lecturer with respect to choreography and body mechanics, or in leading a movement exercise. If you are faculty or a student interested in having Ellisor speak or collaborate, please contact clintzeagler@gatech.edu.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIPaT is very excited to be working with Corian Ellisor this year as our first artist-in-residence. We expect that in collaborating with Corian, Georgia Tech faculty, students and researchers will be able to augment and enhance his work with innovative interactive technological elements, said Clint Zeagler, IPaT\u2019s director of strategic partnerships and principal research scientist.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur work will be culminating in an artistic interactive performance in the fall of 2025. The goal of this engagement is to both share Georgia Tech\u2019s engineering and technological expertise with the local arts community and also learn from creatives and artists to build bridges back to campus through collaboration with the arts community with Corian Ellisor as our conduit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECorian Ellisor, an Atlanta-based performance artist with a focus on dance theater, was selected as the Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) 2025 artist-in-residence.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Corian Ellisor, an Atlanta-based performance artist with a focus on dance theater, was selected as the Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) 2025 artist-in-residence. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-03-05 15:32:14","changed_gmt":"2025-03-05 17:58:58","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-03-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676461":{"id":"676461","type":"image","title":"Corian Ellisor ","body":null,"created":"1741188253","gmt_created":"2025-03-05 15:24:13","changed":"1741188302","gmt_changed":"2025-03-05 15:25:02","alt":"Corian Ellisor ","file":{"fid":"260254","name":"corian-copy.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/05\/corian-copy.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/05\/corian-copy.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1278301,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/03\/05\/corian-copy.png?itok=-NeyzLnV"}}},"media_ids":["676461"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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":""}},"680959":{"#nid":"680959","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Maribeth Gandy\u0027s 25 Year Journey at Georgia Tech: Pioneering Human-Computer Interaction","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMaribeth Gandy\u0027s journey at Georgia Tech began in 1993 when she enrolled as a computer engineering major. At that time, the concept of human-computer interaction was still in its infancy, and computers were not as integrated into daily life as they are today. Gandy\u0027s initial interest in computing was sparked by her love for creating user-facing applications such as games and interactive programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring her undergraduate years, Gandy had the opportunity to work as a research assistant on virtual reality projects with Larry Hodges. This experience was transformative as it coincided with a period of significant growth and innovation in computing. The late 1990s saw the emergence of human-computer interaction as a mainstream field with researchers exploring the potential of computers to enhance various aspects of life including entertainment and therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGandy\u0027s work with Hodges involved using virtual reality for immersion therapy to help individuals with PTSD. This groundbreaking research highlighted the potential of computers to provide therapeutic benefits, a concept that was revolutionary at the time. The College of Computing at Georgia Tech attracted numerous influential faculty members during this period including Beth Mynatt, Blair MacIntyre, and Thad Starner who were pioneers in areas such as augmented reality and wearable computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInspired by her experiences, Gandy decided to pursue graduate studies and joined a research lab focused on interactive media. This lab was at the forefront of developing rich, interactive educational and entertainment experiences. Gandy\u0027s early career involved building systems and gaining expertise in areas like augmented reality, virtual reality, computer audio, and multimodal interfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the early 2000s, Gandy worked on augmented reality and wearable computing projects, often using expensive and custom-built hardware. Despite the challenges, she believed in the potential of these technologies to become mainstream. Her work involved demonstrating these concepts to industry sponsors who were initially skeptical about their feasibility as consumer products.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the significant projects Gandy worked on was the Designers Augmented Reality Toolkit (DART). The goal of DART was to create an augmented reality authoring tool that non-technologists such as designers, artists, and subject matter experts could use. This tool was built within Macromedia Director, an early software platform that allowed a broader range of people to create interactive computing experiences. By integrating augmented reality capabilities into this platform, Gandy and her team aimed to democratize the creation of AR experiences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs technology advanced, wearable computing and augmented reality became more accessible to the general public. Innovations in industry led to the development of head-mounted displays and mobile devices with cameras making it easier to deliver augmented reality experiences. This shift made Gandy\u0027s work increasingly relevant as companies and startups sought her expertise to develop AR applications and leverage new technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer growth as a researcher was marked by her transition from a team member to a leader in her field. She gained a deep understanding of the technical aspects of wearable computing and augmented reality, which were still considered futuristic at the time. Her collaboration with Blair MacIntyre, a pioneer in augmented reality, further solidified her expertise and passion for exploring innovative computing solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThroughout her career, she has been driven by the belief that computing can be used for social good and to improve access and experiences for people. Her work has laid the foundation for many of the technologies that are now commonplace and she continues to provide valuable insight in the field of human-computer interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2010, the Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC) where Gandy worked became part of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech. This transition aimed to create more substantial interdisciplinary research initiatives.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Gandy, \u201cIPaT focuses on advocating for the consideration of societal impacts in technology development and fostering collaboration with communities to ensure that research has a positive and widespread impact.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGandy now holds two significant roles at Georgia Tech. As the director of research for IPaT, she helps catalyze cross-disciplinary teams to solve real-world problems and open new opportunities with technology. She collaborates with external stakeholders, including community organizations, government agencies, and companies to leverage Georgia Tech\u0027s capabilities in addressing various needs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, as the assistant vice provost for research faculty, Gandy advocates for and supports research faculty across campus. She works to recruit, mentor, advance, and retain Georgia Tech\u2019s world class research faculty community, ensuring that their work has a meaningful impact on society. Her efforts help bridge the gap between academic research and real-world applications, amplifying the impact of Georgia Tech\u0027s research on the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGandy\u0027s career is a testament to the evolving landscape of computing and its increasing relevance in everyday life. Her contributions to augmented reality, wearable computing, and human-computer interaction have not only advanced the field, but also demonstrated the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration. By bringing together experts from various domains, Gandy has helped create technologies that are not only innovative but also socially impactful.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer journey from a computer engineering student to a leader in human-computer interaction research reflects the broader trends in computing where the focus has shifted from purely technical advancements to considering the societal implications and benefits of technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMaribeth Gandy\u0027s journey at Georgia Tech began in 1993 when she enrolled as a computer engineering major.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Maribeth Gandy\u0027s journey at Georgia Tech began in 1993 when she enrolled as a computer engineering major. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-03-06 14:16:06","changed_gmt":"2025-03-06 14:22:16","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676481":{"id":"676481","type":"image","title":"Maribeth Gandy Coleman","body":"\u003Cp\u003EMaribeth Gandy Coleman is a Regent\u0027s Researcher and director of research for the Institute of People and Technology at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1741270434","gmt_created":"2025-03-06 14:13:54","changed":"1741270480","gmt_changed":"2025-03-06 14:14:40","alt":"Maribeth Gandy Coleman","file":{"fid":"260277","name":"MB-Pit-copy-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/06\/MB-Pit-copy-2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/06\/MB-Pit-copy-2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":223078,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/03\/06\/MB-Pit-copy-2.jpg?itok=0njJA9tp"}}},"media_ids":["676481"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681341":{"#nid":"681341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Undergraduates Win SECOORA Data Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/\u0022\u003ECEAR Hub\u003C\/a\u003E undergraduate students Prasun Banerjee and Ananya Shetty have been announced as winners of the 2024 SECOORA Data Challenge. Their project, \u0022Predicting Financial Risk From Flood Damages: A Quantitative Approach Incorporating Urban Infrastructural Measures,\u0022 aims to build a flood risk management model for the city of Tybee Island, Georgia. The work integrates economic, infrastructure, climate, and water level data with advanced statistical models to improve economic risk prediction from flood-related damages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoth Banerjee and Shetty are studying computer science at Georgia Tech. Since August 2024, they have been working with Russell Clark, senior research scientist and CEAR Hub project lead, and Kait Morano, CEAR\u2019s resilience planning director, as part of an undergraduate research team implementing processes to ensure the quality and reliability of data from our network of water level sensors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article here:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/secoora.org\/winners-of-2024-secoora-data-challenge\/\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/secoora.org\/winners-of-2024-secoora-data-challenge\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/secoora.org\/winners-of-2024-secoora-data-challenge\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cearhub.org\/\u0022\u003ECEAR Hub\u003C\/a\u003E undergraduate students Prasun Banerjee and Ananya Shetty have been announced as winners of the 2024 SECOORA Data Challenge.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CEAR Hub undergraduate students Prasun Banerjee and Ananya Shetty have been announced as winners of the 2024 SECOORA Data Challenge. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-03-24 20:01:18","changed_gmt":"2025-03-24 20:01:41","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676660":{"id":"676660","type":"image","title":"Prasun Banerjee and Ananya Shetty ","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPrasun Banerjee and Ananya Shetty\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1742846321","gmt_created":"2025-03-24 19:58:41","changed":"1742846426","gmt_changed":"2025-03-24 20:00:26","alt":"Prasun Banerjee and Ananya Shetty ","file":{"fid":"260472","name":"screen_867.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/24\/screen_867.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/03\/24\/screen_867.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1568773,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/03\/24\/screen_867.png?itok=73o-9Rvl"}}},"media_ids":["676660"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681622":{"#nid":"681622","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kait Morano Shares Insights on Disaster Resilience With Georgia Lawmakers","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKait Morano, a community resilience expert from Georgia Tech, presented critical insights to the Georgia State House of Representatives study committee on disaster mitigation and resilience. Her testimony highlighted the importance of strong partnerships, evidence-based decision-making, and community-driven planning to better prepare for and withstand the impacts from natural disasters. Morano serves as the resilience planning director for CEAR Hub, which works closely with Georgia\u2019s coastal communities. She is also a research scientist with Georga Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMorano emphasized strategies to address the unique challenges faced by vulnerable coastal communities, underscoring the need for investments in resilience and capacity-building initiatives before a disaster strikes. Her contributions were reflected in the committee\u0027s final report, which includes recommendations for creating a dedicated statewide office of resilience, upgrading 911 systems, and bolstering building codes for certain types of facilities. These efforts aim to mitigate the impacts of increasingly frequent and severe disasters on Georgia\u0027s communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe committee\u0027s findings and Morano\u0027s testimony underline the vital role of research, collaboration, and proactive planning in building a safer and more resilient Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study committee\u2019s final report is available here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/api\/document\/docs\/default-source\/house-study-committee-document-library-page\/disaster-mitigation-and-resilience\/disaster-mitigation-and-resilience-study-committee\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/api\/document\/docs\/default-source\/house-study-committee-document-library-page\/disaster-mitigation-and-resilience\/disaster-mitigation-and-resilience-study-committee\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKait Morano, a community resilience expert from Georgia Tech, recently presented critical insights to the Georgia State House of Representatives study committee on disaster mitigation and resilience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Kait Morano, a community resilience expert from Georgia Tech, recently presented critical insights to the Georgia State House of Representatives study committee on disaster mitigation and resilience. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-04-07 16:52:33","changed_gmt":"2025-04-07 17:00:10","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-03-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676775":{"id":"676775","type":"image","title":"Kait Morano","body":"\u003Cp\u003EKait Morano\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1744044510","gmt_created":"2025-04-07 16:48:30","changed":"1744044530","gmt_changed":"2025-04-07 16:48:50","alt":"Kait Morano","file":{"fid":"260610","name":"Kait-Morano.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/07\/Kait-Morano.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/07\/Kait-Morano.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":935323,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/07\/Kait-Morano.jpg?itok=5tWhk9WB"}}},"media_ids":["676775"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681619":{"#nid":"681619","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Wearable Brain-Computer Interface","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMicro-brain sensors placed between hair strands overcome traditional brain sensor limitations.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers have developed an almost imperceptible microstructure brain sensor to be inserted into the minuscule spaces between hair follicles and slightly under the skin. The sensor offers high-fidelity signals and makes the continuous use of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) in everyday life possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBCIs create a direct communication pathway between the brain\u0027s electrical activity and external devices such as electroencephalography devices, computers, robotic limbs, and other brain monitoring devices. Brain signals are commonly captured non-invasively with electrodes mounted on the surface of the human scalp using conductive electrode gel for optimum impedance and data quality. More invasive signal capture methods such as brain implants are possible, but this research seeks to create sensors that are both easily placed and reliably manufactured.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/people\/w-hong-yeo\u0022\u003EHong Yeo\u003C\/a\u003E, the Harris Saunders Jr. Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, combined the latest microneedle technology with his deep expertise in wearable sensor technology that may allow stable brain signal detection over long periods and easy insertion of a new painless, wearable microneedle BCI wireless sensor that fits between hair follicles. The skin placement and extremely small size of this new wireless brain interface could offer a variety of benefits over traditional gel or dry electrodes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI started this research because my main goal is to develop new sensor technology to support healthcare and I had previous experience with brain-computer interfaces and flexible scalp electronics,\u201d said Yeo, who is also a faculty member in Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology. \u201cI knew we needed better BCI sensor technology and discovered that if we can slightly penetrate the skin and avoid hair by miniaturizing the sensor, we can dramatically increase the signal quality by getting closer to the source of the signals and reduce unwanted noise.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday\u2019s BCI systems consist of bulky electronics and rigid sensors that prevent the interfaces from being useful while the user is in motion during regular activities. Yeo and colleagues constructed a micro-scale sensor for neural signal capture that can be easily worn during daily activities, unlocking new potential for BCI devices. His technology uses conductive polymer microneedles to capture electrical signals and conveys those signals along flexible polyimide\/copper wires \u2014 all of which are packaged in a space of less than 1\u0026nbsp; millimeter.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA study of six people using the device to control an augmented reality (AR) video call found that high-fidelity neural signal capture persisted for up to 12 hours with very low electrical resistance at the contact between skin and sensor. Participants could stand, walk, and run for most of the daytime hours while the brain-computer interface successfully recorded and classified neural signals indicating which visual stimulus the user focused on with 96.4% accuracy. During the testing, participants could look up phone contacts and initiate and accept AR video calls hands-free as this new micro-sized brain sensor was picking up visual stimuli \u2014 all the while giving the user complete freedom of movement. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Yeo, the results suggest that this wearable BCI system may allow for practical and continuous interface activity, potentially leading to everyday use of machine-human integrative technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI firmly believe in the power of collaboration, as many of today\u2019s challenges are too complex for any one individual to solve,\u201d said Yeo. \u201cTherefore, I would like to express my gratitude to all the researchers in my group and the amazing collaborators who made this work possible. I will continue collaborating with the team to enhance BCI technology for rehabilitation and prosthetics.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENote: Hodam Kim (postdoctoral research fellow), Ju Hyeon Kim (visiting Ph.D. student from Inha University \u2013 South Korea), and Yoon Jae Lee (Ph.D. student) also played a major role in developing this technology.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFunding: National Science Foundation NRT (Research Traineeship program in the Sustainable Development of Smart Medical Devices), WISH Center (Institute for Matter and Systems), and partial research support from several South Korean programs and grants.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPNAS article publication (April 7, 2025, Vol. 122, No. 15): \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2419304122\u0022 id=\u0022LPlnk761823\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2419304122\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2419304122\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMicro-brain sensors placed between hair strands overcome traditional brain sensor limitations.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Micro-brain sensors placed between hair strands overcome traditional brain sensor limitations."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-04-07 14:02:17","changed_gmt":"2025-04-08 17:30:51","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676763":{"id":"676763","type":"image","title":"A micro-scale brain sensor on a finger","body":"\u003Cp\u003EA micro-scale brain sensor on a finger. 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Research from the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts shows that code-switching \u2014 the practice of switching between languages, dialects, accents, tones, or cultures in conversation \u2014 is changing with it.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFaculty members in the School of Modern Languages and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs have published three studies examining how language and cultural code-switching have adapted to the digital age, revealing speakers\u2019 fluency, promoting self-expression, and making messaging more effective. Their research is relevant, as the population of bilingual and bicultural people increases in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy better understanding code-switching in digital spaces, \u201cwe can reveal insights into language dynamics and cultural identity among young bilingual speakers,\u201d says Hongchen Wu, an assistant professor in the School of Modern Languages. \u201cAnnotated code-switching datasets are also a valuable resource for training and testing language technologies tailored to bilingual speakers \u2014 allowing, for example, an AI-assistant that can understand their code-switching with no struggles.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2025\/04\/code-switching-digital-world\u0022\u003ERead the full article published by Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Modern Languages and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETechnology has transformed how we communicate.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Technology has transformed how we communicate. 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The workshop, Boosting Research with LLMs, was held April 1 in the Technology Square Research Building\u2019s ballroom and was co-sponsored by the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe workshop presented three expert-led panels to uncover practical applications of LLMs for engineers, natural scientists, computer scientists, and social scientists-transforming the way they analyze data, generate insights, and advance research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe workshop was designed for beginners and required no prior experience with LLMs, making it a unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge Al tools that can enhance research capabilities. The event was open to Georgia Tech faculty, graduate students, researchers and staff.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The LLM workshop drew in participants with a wide range of interests,\u201d said David Sherrill, Regents\u2019 Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and interim executive director of IDEaS.\u0026nbsp; \u201cIt was exciting to hear how LLMs are being used by students and faculty to accelerate their research in science, engineering, and social sciences.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/llmworkshop2025\u0022\u003EView the agenda and the thirteen presenters \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMore than 80 participants attended a dynamic half-day workshop exploring how large language models (LLMs) can accelerate scientific discovery across disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"More than 80 participants attended a dynamic half-day workshop exploring how large language models (LLMs) can accelerate scientific discovery across disciplines."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-04-16 15:17:56","changed_gmt":"2025-04-16 15:18:31","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676854":{"id":"676854","type":"image","title":"Participants LLM workshop","body":"\u003Cp\u003EOne half of the room at the Boosting Research with LLMs Workshop held April 1, 2025\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1744816509","gmt_created":"2025-04-16 15:15:09","changed":"1744816575","gmt_changed":"2025-04-16 15:16:15","alt":"Participants LLM workshop","file":{"fid":"260699","name":"54424412306_4518a74f5d_o.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/16\/54424412306_4518a74f5d_o.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/16\/54424412306_4518a74f5d_o.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":371529,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/16\/54424412306_4518a74f5d_o.jpg?itok=AA1ltdgQ"}},"676855":{"id":"676855","type":"image","title":"LLM Workshop banner image","body":"\u003Cp\u003ELLM Workshop event (image).\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1744816582","gmt_created":"2025-04-16 15:16:22","changed":"1744816627","gmt_changed":"2025-04-16 15:17:07","alt":"LLM Workshop banner image","file":{"fid":"260700","name":"LLMHeader-MC-smaller-v2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/16\/LLMHeader-MC-smaller-v2.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/16\/LLMHeader-MC-smaller-v2.png","mime":"image\/png","size":295848,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/16\/LLMHeader-MC-smaller-v2.png?itok=x1xX7sDV"}}},"media_ids":["676854","676855"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"681921":{"#nid":"681921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"McLaughlin Named Cooper Union President","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/provost.gatech.edu\/about-provost-mclaughlin\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESteven W. McLaughlin\u003C\/a\u003E, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, has been named the 14th president of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cooper.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art\u003C\/a\u003E, effective July 1. The Cooper Union is a private college with internationally renowned schools of architecture, art, and engineering, and a faculty of humanities and social sciences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcLaughlin has spent nearly 30 years at Georgia Tech in various roles, both in the classroom and in administration. As provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, a role he has held since 2020, McLaughlin provides leadership to all academic and related units, including 29 Schools and seven Colleges. As provost, he oversaw the launch of Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Lifetime Learning in 2024. Previously, McLaughlin was the dean and Southern Company Chair of the College of Engineering, the Steve W. Chaddick School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and vice provost for International Initiatives and Steven A. Denning Chair in Global Engagement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSteve has been an important colleague and a dear friend, and his leadership has made a lasting impact on Georgia Tech,\u201d said President \u00c1ngel Cabrera. \u201cHe has been a steadfast advocate for academic excellence and student success, always pushing us to be better and do more. Throughout his career, Steve has led with a deep commitment to expanding access and opportunity, ensuring that more students can benefit from the life-changing impact of higher education. I can\u2019t think of a better match than Steve and The Cooper Union \u2014 an institution that shares his deep belief in the power of education to transform lives.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2014, McLaughlin co-founded \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/a\u003E, a campuswide effort to instill entrepreneurial confidence in students and help them launch companies. Since then, the program has successfully launched 200 student-led companies and engaged over 4,000 students. McLaughlin also oversaw the renovation and creation of the Van Leer Interdisciplinary Design Commons and Makerspace while chair of ECE.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2011, he was awarded the Chevalier dans l\u0027Ordre National du M\u00e9rite (Knight of the French National Order of Merit), the second-highest civilian award given by the Republic of France. He was the first Georgia Tech recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and he is a Fellow of the IEEE and a past president of the IEEE Information Theory Society.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMcLaughlin\u2019s research interests are in communications and information theory. His research group has published more than 250 papers in journals and conferences and holds 36 U.S. patents in the areas of forward error correction and equalization in wireless communications, data security, and privacy, among others.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAs higher education continues to change at an accelerated pace, we have identified an educator and proven leader who is known for his transformative impact and high degree of emotional intelligence,\u201d said Jamie Levitt, interim board chair and co-chair of Cooper\u2019s presidential search committee. \u201cSteve is a champion of students and, throughout his career, has sought to create learning experiences for students to grow as creative, ethical, globally aware, technologically sophisticated leaders who can define and solve problems to improve the human condition.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith all that is happening in higher education today, the vision of Peter Cooper is as relevant as ever,\u201d McLaughlin said. \u201cThe Cooper Union is the right place at the right time, and I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESteven W. 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Maribeth Gandy Coleman, director of research and a Regents\u2019 Researcher in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E (IPaT), has been leading an IPaT translational research team working to advance aircraft maintenance with \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/partworks.com\/\u0022\u003EPartWorks\u003C\/a\u003E, an Atlanta-based aerospace engineering firm dedicated to extending the life and improving the operational efficiency and availability of commercial and military aircraft and spacecraft.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColeman, a recognized augmented reality expert at Georgia Tech, has been working with the PartWorks\u2019 engineering team to solve aircraft maintenance challenges, leading to measurable improvements in labor costs, training, repair quality, turnaround time, and maintenance process validation. This research partnership has led to the development of several patented and patent-pending solutions related to aircraft maintenance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI could not have hired anybody with the diverse skill sets that both Maribeth and the Georgia Tech team brought to bear,\u201d said Scott Geller, CEO of PartWorks. \u201cWe\u2019ve utilized different and complicated skill sets, sometimes in small quantities, that have made our project work very cost-effective. We\u2019ve used an iterative research and development process that hasn\u2019t had a shocking cost or huge surprises. And the Georgia Tech team has been both easy and fun to work with, too.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis collaboration has led to PartWorks launching a new aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) augmented reality solution called \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/info.partworks.com\/solve-your-aircraft-maintenance-headaches-faq-2?_gl=1*uwgxme*_ga*NDc2ODc2MTg5LjE3NDM3MDY2NjU.*_ga_0JTVQC7TMF*MTc0NTQ5NzY4MC43LjEuMTc0NTQ5NzY4Mi4wLjAuMA..\u0022\u003ERep\u0100R\u003C\/a\u003E\u2122. Designed for both military and commercial aviation, Rep\u0100R\u2019s augmented reality overlay transforms structural repairs by ensuring accuracy, reducing labor costs, minimizing human error, and accelerating return-to-service timelines.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERep\u0100R rapidly captures structural repair data, embedding spatial awareness and real-time validation into maintenance workflows. Novice technicians can achieve results beyond their operational experience, while seasoned technicians experience measurable productivity gains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRep\u0100R exemplifies how targeted computer vision applications can deliver immediate value in aerospace manufacturing and maintenance,\u201d said Shelley Peterson, CEO of Wizard Wells. \u201cBy precisely identifying fastener locations and validating tool placement, it reduces rework, minimizes human error, and ensures tasks are performed right the first time.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPartWorks demonstrated Rep\u0100R at the Aviation Week Network\u2019s MRO Americas, which took place April 8 \u2013 10 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis collaborative research with industry demonstrates why Georgia Tech has interdisciplinary research institutes such as IPaT, and why you have research faculty,\u201d said Coleman. \u201cYou\u2019re probably not going to be able to get some Ph.D. students to do this work. The focus here with PartWorks is on translation. It\u2019s cross-disciplinary collaboration and translation built on augmented reality work we\u2019ve been doing for 25 years and implementing cutting-edge technology crafted to the right context to support aircraft maintenance.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis Georgia Tech collaboration and augmented reality MRO research and development are in conjunction with a multiyear contract we\u2019re working on with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) in Dayton, Ohio,\u201d said Geller. \u201cWe\u2019re appreciative of their partnership and excited to be getting commercial interest in Rep\u0100R from both military and commercial aviation OEMs and MROs as well as space industry companies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"An IPaT translational research team is working to advance aircraft maintenance."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the dynamic world of aviation maintenance, precision, quickness, and meticulous documentation are essential.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In the dynamic world of aviation maintenance, precision, quickness, and meticulous documentation are essential. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-04-24 12:31:03","changed_gmt":"2025-05-08 13:21:48","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676917":{"id":"676917","type":"image","title":"Partworks LLC","body":"\u003Cp\u003ERep\u0100R aircraft maintenance system being used with a tablet. The system uses a combination of augmented reality, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1745497483","gmt_created":"2025-04-24 12:24:43","changed":"1745497545","gmt_changed":"2025-04-24 12:25:45","alt":"Rep\u0100R aircraft maintenance system being used with a tablet. 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However, losing your job to someone who knows how to leverage AI tools in the workplace is something to be concerned about.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo help people beyond campus understand what AI tools are available and how to use them effectively, Riedl recently co-taught an online course by CNBC Make It titled \u003Cem\u003EHow to Use AI to Be More Successful at Work\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe running joke right now is that AI will not replace people, but people who use AI will replace people who do not use AI,\u201d said Riedl, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 90-minute course offers tips and hacks to users who are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EInexperienced in using AI tools in the workplace and are looking to grow in professional development\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESmall business owners who are overwhelmed with administrative tasks, marketing, industry research, and data analysis\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJob seekers looking to stand out from the crowd\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPeople seeking to improve their work-life balance\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERiedl, whose research focuses on human-centered and explainable AI, taught sections of the course on the foundation of AI. One of the biggest sections of the course covers large-language models (LLMs).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen large language models were put forward as chatbots, this was the first time that any person out in the world could naturally interact with an AI system without having to learn to program or write code,\u201d Riedl said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor less than $100, the on-demand course includes a detailed workbook that helps users consider each aspect of their jobs and daily lives and how AI can improve them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Big Picture\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECNBC\u2019s use of Riedl\u2019s expertise is one of many examples of how College of Computing faculty are leading the way in teaching AI literacy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EJoyner\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of online education, said Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E program continues to innovate with AI literacy in mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/experts-say-life-long-learning-must-keep-pace-generative-ai\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E[RELATED: Experts Say Life-long Learning is a Must to Keep Pace with Generative AI]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe said companies and employees alike are learning to navigate AI. Companies are considering AI from a general perspective, focusing on how it can make their businesses more efficient, while employees are using it to become more versatile and valuable workers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s an interesting dichotomy,\u201d Joyner said. \u201cIf companies are trying to figure out how to operate more efficiently, and you have people using these tools to be more productive, at what point does the company need to prioritize using these tools instead of letting their use be organic? We\u2019re still in this experimental phase.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn a conversation with former College of Computing interim dean \u003Cstrong\u003EAlex\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EOrso\u003C\/strong\u003E, Joyner discusses how OMSCS is staying at the forefront in equipping students with the latest technology skills they need to be successful in a fluctuating industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe must figure out what generative AI can do well and properly leverage it so we\u2019re not cutting out the foundation of a building and replacing it with sticks,\u201d Joyner said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/pVG8d1JkQj4?feature=shared\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ecomplete conversation between Joyner and Orso is available on the College\u0027s Youtube\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E channel.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Professor Mark Riedl is helping people learn new workplace skills to stay competitive.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Professor Mark Riedl is helping people learn new skills to stay competitive in the workplace."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2025-04-24 13:12:53","changed_gmt":"2025-04-25 14:38:54","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676921":{"id":"676921","type":"image","title":"Interactive Computing Professor Mark Riedl co-organized the 2024 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society, where AI literacy was a key topic. 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And the complex challenges faced by people living with the disease suggest the need for a diverse range of technological solutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo, engineers and clinicians from both India and the U.S., including Georgia Tech researchers, met recently at\u0026nbsp;the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) in Chennai to identify 10 priority diabetes-related challenges faced by both patients and caregivers in India \u2014 challenges that technology could solve in the next decade. The event was organized by IIT Madras\u2019\u0026nbsp;Shankar Center of Excellence in Diabetes Research (SCoEDR),\u0026nbsp;Emory Global Diabetes Research Center (EGDRC), and Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of developing the top 10 list was to incorporate insights from diabetes patients, healthcare professionals, and supportive family members to guide engineers and technologists in identifying key challenges that disproportionately affect people with diabetes and their caregivers. The approach aims to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship, reducing the time needed to create affordable technological solutions that can help alleviate the burden of diabetes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnubama Rajan, co-head of SCoEDR, assistant professor at IIT Madras, and a\u0026nbsp;member of the expert group, said that \u201cclearly defining the problems faced by patients, their caregivers, and doctors is among the most crucial steps in developing technological solutions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Top 10 Problems for Diabetes in India can now be found at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.stopncd.org\u0022\u003Estopncd.org\u003C\/a\u003E. Jithin Sam Varghese, co-director of the EGDRC Diabetes Translational Accelerator,\u0026nbsp;and member of the expert group, encourages anyone interested in developing solutions to work together.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere is a great need for engineers and doctors to collaborate at the very initial stages of product development to clearly define the problem a technology aims to solve,\u201d says Varghese.\u0026nbsp;\u201cBy fostering these early partnerships, we can accelerate the development of impactful solutions.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a first step in generating solutions, three of the problems identified \u2014 inaccessible diabetes education; delayed detection of asymptomatic diabetic foot disease; and the lack of affordable, protective diabetic footwear \u2014 were chosen as problem statements for the DiaTech 10X \u2013 Diabetes in India Hackathon. The hackathon, which ended April 13 and had over 170 participants from India and the U.S., invited students to collaborate on innovative solutions for diabetes care. The winning teams proposed artificial intelligence-enabled solutions for diagnosing and monitoring diabetic foot disease using noninvasive approaches.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStopNCD.org strives to bridge the gap between problems, research, and real-world translation of solutions, ensuring that the most innovative solutions reach the communities that need them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis diabetes top 10 challenge and DiaTech 10X India hackathon were a perfect opportunity to combine the world-class expertise of Emory and IIT Madras with IPaT\u2019s people-centered approach to technical innovations,\u201d noted Michael Best, executive director of IPaT. \u201cThis initiative represents our shared commitment to global health and wellbeing, from Atlanta to India and beyond.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers help identify the top 10 most pressing challenges to improving diabetes care in India.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers help identify the top 10 most pressing challenges to improving diabetes care in India."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-04-28 14:39:33","changed_gmt":"2025-04-28 14:39:54","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676962":{"id":"676962","type":"image","title":"Diabetes in India Hackathon","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPictured are faculty members from IIT Madras, Emory University, Georgia Tech\u0027s Institute for People and Technology, and other members of the diabetes expert group.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1745850996","gmt_created":"2025-04-28 14:36:36","changed":"1745863173","gmt_changed":"2025-04-28 17:59:33","alt":"Pictured are faculty members from IIT Madras, Emory University, Georgia Tech\u0027s Institute for People and Technology, and other members of the diabetes expert group.","file":{"fid":"260816","name":"20250328_124108b-copy-group.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/28\/20250328_124108b-copy-group.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/28\/20250328_124108b-copy-group.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2087204,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/28\/20250328_124108b-copy-group.jpg?itok=6qogokhw"}}},"media_ids":["676962"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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":""}},"681893":{"#nid":"681893","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Joins Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Association","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is proud to announce its membership with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thevrara.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EVirtual Reality Augmented Reality Association (VRARA)\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 marking a significant step in advancing innovation in the fields of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Founded in 2015, the VRARA is an international organization dedicated to fostering collaboration among industry leaders, promoting innovation, and advancing the adoption of immersive technologies. As a strategic sponsor of the VRARA\u2019s Atlanta chapter, Georgia Tech plays a key role in advancing extended reality (XR) throughout the global ecosystem.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a leading higher education institution, Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of AR and VR research and development. The Augmented Environments Lab has pioneered immersive digital experiences since 1998, focusing on applications that integrate physical environments with digital augmentation. Additionally, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.oit.gatech.edu\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOffice of Information Technology (OIT)\u003C\/a\u003E has been actively exploring XR technologies to enhance teaching, learning, and research, including partnerships with the Georgia Tech Library, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for 21st Century Universities\u003C\/a\u003E, the Invention Studio @ Georgia Tech, and through efforts with faculty and student groups to explore immersive ER-based collaboration and co-design \u2014 the intersection of arts and XR.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cJoining the VRARA reflects Georgia Tech\u0027s commitment to driving innovation and supporting lifetime learners,\u201d said Didier Contis, executive director of OIT\u2019s Academic Research Technologies. \u201cOur collaboration with VRARA will enable us to leverage our expertise in AR, VR, and artificial intelligence to develop innovative solutions that benefit our students, researchers, and the broader community.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s membership with the VRARA is also expected to bolster Atlanta\u0027s reputation as a hub for technological advancements and talent, aligning with the City of Atlanta\u2019s dedication to attracting and retaining top professionals through initiatives that promote a diverse and skilled workforce. The collaboration is also poised to create new opportunities for research, development, and collaboration, further solidifying Atlanta\u2019s position as a leader in the tech industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech is one of the world\u2019s premier universities,\u201d said Adam Kornuth, president of the VRARA Atlanta chapter. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited about our continued collaboration to drive strategic impact through innovation in the Southeast \u2014 and beyond.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith over 50 chapters around the world, the VRARA boasts a network of more than 60,000 professionals and 4,000 organizations.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Association, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thevrara.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethevrara.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech announces its membership with the\u0026nbsp;Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) marking a significant step in advancing innovation in the fields of augmented and virtual reality.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech announces its membership with the\u00a0Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) marking a significant step in advancing innovation in the fields of augmented and virtual reality."}],"uid":"34932","created_gmt":"2025-04-17 23:32:32","changed_gmt":"2025-05-07 14:08:56","author":"Courtney Hill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676979":{"id":"676979","type":"image","title":"VR\/AR Association logo","body":"\u003Cp\u003EWith over 50 chapters around the world, the VRARA boasts a network of more than 60,000 professionals and 4,000 organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1745884692","gmt_created":"2025-04-28 23:58:12","changed":"1745917868","gmt_changed":"2025-04-29 09:11:08","alt":"VR\/AR Association logo","file":{"fid":"260836","name":"vrara-horizontal.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/28\/vrara-horizontal.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/28\/vrara-horizontal.png","mime":"image\/png","size":34198,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/28\/vrara-horizontal.png?itok=naISpnHa"}}},"media_ids":["676979"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.oit.gatech.edu\/Georgia-Tech-to-Advance-XR-Efforts","title":"Georgia Tech to Advance Extended Reality Efforts"}],"groups":[{"id":"174291","name":"OIT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"183656","name":"oit feature"},{"id":"193860","name":"Artifical Intelligence"},{"id":"180273","name":"extended reality"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["courtney.hill@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"682300":{"#nid":"682300","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AR\/VR Researchers Bring Immersive Experience to News Stories","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIt may not be long before augmented reality\/virtual reality (AR\/VR) headsets cause them to keep their phones in their pockets when they want to read The New York Times or The Washington Post.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EData visualization and AR\/VR researchers at Georgia Tech are exploring how users can interact with news stories through AR\/VR headsets and are determining which stories are best suited for virtual presentation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETao Lu, a Ph.D. student at the School of Interactive Computing, Assistant Professor Yalong Yang, and Associate Professor Alex Endert led a recent study that they say is among the first to explore user preference in virtually designed news stories. Yang and Endert are also faculty members in the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers will present a paper they authored based on the study at the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems this week in Yokohama, Japan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDigital platforms have elevated explanatory journalism, which provides greater context for a subject through data, images, and in-depth analysis. These platforms also allow stories to be more visually appealing through graphic design and animation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELu said AR\/VR can further elevate explanatory journalism through 3D, interactive spatial environments. He added that media organizations should think about how the stories they produce will appear in AR\/VR as much as they think about how they will appear on mobile devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re giving users another option to experience the story and for designers and developers to show their stories in another modality,\u201d Lu said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA screen-based story on a smartphone is easy to use and cost-effective. However, some stories are better presented in AR\/VR, which will become more popular as technology gets cheaper. 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Powered by large language models (LLMs), AI chatbots are available 24\/7, are often free to use, and draw on troves of data to answer questions. Now, people with mental health conditions are asking AI for advice when experiencing potential side effects of psychiatric medicines \u2014 a decidedly higher-risk situation than asking it to summarize a report.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne question puzzling the AI research community is how AI performs when asked about mental health emergencies. Globally, including in the U.S., there is a significant gap in mental health treatment, with many individuals having limited to no access to mental healthcare. 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The goal is to unify the widespread design and creation opportunities on campus while building a collaborative design community for students and researchers across the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event featured lightning presentations from several speakers, including \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/jariwala\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAmit Jariwala\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Director of Design and Innovation in the Woodruff School; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/linsey\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie Linsey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the Woodruff School; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/user\/1146\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMohsen Moghaddam\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Gary C. Butler Family Associate Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EH. 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Georgia Tech researchers authored or co-authored 57, including 18 written by faculty and students from the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the presented research, the conference will have demos, exhibitions, and robotics competitions throughout the week. The competitions include the Earth Rover Challenge for robot navigation over challenging terrain, the Quadruped Robot Challenges, and the Roboracer Autonomous Grand Prix.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than 130 robotics companies and research institutes will showcase exhibitions. ICRA also hosts a career fair that Hutchinson said provides an excellent opportunity for Georgia Tech students interested in attending.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re able to attract a lot of vendors. 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Both recently received a 2025-2026 Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation grant.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese awards are funded by Sustainability Next. Recipients from this round represent six colleges and 15 schools, with total support nearing $150,000. The grants aim to transform instruction using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which offer a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese awards advance Georgia Tech\u2019s Strategic Plan to connect globally and amplify impact by contributing to global efforts that advance the UN SDGs through education, research, and service. \u201cOver the past several years, these grants have supported the transformation of dozens of courses reaching thousands of Georgia Tech students. Connecting core content to complex, real-world challenges can enhance motivation and learning, while preparing students to advance solutions,\u201d said Rebecca Watts Hull, assistant director of Faculty Development for Sustainability Education Initiatives.All four rounds of grant-funded projects include high enrollment and core courses as well as electives, significantly expanding the reach of Georgia Tech\u2019s sustainability-across-the-curriculum initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blog.ctl.gatech.edu\/2025\/05\/19\/2025-2026-undergraduate-sustainability-education-innovation-grants-awarded\u0022\u003EMore details about the grant and all of the recipients \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe grants aim to transform instruction using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which offer a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The grants aim to transform instruction using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which offer a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-05-27 15:09:57","changed_gmt":"2025-05-27 15:34:45","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677132":{"id":"677132","type":"image","title":"USEI Grants","body":null,"created":"1748358492","gmt_created":"2025-05-27 15:08:12","changed":"1748358517","gmt_changed":"2025-05-27 15:08:37","alt":"USEI Grants","file":{"fid":"261000","name":"Blog-feature-image-6-USEI.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/27\/Blog-feature-image-6-USEI.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/27\/Blog-feature-image-6-USEI.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":105120,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/05\/27\/Blog-feature-image-6-USEI.jpg?itok=G1F5NE-e"}}},"media_ids":["677132"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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":""}},"682644":{"#nid":"682644","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Designing the Future of Teamwork: Human-AI Collaboration Takes Center Stage in New Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a world rapidly embracing artificial intelligence, researchers are turning their attention to a critical question: How can AI agents become not just tools, but true teammates? \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chrismaclellan.com\/\u0022\u003EChristopher MacLellan\u003C\/a\u003E, assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E and faculty member of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E, and his team are tackling this challenge head-on through a groundbreaking initiative that blends research, competition, and collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the heart of their work is a unique \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cog2025.inesc-id.pt\/dice-adventure-human-ai-teaming-competition\/\u0022\u003Ehuman-AI teaming tournament competition\u003C\/a\u003E \u2014 believed to be the first of its kind \u2014 designed to explore how people and AI agents can work together effectively. Unlike traditional AI competitions that pit agents against one another, this event emphasizes cooperation. Participants design AI agents that can collaborate with humans or other agents to achieve shared goals in a team tournament setting.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re interested in using cooperative games as a tool to understand how people and agents can team together more effectively,\u201d MacLellan explains. \u201cThis competition is a step toward designing AI that doesn\u2019t just follow commands, but anticipates needs and acts as a true partner.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/strong-tact.github.io\/\u0022\u003Ecompetition\u003C\/a\u003E, now in its second year and hosted in conjunction with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cog2025.inesc-id.pt\/\u0022\u003EIEEE Conference on Games\u003C\/a\u003E, invites participants to submit their own AI agents or join as human players teaming up with others\u2019 agents. With up to $1,000 in cash prizes sponsored by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE\u003C\/a\u003E, the August event offers both a fun and meaningful way to contribute to the future of AI development.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s research paper about the game, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3723498.3723793\u0022\u003EDice Adventure: An Asymmetrical Collaborative Game for Exploring the Hybrid Teaming Effects\u003C\/a\u003E, won the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fdg2025.org\/BestPaperAwards.html\u0022\u003Ebest paper award\u003C\/a\u003E at this year\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fdg2025.org\/index.html\u0022\u003EInternational Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games\u003C\/a\u003E. Georgia Tech Interactive Computing Ph.D. students \u003Cstrong\u003EQiao Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E, organized the competition and was the lead author of the paper, along with \u003Cstrong\u003EGlen Smith\u003C\/strong\u003E, co-author.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMore than just a contest, the initiative reflects a broader vision. As MacLellan puts it, \u201cSociety is moving toward a future where humans and agents work seamlessly together. We want to design for the best possible futures \u2014 where AI agents know how to team back with people.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis vision challenges the conventional view of AI as mere tools. 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Astronauts stationed on the International Space Station, for example, manually control robots that bring in supplies, move cargo, and make structural repairs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s brutal from a psychological perspective,\u201d Gombolay said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe question often asked about automating a task in these fields is, at what point can a robot be trusted more than a human?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA recent paper by Gombolay and his current and former students \u2014 \u003Cstrong\u003ESam\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EYi\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ETing\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EErin\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EHedlund\u003C\/strong\u003E-\u003Cstrong\u003EBotti\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003EManisha\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ENatarajan\u003C\/strong\u003E \u2014 sheds new light on the debate. The paper was published in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and will be presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NASA-funded study can identify which aspects of tedious, time-consuming tasks can be automated and which require human supervision. If roboticists can pinpoint the elements of a task that cause the least stress, they can automate these components and enable humans to oversee the more challenging aspects.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf we\u2019re talking about repetitive tasks, robots do better with that, so if you can automate it, you should,\u201d said Ting, a former grad student and lead author of the paper. \u201cI don\u2019t think humans enjoy doing repetitive tasks. We can move toward a better future with automation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMilitary officials, for example, could measure the stress of remote drone pilots and know which times during a pilot\u2019s shift require the highest level of attention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe can get a sense of how stressed you are and create models of how divided your attention is and the performance rate of the tasks you\u2019re doing,\u201d Gombolay said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt can be a low-stress or high-stress situation depending on the stakes and what\u2019s going on with you personally. Are you well-caffeinated? Well-rested? Is there stress from home you\u2019re bringing with you to the workplace? The goal is to predict how good your task performance will be. If it indicates it might be poor, we may need to outsource work to other people or create a safe space for the operator to destress.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Stress Test\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor their study, the researchers cut a small river-shaped path into a medium-density fiberboard. The exercise required the 24 participants to use a remote robotic arm to navigate through the path from one end to the other without touching the edges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experiment grew more challenging as new stress conditions and workload requirements were introduced. The changing conditions required the test participants to multitask to complete the assignment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGombolay said the study supports the Yerkes-Dodson Law, which states that moderate levels of stress increase human performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe experiment showed that operators felt overwhelmed and performed poorly when multitasking was introduced. Too much stress led to poor performance, but a moderate amount of stress induced more engagement and enhanced teleoperator focus.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETing said finding that ideal stress zone can lead to a higher performance rating.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou would think the more stressed you are, the more your performance decreases,\u201d Ting said. \u201cMost people didn\u2019t react that way. 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He went to work for the school immediately after earning his B.S and went on to earn his Master\u2019s in Computer Science while continuing his work. He recently stepped into a new role at IPaT as the Assistant Director of Research Engineering, where he leads the Institute\u2019s engineering team. Throughout his career at GT he\u0027s worked on a diverse range of projects, with helping people as a common theme. These have included a panic-button system for social workers facing dangerous situations, assistive technologies for people with communications impairments, brain-computer interfaces for individuals with locked-in syndromes like ALS, mobile apps to support people in early stages of dementia and their caregivers among others. Currently he\u0027s part of a research initiative that aims to use AI to help aging adults remain in their homes longer. Jeremy is a father to two daughters and a partner to Rebecca. His strong relationship with his daughters and his partner cemented his passion for Project Safe\u2019s mission as he saw the necessity of organizations like ours if one of his daughters ever found herself in a dangerous relationship\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the modest initial costs of creating this technology covered by gifts from Project Safe donors, Jeremy got to work creating Safeline. The initial version of the software was still phone-based, and used unique numbers and forwarding technology to distribute messages and assign conversations to operators. It was a game-changer! With logistical challenges removed, operators could just sign in and get straight to work with the messaging history available to them for each conversation they took over! Before long, a student group led by graduate student Erica Pramer built a browser-based version which added more functionality and customization options and became the primary method of communication for text line operators. Once the class project was complete, Jeremy took over the responsibility of maintaining and updating the software on a volunteer basis, and has continued that work for nearly 10 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince 2016 when Safeline was introduced, Project Safe operators have held 2,069 conversations with teens experiencing dating violence using Jeremy\u2019s technology. But, the time has come to pass the torch. In the years since Safeline was first created, texting software has become more or less ubiquitous, and the job of maintaining the software has become more onerous. Earlier this year, Project Safe began the transition to a new service, and Jeremy\u2019s time of maintaining the textline is coming to an end. 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Computer-rendered images replaced hand-drawn characters. And the animation process, once the sole domain of creatives, became increasingly technical and mathematical. While stirring more dynamic visuals, the shift created long, laborious projects and ignited industry-wide hunger for a more natural creative process for animation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDreamWorks Animation, the Universal Pictures\u2013owned studio behind celebrated hits like Shrek and Madagascar, tapped \u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Powell\u003C\/strong\u003E to spearhead a fix. Powell, a Georgia Tech GVU alum (GVU merged into the Institute for People and Technology in 2023) and his wife \u003Cstrong\u003EBridgette (Wiley) Powell\u003C\/strong\u003E, are both graduates of the College of Computing majoring in computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOmer Inan\u003C\/strong\u003E, Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur and Linda J. and Mark C. 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Her insights remind us that the future of urban innovation lies not in flashy tech but in thoughtful partnerships, empowered communities, and a relentless focus on equity and access.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thecenturyofcities.com\/podcast-episodes\/episode\/367fccb3\/debra-lam-the-future-of-innovation-is-low-tech-local-and-community-led\u0022\u003EGo here to listen to Debra Lam\u0027s podcast as she is interviewed by Greg Clark and Jennifer Dolynchuk \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Century of Cities podcast welcomed Debra Lam, Founding Executive Director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Century of Cities podcast welcomed Debra Lam, Founding Executive Director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-07-08 14:34:44","changed_gmt":"2025-07-08 14:35:29","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677351":{"id":"677351","type":"image","title":"Debra Lam","body":"\u003Cp\u003EDebra Lam is the Founding Director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation and an IPaT faculty member.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1751984969","gmt_created":"2025-07-08 14:29:29","changed":"1751985145","gmt_changed":"2025-07-08 14:32:25","alt":"Debra Lam","file":{"fid":"261243","name":"Debra_Lam_Headshot_2-copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/08\/Debra_Lam_Headshot_2-copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/08\/Debra_Lam_Headshot_2-copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":284277,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/08\/Debra_Lam_Headshot_2-copy.jpg?itok=pfL249zn"}}},"media_ids":["677351"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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":""}},"683292":{"#nid":"683292","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Taiwan Looks to Strengthen U.S. Manufacturing Ties Through Georgia Tech Innovation Tour","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech recently welcomed a Taiwanese delegation for a multi-day visit aimed at fostering international collaboration in technology, innovation, and economic development.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis visit exemplifies IPaT\u2019s expanding global initiatives,\u201d said Michael Best, IPaT\u2019s executive director and professor with Georgia Tech\u2019s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and School of Interactive Computing. \u201cWe aim to strengthen Georgia Tech\u2019s relationships with select international universities and companies.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe delegation, composed of Taiwanese leaders from academia, high-tech corporations, and national media, engaged in a robust agenda that showcased Georgia\u2019s growing role in advanced manufacturing, robotics, and startup innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETunghai University, one of the visitors on this trip to Atlanta, is already working with Benoit Montreuil, Coca-Cola Material Handling \u0026amp; Distribution Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. The delegation had a chance to visit the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute where Montreuil is the executive director.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first day of the visit started with a briefing by Stella Xu, director at the Georgia Department of Economic Development, about Georgia\u2019s Quick Start program \u2014 Georgia\u2019s internationally acclaimed workforce training program that provides customized training free-of-charge to qualified new, expanding, and existing businesses. Next, the group learned about Georgia AIM (AI Manufacturing) \u2013 a statewide effort focused on workforce development and technology adoption for Georgia manufacturers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDelegates also toured the advanced manufacturing pilot facility run by the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute where they observed cutting-edge AI and automation technologies in action.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA lunch hosted at Tech Square by the Georgia Department of Economic Development and IPaT provided an opportunity for informal dialogue and networking. The group then attended expert-led sessions at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM). These included a robotics dialogue with Ye Zhao, assistant professor at the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and a tour of the robotic research facilities with Aaron Young, associate professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second day started with a visit to the Curiosity Lab in Peachtree Corners. This facility houses Georgia Tech\u2019s Atrium, a specialized facility that offers hands-on workshops, dedicated research facilities, industry partnerships, networking opportunities and more, setting the stage for Georgia Tech learners and alumni to immerse themselves in real-world innovation and pave the way for future breakthroughs in technology and design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe afternoon of the second day included a visit to Georgia Tech\u2019s CREATE-X startup accelerator and a pitch from three student innovators who are working to launch a computer vision startup. The group then received an overview of IPaT\u2019s mission and research which included learning about the IPaT Way, a comprehensive approach to people-centered technical innovation. IPaT is exploring new collaboration models to connect research and industry from the Asian region to Georgia Tech research, faculty, and global programs.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe itinerary also included a meeting with representatives from the Metro Atlanta and Columbus Chambers of Commerce, a tour of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and the Porsche U.S. Headquarters, and even an opportunity to attend the 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe visit underscored Georgia Tech and IPaT\u2019s role as a global hub for innovation and its commitment to fostering international partnerships that drive technological advancement and economic growth for the state of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech\u2019s interdisciplinary and industry strengths are extremely impressive,\u201d said CY Huang, chairman of the GeoAsia Foundation, investment banker, and expert in the semiconductor industry. \u201cWe look forward to jointly exploring limitless possibilities for collaboration with Taiwan.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech recently welcomed a Taiwanese delegation for a multi-day visit aimed at fostering international collaboration in technology, innovation, and economic development.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech recently welcomed a Taiwanese delegation for a multi-day visit aimed at fostering international collaboration in technology, innovation, and economic development. "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-07-25 17:58:39","changed_gmt":"2025-07-25 17:59:41","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677491":{"id":"677491","type":"image","title":"Taiwanese Delegation","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETaiwanese delegates meeting with the Institute for People and Technology in the Coda Building.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1753465852","gmt_created":"2025-07-25 17:50:52","changed":"1753466198","gmt_changed":"2025-07-25 17:56:38","alt":"Taiwanese Delegation","file":{"fid":"261393","name":"taiwan-group.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/25\/taiwan-group.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/25\/taiwan-group.png","mime":"image\/png","size":4867342,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/25\/taiwan-group.png?itok=95iLwVGE"}}},"media_ids":["677491"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"683240":{"#nid":"683240","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Dataset Makes Health Chatbots Like Google\u0027s MedGemma More Mindful of African Contexts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA groundbreaking new medical dataset is poised to revolutionize healthcare in Africa by improving chatbots\u2019 understanding of the continent\u2019s most pressing medical issues and increasing their awareness of accessible treatment options.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/afrimedqa.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAfriMed-QA\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, developed by researchers from Georgia Tech and Google, could reduce the burden on African healthcare systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers said people in need of medical care file into overcrowded clinics and hospitals and face excruciatingly long waits with no guarantee of admission or quality treatment. There aren\u2019t enough trained healthcare professionals available to meet the demand.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome healthcare question-answer chatbots have been introduced to treat those in need. However, the researchers said there\u2019s no transparent or standardized way to test or verify their effectiveness and safety.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe dataset will enable technologists and researchers to develop more robust and accessible healthcare chatbots tailored to the unique experiences and challenges of Africa.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne such new tool is Google\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medgemma.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMedGemma\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a large-language model (LLM) designed to process medical text and images. AfriMed-QA was used for training and evaluation purposes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfriMed-QA stands as the most extensive dataset that evaluates LLM capabilities across various facets of African healthcare. It contains 15,000 question-answer pairs culled from over 60 medical schools across 16 countries and covering numerous medical specialties, disease conditions, and geographical challenges.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETobi Olatunji and Charles Nimo co-developed AfriMed-QA and co-authored a paper about the dataset that will be presented at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/2025.aclweb.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E conference next week in Vienna.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOlatunji is a graduate of Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and holds a Doctor of Medicine from the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Nimo is a Ph.D. student in Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing, where he is advised by School of IC professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mikeb.inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Best\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.irfanessa.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIrfan Essa\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFocus on Africa\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENimo, Olatunji, and their collaborators created AfriMed-QA as a response to MedQA, a large-scale question-answer dataset that tests the medical proficiency of all major LLMs. That includes Google\u2019s Gemini, OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, and Anthropic\u2019s Claude, among others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, because MedQA is trained solely on the U.S. Medical License Exams, Nimo said it is not adequate to serve patients in underdeveloped African countries nor the Global South at-large.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAfriMed-QA has the contextualized and localized understanding of African medical institutions that you don\u2019t get from Med-QA,\u201d Nimo said. \u201cThere are specific diseases and local challenges in our dataset that you wouldn\u0027t find in any U.S.-based dataset.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOlatunji said one problem African users may encounter using LLMs trained on MedQA is that they may advise unfeasible treatments or unaffordable prescription drugs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYou consider the types of drugs, diagnostics, procedures, or therapies that exist in the U.S. that are quite advanced. These treatments are much more accessible, for example in the US, and Europe,\u201d Olatunji said. \u201cBut in Africa, they\u2019re too expensive and many times unavailable. They may cost over $100,000, and many people have no health insurance. Why recommend such treatments to someone who can\u2019t obtain them?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnother problem may be that the LLM doesn\u2019t take a medical condition seriously if it isn\u2019t predominant in the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe tested many of these models, for example, on how they would manage sickle-cell disease signs and symptoms, and they focused on other \u201cmore likely\u201d causes and did not rank or consider sickle cell high enough as a possible cause,\u201d he said. \u201cThey, for example, don\u2019t consider sickle-cell as important as anemia and cancer because sickle-cell is less prevalent in the U.S.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to sickle-cell disease, Olatunji said some of the healthcare issues facing Africa that can be improved through AfriMed-QA include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHIV treatment and prevention\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPoor maternal healthcare\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWidespread malaria cases\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPhysician shortage\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClinician productivity and operational efficiency\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGoogle Partnership\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMercy Asiedu, senior author of the AfriMed-QA paper and research scientist at Google Research, has dedicated her career to improving healthcare in Africa. 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If we can get these large-language models to be as good as experts and make them more localized with geo-contextualization, then there\u2019s the potential to task-shift to that.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project is supported by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGates Foundation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.path.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPATH\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a nonprofit that improves healthcare in developing countries.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers introduced a new dataset aimed at improving health chatbots like Google\u0027s MedGemma by better accounting for cultural, linguistic, and contextual factors specific to African settings.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new dataset, AfriMed-QA, was created by researchers at Georgia Tech and Google to improve health chatbots like Google\u0027s MedGemma, making them more aware of African healthcare realities."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2025-07-23 15:32:10","changed_gmt":"2025-07-23 16:34:15","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677474":{"id":"677474","type":"image","title":"AdobeStock_181202044.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1753284749","gmt_created":"2025-07-23 15:32:29","changed":"1753284749","gmt_changed":"2025-07-23 15:32:29","alt":"AfriMed-QA","file":{"fid":"261376","name":"AdobeStock_181202044.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/23\/AdobeStock_181202044.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/23\/AdobeStock_181202044.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":95803,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/23\/AdobeStock_181202044.jpeg?itok=s52m9aW9"}}},"media_ids":["677474"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"},{"id":"193860","name":"Artifical Intelligence"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"194391","name":"AI in Healthcare"},{"id":"184331","name":"access to healthcare"},{"id":"1724","name":"african"},{"id":"169137","name":"chatbot"},{"id":"193556","name":"large language models"},{"id":"190091","name":"Google AI"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"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":""}},"683308":{"#nid":"683308","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Teachers Across Multiple States Prepare to Bring AI Lessons into the Classroom","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEighty teachers from four states recently completed intensive training on how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to middle schoolers, part of a growing initiative to make AI education more accessible and engaging for students across the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe AI4GA program, launched through a National Science Foundation grant and now supported by Google, continues to grow through expanded teacher training and curriculum development. It was initially led by Christina Gardner-McCune (University of Florida), Dave Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University), and Bryan Cox (Georgia Tech). The curriculum was co-designed with educators and faculty, including Georgia Tech\u2019s Judith Uchidiuno.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow in its fifth teacher cohort, AI4GA is focused on upskilling educators, many of whom don\u2019t have a background in computer science. Participants in the latest group included science, English, math, and social studies teachers from Georgia, Florida, Texas, and New York.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe did a really good job with Georgia, so now we\u2019re scaling up,\u201d said Cox, Kapor Fellow in Georgia Tech\u2019s Constellations Center for Education in Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe curriculum introduced the cohort to machine learning, automated decision-making, natural language processing, and other foundational concepts in AI. They also learned about AI applications, including autonomous robots and self-driving vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/teachers-across-multiple-states-prepare-bring-ai-lessons-classroom\u0022\u003ERead the full story here from the College of Computing \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEighty teachers from four states recently completed intensive training on how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to middle schoolers, part of a growing initiative to make AI education more accessible and engaging for students across the country.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eighty teachers from four states recently completed intensive training on how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to middle schoolers, part of a growing initiative to make AI education more accessible and engaging for students across the country."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-07-25 21:27:24","changed_gmt":"2025-07-25 21:27:53","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677497":{"id":"677497","type":"image","title":"AI Teacher Training","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETeacher Training for AI Lessons\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1753478597","gmt_created":"2025-07-25 21:23:17","changed":"1753478692","gmt_changed":"2025-07-25 21:24:52","alt":"AI Teacher Training","file":{"fid":"261400","name":"AIcopy3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/25\/AIcopy3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/25\/AIcopy3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":61352,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/25\/AIcopy3.jpg?itok=lSiDSmWR"}}},"media_ids":["677497"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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":""}},"683353":{"#nid":"683353","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Aim to Increase Awareness of Emotion AI \u2014 By Letting People Try It","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECan you tell what someone is feeling based on their facial expression?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProponents of emotion AI \u2014 a type of artificial intelligence that analyzes facial expressions, text, voice, and other cues to infer emotions \u2014 say it can do just that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researcher Noura Howell, who received an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2024\/06\/howell-nsf-career-grant-emotion-ai\u0022\u003ENSF CAREER award\u003C\/a\u003E to study emotion AI in 2024, said the technology has a number of shortfalls that can lead to inaccurate results. Like generative AI, emotion AI is also subject to bias, and its use raises ethical and privacy concerns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite these shortcomings, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/noura-howell\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003EHowell\u003C\/a\u003E said emotion AI has quietly shaped decisions in areas like hiring, education, mental health, and public safety in recent years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet most people don\u2019t know it exists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowell and Digital Media Ph.D. students Xingyu Li and Alexandra \u201cAllie\u201d Teixeira Riggs in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication are working to change that. They held workshops across Atlanta over the last two months, giving participants a rare opportunity to try emotion AI for themselves \u2014 and then share their impressions, ideas, and concerns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2025\/07\/researchers-increase-awareness-emotion-ai\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researcher Noura Howell and her team held community workshops in July to raise awareness about emotion AI \u2014 a type of artificial intelligence that analyzes facial expressions and other data to infer emotions.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researcher Noura Howell and her team held community workshops in July to raise awareness about emotion AI \u2014 a type of artificial intelligence that analyzes facial expressions and other data to infer emotions."}],"uid":"35777","created_gmt":"2025-07-29 14:43:09","changed_gmt":"2025-07-29 14:51:43","author":"Stephanie Kadel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677521":{"id":"677521","type":"image","title":"0L2A0123.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EXingyu Li (left) demonstrates the emotion AI system created for the team\u0027s workshops. 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Proponents of the technology say that over the coming decades, AI has the potential to save hundreds of thousands, even millions of lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat\u2019s more, a 2023 study found that if the health care industry significantly increased its use of AI, up to US$360 billion annually could be saved.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut though artificial intelligence has become nearly ubiquitous, from smartphones to chatbots to self-driving cars, its impact on health care so far has been relatively low.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA 2024 American Medical Association survey found that 66% of U.S. physicians had used AI tools in some capacity, up from 38% in 2023. But most of it was for administrative or low-risk support. And although 43% of U.S. health care organizations had added or expanded AI use in 2024, many implementations are still exploratory, particularly when it comes to medical decisions and diagnoses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019m a professor and researcher who studies AI and health care analytics. I\u2019ll try to explain why AI\u2019s growth will be gradual, and how technical limitations and ethical concerns stand in the way of AI\u2019s widespread adoption by the medical industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ai-in-health-care-could-save-lives-and-money-but-change-wont-happen-overnight-241551\u0022\u003ERead the complete article written by Professor Turgay Ayer in The Conversation \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPublished July 11, 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EImagine walking into your doctor\u2019s office feeling sick \u2013 and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from your health records, genetic profile and wearable devices to help decipher what\u2019s wrong.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Imagine walking into your doctor\u2019s office feeling sick \u2013 and rather than flipping through pages of your medical history or running tests that take days, your doctor instantly pulls together data from your health records, genetic profile and wearable devic"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-07-30 17:54:01","changed_gmt":"2025-07-30 17:54:28","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677533":{"id":"677533","type":"image","title":"AI in health care ","body":null,"created":"1753897958","gmt_created":"2025-07-30 17:52:38","changed":"1753897981","gmt_changed":"2025-07-30 17:53:01","alt":"AI in health care ","file":{"fid":"261441","name":"file-20250603-68-b488qp.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/30\/file-20250603-68-b488qp.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/30\/file-20250603-68-b488qp.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":204171,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/30\/file-20250603-68-b488qp.jpg?itok=M77SI28I"}}},"media_ids":["677533"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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":""}},"683578":{"#nid":"683578","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Talent On and Off The Screen","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EArticle originally published in the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 1, Spring 2025\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWhen film director Tamer Shaaban, CS 11, set out to create a commercial announcing Audi\u2019s 2026 debut in Formula 1, he turned to Unreal Engine, a computer program normally used for developing video games. It was a creative decision that\u2019s becoming more common. According to Jason Freeman, Tech\u2019s interim associate vice provost for the arts, new technology is causing different forms of media and entertainment to converge. The ways in which video games and films are created are more similar than a decade ago, and 10 years from now, those methods will merge even more. Whether students plan to pursue a career in animation or one in film, they will need a common set of skills and the ability to respond to fast-changing technology. And Georgia Tech wants its students to be prepared for that.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s an opportunity for us to better develop the workforce as this industry is evolving, and to become thought and research leaders in this space,\u201d says Freeman. \u201cTo do this, we need a flagship academic program, something that becomes a hub for all that activity.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFor many years now, the arts have become increasingly visible at Georgia Tech. Rafael L. Bras, Tech\u2019s former provost and Regents\u2019 Professor, was an early champion of integrating the arts into the fabric of campus through works of public art and through collaborations between Georgia Tech students and artists-in-residence.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cDr. Bras helped us to understand that all GT students, regardless of their discipline of study, needed to embrace creativity to be successful in their careers, and that the arts are essential in teaching our students to flex their creative muscle,\u201d Freeman says.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIn the fall of 2026, the Institute plans to launch a bachelor\u2019s of science degree in Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies. The new curriculum, which includes collaboration with departments across campus, focuses on artistic practice, technical innovation, and entrepreneurship. Tech also plans to develop the former Randall Brothers property on Marietta Street as an innovation hub called the Creative Quarter focused on the arts, creativity, design, and technology.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cWe have had this reputation for so long as being just an engineering school,\u201d Freeman says. \u201cBut bit by bit we\u2019re making clear to the world that the arts are a very important part of our DNA here at Tech as well.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/17\/magazine-pages.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;pgid=25563\u0026amp;cid=58437\u0026amp;ecid=58437\u0026amp;crid=0\u0026amp;calpgid=5677\u0026amp;calcid=12432#\u0022\u003EHere, we feature nine alumni who prove just that (link to full Alumni Magazine article) \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechnology has transformed the entertainment industry over the years. 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It leads to two certificates and focuses on academic enrichment, social growth, career development, and independent living.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe accept students from across the country, not just Georgia,\u201d said Sherri Burrell, EXCEL\u2019s mentorship coordinator. \u201cOur goal is to prepare our students for life after college, and that includes learning how to live independently.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBurrell joined the EXCEL team in August 2024 and quickly identified a gap in the program: students needed a hands-on space to learn about nutrition, cooking, and healthy living \u2014 skills that could not be taught effectively in a traditional classroom. That\u2019s when she connected with Brian Jones, director of research at Georgia Tech\u2019s Aware Home lab.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Aware Home, a three-story, 5,040-square-foot living laboratory, is designed to simulate a real home environment where Georgia Tech researchers, faculty, and students can develop and test innovative technologies. With its fully equipped kitchen and smart home capabilities, it offers an ideal setting for EXCEL students \u2014 many of whom are tactile learners \u2014 to engage in real-world, hands-on learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe partnership began with current EXCEL students and their Georgia Tech mentors \u2014 traditional students who support EXCEL participants in areas like social development, wellness, and life transitions. Together, mentors and mentees learned to prepare simple, nutritious meals. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just beneficial for our EXCEL students,\u201d Burrell noted. \u201cMany of the mentors were also new to cooking. They learned new skills and knowledge right alongside their mentees.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe collaboration expanded into the EXCEL Summer Academy, a two-week program for high school juniors and seniors interested in applying to EXCEL. During the summer sessions, prospective students visited the Aware Home to explore topics like nutrition, dining, and making healthy food choices. \u201cEven though incoming students are on a meal plan and don\u2019t have kitchens, it\u2019s still important they understand how to make smart decisions about what they eat,\u201d Burrell said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Legacy of Research Innovation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EBeyond this Excel program educational role, the Aware Home, the first residential laboratory of its type, has a rich legacy of shaping the future of smart home technology. One of its most influential contributors is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cs.washington.edu\/people\/faculty\/shwetak-patel\/\u0022\u003EShwetak Patel\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech alumnus and now a professor at the University of Washington\u2019s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science \u0026amp; Engineering. Patel\u2019s time in the Aware Home as a Ph.D. student profoundly influenced his career and the broader field of ubiquitous computing. He described how the Aware Home lab\u2019s impact on his research career fell into three distinct \u201cbuckets\u201d:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1. Career Transformation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPatel credits the Aware Home with fundamentally reshaping his career path. His early exposure to real-world research problems in a home-like setting helped him discover his passion for applied computer science and human-centered innovation. \u201cIt totally informed the way I do research now,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2. Living Laboratory Innovation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Aware Home\u2019s immersive environment allowed Patel to explore practical challenges in home sensing and automation. His doctoral work, Infrastructure Mediated Sensing, focused on detecting water and electricity usage, human presence, and environmental context\u2014technologies that laid the foundation for the smart home industry. This research led to the creation of startups like Zensi and Phyn, and influenced commercial products such as Belkin\u2019s Conserve line, smart meters, and even [Google] Nest and Sense devices. Patel is also a distinguished engineer and health technologies leader at Google who guided \u0026nbsp;many of Google\u2019s smart home technologies. \u201cYou can draw a direct line from our early work in the Aware Home to the smart home technologies we see today,\u201d Patel explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E3. Defining Innovation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPatel\u2019s experience in the Aware Home helped him refine his understanding of innovation\u2014not just as a technical achievement, but as a meaningful solution to everyday problems. \u201cThe Aware Home really informed my view on how to do innovation,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s about solving real-world problems in ways that matter to people.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHelping People Today and in the Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the EXCEL program and Aware Home Lab continue to collaborate, they\u2019re not only teaching students how to cook \u2014 they\u2019re also contributing to a broader legacy of innovation. With future research opportunities on the horizon, this new partnership and other ongoing research projects across Georgia Tech, such as the Aware Home collaboration with the AI Caring Institute, are poised to further explore how smart environments can support independent living and improve the quality of life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf you are a researcher, company, or start-up interested in using the Aware Home lab for research, testing, or evaluating in-home technologies, contact Brian Jones, lab director of the Aware Home, at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brian.jones@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebrian.jones@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new partnership between Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/awarehome.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EAware Home Research Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E and the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/excel.gatech.edu\/home\u0022\u003EEXCEL program\u003C\/a\u003E is helping students with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain essential life skills \u2014 starting in the kitchen.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new partnership between Georgia Tech\u2019s Aware Home Research Initiative and the Georgia Tech EXCEL program is helping students with intellectual and developmental disabilities gain essential life skills \u2014 starting in the kitchen."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-08-11 14:23:19","changed_gmt":"2025-08-21 17:00:43","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677638":{"id":"677638","type":"image","title":"Aware Home cooking 1","body":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Excel program students and mentors cooking in the Aware Home.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1754921902","gmt_created":"2025-08-11 14:18:22","changed":"1754921984","gmt_changed":"2025-08-11 14:19:44","alt":"Aware Home cooking","file":{"fid":"261556","name":"DSC06983-Large-main-ok-pizza.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/11\/DSC06983-Large-main-ok-pizza.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/11\/DSC06983-Large-main-ok-pizza.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":563809,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/11\/DSC06983-Large-main-ok-pizza.jpeg?itok=iHbuGpvl"}},"677639":{"id":"677639","type":"image","title":"Sherri Burrell - 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Parker said the perspectives of young people are often neglected in the design of such technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe don\u2019t know much about what community issues are important to youth because we haven\u2019t asked them,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat is their vision for community well-being, and what do they want to address through civic technology?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParker is the lead principal investigator (PI) on the project that will engage youth from low socio-economic communities in Atlanta and Boston. She said the youth will decide what technologies will be created, but they could include a mobile app or a publicly accessible platform.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re interested in studying how technologies can help youth become more civically engaged in their communities and build social connection, trust, and belonging amongst neighbors,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cYouth in lower-income neighborhoods face increased threats to their mental health. Socially cohesive communities can counteract those barriers and are essential for youth well-being.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParker added that impoverished communities often have less social cohesion compare to wealthier areas. Higher-income neighborhoods often have more access to resources that support social cohesion and civic engagement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBacked by Data\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrooke Foucault Welles, co-PI, professor, and interim dean at Northeastern\u2019s College of Media, Arts and Design, said she\u2019s interested in seeing which issues the youths from both Atlanta and Boston will address through their design process. Studying and working with youth across these geographic settings will help the team identify how civic technology can best support youth in varied neighborhood contexts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project will also advance data literacy among young people as they collect and study data to support the new technologies. Welles said data-centered advocacy increases young people\u2019s chances of being heard by elder community members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEmpowering young people to use data when they\u2019re making their arguments about what matters to them and to their communities is the point of this project,\u201d she said. \u201cIt makes their arguments more compelling if they can present data to the adult members of their communities about what\u2019s going on.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project\u2019s reach could expand beyond Atlanta and Boston.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOnce the technologies are designed, the researchers will package them and make them publicly available as a toolkit.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIf successful, the project could drive a movement toward more collective organizing to ensure the youth perspective gets factored into community decision-making.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re a vital part of our communities, and they\u2019re the ones for whom our decisions have the biggest impact,\u201d Welles said. \u201cThese are the times when they\u2019re forming their own civic identities, so engaging them in civic life has long ripple effects. We create more active and thoughtful citizens when we engage young people with civic life.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech, Northeastern University, and MIT are partnering on a $1.25 million National Science Foundation project to help young people in underserved communities design civic technologies that address local challenges. The initiative will work with youth in Atlanta and Boston to create tools such as mobile apps and data platforms that promote civic engagement and community improvement. The project centers youth vocies in the design process to empower them to \u0026nbsp;take an active role in shaping their communities.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Through a $1.25 million NSF Grant, Georgia Tech, Northeastern University, and MIT are empowering youth from underserved Atlanta and Boston communities to lead community transformation and bolster civice engagement."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2025-08-21 12:12:57","changed_gmt":"2025-08-21 12:18:53","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677759":{"id":"677759","type":"image","title":"Andrea-Parker_86A1007.jpg","body":null,"created":"1755778471","gmt_created":"2025-08-21 12:14:31","changed":"1755778471","gmt_changed":"2025-08-21 12:14:31","alt":"Andrea Parker","file":{"fid":"261694","name":"Andrea-Parker_86A1007.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/21\/Andrea-Parker_86A1007.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/21\/Andrea-Parker_86A1007.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":90186,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/21\/Andrea-Parker_86A1007.jpg?itok=SAk_7gbr"}}},"media_ids":["677759"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"40351","name":"civic engagement"},{"id":"175125","name":"civic tech"},{"id":"75261","name":"Youth"},{"id":"188933","name":"Atlanta community."},{"id":"194701","name":"go-resarchnews"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"}],"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":""}},"684263":{"#nid":"684263","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Plugged Him In. Now He\u2019s Wired for Problem-Solving","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScott Gilliland\u2019s winding path led to breakthroughs in wearable tech that solve challenges for people with Parkinson\u2019s and help us understand dolphin communication.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA research team in the Atlantic Ocean listens to dolphins, testing technology that may one day decode their communication system. Thousands of miles away, a Parkinson\u2019s patient may speak more clearly, thanks to a device that helps them overcome speech challenges caused by the condition. One sounds like science fiction; the other is a transformative medical breakthrough. Yet both are rooted in the same field of research: ubiquitous computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScott Gilliland\u003C\/strong\u003E, a senior research scientist at Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), has played a key role in developing these technologies. IPaT connects researchers across disciplines to turn innovative ideas into practical applications. It\u2019s a natural fit for Gilliland, whose work blends human-centered design with embedded systems, which are small computers built into everyday devices to perform specific tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs a researcher, he often partners with colleagues in the College of Computing, where he also earned his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees. His work in ubiquitous computing and wearable systems is quietly reshaping how we interact with the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUbiquitous computing\u201d refers to technology that is embedded in everyday objects and environments \u2014 for example, clothing. It makes computing power accessible without being intrusive. Gilliland\u2019s projects span different fields of study that aim for the same goal: real-world benefit through innovative, human-centered technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/feature\/unexpected-paths\/scott-gilliland\u0022\u003ELearn more about research scientist Scott Gilliland \u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScott Gilliland\u2019s winding path led to breakthroughs in wearable tech that solve challenges for people with Parkinson\u2019s and help us understand dolphin communication.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Scott Gilliland\u2019s winding path led to breakthroughs in wearable tech that solve challenges for people with Parkinson\u2019s and help us understand dolphin communication."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-08-28 18:32:53","changed_gmt":"2025-08-28 18:34:10","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677848":{"id":"677848","type":"image","title":"Scott Gilliland","body":"\u003Cp\u003EScott Gilliland, senior research scientist at Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1756405726","gmt_created":"2025-08-28 18:28:46","changed":"1756405791","gmt_changed":"2025-08-28 18:29:51","alt":"Scott Gilliland","file":{"fid":"261794","name":"Unexpected-Paths_August-Issue_Scott-Gilliland-16.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/28\/Unexpected-Paths_August-Issue_Scott-Gilliland-16.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/28\/Unexpected-Paths_August-Issue_Scott-Gilliland-16.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1713077,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/28\/Unexpected-Paths_August-Issue_Scott-Gilliland-16.jpg?itok=k9JXMSQd"}}},"media_ids":["677848"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684297":{"#nid":"684297","#data":{"type":"news","title":"IPaT and GTRI Seed Funding Awarded to Four Projects","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech (IPaT) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) co-sponsored more than $55,000 in seed grant awards to four research projects. These 2025-2026 IPaT\/GTRI newly awarded grants provide seed funding for new research collaborations or provide support for new forms of internal and external research community engagement and collaboration.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECongratulations to these four winning project teams:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E1) Proposal title: Building a Research to Impact Collaborative on AI and Global Health\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch overview:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EResearch and practice at the intersection of AI and global health has grown rapidly in the last few years, yet most of these efforts are fragmented and disconnected. There is a pressing need for spaces that facilitate knowledge-sharing and resource coordination in this space. We are thus launching a global, interdisciplinary Research to Impact Collaborative (RIC) on AI and global health that will: 1) support knowledge-sharing across research and practice, 2) facilitate student learning, and 3) accelerate cross-sector collaborations. To catalyze the RIC, we will conduct a year-long virtual seminar series and in-person workshops that will bring together researchers, practitioners, and students. This initiative will position Georgia Tech as a leader in AI and global health, build a lasting collaborative, and lay the foundation for interdisciplinary collaborations and future funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Naveena Karusala, Neha Kumar, and Munmun De Choudhury at the School of Interactive Computing; Kai Wang at the School of Computational Science and Engineering; Gari Clifford at the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Additional members: Azra Ismail (Emory University), Anupriya Tuli and Madeline Balaam (KTH), Pushpendra Singh (IIIT-Delhi), Melissa Densmore (University of Cape Town), Naomi Yamashita (Kyoto University), Neha Madhiwalla (ARMMAN), Shirley Yan and Anubhav Arora (Noora Health)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2) Proposal title: Project: Are Data Centers the New Landfills?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch overview:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EData centers are growing rapidly in the U.S., with nowhere more notable than in Georgia, particularly in the Atlanta metropolitan region (Berger, 2025). This expansion continues as policymakers and the data center industry position data centers as a source of innovation in artificial intelligence (AI), national security, and economic growth brought by the financial returns of data centers. Data center energy use has nearly tripled in the last decade to a total of 4.4% of electricity use in the US and may triple again over the next decade (Shehabi et al., 2024). This growth is driven by increasing demands for data-intensive technologies and applications, like AI, and a data center-friendly policy climate in Georgia (see Georgia HB1291). Like landfills, data centers are often sited in ways that impose local external costs, impacting important aspects of everyday life, such as water security, energy prices, taxes, jobs, housing, and air quality. In Georgia, a proposed data center consumes approximately 6 million gallons of water per day, a volume equivalent to filling nine Olympic-sized swimming pools (Mecke, 2025). Furthermore, the tax revenue that Georgia generates from data centers is estimated to be far less than the cost of incentives provided to the industry (e.g. subsidies for equipment), resulting in a negative state fiscal impact of $18 million in 2021 (Hardee et al., 2022). This proposed IPAT Research Grant investigates the trade-offs in constructing data centers, weighing the economic benefits against their external impacts on local Atlanta communities. In doing so, we aim to develop the next generation of responsible and ethical data centers that aim to inform and empower communities exposed to the externalities imposed by data centers. Scholars of data centers argue that community experiences of data centers rarely feature alongside the dominant promises of data centers such as economic growth and technological innovation (Zander 2024). Highlighting these alternative experiences, we will suggest policy and data tools to better site, deploy, and discuss how data centers are built, maintained, and shape the lives of their neighbors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;Cindy Lin and Josiah Hester, School of Interactive Computing; Allen Hyde, School of History and Sociology; Joe Bozeman III, School of Civil Engineering; Elora Raymond, School of City and Regional Planning; Anthony Harding, School of Public Policy and Jung Ho Lewe, School of Aerospace Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E3) Proposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E The Sound of Motion: Transforming Artistic Body Movement into Music for Motor Therapy Investigators\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch overview:\u003C\/strong\u003E This research proposal aims to initiate a new collaborative project across the Colleges of Sciences, Computing, and Liberal Arts to start designing and developing a novel platform that enables augmented artistic expression exercise through body movements as instruments. When a person moves their trunk, legs, arms, or a handheld object (e.g., a Wizarding wand), the platform will transform their movement trajectories into the associated sounds of musical instruments (i.e., sonification). Turning the movement trajectories into sounds will enable people with motor disabilities (e.g., Parkinson\u2019s disease; stroke) to express their artistry with their less-impaired body parts. Additionally, developing augmented artistic exercises as a new rehabilitation paradigm may stimulate previously untapped neuromotor strategies and facilitate motor recovery. Furthermore, the quality of artistic movement can be objectively assessed through this platform. Experts in human motor control (Shinohara), sonification and human-AI interaction (Walker), and human-computer interaction in the performing arts (Trajkova) will combine their complementary expertise to design and develop such a multimodal system, demonstrating proof of concept. This interdisciplinary R\u0026amp;D will benefit older adults and individuals with motor impairments by enhancing their well-being by introducing new, enjoyable, engaging, and rewarding artistic expressions or exercises. Such activities can enhance the release of neurotransmitters that facilitate neural plasticity (e.g., dopamine), ultimately leading to improved motor function.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETeam members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Minoru Shinohara, College of Sciences; Bruce Walker, College of Computing; Milka Trajkova, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts; Joshua Posen, College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E4) Proposal title:\u003C\/strong\u003E Generating Space-making Companion Robot Behaviors through Large Language Models (LLMs) for Morally Ambiguous Situations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EResearch overview:\u003C\/strong\u003E Increasingly operating in public spaces and urban life, robots can be easily caught in such morally ambiguous situations, which are often dynamic, complex, and unpredictable, presenting novel factors and agencies that can quickly exceed the scope of any projected (or pre-programmed) human-robot interaction. LLMs are well-suited to interpreting specific scenarios and producing logically coherent responses, which makes them ideal for contexts where pre-programming robot behavior is impractical. 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These influencers are entirely virtual personas created using generative AI tools that simulate human features, voices, and behaviors. They post lifestyle content, interact with followers, and even secure brand endorsements \u2014 all without existing in the physical world. As these technologies grow more widely available and their results more believable, specialists caution that we are moving into a new age where the line separating fiction from reality is becoming increasingly blurred.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Rise of Synthetic Creativity\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExperts at Georgia Tech say the surge in AI hyperrealism \u2014 content that mimics human emotion, speech, and appearance with uncanny precision \u2014 is both a technological marvel and a societal challenge.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cAI does not have emotions as we understand them in humans, but it knows how to mimic emotional speech,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/mark-riedl-human-centered-artificial-intelligence-expert\u0022\u003EMark Riedl\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Interactive Computing. \u201cOnce we understand that AI is mimicking us, it is easy to understand how they can create believable outputs that sound authentic.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ERiedl points to the democratization of video creation as a major shift. \u201cAI video generation tools and the ability to bypass traditional content channels and post directly to social media have opened up the floodgates,\u201d he said.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ERecent examples include synthetic influencers such as\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nobodysausage?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\u0026amp;igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==\u0022\u003ENobody Sausage\u003C\/a\u003E, a digitally animated character that has attracted over 30 million followers across multiple social media platforms through short-form dance videos and brand collaborations. On platforms like\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/character.ai\/\u0022\u003ECharacter.AI\u003C\/a\u003E, users engage with millions of virtual personas designed to simulate conversation and personality traits. These AI-generated figures are reshaping how audiences interact with content, marketing, and identity across Instagram, TikTok, and other social media channels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMental Health and the Reality Gap\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/expert\/munmun-de-choudhury-social-and-computer-science-expert\u0022\u003EMunmun De Choudhury\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, warns that hyperreal AI content can distort users\u2019 perception of reality, especially among vulnerable populations.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cThis distortion can fuel anxiety, exacerbate body image and self-comparison issues, and contribute to a broader erosion of epistemic trust \u2014 our basic belief in what others present as true,\u201d she said.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EHer research shows that social media already blurs the line between authentic self-expression and performative identity. Hyperreal AI content \u2014 from deepfakes to emotionally resonant synthetic personas \u2014 further complicates users\u2019 ability to evaluate what is real or trustworthy. Adolescents and those facing mental health challenges may be especially susceptible.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cIndividuals experiencing stress or social isolation may be more prone to believe deepfakes,\u201d De Choudhury explained. \u201cSuch content often reinforces existing beliefs or fills gaps in social connection.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe AI content challenges our understanding of authenticity, trust, and digital identity. It also raises questions about\u0026nbsp;consent, misinformation, and the psychological effects\u0026nbsp;of interacting with synthetic personas. Gen Z users, she notes, often judge AI content by emotional resonance rather than factual accuracy, while older users may struggle to detect synthetic cues altogether.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlatforms, Persuasion, and Misinformation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERiedl emphasizes that AI storytelling tools can be used to sway public opinion through \u201cnarrative transportation,\u201d a psychological phenomenon in which audiences become immersed in a story and are less likely to question its truth.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cStorytelling is a means of persuasive communication,\u201d he said. \u201cOur brains are attuned to stories in a way that can bypass critical thinking.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ERecent incidents highlight the changing landscape. Deepfakes of\u0026nbsp;public figures such as\u0026nbsp;Taylor Swift and Tom Hanks have surged in 2025, with\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/surfshark.com\/research\/study\/deepfake-statistics\u0022\u003Eover\u0026nbsp;179 incidents\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Ein the first four months of the year alone \u2014 surpassing all of 2024.\u0026nbsp;These deepfakes range from humorous impersonations to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/emmawoollacott\/2025\/04\/16\/celebrity-deepfake-incidents-hit-record-high\/\u0022\u003Efraudulent and explicit content\u003C\/a\u003E, raising ethical and legal concerns about identity misuse and misinformation. Riedl notes that video misinformation has historically been harder to produce but is now easier and more likely to be tailored to niche audiences.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ESocial media companies face mounting pressure to take action. De Choudhury argues that labeling AI-generated content is necessary but insufficient. \u201cPlatforms must invest in user-centered design, digital literacy interventions, and transparency about how algorithms surface such content,\u201d she said.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe stakes are especially high in mental health communities, where authenticity and lived experience are critical. \u201cUsers often feel overwhelmed or deceived when they encounter synthetic content without clear cues of its artificial origin,\u201d she added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGovernance in a Globalized AI Era\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/milton-l-mueller\u0022\u003EMilton Mueller\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy, argues that regulation may be ineffective or even counterproductive in a decentralized digital ecosystem.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cGenerative AI is part of a globalized and distributed digital ecosystem,\u201d Mueller said. \u201cSo, which regulatory authority are you talking about, and how does it gain the leverage needed to control the outputs?\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EWhile the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/artificialintelligenceact.eu\/article\/99\/\u0022\u003EEU\u2019s AI Act\u003C\/a\u003E mandates labeling and imposes steep fines, U.S. efforts remain fragmented. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/document\/fcc-makes-ai-generated-voices-robocalls-illegal\u0022\u003EFederal Communications Commission\u003C\/a\u003E has made AI-generated voices in robocalls\u0026nbsp;illegal, with entities facing fines, and several states are pushing for watermarking and criminal penalties for political deepfakes. But experts warn that First Amendment protections complicate enforcement.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EMueller cautions that governments are already using AI as a geopolitical tool, which could undermine global cooperation and lead to strategic escalation. \u201cInstead of freely trading data and establishing common rules, governments are asserting digital sovereignty,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe advocates for addressing AI-generated misinformation through decentralized governance, public debate, and media literacy, rather than centralized regulation or automated controls, emphasizing that content moderation should be guided by open processes and existing legal remedies applied after the fact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs AI-generated content becomes more sophisticated and widespread, researchers say the challenge lies not only in technological safeguards but in how society adapts. Experts at Georgia Tech emphasize the need for transparency, interdisciplinary collaboration, and public engagement. The future of hyperreal media, they say, will depend on how well platforms, policymakers, and users navigate its risks and possibilities.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAI-generated hyperrealistic personas are increasingly present in digital media, prompting discussions among researchers about their impact on content creation, user perception, mental health, and governance.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Experts at Georgia Tech say the surge in AI hyperrealism \u2014 content that mimics human emotion, speech, and appearance with uncanny precision \u2014 is both a technological marvel and a societal challenge."}],"uid":"35797","created_gmt":"2025-08-28 19:39:31","changed_gmt":"2025-08-28 19:46:32","author":"Siobhan Rodriguez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677851":{"id":"677851","type":"image","title":"shutterstock_2174553833.jpg","body":null,"created":"1756409457","gmt_created":"2025-08-28 19:30:57","changed":"1756409457","gmt_changed":"2025-08-28 19:30:57","alt":"Image of people on social media posing ","file":{"fid":"261797","name":"shutterstock_2174553833.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/28\/shutterstock_2174553833.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/28\/shutterstock_2174553833.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":11783020,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/28\/shutterstock_2174553833.jpg?itok=Mz1DZTVt"}},"677852":{"id":"677852","type":"image","title":"shutterstock_2668470047.jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003EBigfoot vlogs are an example of AI-generated content that has gained attention for its use of hyperrealistic storytelling and digital personas in online media.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1756409577","gmt_created":"2025-08-28 19:32:57","changed":"1756409901","gmt_changed":"2025-08-28 19:38:21","alt":"An image of bigfoot as an influencer ","file":{"fid":"261798","name":"shutterstock_2668470047.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/28\/shutterstock_2668470047.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/28\/shutterstock_2668470047.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3004297,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/28\/shutterstock_2668470047.jpg?itok=hzwHMrbC"}}},"media_ids":["677851","677852"],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2835","name":"ai"},{"id":"194737","name":"hyperrealism"},{"id":"122141","name":"digital culture"},{"id":"194738","name":"synthetic personas"},{"id":"194739","name":"virtual influencers"},{"id":"192390","name":"generative AI"},{"id":"194046","name":"deepfakes"},{"id":"190591","name":"misinformation"},{"id":"10343","name":"mental health"},{"id":"167543","name":"social media"},{"id":"194740","name":"authenticity"},{"id":"104091","name":"trust"},{"id":"194741","name":"narrative persuasion"},{"id":"194742","name":"digital identity"},{"id":"187295","name":"media literacy"},{"id":"1224","name":"regulation"},{"id":"810","name":"governance"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"194743","name":"Bigfoot vlogs"},{"id":"194744","name":"Nobody Sausage"},{"id":"194745","name":"Character.AI"},{"id":"194746","name":"emotional realism"},{"id":"194747","name":"epistemic trust"},{"id":"194748","name":"decentralized oversight"},{"id":"194749","name":"digital sovereignty"},{"id":"194701","name":"go-resarchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"},{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003ESiobhan Rodriguez\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003ESenior Media Relations Representative\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["media@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684329":{"#nid":"684329","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Algorithm Will See You Now \u2014 But Only If You\u2019re the Perfect Patient","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the morning, before you even open your eyes, your wearable device has already checked your vitals. By the time you brush your teeth, it has scanned your sleep patterns, flagged a slight irregularity, and adjusted your health plan. As you take your first sip of coffee, it\u2019s already predicted your risks for the week ahead.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers warn that this version of AI healthcare imagines a patient who is \u0022affluent, able-bodied, tech-savvy, and always available.\u0022 Those who don\u2019t fit that mold, they argue, risk becoming invisible in the healthcare system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Ideal Future\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn their study, published in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3706598.3713118\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the researchers analyzed 21 AI-driven health tools,\u0026nbsp;ranging from fertility apps and wearable devices to diagnostic platforms and chatbots. They used sociological theory to understand the vision of the future these tools promote \u2014 and the patients they leave out.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese systems envision care that is seamless, automatic, and always on,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/catherine-wieczorek-729a3890\/\u0022\u003ECatherine\u0026nbsp;Wieczorek\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in human-centered computing in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing\u003C\/a\u003E and lead author of the study. \u201cBut they also flatten the messy realities of illness, disability, and socioeconomic complexity.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFour Futures, One Narrow Lens\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring their analysis, the researchers discovered four recurring narratives in AI-powered healthcare:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Col\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECare that never sleeps.\u003C\/strong\u003E Devices track your heart rate, glucose levels, and fertility signals \u2014 all in real time. You are always being watched, because that\u2019s framed as \u201ccare.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEfficiency as empathy.\u003C\/strong\u003E AI is faster, more objective, and more accurate. Unlike humans, it doesn\u2019t get tired or biased. This pitch downplays the value of human judgment and connection.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPrevention as perfection.\u003C\/strong\u003E A world where illness is avoided through early detection if you have the right sensors, the right app, and the right lifestyle.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe optimized body.\u003C\/strong\u003E You\u2019re not just healthy, you\u2019re high-performing. The tech isn\u2019t just treating you; it\u2019s upgrading you.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ol\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s like healthcare is becoming a productivity tool,\u201d Wieczorek said. \u201cYou\u2019re not just a patient anymore. You\u2019re a project.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENot Just a Tool, But a Teammate\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis study also points to a critical transformation in which AI is no longer just a diagnostic tool; it\u2019s a decision-maker. Described by the researchers as \u201cboth an agent and a gatekeeper,\u201d AI now plays an active role in how care is delivered.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn some cases, AI systems are even named and personified, like \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fairtility.com\/chloe\/\u0022\u003EChloe\u003C\/a\u003E, an IVF decision-support tool. \u201cChloe equips clinicians with the power of AI to work better and faster,\u201d its promotional materials state. By framing AI this way \u2014 as a collaborator rather than just software \u2014 these systems subtly redefine who, or what, gets to be treated.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cWhen you give AI names, personalities, or decision-making roles, you\u2019re doing more than programming. You\u2019re shifting accountability and agency. That has consequences,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/people\/shaowen-bardzell\u0022\u003EShaowen Bardzell\u003C\/a\u003E, chair of Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing and co-author of the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt blurs the boundaries,\u201d Wieczorek noted. \u201cWhen AI takes on these roles, it\u2019s reshaping how decisions are made and who holds authority in care.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECalculated Care\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany AI tools promise early detection, hyper-efficiency, and optimized outcomes. But the study found that these systems risk sidelining patients with chronic illness, disabilities, or complex medical needs \u2014 the very people who rely most on healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese technologies are selling worldviews,\u201d Wieczorek explained. \u201cThey\u2019re quietly defining who healthcare is for, and who it isn\u2019t.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy prioritizing predictive algorithms and automation, AI can strip away the context and humanity that real-world care requires.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAlgorithms don\u2019t see nuance. It\u2019s difficult for a model to understand how a patient might be juggling multiple diagnoses or understand what it means to manage illness, while also navigating other important concerns like financial insecurity or caregiving. They are predetermined inputs and outputs,\u201d Wieczorek said. \u201cWhile these systems claim to streamline care, they are also encoding assumptions about who matters and how care should work. And when those assumptions go unchallenged, the most vulnerable patients are often the ones left out.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI for ALL\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers argue that future AI systems must be developed in collaboration with those who don\u2019t fit in the vision of a \u201cperfect patient.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInnovation without ethics risks reinforcing existing inequalities. It\u2019s about better tech \u003Cem\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ebetter outcomes for real people,\u201d Bardzell said. \u201cWe\u2019re not anti-innovation. But technological progress isn\u2019t just about what we can do. It\u2019s about what we \u003Cem\u003Eshould\u003C\/em\u003E do \u2014 and for whom.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWieczorek and Bardzell aren\u2019t trying to stop AI from entering healthcare. They\u2019re asking AI developers to understand who they\u2019re really serving.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunding:\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis work was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant #2418059\u003C\/em\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers are warning that the future of AI-driven healthcare may look sleek and seamless \u2014 but only for those who fit the mold of an \u201cideal patient.\u201d They found that apps and algorithms consistently imagine users as affluent, able-bodied, and tech-savvy, while sidelining patients with chronic illness, disabilities, or complex lives. These systems promise nonstop monitoring, perfect prevention, and optimized bodies \u2014 turning healthcare into a productivity upgrade rather than a lifeline. By giving AI decision-making power, the industry risks shifting authority away from human care and toward algorithms. The researchers argue real innovation isn\u2019t just about efficiency or prediction; it\u2019s about building technologies that serve those most in need, ensuring that progress in healthcare doesn\u2019t leave the most vulnerable patients behind.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech researchers warn that AI reshapes healthcare around an \u201cideal user,\u201d overlooking people who need medical intervention the most."}],"uid":"36410","created_gmt":"2025-09-02 14:26:43","changed_gmt":"2025-09-11 11:38:08","author":"mazriel3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-09-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677874":{"id":"677874","type":"image","title":"AI_Healthcare_1.png","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAn illustration representing a doctor working with an AI-powered health device.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1756821332","gmt_created":"2025-09-02 13:55:32","changed":"1756822519","gmt_changed":"2025-09-02 14:15:19","alt":"A doctor on a computer working with an AI-powered health device","file":{"fid":"261825","name":"AI_Healthcare_1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/02\/AI_Healthcare_1.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/02\/AI_Healthcare_1.png","mime":"image\/png","size":2099622,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/09\/02\/AI_Healthcare_1.png?itok=bkzB_jGF"}}},"media_ids":["677874"],"groups":[{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichelle Azriel, Sr. Writer-Editor\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mazriel3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684670":{"#nid":"684670","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Liberian Students Awarded Georgia Tech Fellowships in Computer Science","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a landmark achievement for higher education and international collaboration, 12 faculty and staff from the University of Liberia have been accepted into the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (OMSCS) program. This marks the first time \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E has offered full fellowships to students for its acclaimed online graduate program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe inaugural cohort began their studies in August, setting a precedent for future scholarship opportunities and academic collaboration between Georgia Tech and Liberian institutions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe initiative results from a strategic partnership between the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ucliberia.com\/\u0022\u003EUniversity Consortium for Liberia\u003C\/a\u003E (UCL) and Georgia Tech aimed at expanding access to world-class computer science education for Liberian students. Cynthia Blandford, president and CEO of UCL and former honorary consul for the Republic of Liberia in Atlanta expressed her pride in the milestone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe UCL\u0027s mission is to help provide brighter futures through education and understanding and this includes student and faculty exchanges, curriculum development, academic scholarships, joint research, and fundraising,\u201d said Blandford.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe announcement follows a 2023 visit to Atlanta by Liberian President Joseph Boakai during which Georgia Tech formally introduced the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/georgia-tech-introduces-new-computer-science-fellowship-during-liberian-presidential-visit\u0022\u003EOMSCS scholarship program for Liberia\u003C\/a\u003E. Michael Best, executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech emphasized the program\u0027s significance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech was delighted to host the president of Liberia,\u201d said Best. \u201cThis is the first time the OMSCS degree at Georgia Tech is providing complete fellowships to students. I am so glad Liberia is our partner in this groundbreaking program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe OMSCS program, hailed by Forbes as the \u201cgreatest degree program ever,\u201d is the first fully accredited online master\u2019s degree in computer science offered by a major U.S. university. It combines academic rigor with the flexibility of online learning, allowing students to earn the same degree as their on-campus peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBest added that completing the program will be a personal achievement for the students and a strategic investment in Liberia\u2019s future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe graduates of this program will help to ensure that Liberia is a full participant and contributor to our digital age. These students\u2019 advanced training will position them for leadership and impact within Liberia and beyond.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of Liberia (UL) President Layli Maparyan is excited about the collaboration with Georgia Tech and UCL.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Georgia Tech OMSCS is equipping UL\u2019s computer science faculty and IT staff with a profound degree of capacity building,\u201d she stated. \u201cThis positions UL well for planned curricular developments in AI, cybersecurity, and other key IT areas of study. We are profoundly grateful to Georgia Tech for the timely launch.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe 12 University of Liberia students accepted in the program are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHarris Barwu\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClarence Carlwolo\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EViola Cheeseman\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAlieu Farhat\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EVarney Jarteh\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFredrick Juah\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAbubakar Keita\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYougie Kessellie\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EJosephus Nyumalin\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMelvin Soclo\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMichael Umunna\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMartin Wallace\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a landmark achievement for higher education and international collaboration, 12 faculty and staff from the University of Liberia have been accepted into the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (OMSCS) program\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In a landmark achievement for higher education and international collaboration, 12 faculty and staff from the University of Liberia have been accepted into the Georgia Institute of Technology\u2019s Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) prog"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-09-09 17:33:00","changed_gmt":"2025-09-16 18:02:46","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677952":{"id":"677952","type":"image","title":"University of Liberia President Dr. Layli Maparyan","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUniversity of Liberia President Layli Maparyan is pictured with students starting the Georgia Tech Online Master Program in Computer Science this fall 2025.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1757439061","gmt_created":"2025-09-09 17:31:01","changed":"1758045592","gmt_changed":"2025-09-16 17:59:52","alt":"University of Liberia President Layli Maparyan is pictured with students starting the Georgia Tech Online Master Program in Computer Science this fall 2025.","file":{"fid":"261913","name":"PHOTO-2025-09-09-11-17-41.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/09\/PHOTO-2025-09-09-11-17-41.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/09\/09\/PHOTO-2025-09-09-11-17-41.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":372198,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/09\/09\/PHOTO-2025-09-09-11-17-41.jpg?itok=2m8pUL6R"}}},"media_ids":["677952"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"684700":{"#nid":"684700","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Team Designing Robot Guide Dog to Assist the Visually Impaired","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPeople who are visually impaired and cannot afford or care for service animals might have a practical alternative in a robotic guide dog being developed at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore launching its prototype, a research team within Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing, led by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EBruce Walker\u003C\/strong\u003E and Assistant Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ESehoon Ha\u003C\/strong\u003E, is working to improve its methods and designs based on research within blind and visually impaired (BVI) communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s been research on the technical aspects and functionality of robotic guide dogs, but not a lot of emphasis on the aesthetics or form factors,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EAvery\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EGong\u003C\/strong\u003E, a recent master\u2019s graduate who worked in Walker\u2019s lab. \u201cWe wanted to fill this gap.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETraining a guide dog can cost up to $50,000, and while there are nonprofit organizations that can cover these costs for potential owners, there is still a gap between the amount of available guide dogs and BVI individuals who need them. Not all BVI individuals are able to care for a dog and feed it. The dog also has fewer than 10 working years before it needs replacement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGong co-authored a paper on the design implications of the robotic guide dog that was presented at the 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Atlanta in May.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe consensus among the study\u2019s participants indicates they prefer a robotic guide dog that:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eresembles a real dog and appears approachable\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ehas a clear identifier of being a guide dog, such as a vest\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ehas built-in GPS and Bluetooth connectivity\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ehas control options such as voice command\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ehas soft textures without feeling furry\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ehas long battery life and self-charging capability\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of people said they didn\u2019t want the dog to look too cute or appealing because it would draw too much attention,\u201d said \u003Cstrong\u003EAviv Cohav\u003C\/strong\u003E, another lead author of the paper and recent master\u2019s graduate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMany people have issues with taking their guide dog to places, whether it\u2019s little kids wanting to play with the dog or people not liking dogs or people being scared of them, and that reflects on the owners themselves. We wanted to look at what would be a good balance between having a functional robot that wouldn\u2019t scare people away or be a distraction.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also had to consider the perspectives of sighted individuals and how society at large might view a robotic guide dog.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn example of this is the amount of noise the dog makes while walking. The owner needs to hear the dog is active, but the clanky sound many off-the-shelf robots make could create disturbances in indoor spaces that amplify sounds. To offset the noise, the team developed algorithms that allow the robot to move more quietly.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWalker and his lab have examined similar scenarios that must take public perception into account.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe like to think of Georgia Tech as going the extra mile,\u201d Walker said. \u201cLet\u2019s not just make a robot, but a robot that\u2019s going to fit into society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTo have impact, the technologies we produce must be produced with society in mind. This is a holistic design that considers the users and all the people with whom the users interact.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETaery Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E, a computer science Ph.D. student, began working on the concept of a robotic guide dog when she came to Georgia Tech in 2022. She and Ha, her advisor, have authored papers on building the robot\u2019s navigation and safety components.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I started, I thought it would be as simple as giving the guide dog a command to take me to Starbucks or the grocery store, and it would just take me,\u201d Kim said. \u201cBut the user must give waypoint directions \u2014 \u2018go left here,\u2019 \u2018turn right,\u2019 \u2018go forward,\u2019 \u2018stop.\u2019 Detailed commands must be delivered to the dog.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile a real dog has naturally enhanced senses of hearing and smell that can\u2019t be replicated, technology can provide interconnected safety features during an emergency. The researchers envision a camera system equipped with a 360-degree field of view, computer vision algorithms that detect obstacles or hazards, and voice recognition that recognizes calls for help. An SOS function could automatically call 911 at the owner\u2019s request or if the owner is unresponsive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKim said the robot should also have explainability features to enhance communication with the owner. For example, if the robot suddenly stops or ignores an owner\u2019s commands, it should tell the owner that it\u2019s detecting a hazard in their path.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EManufacturing a robot at scale would initially be expensive, but the researchers believe the cost would eventually be offset because of its longevity. BVI individuals may only need to purchase one during their lifetime.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo introduce a prototype, the multidisciplinary research team recognizes that it needs to enlist experts from other fields to adequately address the various implications and research gaps inherent in the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWalker said the teams welcome additional partners who are keen to tackle challenges ranging from design and engineering to battery life to human-robot interaction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETeam member \u003Cstrong\u003EJ. Taery Kim\u003C\/strong\u003E was supported by the National Science Foundation\u0027s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) under Grant No. DGE-2039655.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers from the School of Interactive Computing are using survey information from individuals who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) to develop a robotic service dog.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Researchers rely on feedback from blind and visually impaired (BVI) communities to create service animal prototype."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2025-09-10 12:57:59","changed_gmt":"2025-09-17 16:44:07","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677956":{"id":"677956","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech researchers test their prototype of a robotic guide dog. 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Now in its fourth year, the collaborative effort launched by the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ceismc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ECenter for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC)\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/stem\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESTEM@GTRI\u003C\/a\u003E, the K-12 outreach arm of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), has grown rapidly for the second year in a row. Participating students increased from 4,400 to more than 10,000 this past academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis fall, five new counties\u2014Baldwin, Coffee, Evans, Hart, and Monroe\u2014joined the initiative, bringing the total to 45 participating districts, with plans to add more districts in the spring. Over 70 teachers have engaged with the initiative through professional development offered at the beginning of each semester and co-teaching opportunities held throughout the year through a hybrid model. Georgia Tech faculty members lead instruction online in partnership with in-person classroom teachers across the state.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re seeing real momentum in our partner schools\u2014computer science curricula are evolving, career pathways are clearly laid out for both teachers and students, and applications to computer science programs, including Georgia Tech, are on the rise,\u201d said CEISMC Executive Director Lizanne DeStefano. \u201cTeachers are advancing more quickly, and our professional development offerings now include cutting-edge topics like artificial intelligence in agriculture and healthcare, as well as unmanned aerial vehicle development to meet local needs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor veteran educators such as Jansen Haight, the Rural Computer Science Initiative has shaped his pedagogical approach and strengthened his commitment to making computer science content accessible to all students. He joined the program during its second year when he was a newly minted computer science teacher at Lumpkin County High School. \u201cAt that time, I only taught Introduction to Software Technology and Computer Science Principles,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was incredibly valuable to collaborate with other teachers like me, to share ideas, and to see how to grow my program.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHaight, now in his third year with the Rural Computer Science Initiative and teaching computer science full-time, took advantage of every opportunity available to him, including external resources like the GenCyber AGENT Initiative at the University of North Georgia. His involvement with the professional development program for middle and high school educators\u2014focused on cybersecurity and computer science instruction \u2014inspired his next steps.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHaight explained that the curriculum developers in the Rural Computer Science Initiative recognized the absence of a structured cybersecurity unit. So, in his second year, he wrote a grant and collaborated with Bryson Payne, a cybersecurity professor and researcher at the University of North Georgia, to develop one. They adapted the unit this past summer so it could run completely offline for school security purposes and be more accessible to first-year students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur program has expanded from a single introductory class to a full pathway, and I\u2019ve seen more students express interest in computer science careers \u2014 particularly in cybersecurity,\u201d Haight said. \u201cThe hands-on nature of the Raspberry Pi devices (programmable microcontrollers) and open-source tools has given students a sense of real-world application that motivates them to pursue further study.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new area of focus this year is applying computer science and artificial intelligence to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/online.fliphtml5.com\/zzqrc\/qpcd\/#p=15\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eagriculture\u003C\/a\u003E, including farming. Several school districts have been provided with FarmBots, including Twiggs County, which has been a partner since the initiative\u2019s pilot year. A FarmBot is an open-source, automated farming system that integrates coding, robotics, and data science, and can monitor variables such as soil moisture and temperature. One such system was installed in Georgia Tech\u2019s community garden to serve as a test bed for designing the related learning experiences and supporting partner schools in setting up their devices.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ET.S. Whitmore, a new computer science teacher for both the middle and high schools in Twiggs County, explained that the resources provided by the Rural Computer Science Initiative are helping him plan lessons across grade levels. His middle schoolers will be engaged with the cybersecurity unit, while most of the high schoolers have volunteered to assist with the FarmBot project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI learned so much in so little time. I have so much to learn, but I\u0027ve never been more excited,\u201d he said. \u201cI am learning to think outside of the box and find different ways to connect new learning to things previously learned. I expect to be more creative in my lesson planning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENewcomer Ella Newsome is also bringing excitement and energy to Oglethorpe County High School as she begins both her teaching career and her participation in the Rural Computer Science Initiative. 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The school\u2019s new undergraduate degree, which was approved by the Board of Regents in August, will welcome its first students in Fall 2026.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarks, an award-winning designer and educator, is known for her research that merges endangered and traditional handcraft with algorithmic modeling to create new methods of production. Before joining Georgia Tech, she worked in New York with clients including Google, Nike, and Swarovski. She holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Parsons School of Design.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn her new role, Marks is leading the program\u2019s launch and laying the groundwork for a vibrant student community. \u201cThis year, we\u2019re piloting classes and renovating studio spaces to welcome incoming students,\u201d she explained. \u201cMy goal is to make sure that when the permanent chair steps in, they inherit a strong, well-planned program and a supportive community.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Marks, the opportunity to shape a new academic program is a milestone. \u201cI always thought this was something I might do ten years from now. Getting the chance to help launch a new school so early in my career is both exciting and humbling. This has always been a goal of mine.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also emphasized the significance of this moment for the Institute. \u201cAt an Institute best known for its strengths in engineering and technology, it\u2019s remarkable to see leadership embrace the arts as essential to innovation. The enthusiasm across campus\u2014from students, faculty, and administration alike\u2014shows how much creative technologies can strengthen every discipline.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDean Ellen Bassett highlighted the importance of Marks\u2019 leadership \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/12\/georgia-tech-launches-arts-entertainment-and-creative-technologies-degree\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eduring the program\u2019s formative stage\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, noting that the degree offers \u201cthe most creative option in the state of Georgia for combining talents in design and technology into viable, thriving careers.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith Marks at the helm, Georgia Tech is positioning its Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies degree to become a national model\u2014blending creativity, arts practice, and technology into a transformative educational experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBy Melissa Alonso | September 24, 2025\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/feature\/lisa-marks-chair-aect?utm_source=newsletter\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_content=Marks%20Named%20Interim%20Chair%20of%20New%20School\u0026amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20Oct.%206%2C%202025\u0022\u003EView the news posting at the College of Design \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has appointed \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/id.gatech.edu\/people\/lisa-marks\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Marks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Industrial Design, as the interim chair for the new Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies major within the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollege of Design\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has appointed Lisa Marks, associate professor in the School of Industrial Design, as the interim chair for the new Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies major within the College of Design."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-10-06 14:26:34","changed_gmt":"2025-10-06 14:26:57","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678270":{"id":"678270","type":"image","title":"Lisa Marks, associate professor in the School of Industrial Design, as the interim chair for the new Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies major within the College of Design.","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/id.gatech.edu\/people\/lisa-marks\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELisa Marks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Industrial Design, as the interim chair for the new Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies major within the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollege of Design\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1759760604","gmt_created":"2025-10-06 14:23:24","changed":"1759760626","gmt_changed":"2025-10-06 14:23:46","alt":"Lisa Marks, associate professor in the School of Industrial Design, as the interim chair for the new Arts, Entertainment, and Creative Technologies major within the College of Design.","file":{"fid":"262274","name":"lisamarksEDIT.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/10\/06\/lisamarksEDIT.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/10\/06\/lisamarksEDIT.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1223045,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/10\/06\/lisamarksEDIT.jpg?itok=Hjq_sQLI"}}},"media_ids":["678270"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"685646":{"#nid":"685646","#data":{"type":"news","title":"What Happens When AI Comes to the Cotton Fields","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPrecision agriculture uses tools and technologies such as GPS and sensors to monitor, measure and respond to changes within a farm field in real time. 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The fellowship, jointly supported by The Carter Center and Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), recognizes graduate students working at the intersection of digital technologies and democratic processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpen to all Georgia Tech graduate students, the fellowship provides $15,000 in support\u2014disbursed to the recipient\u2019s advisor\u2014and offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with The Carter Center\u2019s Democracy Program. Fellows are expected to engage in IPaT programming and contribute to ongoing research and communications efforts throughout the year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShazia\u2019s research centers on the sociopolitical dynamics of the Hazara community in Balochistan, Pakistan. Her dissertation, titled \u201cAssemblages of Security: Violence and (re)Construction of identities in the Case of Hazaras,\u201d explores how digital platforms have reshaped traditional forms of resistance and identity formation. 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"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-10-22 15:31:16","changed_gmt":"2025-10-22 16:05:10","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678414":{"id":"678414","type":"image","title":"Shazia","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShazia\u003C\/strong\u003E, the Carter Center Digital Democracy Fellow, with \u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Best\u003C\/strong\u003E, Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1761146881","gmt_created":"2025-10-22 15:28:01","changed":"1761147016","gmt_changed":"2025-10-22 15:30:16","alt":"Shazia, the Carter Center Digital Democracy Fellow, with Michael Best, Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology","file":{"fid":"262438","name":"IMG_3457-Shazia-Mike-smaller.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/10\/22\/IMG_3457-Shazia-Mike-smaller.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/10\/22\/IMG_3457-Shazia-Mike-smaller.png","mime":"image\/png","size":4354131,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/10\/22\/IMG_3457-Shazia-Mike-smaller.png?itok=Vh-0TWnG"}}},"media_ids":["678414"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"686264":{"#nid":"686264","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Foley Scholar 2025 Winners and Finalists","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology. Previous finalists have originated from the College of Engineering, College of Computer Science, College of Design, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWinners and finalists for the 2025 Foley Scholar Awards were celebrated at Georgia Tech\u0027s hotel and convention center on November 5, 2025.\u0026nbsp;The event was hosted by the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) with its executive director, Michael Best, serving as the master of ceremonies as each finalist was recognized for their innovative research.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany winners of this scholarship have moved into faculty positions or became industry leaders in their research areas.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Both the winners and the finalists represent the brightest minds that Georgia Tech has to offer,\u0022 said Michael Best. \u0022Our finalist candidate pool is always composed of truly outstanding researchers. Selecting the winners is never easy,\u0022 said Best.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJames Foley, professor emeritus and computing pioneer in graphics and human-computer interaction for whom the awards are named, once again delivered inspiring and valuable insight at the conclusion of the evening\u0027s festivities celebrating the achievements of all finalists.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECongratulations to the 2025 Foley Scholar winners who are:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoon Kum\u003C\/strong\u003E, M.S. student in human-computer interaction was awarded $1,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERachel Lowy\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D. student in human-computer interaction was awarded $5,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENiharika Mathur\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D student in human-centered computing was awarded $5,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMohsin Yousufi\u003C\/strong\u003E, Ph.D student in human centered computing was awarded $5,000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finalists in the master\u0027s category were Umme Ammara, Jo Chung, Joon Kum, and Christine Taylor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe finalists in the Ph.D. category were Grace Barkhuff, Rachel Lowy, Niharika Mathur, Shravika Mittal, Michelle Reckner, Mohsin Yousufi, Yilun Zha, and Qiao Zhang.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA short description of each finalists\u0027 unique research along with their Georgia Tech faculty advisor is listed below:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUmme Ammara\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eis a master\u0027s student in human computer interaction advised by Michael Best and Carrie Bruce. Her research vision is using human-centered design to improve healthcare systems in underserved settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJo Chung\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u0027s student in computer science advised by Betsy DiSalvo. Her research vision is to design interactive systems that empower users through meaningful engagement and equitable access.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoon Kum\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u0027s student in human computer interaction advised by Ashok Goel. His research vision is closely aligned with IPaT\u2019s mission and values. He believes in the power of interdisciplinary research to support teachers and students, especially for those who are marginalized and underrepresented.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristine Taylor\u003C\/strong\u003E is a master\u0027s student in human computer interaction advised by Maribeth Coleman. Her core research vision is to design meaningful, human-centered technologies that address high-stakes problems in collaboration with the communities they serve. For example, one of her current research projects focuses on designing an AI predictive tool to detect patient deterioration at Children\u2019s Hospital of Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGrace Barkhuff\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in human-centered computing advised by Ellen Zegura. Her research vision centers around computing education and ethics. For example, her current research seeks to understand how instructors can ethically use GenAI in the higher education classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERachel Lowy\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in human-centered computing advised by Jennifer Kim. Her research focuses on building accessible technologies that foster learning, agency, and inclusion for people with disabilities and neurodivergent people, whose cognitive and learning profiles differ from those of the broader population, through strengths-based understandings of their skillsets.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENiharika Mathur\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in human-centered computing advised by Sonia Chernova and Elizabeth Mynatt. Her research vision involve building human-centered AI systems that not just perform reliably, but also explain themselves in user-aligned ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShravika Mittal\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in computer science advised by Munmun De Choudhury. Her research goal is to help create a safe, inclusive, and responsible online information ecosystem, one that empowers vulnerable groups with equitable knowledge, the freedom to communicate their struggles openly, and a supportive community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichelle Reckner\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in civil engineering advised by Iris Tien. Her research vision is to develop the most effective decision-making methodologies possible utilizing available data to determine whether to repair old infrastructure or construct new infrastructure while considering the types of infrastructure that will most benefit a community.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMohsin Yousufi\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in digital media advised by Yanni Loukissas. His research vision is to investigate and build creative technologies that address systemic epistemic injustices and reinvigorate democratic civic engagement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYilun Zha\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in architecture advised by Ellen Dunham-Jones and Hui Cai. His research addresses food challenges by developing and applying geospatial computational methods to investigate how the design of the built environment and emerging technologies influence dietary behaviors and contribute to diet-related diseases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EQiao Zhang\u003C\/strong\u003E is a Ph.D. student in computer science advised by Christopher MacLellan. Her research involves designing and investigating human-AI teaming studies\u2014identifying suitable tasks, agent types, and natural paths for alignment and adaptation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA collection of photos from the November 5, 2025, Foley Scholar awards dinner are \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96938041@N06\/albums\/72177720330162509\/\u0022\u003Eavailable here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Foley Scholar Awards recognize the achievements of top graduate students whose vision and research are shaping the future of how people interact with and value technology. 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The workshop presented some of the latest wearable health technologies and offered practical solutions for advancing rural healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe all-day workshop was sponsored by the Georgia Tech Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/wish\/\u0022\u003EWISH Center\u003C\/a\u003E), the Institute for People and Technology (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EIPaT\u003C\/a\u003E), and the Institute for Matter and Systems (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/matter-systems.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIMS\u003C\/a\u003E).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcademic, clinical, and industry leaders gathered to learn about some of the most exciting wearable technologies and explore proven, practical solutions for improving health in underserved rural areas. Medical professionals from Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Albany, Georgia shared real-world solutions to providing more effective healthcare in their regional, rural areas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe morning keynote speaker was Philipp Gutruf, Ph.D., an associate professor and associate department head of biomedical engineering at the University of Arizona. Gutruf\u2019s research focuses on creating devices that intimately integrate with biological systems, developing wireless, battery-free, and fully implantable platforms for biosignal monitoring, neurostimulation, and biointerfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe afternoon keynote speaker was Kimberlee McKay, M.D., with Avera Medical Group in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. McKay is a physician-leader in women\u2019s health who has redefined how obstetrics and gynecology are delivered across rural and underserved communities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA technology panel moderated by Alexander Adams, Ph.D., assistant professor, in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech included:\u003Cbr\u003E* Andrea Braden, M.D., Founder \u0026amp; CEO of Lybbie and medical director of the Atlanta Birth Center\u003Cbr\u003E* \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/farrokh-ayazi\u0022\u003EFarrokh Ayazi\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D., director of the Georgia Tech Analog Consortium, Regents Entrepreneur, and Ken Byers Professorship in Microsystems\u003Cbr\u003E* \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/rosa-arriaga\u0022\u003ERosa Arriaga\u003C\/a\u003E, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at Georgia Tech\u003Cbr\u003E* Steve Xu, M.D., CEO Sibel Health, medical director at Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics Northwestern University was scheduled, but was unable to attend.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the afternoon, a rural health panel was moderated by Rudolph Gleason, Ph.D., professor in mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EThose panelists were:\u003Cbr\u003E* Shelly Spires, M.S.M., CEO Albany Area Primary Health Care, Inc.\u003Cbr\u003E* W. 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Game designers continue to struggle with balancing story coherence against the amount of narrative control afforded to users.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen users exercise a high degree of control within the environment, it is likely that their actions will change the state of the world in ways that may interfere with the causal dependencies between actions as intended within a storyline,\u201d Riedl and Young wrote in the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNarrative mediation makes linear narratives interactive. The question is: Is the expressive power of narrative mediation at least as powerful as the story graph representation?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAIIDE is being held this week at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. 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That takes time and money \u2014 lots of time and money. And researchers\u0026nbsp;need specially equipped labs to collect mountains of human data for training.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven when engineers have a working device and brain, called a controller, changes and improvements to the exoskeleton system typically mean data collection and training start all over again. The process is expensive and makes bringing fully functional exoskeletons or robotic limbs into the real world largely impractical.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENot anymore, thanks to Georgia Tech engineers and computer scientists.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey\u2019ve created an artificial intelligence tool that can turn huge amounts of existing data on how people move into functional exoskeleton controllers. 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This was the second time the contest was held in Asia. This was the second time the contest was held in Asia\u2014the contest was originally started in 2007 at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winning team members were Taiga Cogger, Ryuichiro Go, Kokoro Cogger, and Taiyo Mitsuoka. The team won $2,000 dollars. The team\u2019s faculty sponsor was Kiichiro DeLuca, a faculty member at Waseda University and partner at WERU Investment, a global early-stage venture capital firm based in Tokyo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the winner, the Revive \u0026amp; Survive student team is also invited to be part of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECreate-X\u003C\/a\u003E startup launch in summer 2026 as well as Georgia Tech\u2019s Demo Day, August 2026, in Atlanta. Some travel support for the Atlanta trip will be provided.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERevive \u0026amp; Survive\u2019s project empowers communities through regional revitalization and disaster preparedness for a more resilient and sustainable future.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECIC is a competition recognizing student innovation and entrepreneurship responding to today\u2019s global challenges and opportunities. Founded in 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia, CIC is organized by IPaT at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the 2025-2026 final pitches and award ceremony, the competition landed in Kaula Lampur, Malaysia. The competition focused on student teams from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Each year, organizers and participants forge new partnerships and foster more collaborations across the Asian continent. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/cic\/fellows\u0022\u003EIPaT\u2019s CIC Asia Faculty Fellows\u003C\/a\u003E help cultivate those team projects and the students showcase their innovative ideas during the competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe CIC students, the support of the faculty fellows, the final competition presentations, and the invited industry forum combine to create a special and unique event,\u201d said IPaT executive director Michael Best. \u201cAll of the student finalist projects represented the very best in people-centered technologies responding to global challenges.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECIC Asia is distinct in how it brings teams from multiple countries together to interact and network. Most innovation competitions are single university or country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe four runner-up finalist teams each received $1,000 dollars in prize money. The CIC Asia runner-up team projects and team members are listed below:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChiliCare\u003C\/strong\u003E is an IoT and AI farming app with auto watering, pest detection, microclimate insights, crop plotting, and smart fertilizer guidance. Team Members: Muhammad Haizad bin Murad, Hafiy Azfar bin Mohd Masri, Hazriq Haykal Norrol Farhan, Muhammad Naim bin Mazni. Faculty Fellow: Dr. Masrah Azrifah Azmi Murad. Mentor: Dr. Azrina binti Kamaruddin. University: Universiti Putra Malaysia.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlaySpot\u003C\/strong\u003E makes booking sports facilities in the Philippines simple, and accessible for everyone. Team Members: Louie Gee G. Cabagay, Alwin Matthew T. Chiong, Daniel Justine R. Jadman, Raphael Luis T. Malolos. Faculty Fellow: Mr. Paulo Luis T. Lozano. University: De La Salle University (The Philippines).\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECityFix\u003C\/strong\u003E is a mobile and web platform enabling citizens to quickly report and track municipal issues with GPS, photos, and real-time updates. Team Member: Ng Jia Hong. Faculty Fellow: Ms. Putri Syaidatul Akma Binti Mohd Azmi. University: Multimedia University (Malaysia).\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFlow Vending Machine\u003C\/strong\u003E proposed having vending machines which dispense biodegradable pads installed around campus toilets to help women to have easy access to sanitary pads. Team Members: Ava Jeslina binti Mohd Jamil, Abigail Siew Kar Yan, Ashley Shakyna, Geneve Tsen Fan Qin. Faculty Fellow: Ms. Putri Syaidatul Akma, J.D. Mentor: Ms. Raja Razana Bt Raja Razali. University: Multimedia University (Malaysia).\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFuture Tech Forum\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe CIC event took place alongside the Future Tech Forum which was also organized by IPaT. The forum focused on innovations, opportunities, and advancements associated with human-centered AI, sustainable data centers, and digital trust and security. Expert panels and speakers from across Asia and Georgia Tech discussed the state of art in a rapidly changing world, with particular attention to what it means for Asian nations. The event was invitation only and limited to 150 attendees of established leaders and emerging innovators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipating technology speakers and panelists included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHonorable YB Tuan Gobind Singh Deo\u003C\/strong\u003E, Minister, Ministry of Digital, Malaysia\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChee Mun Foong\u003C\/strong\u003E, CEO, YTL AI Labs; and CPO, Ryt Bank\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChen Change Loy\u003C\/strong\u003E, President\u0027s Chair Professor, CCDS, NTU; Director, MMLab@NTU; and Co-Associate Director, S-Lab\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Lim Ji Xiong\u003C\/strong\u003E, Chief Digital Officer, GAMUDA\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHenry Yang\u003C\/strong\u003E, CMO, Manus\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDing Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E, Senior Researcher, Responsible AI, Google Research\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBenjamin Croc\u003C\/strong\u003E, CEO, BrioHR\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETzu Kit Chan\u003C\/strong\u003E, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Risks and Safety Advisor of Top Universities in the USA, Singapore, Canada, and France\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHari Krishnan\u003C\/strong\u003E, Co-founder and CEO of Genie Health\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBenoit Dubeau\u003C\/strong\u003E, Energy Strategy Manager, APAC, Amazon Web Services (AWS)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECindy Lin\u003C\/strong\u003E, Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKo Chuan Zhen\u003C\/strong\u003E, Group CEO \u0026amp; Co-Founder, Plus Xnergy, and Executive Director, BM Greentech\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZachary Loh\u003C\/strong\u003E, Market Development Manager, Hydroleap\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENge Foong Kheng\u003C\/strong\u003E, Engineering Manager, APAC, Global Switch\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVerghese Jacob\u003C\/strong\u003E, SVP Technology, DayOne\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA photo album of the CIC and Future Tech Forum events can be \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96938041@N06\/albums\/72177720330705410\u0022\u003Eviewed here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E###\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudent team \u003Cstrong\u003ERevive \u0026amp; Survive\u003C\/strong\u003E from Waseda University, International Christian University, and Keio University in Japan won the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003EInstitute for People and Technology\u2019s\u003C\/a\u003E (IPaT) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/cic\u0022\u003EConvergence Innovation Competition\u003C\/a\u003E (CIC) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1, 2025.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Student team Revive \u0026 Survive from Waseda University, International Christian University, and Keio University in Japan won the Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology\u2019s (IPaT) Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysi"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-12-05 17:11:17","changed_gmt":"2025-12-06 15:02:41","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2025-12-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"678766":{"id":"678766","type":"image","title":"CIC Winner 2025-2026","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPictured: CIC winning student team \u003Cstrong\u003ERevive \u0026amp; Survive\u003C\/strong\u003E from Waseda University, International Christian University, and Keio University in Japan. 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The residency explored the intersection of art and technology, resulting in an innovative, multi-layered experience that invited audiences to engage with themes of joy, peace, and community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe project began when Clint Zeagler, principal research scientist and IPaT\u2019s director of strategic partnerships, invited Ellisor to \u201cthink big\u201d and imagine how technology could amplify his artistic vision. \u201cThis was definitely a moment for me to step out of my comfort zone and to think on a bigger scale,\u201d said Ellisor. \u201cComing from a poor artist background, we\u2019re always just struggling to make anything. This was an opportunity to dream.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cArtist residencies within Georgia Tech\u2019s research centers and interdisciplinary research institutes help to drive innovation in our research enterprise, to discover new applications of our research within the arts, to build strong connections with community partners, and \u2014 most important of all \u2014 to create impactful new works of art,\u201d said Jason Freeman, associate vice provost for the arts at Georgia Tech. \u201cIPaT has long been at the forefront of GT\u2019s initiatives to collaborate with Atlanta-area artists. I am thrilled to see the success of this latest collaboration between Clint Zeagler and Corian Ellisor.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EEllisor, an Atlanta-based performance artist with a focus on dance theater, was selected as the IPaT\u2019s \u0026nbsp;2025 artist-in-residence. 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The pairing of this wearable system with a smartphone app automated the monitoring process and delivered a superior level of neonatal care compared to the current processes at Ethiopia\u2019s best hospital.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMedical staff and parents also observed a reduced need to wake their babies when using the wearable monitoring system. In addition, after participating in the study, 84% of Ethiopian parents said they would use the device at home.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProfessor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/yeo\u0022\u003EHong Yeo\u003C\/a\u003E and I connected immediately after he gave a brief research talk about a new, wearable cardiac monitor for children,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/faculty\/gleason\u0022\u003ERudy Gleason\u003C\/a\u003E. \u201cI asked him if we could co-develop a wearable device for newborn babies in Ethiopia that measured not one, but a variety of vital signs. We both thought it was a great idea.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYeo and Gleason are faculty members in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. And both are affiliated with Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for People and Technology, which seeks to improve global health.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2009, Gleason and his wife were in the process of adopting a baby from Ethiopia named Kennedy. Before they could bring her home, however, she died \u2014 the result, Gleason said, of a seemingly preventable combination of malnutrition and diarrhea.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis loss redirected my academic teaching, research, and service activities at Georgia Tech,\u201d said Gleason. \u201cSince then, I\u2019ve spent most of my career focused on developing resource-appropriate biomedical devices to reduce maternal and child mortality.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen we started this latest study, Ethiopian parents were reluctant to participate. But once we recruited a few mothers in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), everyone in the NICU community wanted their child to participate in our wearable health monitoring system.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Yeo, \u201cWe designed the wearable patch as a safe, clinical-grade solution with minimal skin irritation. Its key design advantage lies in the use of nanomembranes, which allows the device to be soft and highly conformal to the baby\u0027s skin. Wearing the device helps to ensure critical events are not missed since the built-in automation acts as a force multiplier, freeing clinical staff to focus more on complex decision-making rather than manual data acquisition.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cRudy has a deep love for the people of Ethiopia. I feel fortunate to have met him as we embark on this project aimed at helping sick babies in the country. Without his support, I could not envision bringing this technology to Ethiopia,\u201d said Yeo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the past decade, child mortality rates have decreased in Ethiopia, but newborn deaths have remained mostly unchanged. 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Coles will serve as the principal investigator with Choudhury and Wright serving as the co-principal investigators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir project, \u201cDesigning Futures: Afrofuturist Co-Creation with AI for Community-Led Facade Design\u201d will be realized during a 16-week design studio (ARCH 4016) class that will take place during fall 2026 and serve senior undergraduate architecture students. Participants from diverse majors will join through the Building for Equity and Sustainability Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) team, in partnership with the Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (SCoRE). Pre-planning tasks will occur spring semester in preparation for the fall studio class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe studio class will collaborate with Moinak Choudhury and students in LMC 3403, who bring expertise in technical communication, responsible AI use, and community-based learning to co-create engagement materials and public-facing documentation that strengthen the project\u2019s interdisciplinary links between design, sustainability, and communication.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe final result of the project encompasses students who will design and install a modular, solar-powered fa\u00e7ade panel system for the outdoor classroom on WAWA\u2019s campus. 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It can take up to 18 months in a bad one. However, the new LLMs from Georgia Tech could help to reduce stress and fast-track these job seekers into employment.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKim is an assistant professor who specializes in human-computer interaction technology that benefits neurodivergent people. Riedl is a professor and an expert in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s goal is to identify job-search pain points and understand how job coaches create better employment prospects for their autistic clients.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cLarge-language models have an opportunity to support this kind of work if we can have more data about each different individual strength,\u201d Kim said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe want to know what worked for them in specific settings at work, what didn\u2019t work, and what kind of accommodations can better help them. That includes how they should prepare for interviews, how they can better represent their skills, how they can address accommodations they need, and how to write a cover letter. It\u2019s a broad range.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDicks has advocated for neurodivergent people and helped them find employment for 20 years. She worked at the Center for the Visually Impaired in Atlanta before coming to Georgia Tech in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe said most nonprofits that support neurodivergent people offer career development programs and many contract job coaches, but limited coach availability often leads to long waitlists. However, LLMs could fill this availability gap to address the immediate needs of job seekers who may not have access to a job coach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese organizations often run at a slow pace, and there\u2019s high turnover,\u201d Dicks said. \u201cAn AI tool could get the job seeker quicker support. Maybe they don\u2019t even need to wait on the government system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf they\u2019re on a waitlist, it can help the user put together a resume and practice general interview questions. When the job coach is ready to work with them, they\u2019re able to hit the ground running.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENailing the Interview\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDicks said the job interview is one of the biggest challenges for people with autism.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey have trouble picking up on visual and nonverbal cues \u2014 the tone of the interview, figuring out the nuances that a question is hinting at,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019re not giving the warm and fuzzy vibes that allow them to connect on a personal level.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s why Kim wants the models to reflect a strength-based coaching approach. Strength-based coaching is particularly effective for individuals with autism. Many possess traits that employers value. These include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClose attention to detail\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStrong technical proficiency\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUnique problem-solving perspectives\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe issue is that they don\u2019t know how these strengths can be applied in the workplace,\u201d Kim said. \u201cOnce they understand this, they can communicate with employers about their strengths and the accommodations employers should provide to the job seeker so they can successfully apply their skills at work.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHandling Rejection\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStill, Kim understands that candidates will need to handle rejection to make it through the search process. She envisions LLMs that help them refocus their energy and regain their confidence after being turned down.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you get a lot of rejection emails, it\u2019s easy to feel you\u2019re not good enough,\u201d she said. \u201cBeing constantly reminded about your strengths and their prior successes can get them through the stressful job-seeking process.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDicks said the models should also be able to provide feedback so that candidates don\u2019t repeat mistakes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt can tell them what would\u2019ve been a better answer or a better way to say it,\u201d Dicks said. \u201cIt can also encourage them with reminders that you get 100 noes before you get a yes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EYou\u2019re Hired, Now What?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDicks said the role of a job coach doesn\u2019t end the moment a client is hired. Government-contracted job coaches may work with their clients for up to 90 days after they start a new job to support their transition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, she said, sometimes that isn\u2019t enough. Many companies have probationary periods exceeding three months. Autistic individuals may struggle with on-the-job training or communicating what accommodations they need from their new employer.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese are just a few gaps an AI tool can fill for these individuals after they\u2019re hired.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI could see these models evolving to being supportive at those critical junctures of the probationary period being over or the one-year job review or the annual evaluation that everyone dreads,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDicks has an average caseload of 15 students, whom she assists in landing jobs and internships through the EXCEL program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEXCEL provides a mentorship program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities from the time they set foot on campus through graduation and beyond.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information and to apply, visit EXCEL\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca 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external partners to advance energy-related initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 2004, SEI is one of Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/interdisciplinary-research-institutes\u0022\u003EIRIs\u003C\/a\u003E and serves as a campuswide hub for energy research, education, and engagement.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang is the Georgia Power Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Her research and leadership focus on advancing secure, circular, and sustainable energy systems by integrating Earth, environmental, biological, materials, and sustainability sciences and innovations. She previously served as an initiative lead on critical minerals and sustainable resources at SEI as well as the associate director for interdisciplinary research at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainablesystems.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EBrook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cProfessor Tang brings a strong record of research impact, leadership of complex initiatives, and a collaborative approach that will help elevate Georgia Tech\u2019s energy research enterprise,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/julia-kubanek-0\u0022\u003EJulia Kubanek\u003C\/a\u003E, vice president for Interdisciplinary Research at Georgia Tech. \u201cShe brings deep expertise in fundamental Earth and environmental science, including water, soil, and energy research, while also leading state and regional partnerships in emerging, applied areas such as critical minerals. Most importantly, she is community-minded with excellent listening and consensus-building skills.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs executive director, Tang will develop and communicate a unifying vision to advance interdisciplinary energy research and strategic thought leadership at Georgia Tech, integrating expertise across engineering, sciences, computing, business, design, economics, policy, and the humanities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang is also the founding director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/minerals.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Critical Mineral Solutions\u003C\/a\u003E and leads a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gems.research.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Emultidisciplinary coalition\u003C\/a\u003E spanning three University System of Georgia institutions. The coalition connects research, industry, and policy to build Georgia\u2019s critical minerals innovation ecosystem, while driving resource advancement, workforce development, and economic impact.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u0027m honored to serve as the executive director of SEI. Georgia Tech\u2019s energy research and the people behind it have always inspired me. I\u2019m eager to listen, learn, and work alongside our community,\u201d said Tang. \u201cSEI connects research excellence with real-world impact, and I look forward to partnering across campus, industry, government, and communities to translate breakthrough ideas into solutions that strengthen energy security, reliability, and affordability.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the Strategic Energy Institute\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) serves as a system integrator for more than 1,000 Georgia Tech researchers working across the entire energy value chain. SEI brings together expertise to address complex energy challenges, from commercializing scalable technologies to informing long-term energy strategy and policy. Through research, education, community building, resource development, and thought leadership, SEI mobilizes Georgia Tech\u2019s collective strengths to advance reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon energy solutions for a growing global demand.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has appointed Yuanzhi Tang as executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (SEI), effective Feb. 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETang will lead the strategic vision, interdisciplinary research efforts, and internal and external partnerships at SEI, strengthening connections across Georgia Tech\u2019s Colleges, Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRI), the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), and external partners to advance energy-related initiatives.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has appointed Yuanzhi Tang as executive director of the Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), effective Feb. 1."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-02-02 16:53:07","changed_gmt":"2026-03-04 00:13:05","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679151":{"id":"679151","type":"image","title":"Yuanzhi Tang","body":"\u003Cp\u003EYuanzhi Tang\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1770048693","gmt_created":"2026-02-02 16:11:33","changed":"1770048784","gmt_changed":"2026-02-02 16:13:04","alt":"Yuanzhi Tang","file":{"fid":"263274","name":"Yuanzhi-Tang-pic2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/02\/Yuanzhi-Tang-pic2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/02\/Yuanzhi-Tang-pic2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1451744,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/02\/02\/Yuanzhi-Tang-pic2.jpg?itok=r5N6d_LB"}}},"media_ids":["679151"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPriya Devarajan\u003C\/a\u003E || Communications Program Manager\u003Cbr\u003EStrategic Energy Institute\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688066":{"#nid":"688066","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leanne West Named 2026 Innovator of the Year in Pediatric Health","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/people.research.gatech.edu\/node\/2937\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELeanne West\u003C\/a\u003E, chief engineer of pediatric technologies at Georgia Tech and a national leader in pediatric health innovation, has been honored as a 2026 Innovator of the Year in Pediatric Health by\u202fthe \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle\u003C\/em\u003E\u202fand selected as one of\u202f\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.titan100.biz\/2026-georgia-titan-100\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETitan CEO\u2019s 2026 Georgia Titan 100 Honorees\u003C\/a\u003E. These recognitions celebrate West\u2019s leadership and impact in pediatric health innovation at both the local and national level.\u202fIn January, West was also named chief research and innovation officer at Shriners Children\u2019s, a role that expands her longstanding commitment to pediatric innovation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more than a decade, West has been instrumental in the partnership between Georgia Tech and Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, working through the Pediatric Technology Center (PTC) to translate clinical needs into engineered solutions for children. In this role, she has worked alongside Children\u2019s clinicians, nurses, and researchers to identify unmet needs, form multidisciplinary teams, and guide projects from early concepts through prototyping, validation, funding, and regulatory pathways. The Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta PTC established Atlanta as a nationally recognized hub for pediatric technology innovation enabling clinician-driven research, accelerating translational projects, and fostering a culture in which engineering solutions are shaped directly by real clinical experience.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2019,\u202fWest began building a relationship with Shriners, working to understand their most pressing clinical needs. She then connected clinicians with researchers at Georgia Tech, Emory University, and Kennesaw State University to foster collaborations focused on real-world clinical challenges. She also supported teams with promising prototypes by helping them navigate national funding opportunities and pathways at the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), accelerating the transition from lab discoveries to patient care.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver time, this steady engagement evolved into a strong research partnership. In June 2025, Shriners announced they are joining the robust pediatric innovation ecosystem in Atlanta by establishing the\u202f\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/07\/03\/shriners-childrens-establish-research-institute-science-square\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EShriners Children\u2019s Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E\u202f(SCRI). SCRI will be co-located with Georgia Tech as the anchor tenant at Science Square. This investment will be transformational for the future of pediatric research and innovation in the state of Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhat excites me most is what we can accomplish together when we combine our strengths to align around a children-first mindset to improve the healthcare of children everywhere,\u201d said West. \u201cKids will benefit in ways no one organization could achieve alone.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWest\u2019s leadership in pediatric innovation doesn\u2019t stop there. In November 2025, she consolidated three major gatherings into the first International Pediatric Healthcare Innovation Summit,\u202fcombining the Pediatric Innovation Day, the International Society for Pediatric Innovation\u2019s (iSPI) biennial PEDS2040 event, and the joint meeting of the FDA-funded Pediatric Device Consortia. The Summit highlighted the work of Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, bringing together more than 150 representatives from children\u2019s hospitals, startups, venture capitalists, clinicians, patients, and leaders from across the Georgia innovation ecosystem, strengthening the region\u2019s global presence in pediatric health innovation.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs president of the International Children\u2019s Advisory Network (iCAN), West continues to elevate the voices of young people with chronic and rare conditions and their caregivers. Under her leadership, iCAN partners with industry, regulators, and the FDA to ensure pediatric patients are included in device and drug development, clinical trials, healthcare education, and regulatory conversations. She also champions opportunities that train and inspire youth and early career professionals to pursue roles across healthcare and life sciences \u2014 from clinicians and innovators to public health leaders and patient advocates.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWest served as an invited speaker at the 2025 World Health Organization\u2019s World Children\u2019s Health Day on the Importance of Clinical Trials for the Safety of Children, and at the FDA\u2019s meeting on the Implementation of the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act and Pediatric Research Equity Act. She continues to contribute nationally through service on the Medical Device Innovation Consortium\u2019s (MDIC) NEST executive committee to advance use of real-world evidence in regulatory submissions, particularly for pediatric devices, and the MDIC Patient Value committee. In addition, she serves on the iSPI executive team, the Patient Focused Medicines Development board, the Pediatric Trials Network steering committee, and as a judge for MedTech Innovator.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWest\u2019s awards and new role reflect the cumulative impact of more than a decade of leadership, partnership-building, and translational work across the worldwide pediatric ecosystem. West and her fellow honorees will be officially recognized at the 2026 Health Care Champion Awards on March 19 and at the Titan 100 Awards on May 7.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis recognition celebrates West\u2019s leadership and impact in pediatric health innovation at both the local and national level.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This recognition celebrates West\u2019s leadership and impact in pediatric health innovation at both the local and national level."}],"uid":"34760","created_gmt":"2026-02-06 13:07:47","changed_gmt":"2026-02-18 19:04:26","author":"Laurie Haigh","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679212":{"id":"679212","type":"image","title":"Leanne West","body":null,"created":"1770398827","gmt_created":"2026-02-06 17:27:07","changed":"1770398857","gmt_changed":"2026-02-06 17:27:37","alt":"Leanne West","file":{"fid":"263344","name":"Leanne-West-Article.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/06\/Leanne-West-Article.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/06\/Leanne-West-Article.png","mime":"image\/png","size":614238,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/02\/06\/Leanne-West-Article.png?itok=e73deBxO"}}},"media_ids":["679212"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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Sherrill is a Regents\u0027 Professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry with a joint appointment in the School of Computational Science \u0026amp; Engineering. Sherrill has served as associate director for IDEaS since its founding in 2016 and as interim director since January 1, 2025.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m thrilled to see Professor Sherrill tackle this role for the coming 5 years. He understands the rapidly evolving opportunities to apply AI and data science approaches to the diversity of research conducted by Georgia Tech faculty and students, and has a strong agenda to help our researchers make the most of this explosive change in the research landscape.\u201d Said V.P. of Interdisciplinary Research, Julia Kubanek. \u201cHe also has deep experience with team building and management which will position IDEaS favorably.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs executive director, Sherrill will guide IDEaS\u2019 current initiatives, which include the Microsoft CloudHub program that supports innovative applications in Generative Artificial Intelligence, and provide oversight and support for the joint College of Computing \/ IDEaS Center for Artificial Intelligence in Science and Engineering (ARTISAN), which provides\u0026nbsp; Georgia Tech faculty and research engineers expert support staff, needed cyberinfrastructure, software resources, and advice to assist faculty with projects using large data sets or using AI and machine learning to drive discovery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherrill will also the lead the launch of a new strategic vision, emphasizing the Georgia Tech research community\u2019s expertise in the development of AI and ML techniques and their application to problems in science and engineering, high performance computing, and academic software. Sherrill will focus on internal and external partnerships at IDEaS, creating new collaborative efforts in areas such as economics, policy, and the arts and humanities. He will also work to strengthen current connections across Georgia Tech\u2019s Colleges, Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs), and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s a great honor to be named the next executive director of IDEaS,\u201d said Sherrill.\u0026nbsp; \u201cGeorgia Tech has world-class faculty and students, and an unparalleled spirit of collaboration.\u0026nbsp; By bringing together faculty from across campus and working together with some of the amazing student groups, we can leverage the power of AI to accelerate our research and maximize our impact.\u0026nbsp; IDEaS will continue to run upskilling workshops to help our campus keep pace with the rapid changes in AI.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherrill is an active promoter of education in computational quantum chemistry, as well as a strong voice for the benefits of open-source software for research acceleration. He was named Outreach Volunteer of the Year by the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society in 2017, and he is the lead principal investigator of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PSI_(computational_chemistry)\u0022\u003EPsi\u003C\/a\u003E open-source quantum chemistry program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherrill earned a B.S. in chemistry from MIT in 1992 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Georgia in 1996. From 1996-1999 Sherril was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESherrill is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society, and he has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics since 2009.\u0026nbsp;Sherrill has received a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and Georgia Tech\u0027s W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2023, he received the Herty Medal from the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society, and in 2024, he was elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E- Christa M. 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The PTC provides opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration to create breakthrough discoveries that enhance the lives of children and young adults in Georgia and beyond.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIPaT is supporting research within two of PTC\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/pedsresearch.org\/centers\/pediatric-technology-center\/pillar-leadership\u0022\u003Ethree core research pillars\u003C\/a\u003E: data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence; and patient\u2011centered care delivery. PTC\u2019s third research pillar is focused on technologies and devices. With the expertise of IPaT\u2019s research scientists, these joint efforts combine scientific expertise, clinical insight, and shared funding that are helping to transform research innovations into operational tools that directly support pediatric patient care at Children\u2019s.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIPaT is bringing two core competencies to both of these research pillars,\u201d said Maribeth Gandy Coleman, IPaT\u2019s director of research. \u201cFirst, we\u2019re advocating for and supporting the use of people-centered techniques to inform the research and co-designing the resulting system with all the stakeholders. Second, we\u2019re also making sure we can translate this research into a real return on investment for Children\u2019s. We are ensuring that what we design can be deployed in the hospital, and that it can be integrated with their existing systems and merge as seamlessly as possible with their existing workflows.\u201d\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESupporting Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence (Pillar 1)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPillar 1 focuses on harnessing artificial intelligence to enable more personalized and predictive pediatric care. The work aims to improve data collection infrastructure, support equitable AI practices, and build a Children\u2019s-Georgia Tech pediatric AI collaboration that integrates advanced AI tools into clinical workflows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EClinical Deterioration Prediction\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EOne of the flagship projects within Pillar 1 involves developing machine learning models that can detect clinical deterioration in hospitalized children. The goal is to identify when a patient needs urgent escalation to the intensive care unit \u2014 faster and more accurately than traditional monitoring.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve this, IPaT research scientists are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EExtracting and securely transferring electronic health record (EHR) data from Children\u2019s clinical systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETraining predictive models using that real\u2011world data.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBuilding the software infrastructure required to deploy these models inside Children\u2019s.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIntegrating model outputs directly into the EHR using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources\u0026nbsp;communication protocols. (FHIR is an international standard for the electronic exchange of healthcare information.)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis infrastructure is intentionally designed not just for this single project but as a repeatable, scalable framework for future AI\u2011enabled clinical tools developed through the Children\u2019s-Georgia Tech partnership.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI-Enhanced Decision-Making for Hospital Operations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EA second emerging project under Pillar 1 aims to address one of healthcare\u2019s most persistent operational challenges: ICU capacity management. Seasonal fluctuations, such as surges in flu or Covid\u201119 cases, can create sudden ICU demand surges and staff illnesses, which can make scheduling and staffing decisions challenging.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIPaT is building models that incorporate historical hospital activity, seasonal variation, and real\u2011time census and staffing levels to predict scheduling needs and help Children\u2019s optimize resource allocation. This research is just beginning, but holds the potential for improving both care delivery and staff well\u2011being. More importantly, IPaT is applying user-centered design and research techniques along with the engineering work to engage with Children\u2019s people and processes to ensure that these prediction and resource allocation models actually work, and that they will actually be used and useful in the Children\u2019s clinical environment.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESupporting Patient\u2011Centered Care Delivery (Pillar 2)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EPillar 2 seeks to improve pediatric outcomes by focusing on the \u201cwhole child\u201d \u2014 physical, psychological, social, and emotional well\u2011being \u2014 while accounting for the needs of families, caregivers, and community environments. Particular emphasis is placed on behavioral health, rural healthcare access, and chronic illness in underserved populations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIPaT contributes to this work on two fronts:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUser Experience and Workflow Research\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIPaT\u2019s user experience (UX) researchers conduct interviews, workflow studies, and design evaluations with Children\u2019s clinicians and staff. This human\u2011centered research helps shape the interfaces, processes, and technologies needed to deliver patient\u2011centered care in practical, usable ways. These contributions ensure that tools created through the partnership align with the realities of clinical practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EData Integration for Behavioral and Social Insights\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EFor Pillar 2 research,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\/sde\u0022\u003EIPaT\u2019s secure data enclave\u003C\/a\u003E enables Children\u2019s EHR data to be transferred, stored, and analyzed in a HIPAA\u2011compliant environment. Researchers are using this infrastructure to combine clinical data with voluntarily contributed social media information from consenting participants. The aim is to explore indicators of psychological well\u2011being, behavioral health trends, and early warnings related to self\u2011harm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Secure, Scalable Data Infrastructure to Support Both Pillars\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe IPaT secure data enclave provides a protected, secure environment for storing and analyzing sensitive patient information. It serves as the backbone connecting Georgia Tech researchers with Children\u2019s clinical systems. Both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 research initiatives rely on this Georgia Tech IPaT-managed secure infrastructure to safely enable:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEHR data transfer and storage.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMachine learning model development.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETesting and validation workflows.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEventual operational deployment back into Children\u2019s systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis secure, scalable architecture is central to the shared goal of translating research into actionable clinical tools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAccelerating Pediatric Discovery\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s partnership with Children\u2019s represents a powerful model for cross\u2011institutional innovation. By aligning IPaT\u2019s strengths in human\u2011centered design, machine learning, and secure data systems with Children\u2019s clinical expertise, IPaT is helping to build solutions that move quickly from concept to bedside.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs these projects grow, especially with the ongoing expansion of the clinical deterioration system and the launch of the AI-enhanced operations initiative, IPaT research scientists anticipate even greater opportunities to support Children\u2019s mission and improve pediatric health outcomes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThank you to Richard Starr for providing insight about these research projects.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) is deeply engaged in advancing pediatric research and clinical innovation through a partnership with the Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center at Georgia Tech (PTC).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) is deeply engaged in advancing pediatric research and clinical innovation through a partnership with the Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center at Georgia Tech (PTC). 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This data-gathering process is essential given the sensitive nature of mental health research. You want data that is shared with consent.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOrben collected TikTok data from more than 10,000 young people in the UK who consented to provide their personal data archives in accordance with the European Union\u2019s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe collected data includes watch histories, which De Choudhury said distinguishes this research from other social media studies that focus on what users post.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe don\u2019t understand passive social media consumption very well, so we hope to close that gap and learn what that looks like,\u201d she said. \u201cThat could complement or contrast what we know about people\u2019s active engagement on these platforms. Is what they\u2019re consuming directly related to what they\u2019re posting? How does passive consumption affect young people\u2019s mental health?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA clearer picture of how algorithm-based content affects young people could result in design interventions to minimize negative effects. De Choudhury said studying data from young people is critical because it\u2019s not too late to steer them away from unhealthy behavioral patterns.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSome of the earliest signs or symptoms of mental health conditions appear in adolescence,\u201d she said. \u201cIf appropriate care and support are provided, maybe it\u2019s possible to prevent these symptoms from becoming full-blown in the future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBeyond TikTok\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat the research team learns about TikTok could also provide broader insight into other social media platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETikTok has been influential in how social media platforms display video content. Competitors like Instagram and X modeled their video presentation after TikTok\u2019s, which can easily lead to doomscrolling.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur hope is that our findings can be generalized, with the caveat the data we have is exclusively from TikTok,\u201d De Choudhury said. \u201cOther platforms have similar video-sharing and consumption features where the video automatically plays from one to the next. We hope what we learn from TikTok will be applicable to people\u2019s activities elsewhere, though it will require future work beyond this project to draw concrete conclusions.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESimulating Feeds with AI\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDe Choudhury said an additional part of the study will be using artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate video feeds.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2024, Hosseinmardi led a study at the University of Pennsylvania on YouTube\u2019s recommendation algorithm and used bots that either followed or ignored the recommendations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDe Choudhury said they will use a similar method for TikTok.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe feeds will be realistic but generated by AI to see the potential pathways to consumption rabbit holes,\u201d she said. \u201cThis should give us some insight into how algorithms influence the negative and positive exposures people might be having on TikTok.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFoundation Expands Reach\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBased in the UK and established in 2009, the Huo Family Foundation supports community education initiatives in the UK, the U.S., and China.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe organization announced in January its launch of the Huo Family Foundation Science Programme.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/huofamilyfoundation.org\/news\/updates\/huo-family-foundation-awards-17-6m-for-groundbreaking-research\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe new program is committing $17.6 million to fund 20 new multi-year research grants\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E that explore the impact of digital technology on the brain development, social behavior, and mental health of young people.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDigital technology is profoundly shaping childhood and young adulthood, yet there is limited causal evidence of its effects,\u201d\u0026nbsp;said Yan Huo, founder of the Huo Family Foundation, in a press release.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe are proud to support exceptional researchers advancing vital scientific understanding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELed by Georgia Tech professor Munmun De Choudhury, a multi-institutional research team is launching a $1.7 million study to examine how TikTok\u2019s recommendation algorithm influences the mental health of adolescent users. The project focuses on passive consumption by analyzing the watch histories of over 10,000 young participants and using AI to simulate content \u0022rabbit holes.\u0022 By identifying patterns of negative exposure, the researchers aim to develop design interventions that can steer teenagers away from unhealthy behavioral patterns and support early mental health care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech-led research team is conducting a multi-year study using data from more than 10,000 adolescents to investigate how TikTok\u2019s recommendation algorithm and passive content consumption impact youth mental health."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-02-24 14:29:28","changed_gmt":"2026-03-20 12:52:52","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679406":{"id":"679406","type":"image","title":"208A9267-2.jpg","body":null,"created":"1771943377","gmt_created":"2026-02-24 14:29:37","changed":"1771943377","gmt_changed":"2026-02-24 14:29:37","alt":"Munmun De Choudhury","file":{"fid":"263567","name":"208A9267-2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/24\/208A9267-2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/02\/24\/208A9267-2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104533,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/02\/24\/208A9267-2.jpg?itok=3fEZjVVt"}}},"media_ids":["679406"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"167543","name":"social media"},{"id":"190947","name":"tiktok"},{"id":"10343","name":"mental health"},{"id":"10824","name":"Children And Adolescents"},{"id":"5660","name":"algorithms"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"688282":{"#nid":"688282","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Launches Pilot Program to Support Rural Arts Organizations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBeginning this March in Perry, Georgia, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/innovate.gatech.edu\/gain\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Arts Innovation Network (GAIN)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;will support arts\u2011related nonprofits and small businesses in\u0026nbsp;Perry, Houston County, and surrounding counties in Middle Georgia. The six\u2011month pilot is funded by a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.arts.gov\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENational Endowment for the Arts (NEA)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Our Town\u0026nbsp;grant and is the first EI\u00b2 program dedicated specifically to the arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cArts organizations contribute so much to the vibrancy of a community,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;Caley Landau, program manager for GAIN and marketing strategist at EI\u00b2. \u201cThey help create a sense of place and provide the \u2018something to do\u2019 that small cities and towns want to offer residents, new workers, and prospective businesses. Our hope is to enhance the arts and cultural ecosystem in Middle Georgia by providing training and technical assistance to the organizations that produce art in the region.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Rural Community Already Investing in Placemaking\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerry was selected as the pilot location in part for its active downtown revitalization work and commitment to placemaking. Through the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.georgiacitiesfoundation.org\/placemaking\u0022\u003EGeorgia Economic Placemaking Collaborative\u003C\/a\u003E, Perry city staff partnered with EI\u00b2\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cedr.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Economic Development Research\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to develop strategies for arts\u2011based community development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWorking alongside the Georgia Tech team has been a wonderful experience,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;Alicia Hartley, downtown manager for the City of Perry. \u201cWe hope that participants walk away from the cohort inspired and empowered to activate their organizations in creative and meaningful ways.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EListening First, Then Providing Targeted Support\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program will begin with a listening session to understand participating organizations\u2019 needs. EI\u00b2 will then design tailored workshops drawing from experts at Georgia Tech and beyond. Every other month, cohort members will meet for sessions on business practices, digital tools, operational efficiency, marketing, placemaking partnerships, and other areas that support long\u2011term sustainability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey sound like great ideas \u2014 murals, pop\u2011up exhibits, outdoor performances \u2014 but how do you really get down to the nuts and bolts of making them happen?\u201d Landau said. \u201cAnd how do you bring the right partners to the table? That\u2019s what we\u2019ll explore together.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Statewide Mission, Strengthened Through the Arts\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs Georgia Tech\u2019s economic development arm, EI\u00b2 administers programs that support entrepreneurs, manufacturers, communities, and municipalities across the state and around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGAIN represents an important part of EI\u00b2\u2019s comprehensive approach to economic development,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;David Bridges, vice president of EI\u00b2. \u201cIt gives us another way to create impact in Georgia by applying our expertise to serve arts organizations that are vital to Georgia communities.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJason Freeman, associate vice provost for Georgia Tech Arts, noted that the pilot aligns with the Institute\u2019s broader commitment to supporting arts, culture, and creativity statewide.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThrough GAIN, I\u2019m excited to learn more about the arts ecosystem in Middle Georgia,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cThe lessons we learn will inform both statewide collaborations and new initiatives emerging through our\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arts.gatech.edu\/creative-quarter\u0022\u003ECreative Quarter\u003C\/a\u003E innovation district on campus.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Funding and Support\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe pilot is funded through the NEA\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Our Town\u0026nbsp;program, which supports projects integrating arts, culture, and design into community development. 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Hosted by the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/techsage.ahs.illinois.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETechSAge Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cidi.gatech.edu\/research\/rerctechsage\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Epart of which\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is located in CIDI), the competition brings together students from across the Institute to create innovative applications for Stretch \u2013 \u0026nbsp;a lightweight, open source mobile manipulator robot with reaching, sensing, and grasping capabilities. Stretch was developed by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hello-robot.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHello Robot\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E which was co\u2011founded by former Georgia Tech professor Charlie Kemp.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith its compact form factor, capable arm, and relatively affordable price, Stretch has already become a favorite among researchers looking to push the boundaries of assistive robotics. The pitch competition invites Georgia Tech students to imagine not just what the robot can do, but what it should do to meaningfully improve daily life for people aging with disabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year, teams across several disciplines\u2014from engineering, to business, to computing, and the sciences\u2014submitted video pitches outlining how their technology concept tackles real-world problems users face. The winning team earned $1,000 and, more importantly, the chance to spend a semester working with Stretch in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/awarehome.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAware Home\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E turning their pitch into a working prototype. Sponsors included TechSAge, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ai-caring.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI-CARING\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/ipat\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInstitute for People and Technology (IPaT)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and Hello Robot.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFirst place was awarded to \u201cChef Stretch,\u201d a concept aimed at helping older adults with disabilities determine whether food has spoiled so they can prepare and consume food safely. 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His broader goal is to build AI systems that are fair, reliable, and effective across diverse languages and cultures, helping ensure that technological advances benefit communities often overlooked in mainstream AI development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019m very grateful to receive this fellowship for societal impact,\u201d Nimo said. \u201cThank you for this support and believing in the work, and I\u2019m excited to keep building research that translates into real world benefit.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENimo earned his B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and his M.S. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech doctoral student Charles Nimo has been selected as the newest recipient of the Roland Ewubare Fellowship in Societal Engagement and Impact.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech doctoral student Charles Nimo has been selected as the newest recipient of the Roland Ewubare Fellowship in Societal Engagement and Impact."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2026-03-10 15:34:49","changed_gmt":"2026-03-10 19:50:43","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679558":{"id":"679558","type":"image","title":"Charles Nimo ","body":"\u003Cp\u003ECharles Nimo is a third year Ph.D. student in computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1773156769","gmt_created":"2026-03-10 15:32:49","changed":"1773156840","gmt_changed":"2026-03-10 15:34:00","alt":"Charles Nimo","file":{"fid":"263733","name":"Charles-Nimo-copy-cropped-Smaller-FINAL.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/10\/Charles-Nimo-copy-cropped-Smaller-FINAL.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/10\/Charles-Nimo-copy-cropped-Smaller-FINAL.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":456125,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/03\/10\/Charles-Nimo-copy-cropped-Smaller-FINAL.jpg?itok=qogb7bPV"}}},"media_ids":["679558"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689007":{"#nid":"689007","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Mobile App Turns Phones into At-Home Fetal Heart Monitors","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new mobile app will soon put the ability to monitor a baby\u2019s prenatal heartbeat in the hands of pregnant women who may worry about their baby\u2019s health in between doctor\u2019s visits.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudies show that one in five pregnant women experiences \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/theconversation.com\/perinatal-anxiety-one-in-five-women-experience-it-but-many-still-suffer-alone-before-or-after-childbirth-133667\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eperinatal anxiety\u003C\/a\u003E, which is characterized by intense negative thoughts about their pregnancy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDopFone turns any smartphone speaker into a Doppler radar by emitting a low-pitched ultrasound and detecting reflected signals of abdominal surface vibrations caused by a fetal heartbeat.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.alexandertadams.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Adams\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing, said he came up with the idea for DopFone as he and his wife, Elise, experienced two miscarriages. At the time, she couldn\u2019t reliably measure the fetal heart rate with a standard fetal Doppler monitor.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose experiences exposed gaps in the maternal healthcare process.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are a lot of great devices in hospitals and clinics, but there\u2019s not much outside of those venues, even for high-risk pregnancies,\u201d Adams said. \u201cThis is about filling the gaps between checkups.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.poojitagarg.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPoojita Garg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E joined Adams to work on DopFone while completing her master\u2019s degree at Georgia Tech. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Washington and is co-advised by Professor Swetak Patel, who earned his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2008.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarg is working with the University of Washington School of Medicine to conduct DopFone\u2019s first clinical trials.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGarg tested DopFone on 23 patients and achieved a plus-minus of 4.9 beats per minute, well within the clinical standard range of eight beats per minute for reliable fetal heart rate measurement.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdams said it measured within two beats per minute in most cases, with an error rate of less than one percent.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbout one million pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/news-article\/dr-harvey-kliman-study-finds-the-placenta-holds-answers-to-many-unexplained-pregnancy-losses\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eaccording to a study from the Yale School of Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E, and doctors know little about what causes them. Adams said that number is probably higher because many go unreported.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdams and Garg said it\u2019s unclear whether the innovation could reduce the number of miscarriages. However, consistent fetal heart rate data collection outside of the doctor\u2019s office could provide a better idea of what happens leading up to a miscarriage.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFrom there, we can take preventative action,\u201d Adams said. \u201cIf nothing else, we can give a sense of comfort to those who may be worried.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExpanding Access\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile couples can purchase portable fetal heart rate monitors, Adams and Garg see DopFone as a low-cost alternative for those who live in areas with limited or inaccessible healthcare systems.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of potential for using it in what doctors like to call maternity deserts,\u201d Garg said. \u201cThese are areas where a pregnant person, at the time of delivery, would have to travel long distances to reach a hospital. This technology will be useful globally in underdeveloped areas of the world.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers also mentioned that external add-ons and attachments aren\u2019t part of their design goals. They prefer to rely on the phone\u2019s built-in features to keep the technology accessible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe real value is that 96% of America already has the technology in their pocket, along with 60% of the world\u2019s population,\u201d Adams said. \u201cHalf of the battle is having the right tools. The more we can get from what\u2019s already in the phone, the more we can guarantee people have access to it.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENot a Substitute\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome patients may feel a constant need to check their unborn child\u2019s heart rate, and Garg acknowledged that a tool like DopFone could increase that anxiety. She and Adams said a future version of the app will tell the parent if the heart rate is within a healthy range.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of tradeoffs between a tool that could provide reassurance or create anxiety,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want the use of this tool to be recommended by a doctor and for doctors and their care teams to be kept in the loop.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also said DopFone is not meant to replace anything that is done in a clinic.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere are devices that make the whole process possible at home, but this is something that should be done in a clinic, so that\u2019s the line we want to draw,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDopFone uses smartphone speakers to emit a low-pitched ultrasound that detects reflected signals of abdominal surface vibrations caused by fetal cardiac activity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.alexandertadams.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Adams\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing, said he came up with the idea for DopFone as he and his wife, Elise, suffered through two miscarriages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.poojitagarg.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPoojita Garg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E joined Adams to work on DopFone while completing her master\u2019s at Georgia Tech. 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She carried that passion across multiple institutions before landing at Tech, building a career grounded in adaptability, resilience, and people-centered service.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer Georgia Tech chapter began in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), where she supported the Water Resources Engineering group. There, she became a trusted resource for students and faculty alike \u2014 a steady presence who celebrated their successes, listened during challenges, and helped build a sense of community.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHanson credits Lisa Tuttle in CEE with helping her navigate the Georgia Tech landscape. With Tuttle\u2019s help, she also discovered a talent for event planning and administrative leadership, eventually serving as administration manager and supporting the CEE chair with meetings, alumni engagement, and major departmental initiatives. One of her most memorable experiences was coordinating a trip to NATO headquarters in Belgium, an opportunity that deepened her appreciation for global collaboration and institutional history.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cCrystal was an extraordinary contributor throughout her time in CEE, first in the Water Resources Engineering group and later as the trusted manager of the entire administrative support team,\u201d said Donald Webster, Karen and John Huff School Chair in CEE. \u201cIn every role, she brought dedication, professionalism, and genuine care for others. Crystal consistently went above and beyond to support the people of CEE \u2014 not only through professional challenges, but also during moments of personal crisis \u2014 always with compassion, steadiness, and grace. Her presence made our community stronger, more resilient, and more humane.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Trusted Partner in Research Leadership\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHanson later transitioned to the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) office, where she worked under leaders including Stephen Cross, Christopher Jones, Giselle Bennett, Raheem Beyah, and Julia Kubanek. Her time in this environment was formative. She absorbed the complexities of research administration, budgeting, and strategic planning, all while contributing to a culture where staff felt valued and included.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I joined the EVPR office, and it had only three or four people, it seemed everyone was doing two or three jobs,\u201d said Christopher Jones, who joined the office in 2013 and is now the John F. Brock III School Chair in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. \u201cCrystal was an immediate fit, bringing with her organizational and management skills, a sense of humor, and an appreciation of our mission.\u0026nbsp; She is someone whom I always look forward to seeing, both then and now.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter Beyah left the EVPR office to become the dean and Southern Company Chair in the College of Engineering, Kubanek became the new vice president for Interdisciplinary Research (VPIR). Together, Kubanek and Hanson built and expanded the VPIR team, helping to shape its operations and identity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong her many contributions, Hanson initiated the Interdisciplinary Research Spotlight Awards, recognizing staff and research faculty who go above and beyond in the Interdisciplinary Research Institutes (IRIs). She also shepherded the Research Faculty Teaching Fellows program, ensuring that research faculty across Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute had opportunities to develop teaching skills in partnership with the Center for Teaching and Learning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Connector at the Heart of the VPIR Office\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECrystal describes herself as someone who prefers to work behind the scenes: cleaning up after events, coordinating logistics, and taking on nearly any task that needs to be done.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCrystal is the ultimate behind-the-scenes master organizer and people connector,\u201d said Kubanek. \u201cShe develops individual relationships that enable her to organize, in short order, a meeting of numerous campus leaders whose calendars should be impossible to align. She comes bearing snacks and a smile and is the heart of our operation.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHanson\u2019s deep institutional knowledge and extensive network positioned her to navigate Georgia Tech\u2019s complex landscape. She serves as a bridge between the VPIR office, the IRIs, GTRI, and campus partners, ensuring that communication flows smoothly and people feel supported, informed, and connected.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHer deep institutional knowledge and strong networks across campus meant she almost always knew the right person to connect with or the best way to move something forward,\u201d said Punya Mardhanan, a former colleague in VPIR and now assistant director of business operations for the Space Research Institute. \u201cCrystal works incredibly efficiently and often completes things before anyone asks. She never seeks recognition for the many ways she supports her team.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Colleague, Advisor, and Steady Source of Wisdom\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHanson\u2019s colleagues consistently describe her as someone who not only gets things done but also makes everyone around her better.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShe\u2019s like a mother hen to the VPIR team,\u201d said Rob Kadel, executive director of research program administration. \u201cI can always go to Crystal and say, \u2018Who should I talk to about this?\u2019 and she will know exactly who to talk to. She is never afraid to speak her mind. She\u2019s a trusted advisor.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer leadership has also extended beyond formal responsibilities. She played a key role in designing the VPIR workspace during renovations, coordinated team retreats and bonding activities, and infused every gathering with energy and warmth.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cShe cares so much about the Georgia Tech community,\u201d said Colly Mitchell, director of events and engagement for the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. \u201cCrystal is incredibly responsive, helpful, and friendly. She brings a big burst of energy to every gathering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWords that immediately come to mind when I think of Crystal are collaborative, dependable, responsive, and a true breadth of knowledge,\u201d adds Cynthia Moore, director of operations for the Institute for People and Technology, who worked alongside Hanson for nearly a decade. \u201cCrystal will truly be missed, along with her knowledge of all things Georgia Tech and research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EA Legacy of Generosity and Excellence\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAfter nearly 14 years at Georgia Tech, Hanson will retire on April 1. She will be remembered as someone who connected people, solved problems, and always went above and beyond.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Raheem Beyah, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, \u201cCrystal was simply exceptional. She was a creative thought partner who provided outstanding support and strategic advice, and she became a dear friend. I am a better leader after working with Crystal, and Georgia Tech is a better place because of her. I can\u2019t think of many people who deserve a wonderful retirement more than she does.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHanson looks forward to spending more time with her family, including her two daughters and two granddaughters, whose busy schedules she is eager to be part of. She and her husband have plans for travel, concerts \u2014 including those of her son-in-law\u2019s band, Grouplove \u2014 and perhaps even a cruise around the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech extends its deepest gratitude to Crystal Hanson for her years of exceptional service, leadership, and dedication. 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"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2026-03-23 13:49:21","changed_gmt":"2026-03-23 13:50:47","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-03-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679708":{"id":"679708","type":"image","title":"Crystal Hanson","body":null,"created":"1774273214","gmt_created":"2026-03-23 13:40:14","changed":"1774273266","gmt_changed":"2026-03-23 13:41:06","alt":"Crystal Hanson with Lisa Tuttle","file":{"fid":"263899","name":"Crystal_at_GT_with_Lisa-edited-v4-WR-withText-cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/23\/Crystal_at_GT_with_Lisa-edited-v4-WR-withText-cropped.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/23\/Crystal_at_GT_with_Lisa-edited-v4-WR-withText-cropped.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2054104,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/03\/23\/Crystal_at_GT_with_Lisa-edited-v4-WR-withText-cropped.jpg?itok=v_8NMVPV"}}},"media_ids":["679708"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EResearch Communications\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689267":{"#nid":"689267","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Institute for People and Technology Announces Five Faculty Promotions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech is proud to announce the promotion of five research faculty whose work continues to advance the institute\u2019s mission of shaping people\u2011centered innovation across disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKala Jordan\u003C\/strong\u003E has been promoted to \u003Cem\u003EResearch Scientist II\u003C\/em\u003E. With a background spanning biology, health informatics, and STEM education, Jordan brings a multidisciplinary approach to her work. She plays a key role in AI\u2011CARING, leading studies that support the development of personalized collaborative AI systems designed to improve quality of life for older adults.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENoah Posner\u003C\/strong\u003E has been promoted to \u003Cem\u003ESenior Research Scientist\u003C\/em\u003E. As manager of the Interactive Product Design Lab, Posner focuses on interactive experiences grounded in physical interaction. His research spans CAD\u2011based prototyping, rapid fabrication, and STEAM education, and he teaches courses in physical prototyping and industrial design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Presti\u003C\/strong\u003E has been promoted to \u003Cem\u003EPrincipal Research Scientist\u003C\/em\u003E. Over his 22\u2011year career at Georgia Tech, Presti has collaborated with major industry partners and federal agencies. His research spans sensor systems, biometrics, wearable computing, signal processing, embedded systems, and integrated hardware\u2011software prototyping.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Starr\u003C\/strong\u003E has been promoted to \u003Cem\u003ESenior Research Scientist\u003C\/em\u003E. Starr oversees the IPaT Secure Data Enclave, developing and managing the institute\u2019s secure infrastructure for healthcare data. His work ensures campus\u2011wide compliance with HIPAA, IRB requirements, and partnership agreements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAndrew Zhao\u003C\/strong\u003E has been promoted to \u003Cem\u003EResearch Scientist II\u003C\/em\u003E. Zhao, a Georgia Tech alumnus with bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in Computer Science, specializes in social computing. His work examines how social media facilitates information flow and connection, particularly around mental health and elections. He supports the CANDOR Portal and AI\u2011CARING projects, contributing full\u2011stack development, data pipelines, LLM fine\u2011tuning, and infrastructure management.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese promotions are wonderful and well deserved. Hearty congratulations to Andrew, Kala, Richard, Noah, and Peter!\u201d said Michael Best, executive director of IPaT.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese promotions are a testament to the outstanding capabilities and contributions of IPaT\u2019s research faculty community,\u201d added Maribeth Gandy Coleman, director of research for IPaT.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech is proud to announce the promotion of five research faculty whose work continues to advance the institute\u2019s mission of shaping people\u2011centered innovation across disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) at Georgia Tech is proud to announce the promotion of five research faculty whose work continues to advance the institute\u2019s mission of shaping people centered innovation across disciplines."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2026-03-31 17:35:58","changed_gmt":"2026-03-31 17:36:30","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679802":{"id":"679802","type":"image","title":"Five IPaT research faculty","body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPictured: Kala Jordan, Noah Posner, Peter Presti, Richard Starr, and Andrew Zhao.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1774978414","gmt_created":"2026-03-31 17:33:34","changed":"1774978496","gmt_changed":"2026-03-31 17:34:56","alt":"Pictured: Kala Jordan, Noah Posner, Peter Presti, Richard Starr, and Andrew Zhao.","file":{"fid":"264006","name":"5-people-v1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/31\/5-people-v1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/31\/5-people-v1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":284111,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/03\/31\/5-people-v1.jpg?itok=4nz7w0ba"}}},"media_ids":["679802"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"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\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689256":{"#nid":"689256","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Study Shows Explainability is a Must for Older Adults to Trust AI","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVoice-activated, conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agents must provide clear explanations for their suggestions, or older adults aren\u2019t likely to trust them.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s one of the main findings from a study by AI Caring on what older adults expect from explainable AI (XAI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ai-caring.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAI Caring\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is one of three AI Institutions led by Georgia Tech and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The institution supports AI research that benefits older adults and their caregivers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENiharika Mathur, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Interactive Computing, was the lead author of a paper based on the study. The paper will be presented in April at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chi2026.acm.org\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Barcelona\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMathur worked with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/empowerment.emory.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECognitive Empowerment Program at Emory University\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to interview 23 older adults who live alone and use voice-activated AI assistants like Amazon\u2019s Alexa and Google Home.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of them told her they feel excluded from the design of these products.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe assumption is that all people want interactions the same way and across all kinds of situations, but that isn\u2019t true,\u201d Mathur said. \u201cHow older people use AI and what they want from it are different from what younger people prefer.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne example she gave is that young people tend to be informal when talking with AI. Older people, on the other hand, talk to the agent like they would a person.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIf Older adults are talking to their family members about Alexa, they usually refer to Alexa as \u2018she\u2019 instead of \u2018it,\u2019\u201d Mathur said. \u201cThey tend to humanize these systems a lot more than young people.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGood Explanations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe study evaluated AI explanations that drew information from four sources of data:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUser history (past conversations with the agent)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEnvironmental data (indoor temperature or the weather forecast)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EActivity data (how much time a user spends in different areas of the home)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EInternal reasoning (mathematical probabilities and likely outcomes)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMathur said older users trust the agent more when it bases its explanations on data from the first three sources. However, internal reasoning creates skepticism.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EInternal reasoning means the AI doesn\u2019t have enough data from the other sources to give an explanation. It provides a percentage to reflect its confidence based on what it knows.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe overwhelming response was negative toward confidence scores,\u201d Mathur said. \u201cIf the AI says it\u2019s 92% confident, older adults want to know what that\u2019s based on.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is another example that Mathur said points to generational preferences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of explainable AI research that shows younger people like to see numbers in explanations, and they also tend to rely too much on explanations that contain numerical confidence. Older adults are the opposite. It makes them trust it less.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKnowing the Context\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMathur said that AI agents interacting with older adults should serve a dual purpose. They should provide users with companionship and support independence while reducing the caretaking burden often placed on family members.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome studies have shown that engineers have tended to favor caretakers in the design of these tools. They prioritize daily tasks and routines, leaving some older adults to feel like they are merely a box to be checked.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe discovered that in urgent situations, older users prefer the AI to be straightforward, while in casual settings, they desire more conversation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cHow people interact with technological systems is grounded in what the stakes of the situation are,\u201d she said. \u201cIf it had anything to do with their immediate sense of safety, they did not want conversational elaboration. They want the AI to be very direct and factual.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENot Just Checking Boxes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMathur said AI agents that interact with older adults are ideally constructed with a dual purpose. They should provide companionship and autonomy for the users while alleviating the burden of caretaking that is often placed on their family members.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESome studies have shown that engineers have strayed toward favoring caretakers in the design of these tools. They prioritize daily tasks and routines, leaving some older adults to feel like they are a box to be checked.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re not being thought of as consumers,\u201d Mathur said. \u201cA lot of products are being made for them but not with them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe also said psychological well-being is one of the most important outcomes these tools should produce.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShowing older adults that they are listened to can significantly help in gaining their trust. Some interviewees told Mathur they want agents who are deliberate about understanding their preferences and don\u2019t dismiss their questions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeeting these needs reduces the likelihood of protesting and creating conflict with family members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt highlights just how important well-designed explanations are,\u201d she said. \u201cWe must go beyond a transparency checklist.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn AI Caring study led by Georgia Tech researchers shows that older adults are more likely to trust conversational AI systems that provide them with clear explanations for their decision-making. The study also shows that including older adults more in the design process benefits their well-being and reduces the caretaking burden of family members\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Georgia Tech study finds older adults are more likely to trust voice-activated AI systems when those systems clearly explain how and why they make decisions."}],"uid":"36530","created_gmt":"2026-03-31 14:01:07","changed_gmt":"2026-04-27 14:31:27","author":"Nathan Deen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2026-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2026-03-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679796":{"id":"679796","type":"image","title":"0A6A0355.jpg","body":null,"created":"1774965687","gmt_created":"2026-03-31 14:01:27","changed":"1774965687","gmt_changed":"2026-03-31 14:01:27","alt":"An older couple sitting on a couch as a man helps them use Amazon\u0027s Alexa","file":{"fid":"263999","name":"0A6A0355.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/31\/0A6A0355.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/31\/0A6A0355.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":171883,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/03\/31\/0A6A0355.jpg?itok=t62aVqXD"}}},"media_ids":["679796"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"194606","name":"Artificial Intelligence"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"9153","name":"Research Horizons"},{"id":"193860","name":"Artifical Intelligence"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"14342","name":"older adults"},{"id":"148721","name":"Amazon Alexa"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ndeen6@gatech.edu\u0022\u003ENathan Deen\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003ECollege of Computing\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"689428":{"#nid":"689428","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Researchers Build AI Tutor Grounded in Course Materials","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs students increasingly turn to artificial intelligence (AI) to help with coursework, some worry that their learning could be compromised. Georgia Tech researchers are working to counter this potential decline with an AI tool they hope will promote learning rather than hinder it.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETokenSmith is a citation-supported large language model (LLM) tutor that can be hosted locally on a user\u2019s personal computer. The tutor only provides answers based on course materials, such as the textbook or lecture slides.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarulraj\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E began the project with support from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/c21u-announces-inaugural-bill-kent-ai-higher-education-fellows\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBill Kent Family Foundation AI in Higher Education Faculty Fellowship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E last year. The fellowship, led by Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for 21st Century Universities, supports faculty projects exploring innovative and ethical uses of AI in teaching.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArulraj has enlisted assistant professors \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/kexinrong.github.io\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKexin Rong\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/steve.mussmann.us\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESteve Mussmann\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to help build TokenSmith.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMussmann said TokenSmith is a synergistic blend of a database system and a machine learning system. The model stores textbooks, textbook annotations by course staff, common questions and answers, a learning state of the student, and student feedback in a structured database system. However, machine learning plays a key role in the answer generation as well as adapting the system to the student, course staff guidance, and user feedback.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What excites me most is demonstrating how data-driven ML and principled database systems design can reinforce each other \u2014 one providing adaptability and flexibility, the other providing structure and traceability \u2014 in a way that benefits students,\u0022 Mussmann said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeeping the model local has been an important focus of the project. The team wanted to create an AI tutor that helps students learn from their class resources rather than just giving answers. With each response, TokenSmith cites the origin of the answer in the provided documents.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOne problem with LLMs is that they can hallucinate and provide wrong answers, but in this controlled environment, we can add these guardrails to make sure it\u2019s actually helpful in an educational setting,\u201d Rong said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERong said she feels that students often undervalue textbooks, and she hopes TokenSmith can motivate students to make better use of them.\u202f\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cTextbooks can sometimes be daunting, but maybe if we combine them with the model, students might be more willing to read a paragraph or page in the textbook, and that could help clarify something for them,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERunning the model locally is more cost-effective and helps preserve the user\u2019s privacy. But running the new tool locally comes with technical challenges.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne challenge with creating the model is speed. Since it is a locally based model, TokenSmith depends solely on the user\u2019s computer memory. \u0026nbsp;Tests have also shown that the tutor currently struggles to answer more complex questions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are interested in pushing the boundaries of these local models so that they give students good answers and also run fast enough to keep students engaged,\u201d Arulraj said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETokenSmith is a citation-supported large language model (LLM) tutor that can be hosted locally on a user\u2019s personal computer. The tutor only provides answers based on course materials, such as the textbook or lecture slides.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/faculty.cc.gatech.edu\/~jarulraj\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoy Arulraj\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E began the project with support from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/c21u-announces-inaugural-bill-kent-ai-higher-education-fellows\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBill Kent Family Foundation AI in Higher Education Faculty Fellowship\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E last year. The fellowship, led by Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for 21st Century Universities, supports faculty projects exploring innovative and ethical uses of AI in teaching.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"TokenSmith is a citation-supported large language model (LLM) tutor that can be hosted locally on a user\u2019s personal computer. 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What you put in shapes what comes out, and that understanding helps people engage with AI more carefully and critically.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA transformer is a neural network architecture that changes data input sequence into an output. Text, audio, and images are forms of processed data, which is why transformers are common in generative AI models. They do this by learning context and tracking mathematical relationships between sequence components.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETransformer Explainer demystifies how transformers work. The platform uses visualization and interaction to show, step by step, how text flows through a model and produces predictions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing this approach, Transformer Explainer impacts the AI landscape in four main ways:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt counters hype and misconceptions surrounding AI by showing how transformers work.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt improves AI literacy among users by removing technical barriers and lowering the entry for learning about AI.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt expands AI education by helping instructors teach AI mechanisms without extensive setup or computing resources.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIt influences future development of AI tools and educational techniques by providing a blueprint for interpretable AI systems.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen I first learned about transformers, I felt overwhelmed. A transformer model has many parts, each with its own complex math. Existing resources typically present all this information at once, making it difficult to see how everything fits together,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gracekimcy.github.io\/\u0022\u003EGrace Kim\u003C\/a\u003E, a dual B.S.\/M.S. computer science student.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBy leveraging interactive visualization, we use levels of abstraction to first show the big picture of the entire model. Then users click into individual parts to reveal the underlying details and math. This way, Transformer Explainer makes learning far less intimidating.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany users don\u2019t know what transformers are or how they work. The Georgia Tech team found that people often misunderstand AI. Some label AI with human-like characteristics, such as creativity. Others even describe it as working like magic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFurthermore, barriers make it hard for students interested in transformers to start learning. Tutorials tend to be too technical and overwhelm beginners with math and code. While visualization tools exist, these often target more advanced AI experts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETransformer Explainer overcomes these obstacles through its interactive, user-focused platform. It runs a familiar GPT model directly in any web browser, requiring no installation or special hardware.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsers can enter their own text and watch the model predict the next word in real time. Sankey-style diagrams show how information moves through embeddings, attention heads, and transformer blocks.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe platform also lets users switch between high-level concepts and detailed math. By adjusting temperature settings, users can see how randomness affects predictions. This reveals how probabilities drive AI outputs, rather than creativity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMillions of people around the world interact with transformer-driven AI. We believe that it is crucial to bridge the gap between day-to-day user experience and the models\u0027 technical reality, ensuring these tools are not misinterpreted as human-like or seen as sentient,\u201d said Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.alexkarpekov.com\/\u0022\u003EAlex Karpekov\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cExplaining the architecture helps users recognize that language generated by models is a product of computation, leading to a more grounded engagement with the technology.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECho, Karpekov, and Kim led the development of Transformer Explainer. Ph.D. students\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alechelbling.com\/\u0022\u003EAlec Helbling\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/seongmin.xyz\/\u0022\u003ESeongmin Lee\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bhoov.com\/\u0022\u003EBen Hoover\u003C\/a\u003E, and alumni\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zijie.wang\/\u0022\u003EZijie (Jay) Wang\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. ML-CSE 2024) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/minsuk.com\/\u0022\u003EMinsuk Kahng\u003C\/a\u003E (Ph.D. CS-CSE 2019) assisted on the project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/polochau\/\u0022\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/a\u003E supervised the group and their work. His lab focuses on data science, human-centered AI, and visualization for social good.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcceptance at CHI 2026 stems from the team winning the best poster award at the 2024 IEEE Visualization Conference. 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Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENaveena Karusala, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing, and master\u2019s student Umme Ammara are working toward improving existing technologies and designing new ones for a demographic they believe has been neglected.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKarusala and Ammara co-authored a paper based on a study they conducted with women in urban Pakistan experiencing menopause.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWomen\u2019s health is understudied in general, but menopause is more neglected than other women\u2019s health issues,\u201d Karusala said. \u201cOur choice to focus on menopause is motivated by expanding how we holistically think about women\u2019s well-being across their lifespan.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKarusala and Ammara will present their paper in April at the 2026 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Barcelona.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMasking 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The transition to menopause, called perimenopause, usually happens over two to eight years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHormone changes may cause symptoms such as irregular periods, vaginal dryness, hot flashes, night sweats, trouble sleeping, mood swings, and brain fog.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese symptoms can be debilitating in some cases and affect daily life. However, Ammara said women are pressured to remain silent, maintain appearances, and regulate their emotions to meet social expectations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnderstanding menopause is important because a woman would be experiencing all these symptoms, and people will not understand those as actual symptoms,\u201d Ammara said. \u201cThere\u2019s been resistance to the idea of the medicalization of menopause. People don\u2019t view it as an illness, but as a life transition and something that happens naturally.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFeeling Isolated\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe women interviewed by Karusala and Ammara either stayed at home full-time or were part of the workforce.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe researchers discovered that trusted family members might be the only sources women who stay at home and do not work turn to for disclosure.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWomen at home have the flexibility to take breaks or work at their own pace, so a lot of their experience is shaped by the emotional barriers they face,\u201d Ammara said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThat could come from their husbands and family members. Some are supportive and some are not. They might weaponize it and use that term against them, or they might dismiss what they\u2019re going through.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmmara said it might be easier for women in the workforce to confide in their coworkers, but explaining to an employer that they need sick leave for menopause symptoms can be intimidating.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven in online communities that have enabled women to anonymously share their health experiences, menopause is seldom discussed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERaising Awareness\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKarusala and Ammara argue in their paper that a public health approach could be the most effective way to spark conversation about menopause in a patriarchal culture in which technology use varies.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey said the challenge in implementing technologies geared toward menopause support is that the condition isn\u2019t well understood in public. Improving maternal health, for example, is easier to promote within these societies because of the general understanding that motherhood is important.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThere must be an existing infrastructure to build on,\u201d Karusala said. \u201cFor example, menstrual and maternal health are taught in schools and regularly discussed in primary care. Cultural and social meaning and importance are placed on motherhood.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA lot of that doesn\u2019t exist for menopause. Primary care doctors are unprepared to talk about menopause compared to other health issues.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDesign Solutions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmmara said that the most effective way for technologies to make an impact on women going through menopause is to directly address systemic power structures around women\u2019s health within Pakistani culture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt can start with the husbands.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFraming the issue for husbands to understand menopause should be at the forefront of designing technology solutions,\u201d she said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn Islamic contexts, we suggest using faith-based framings. This has been proposed for maternal health in prior works that draw on Islamic principles to engage expectant fathers in providing care and support. 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Mastali designed an audio enrichment wall to help stimulate Zoo Atlanta\u2019s elephants.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany zoos build concrete enrichment walls to foster elephant problem-solving and critical thinking. The walls usually have holes for the elephants to reach through with their trunks as they search for food, treats, or playful objects on the other side.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali enhanced Zoo Atlanta\u2019s enrichment wall by adding an interactive audio component. A nearby speaker system emits distinctive low-frequency tones when an elephant sticks its trunk into a hole.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey\u2019re intelligent creatures that require a lot of complexity in their habitat,\u201d Mastali said. \u201cWe wanted to add to that complexity while giving them more control.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EExperimenting in the Wild\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali\u2019s system uses cameras and computer vision to detect when an elephant\u2019s trunk is inside a hole and then sends a signal to the speakers to play a sound.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali is a member of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/animalab.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Animal Lab\u003C\/a\u003E, directed by School of IC professor\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/melody-jackson\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMelody Jackson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. The lab often uses sensing technology to enhance animal wellness.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali said she tried incorporating sensing devices into her project several times. She constructed an insert made of PVC pipe and attached a sensor to its base that used infrared beams to detect the elephant\u2019s trunk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHowever, she said it was difficult to account for the elephants\u2019 strength. Their trunks would break the insert after a day or two.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe pivoted toward computer vision to remove the risk of damage and keep the enrichment wall as close to natural as possible.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA big lesson we learned was that using existing materials the elephants are already familiar with was the best way to do things, and it simplified our design process,\u201d she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShane Rosse\u003C\/strong\u003E, a student in Georgia Tech\u2019s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/omscs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EOnline Master of Science in Computer Science\u003C\/a\u003E (OMSCS) program, assisted Mastali with the computer vision component.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEnhancing Environmental Enrichment\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMastali observed the elephants\u2019 behavior at the wall seven days before and seven days after the installation of the audio enrichment system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe number of times the elephants approached the wall after installation increased by 176%, and time spent at the wall increased by 71%\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe weren\u2019t sure at first if they would care that much, so it was great to see how much time they spent at the wall, especially our less dominant females,\u201d said Kirby Miller, senior elephant caretaker at Zoo Atlanta. \u201cThey seem to like it the most.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller said the elephants used to only approach the wall when they knew there was food behind it. That started to change after the audio enrichment system was installed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe would be off somewhere else, and we\u2019d hear the speaker playing the sounds, and we knew there wasn\u2019t any food back there,\u201d Miller said. \u201cTara had her trunk in one of the holes, just listening to the sound. That let us know they do like it, and they\u2019re very curious about it.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller said because elephants have sharp memories and acute senses of hearing and smell, their habitats must be designed with that in mind.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZoo Atlanta\u2019s African Savanna elephant habitat was redesigned in 2019. In addition to the enrichment wall, it includes a bathing pond, two waterfalls, and swing boom devices that hold hay for elephants to eat as they would in the wild.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMiller said elephants sheltered at any zoo or conservation would benefit from enrichment devices enhanced by technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI think anything they can participate in that gives them choice and control is great for all zoo elephants,\u201d she said. \u201cIt depends on the elephants, but with our elephants, they can hear much higher frequencies than we can. That noise isn\u2019t that loud for us, but for them, they\u2019re feeling that noise, and they can hear much more, which makes it more stimulating for them.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Ph.D. student Arianna Mastali designed an interactive audio enrichment wall for Zoo Atlanta\u0027s four African elephants. 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The habitat includes an elephant enrichment wall that has numerous holes for elephants to stick their trunks into as they search for food on the other side.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe elephant enrichment wall at Zoo Atlanta recently received an upgrade thanks to a Georgia Tech Ph.D. student. Arianna Mastali designed an audio enrichment system that uses computer vision to detect when an elephant sticks its trunk into the enrichment wall as it searches for food. The system then sends a signal to play a unique tone from a nearby speaker that corresponds to each hole. 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The program, The Future of Data Centers: Shaping the Social and Policy Landscape of Our AI Infrastructure, was held at the Alumni House and co-sponsored by the Institute for People and Technology and the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia has become the world\u2019s second-largest data center market, a shift that has brought economic opportunity as well as concerns about water use, energy demand, land development, and impacts on host communities. One recurring theme throughout the event was the tendency for environmental and resource issues to overshadow other important policy questions about community impact, transparency, and long-term governan\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIntroductory remarks were made by Beril Toktay, executive director of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, and Michael Best, executive director of the \u0026nbsp;Institute for People and Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVerghese Jacob, senior vice president of technology at the DayOne corporation, delivered the keynote address. Jacob discussed how DayOne works with governments in Asia to plan data centers and said early policy development and consistent communication can help communities better understand the impact and manage growth for long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships between governments and communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event also included a BBISS Connect Workshop, led by Kristin Janacek, a senior extension professional with BBISS. The workshop built on BBISS\u2019s Sustainability for Data Centers Insights Series and asked participants to contribute to a collaborative \u201cblue paper\u201d intended to guide future research partnerships and responses to funding opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETwo panel discussions explored the social and political dimensions of data center development. The first, moderated by Cindy Lin, an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing, focused on international perspectives. Panelists included Celine Benoit of the Atlanta Regional Commission, Matthew Wesley Williams of Groundswell, Kahlil Bostick of Ryan Companies, and Ding Wang of Google Research. They discussed global examples of community-centered planning and the need for transparency in negotiations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA second panel, moderated by Allen Hyde, an associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, examined collaboration between communities and government agencies. Panelists were Georgia Public Service Commissioner Peter Hubbard; Donnie Beamer, senior technology advisor for the City of Atlanta; \u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E reporter Zachary Hansen; and Michael Czajkowski, director of advocacy for Science for Georgia. The group highlighted the importance of proactive regulation and clear communication with residents as data center development accelerates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpeakers throughout the day emphasized that Atlanta\u2019s continued growth in the data center sector will require coordinated planning and meaningful engagement with affected communities. The event closed with a call for all stakeholders to be proactive about creating policies that balance the technological and economic promise of the data center building boom with environmental and community concerns.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech hosted an event on April 21 examining the rapid expansion of data centers and the social and policy issues emerging alongside the growth of AI infrastructure.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech hosted an event on April 21 examining the rapid expansion of data centers and the social and policy issues emerging alongside the growth of AI infrastructure. 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The teams span 21 units from six of Georgia Tech\u2019s seven Colleges, including Schools, research centers, and Interdisciplinary Research Institutes, as well as organizations external to Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe seed grant program, administered by the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS), reaches faculty members from a diverse array of disciplines due to the generous support provided by broad-based partnerships in addition to the funds provided by the Sustainability Next committee. This year\u2019s partners are\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/design.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe\u0026nbsp;College of Design\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sustainablesystems.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBBISS,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/renewablebioproducts.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ethe\u0026nbsp;Renewable Bioproducts Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/data\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of the program is to nurture promising research areas for future large-scale collaborative sustainability research, research translation, and\/or high-impact outreach; to provide mid-career faculty with leadership and community-building opportunities; and to broaden and strengthen the Georgia Tech sustainability community as a whole. The call for proposals was modeled after the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research\u2019s\u0026nbsp;Moving Teams Forward and Forming Teams programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u2019s seed grant awards align with the four main thematic areas in which BBISS aims to enhance Georgia Tech\u2019s research to address some of our most pressing sustainability challenges:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAI and Sustainability, and the Sustainability of AI Infrastructure.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClimate Science, Technology, and Solutions.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHealthy Environments and Sustainable Resource Use.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EResilience and Regeneration.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe 2026 Sustainability Next Seed Grant awards are:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EForming Teams:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EActualize Shallow Geothermal Systems for Decentralized Heating.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EPrincipal Investigator (PI):\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/directory\/person\/sheng-c-dai\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESheng Dai\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBuilding Community University Research Capacity for PFAS Testing and Treatment. 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Jain, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Sof\u00eda P\u00e9rez Guzm\u00e1n, Caitlin Petro, Gregory Randolph, Rosemarie Santa Gonzalez, Ali Sarhadi, Richmond Wong, and Ruth C. Yow.\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1777913877","gmt_created":"2026-05-04 16:57:57","changed":"1777916844","gmt_changed":"2026-05-04 17:47:24","alt":"Collage of multiple individual portrait photos arranged in a grid, showing people photographed from the shoulders up in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings. Backgrounds include office spaces, greenery, campus walkways, and neutral studio backdrops, with individuals wearing professional or business\u2011casual clothing. 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