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| Quality
of Life Technology Summit Draws from Wide Cross-section of Fields |
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| The Quality of Life Technology
Center (QoLT), an Engineering Research Center funded by the NSF and headquartered
at between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh,
held the Quality of Life Technology Summit in the fall of 2007. Its
goals were to develop an outline for a QoLT market assessment document,
create needs and technology opportunity statements, and establish and foster
stronger relationships among QoLT developers and users. Joining as
co-organizers of the summit, which is intended to become an annual event,
were the Pennsylvania Association for Non-Profit Homes for the Aging, the
PA Homecare Association, the PA Health Care Association, and the Hiram
G. Andrews Center.
The summit brought together
for the first time more than 75 industry professionals, clinicians, and
government officials—including 17 technology provider companies and 21
support provider companies—to share information, concepts, and perspectives.
Honor attendees Deputy Secretary of Aging and Public Welfare Michael Hall
and Senator Rob Wonderling gave opening and keynote speeches addressing
policy reform related to assistive technologies.
All of the summit’s goals
were met, and the summary documents will be further developed in future
summits. The majority of the attendees agreed that they would attend
the summit again at their own expense and that distance traveled would
not be a deterrent.
As a result of the summit,
General Motors joined the Industry/Practitioner Advisory Board (IPAB) of
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| In addition to drawing
together many different elements of the QoLT community, the summit featured
a “New QoLT Concepts” student poster competition, open to all students
of Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pittsburgh, and high school participants
in the Center’s “Tech-Link” program. |
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