{"191461":{"#nid":"191461","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DATHA Lecture: Leanne West","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Design and Technologies for Healthy Aging would like to invite you\u0026nbsp;to our second meeting of Spring 2013. Leanne West, Senior Research Scientist in the Georgia Tech Research Institute, will discuss the state of Assistive Technology device development and investigation of technology usability issues for people with sensory impairments. This includes understanding of key components such as wireless technologies and headmounted displays, remote sensing, early detection of health issues, etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe meeting will be held at Room 207 in the Health Systems Institute\u0026nbsp;(HSI) Building, located at 828 West Peachtree Street, NW 2nd Floor\u0026nbsp;Atlanta, GA 30332. Metered parking is available at the address.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMs. West has participated in several optical system design, development, and evaluation projects in her career. She is author of a book chapter in Technology for Aging, Disability and Independence: Computer and Engineering for Design and Applications, to be published by John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons and has written a number of papers and given several presentations on assistive technology device development and remote sensing. She has licensed her invention of a wireless personal captioning system to industry for commercialization. Ms. West was recognized for her work when she was named one of Georgia\u0027s \u002240 Under 40\u0022 by Georgia Trend magazine in 2004, a listing of the 40 \u0022Best and Brightest\u0022 influential Georgians in the business and political communities under 40 years old. Ms. West is an active participant at her organization, being an elected GTRI representative to the Georgia Tech Executive Board. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Design and Technologies for Healthy Aging would like to invite you\u0026nbsp;to our second meeting of Spring 2013. Leanne West, Senior Research Scientist in the Georgia Tech Research Institute, will discuss the state of Assistive Technology device development and investigation of technology usability issues for people with sensory impairments.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Assistive Technology Device Development"}],"uid":"27207","created_gmt":"2013-02-12 12:37:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:02:33","author":"Claudia Rebola","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-03-27T10:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-03-27T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-03-27T11:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-03-27 14:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-03-27 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-03-27 15:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"193011":{"id":"193011","type":"image","title":"DATHA Logo","body":null,"created":"1449179879","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:57:59","changed":"1475894843","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:47:23","alt":"DATHA Logo","file":{"fid":"196337","name":"dathalogo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dathalogo_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dathalogo_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":35383,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dathalogo_0.png?itok=Z3fLyPpa"}}},"media_ids":["193011"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1225","name":"School of Industrial Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13973","name":"design technologies health aging"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EClaudia B. Rebola\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:crw@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecrw@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}