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.
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