Fourth International Conference on Aging Disability and Independence (ICADI)

MANN/0756484该奖项是对2008年国际老龄、残疾和独立会议(ICADI)的部分支持。特别是，会议上为其中三个赛道提供了支持：辅助技术、智能家居和机器人。会议的学术价值来自于通过八个会议轨道支持人们在年龄增长时保持社区融合和独立生活的多学科方法：(1)交通；(2)宜居家庭和社区；(3)伤害预防；(4)机器人；(5)智能家居；(6)远程保健；(7)辅助技术；(8)工作和老龄化。在八个轨道中的每一个中，介绍和海报将反映以下一项或多项：(1)研究和开发、(2)政策、(3)实践和服务、(4)商业观点和(5)消费者观点。ICADI的更广泛影响一直是并将继续是综合和翻译关于残疾和老龄化的知识，以及保持独立性和生活质量的方法，同时促进合作，以支持这一领域的未来研究。ICADI包括邀请和提交的演示文稿、海报会议以及与来自世界各地的专家建立联系的机会。与以前的ICADI一样，ICADI-2008将为包括NSF生活质量技术ERC的调查人员提供展示他们的研究和开发工作的机会。在能力建设方面，残疾人国际中心将通过包括20名奖学金在内的研究生及其导师的参与，增加在残疾和工程以及与康复相关领域的跨学科和高级研究培训的机会。通过奖学金，ICADI为研究生提供了展示其研究成果的机会，也为残疾人提供了展示其观点和学习更多有关支持独立的技术的机会。

MANN/0756484This award is for partial support of the 2008 International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI). In particular, support is provided for three of the track at the conference: Assistive Technology, Smart Homes, and Robotics. The intellectual merit of the conference arises from the multi-disciplinary approaches to supporting people as they age to maintain community integration and independent living through eight conference tracks: (1) Transportation; (2) Livable Homes and Communities; (3) Injury Prevention; (4) Robotics; (5 ) Smart Homes; (6) Telehealth; (7) Assistive Technology; (8) Work and Aging. Within each of the eight tracks, presentations and posters will reflect one or more of the following: (1) research and development, (2) policy, (3) practice and services, (4) business perspectives and (5) consumer perspectives.The broader impacts of ICADI have been and continue to be synthesizing and translating knowledge about disability and aging, and approaches to maintaining independence and quality of life, while fostering collaborations to support future research in this area. ICADI includes a mix of invited and submitted presentations, poster sessions, and networking opportunities with experts from around the world. ICADI-2008, as with previous ICADIs, will provide investigators, including those from the NSF Quality of Life Technogy ERC, the opportunity to present their research and development work. At the capacity-building level, ICADI will enhance opportunities for cross-disciplinary and advanced research training in disability and engineering, and rehabilitation-related fields through participation of graduate students, including 20 scholarships, and their mentors. ICADI, through scholarships, provides opportunities for graduate students to present their research, and opportunities for people with disabilities to both present their perspectives and learn more regarding technologies to support independence.