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Consciously Improving NASA Missions and Operations

Most likely you’ve heard of virtual reality and augmented reality, but are you familiar with diminished reality? Diminished reality is probably one of the most unfamiliar forms of computer-aided reality, yet multiple uses of its application can be found all around you.

Michael Best Selected as New Executive Director of IPaT

Michael Best Selected as Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology has selected Michael L. Best as the new executive director of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) effective August 1, 2023. Best is a professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the School of Interactive Computing where he directs the Technologies and International Development Lab. He was director of research for the Georgia Tech – Shenzhen campus and founding director of the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society (UNU-CS) in the Macau special administrative region in the People’s Republic of China. He has also served as a fellow and faculty associate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

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Lifelong Health and Well-Being

Promoting and enabling vibrant and lifelong physical and mental health

Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation

Creating sustainable cities with research that thinks globally while acting locally

Shaping the Human-Technology Frontier

Shaping the human-technology frontier by augmenting human capabilities at every level

Platforms & Services for Socio-Technical Systems

Merging physical and digital worlds with complex data analytic and communication capabilities

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Smart Solutions on the Georgia Coast

The Smart Sea Level Sensors project is a partnership between Chatham Emergency Management Agency officials, City of Savannah officials, and Georgia Tech scientists and engineers who are working together to install a network of internet-enabled sea level sensors across Chatham County. The real-time data on coastal flooding will be used for emergency planning and response.

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CopyCat: Helping Young Deaf Children Acquire Language Skills Using Sign Language Recognition

CopyCat and PopSign are two games that help deaf children and their parents acquire language skills in American Sign Language. 95% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, and most of those parents never learn enough sign language to teach...

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Project Aether: A tool to support communication between brain tumor patients and healthcare providers

Project Aether focuses on bridging the knowledge gap brain tumor and peak anxiety brain tumor patients experience after their initial diagnosis. As a tablet application, it comprises a patient workspace for consolidating information relating to...

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IPaT Executive Director Finalists

Finalists for the position of executive director of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) will be delivering vision presentations during the week of March 27 and April 3. Dates of each talk and finalist bios are now posted.

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