The population in this country is getting older, and yet, these aging individuals expect their homes to keep up with their changing needs. This so called “Aging in Place” is becoming more and more common. Researchers, like Computing Community Consortium (CCC) past chair Beth Mynatt, Regents’ Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech, are working to develop assistive technologies to help these individuals continue to enjoy their home and live well. Beth’s work is highlighted in the July 2019 National Geographic Magazine. Here is a snippet from the feature: “Like other computer scientists, Elizabeth Mynatt uses cutting-edge tech. What sets her apart is her holistic, […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Posts Tagged ‘Mynatt’
CCC Past Chair Beth Mynatt is featured in National Geographic for her work on health informatics and assistive technology!
June 26th, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightAffordable Technology to Mitigate Hearing Loss
March 24th, 2016 / in CCC, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightContributions to this post were made by Elizabeth Mynatt, CCC Vice Chair and Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology at Georgia Tech. Dr. Mynatt was a member of the President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) working group on aging and technology and led the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Aging in Place workshop. Recently, the New York Times published an article on A Push for Less Expensive Hearing Aids. The article highlighted the findings in a recent PCAST report on aging and technology. The report stated that almost two-thirds of Americans over the age of 70 have some kind of hearing loss, however many of them […]
Encounters with HCI pioneers: a personal photo journal
March 21st, 2016 / in Announcements, pipeline, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog post by Beth Mynatt, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice Chair and professor of Interactive Computing and the executive director of Georgia Tech‘s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT). The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Pioneers Project draws attention to HCI trail-blazers by describing their backgrounds and contributions. Ben Shneiderman, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, started the personal photo journal as a tribute to these individuals and as a celebration of their contributions to HCI. He hopes to make the pioneer’s projects more visible to a wider audience by featuring them on the website. Ben always had his camera with him at major conferences and […]
