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Georgia Tech's Center for Advanced Communications Policy and the Shepherd Center, a catastrophic care hospital in Atlanta, have been awarded a $4.75 million Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center grant on wireless technologies aimed at enhancing the lives of people with disabilities.
This second five-year grant, awarded from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research under the U.S. Department of Education, supports the continuation of the innovative wireless activities undertaken during the first five years of the Wireless RERC at Georgia Tech and Shepherd.
Areas of new technology development include emergency communications, location-based services, advanced auditory interfaces for handheld electronic devices and universal remote control systems that allow a cell phone to seamlessly operate other electronic devices and appliances.
The RERC team also will partner with wireless product manufacturers, mobile wireless service providers and consumer volunteers with disabilities to test and report on the usability of a variety of wireless devices. Results from this product testing will be used to create an online resource of wireless product reviews that highlight important usability features.
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