Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technologies to Support Aging among People Long-Term with Disabilities (RERC TechSAge)
Leadership Team: Laura Rice & Wendy Rogers (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Jon Sanford (Georgia State University), Tracy Mitzner (Person in Design) and Elena Remillard (CIDI)
TechSAge is a collaborative grant center based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, and Person in Design. Founded in 2013, TechSAge features multidisciplinary research, development, and training projects that are dedicated to understanding the needs of, and developing supportive technologies for, people aging with long-term vision, hearing, and mobility disabilities.
The TechSAge projects at CIDI include:
Needs Assessment & Technology Use
To gain a better understanding of what technology supports are needed and how to effectively design them, researchers are continuing efforts to understand activity challenges in-depth among older adults with long-term vision, hearing, and mobility disabilities.
Telewellness Technologies
The TechSAge Tele Tai Chi program uses videoconferencing to deliver an evidence-based tai chi exercise program in a way that is both socially-engaging and accessible to people aging with mobility disabilities. In this next phase of our research, we are deploying and evaluating the program in community-based settings (e.g., senior centers, senior living communities).
Training
From webinars to workshops to hackathons, TechSAge training activities are designed to increase awareness about universal design, RERC’s work, and technology support needs for people aging with disability.
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