Oregon Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：俄勒冈州罗伊巴尔老龄化和技术中心（ORCATECH）致力于：1）支持一个独特的基础设施，促进开发和翻译过程中的基本社会，行为和生物知识的老化独立使用最先进的技术和工程; 2）推进以使用为灵感的ORCATECH生活实验室模型，用于基于技术的健康监测和支持独立老化，利用个人住宅和社区，利用无处不在的计算技术，并包括以服务不足的人口为重点的新选区; 3）通过创新的公私伙伴关系，加快开发、转化和传播在活实验室中获得的知识的进程，跨学科合作和招聘新人才进入该领域。该中心将通过一系列机制促进和刺激转化创新，包括由学术界、社区和行业领导人组成的多学科、多机构理事会，建立新的国家和国际研究合作，建立一个由退休行业工程师和健康提供者组成的网络，以进行参与式设计开发（试点6-2，伦理学项目）和实习计划的学术实习生是居民在行业研究小组。该中心提出了一个生活实验室模型，包括一个住宅网络，包括农村居民，居住在第8区的居民，低收入住房（试点7-2），以及一个独特的高级社区，该社区前瞻性地设计用于使用尖端技术对活动进行不显眼的监测（试点6-1; 7-1）。试点赠款计划提供了一个进一步的机制，以产生所需的新知识，招募新的研究人员进入该领域，并使未来，更明确的研究进行。最初的试点将解决广泛的关键主题，包括确定一个退休工程师的队列，以评估从技术先进的老年人的独特角度与健康相关的技术使用态度，使用家庭技术来检测社会互动和参与的动态变化在老年人的住所和理解和使服务不足的人口使用基于家庭的技术独立生活。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Oregon Roybal Center for Aging and Technology (ORCATECH) is dedicated to: 1) Supporting a unique infrastructure that facilitates the process of developing and translating basic social, behavioral and biological knowledge about aging independently using state of the art technology and engineering; 2) Advancing the use-inspired ORCATECH Living Laboratory model for technology-based health monitoring and support of independent aging, utilizing individual residences and communities with advances in ubiquitous computing and including new constituencies focusing on underserved populations; 3) Accelerating the process of development, translation and dissemination of knowledge gained in the living laboratory through innovative public-private partnerships, cross-disciplinary collaborations and recruitment of new talent into the field. The Center will foster and stimulate translational innovation though a number of mechanisms including its multidisciplinary, multi-institutional Council composed of academic, community and industry leaders, building new national and international research collaborations, establishing a network of retired industry based engineers and health providers for participatory design development (pilot 6-2, ETHICS project) and an internship program for academic trainees to be resident in industry research groups. The Center advances a Living Laboratory model consisting of a network of residences including rural residents, residents living in Section 8, low-income housing (pilot 7-2), and a unique senior community prospectively designed for unobtrusive monitoring of activity with leading-edge technology (pilot 6-1; 7-1). A pilot grant program provides a further mechanism for generating needed new knowledge, recruiting new investigators into the field and enabling future, more definitive studies to be conducted. Initial pilots will address a breadth of key topics including identifying a retired engineer's cohort to assess health-related technology use attitudes from the unique perspective of technically sophisticated seniors, using in-home technologies to detect dynamic changes in social interactions and engagement during changes of senior's residences and understanding and enabling an underserved population's use of home-based technology for independent living.