Walter R. Boot, Ph.D., is the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor in Geriatrics II within the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, and Associate Director of the Center on Aging and Behavioral Research at Weill Cornell Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Cognitive Psychology in 2007. Dr. Boot is one of five principal investigators of the multi-disciplinary Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE), a long-standing and award-winning National Institute on Aging-funded center dedicated to ensuring that the benefits of technology can be realized by older adults. He is also Co-Director of the ENHANCE (Enhancing Neurocognitive Health, Abilities, Networks, & Community Engagement) Center, funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, with a focus on how technology can support older adults living with cognitive impairments. His research interests include how existing and emerging technologies, including virtual reality and artificial intelligence, can support the health, wellbeing, quality of life, and social connectivity of older people. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Gerontological Society of America.
Andrew Dilanchian, M.S., is a Psychology graduate student within the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience program at Florida State University. His research focuses on factors that contribute to successful immersive virtual reality (IVR) interactions across age groups. Additionally, he is interested in the potential of IVR to provide social and cognitive support, and cognitive health screening through gamified IVR-based cognitive tasks.
Saleh Kalantari, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in Cornell University’s Department of Human Centered Design. He is the director of the Design and Augmented Intelligence Lab (DAIL) at Cornell, where his research group explores human-technology partnerships in the design process, creating opportunities for innovation and creativity. His work advances empirically grounded design, developing tools and techniques to improve understanding of design »s impact—both virtual and built—on human behavior. Dr. Kalantari was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his research agenda. His translational research has also earned recognition, including a Touchstone Gold Medal Award from the Center for Health Design and a nomination for the National Design Award by Cooper Hewitt. His work is supported by the NIH, NSF, and the Foundation for Health Environment Research.
Sara J. Czaja, Ph.D., is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center on Aging and Behavioral Research at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is also the Director of the multi-site Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE), which focuses on the interface between older adults and technology systems. CREATE is funded by the National Institute on Aging. She is also the Co-Director of the ENHANCE (Enhancing Neurocognitive Health, Abilities, Networks, & Community Engagement) Center, funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), which focuses on technology support for older adults living with a cognitive impairment. She received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Buffalo in New York and is an internationally recognized behavioral scientist with a background in human factors engineering, gerontology, and psychology. She was recruited to Weill Cornell Medicine from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine where she was Director of the Center on Aging. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). Dr. Czaja is the recipient of the 2015 M. Powell Lawton Distinguished Contribution Award for Applied Gerontology of APA, the 2013 Social Impact Award for the Association of Computing Machinery, the 2013 Jack A. Kraft Award for Innovation from HFES, the Franklin V. Taylor Award of APA, and the 2020 M. Powell Lawton Award of GSA. In addition, CREATE was the recipient of the first American Psychological Association Prize for Interdisciplinary Team Research.
3 Ebooks par Walter R. Boot
Walter R. Boot & Neil Charness: Designing for Older Adults
Winner of the 2019 Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award 2019 – Gerontological Society of America This new edition provides easily accessible and usable guidelines for practitioners in …
EPUB
Anglais
DRM
€93.00
Walter R. Boot & Neil Charness: Designing for Older Adults
Winner of the 2019 Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Book Award 2019 – Gerontological Society of America This new edition provides easily accessible and usable guidelines for practitioners in …
PDF
Anglais
DRM
€92.43
Walter R. Boot & Andrew Dilanchian: Extended Reality Solutions to Support Older Adults
This book explores one way in which recent hardware and software advances have placed humanity on the precipice of a significant shift in how technology can shape our interactions with the world arou …
PDF
Anglais
€42.79