{"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. The award is the most prestigious the NSF offers to early-career faculty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u201cWhen people age, they deserve to age with dignity and not just be locked away,\u201d said Gombolay, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Interactive Computing. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have enough resources or access to home nurses or adult children who have extra time to take care of you, what\u2019s going to happen?\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGombolay will receive nearly $600,000 to collect the largest data set of its kind on how older adults interact and communicate with assistive robots. 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":""}}}