People and Technology | Research News Center

Omar Asensio is Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School

April 22, 2024

Georgia Tech Microsoft CloudHub Partnership Explores Electric Vehicle Adoption

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Business and government sectors are embracing electric vehicles, but are U.S. drivers on the same road?

Cassidy Wang interacting with a physician who is testing Ethos' needle guidance system.

April 18, 2024

L[ux] Lab Hosts Medical Device Usability Study

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Ethos Medical recently made use of the College of Design’s L[ux] Lab to conduct a usability study of its needle guidance system prototype.

April 15, 2024

Safe and Secure Elections Require Interdisciplinary Collaboration

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As nearly half of the world’s voting population heads to the polls this year, technology’s impact on elections will be front and center.

April 12, 2024

Researcher to Advise WHO on Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new initiative to raise global awareness of loneliness and social isolation and to reduce their impact.

Michael Best with professor Andri Andriyana, director, International Relations Centre at the Universiti Malaya.

April 4, 2024

Convergence Innovation Competition Expanding to Asia

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The Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC), one of Georgia Tech’s oldest and most storied innovation competitions, is expanding to five Asian countries.

Georgia high school computer science teachers participating in the Georgia Tech Rural Computer Science Initiative

March 29, 2024

IPaT Hosts High School Computer Science Teachers

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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.

March 14, 2024

Video Illustrates Interactive Tech Created to Help Understand Dolphin Communication

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Computers and dolphins don’t typically occupy the same space. However, Georgia Tech researchers and marine biologists from the Wild Dolphin Project have been swimming with the two for more than a decade.

March 1, 2024

NSF Award to Launch Study of How Older Adults Interact With Robots

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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 — robots.

Pictured left-to-right: Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera, Daniel Nkemelu, and Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander.

February 23, 2024

Carter Center and Georgia Institute of Technology Commemorate New Joint Fellowship

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The Carter Center and Georgia Institute of Technology today commemorated the new joint Governance and Technology Fellowship.

February 13, 2024

Interactivity@GT Offers Networking Opportunities for MS-HCI/IPaT Students

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Through the Master’s Program in Human-Computer Interaction (MS-HCI) at Georgia Tech, students like Rajath Pai don’t have to wait long to gain first-hand industry experience.

February 12, 2024

Georgia Tech, University of Waterloo Forge Partnership to Advance AI Initiatives

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Georgia Tech and Waterloo collaborate to enhance academic and research partnerships, with a focus on areas such as AI, faculty exchanges, and joint research projects.

Tim Trent with 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus

January 30, 2024

Craft Lab Installs New Ultra-High-Definition 3D Printer

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The Craft Lab has a new industrial 3D printer, a 3D Systems Projet 2500 Plus.

January 22, 2024

New Robot Musician

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The robot medusai knows where you are. It must—because it plays music with you.

January 11, 2024

The Challenges of Regulating Artificial Intelligence

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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.

January 9, 2024

Researchers Earn $1.8M to Increase Air Pollution Data Literacy

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Atlanta residents will soon have easy access to air pollution data that enables them to make data-driven decisions that positively impact their local environment.

Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing professor

January 5, 2024

Atlanta Researchers Use Mellon Grant to Launch New AI Ethics Network

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Atlanta communities most vulnerable to bias and inequity in artificial intelligence (AI) are the focus of a new Atlanta-based ethics initiative being funded by a $1.3 million Mellon Foundation grant.

Winners of the EGHI/GT Hackathon stand together at Tech Square ATL Social

December 7, 2023

Team iManhole Wins Fall 2023 EGHI/GT Global Health Hackathon

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Students tackled climate change in the Fall 2023 Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) /Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) Global Health Hackathon, Nov. 11, at Tech Square ATL Social.

December 5, 2023

CEAR Hub Hosts International Seminar on Community Resilience

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The CEAR Hub recently partnered with the U.S. Forest Service to host a two-week international seminar on community resilience.

November 30, 2023

Convergence Innovation Competition Names Two Winners

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Both fadpad and NaloPack won this year’s Georgia Tech Convergence Innovation Competition (CIC) for fall 2023.

Foley Scholar MS Arianna Mastali (MS-HCI) demonstrates the use of the Craft Lab knitting machine.

November 15, 2023

Craft Lab Hosts Student Community-building Event

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Hannah Hendricks, a master’s 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’s (IPaT) Craft Lab resources.