Fall 2021 – Storytelling Robots for Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers

by Erik Wirtanen | Feb 9, 2022 | Technical milestones

Fall 2021 – Storytelling Robots for Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers Project Director Troy McDaniel Our story-telling robots project originally aimed at assisting caregivers for Alzheimer’s sufferers has broadened to dealing with seniors’...

August 2021 – Storytelling Robots for Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers

by Erik Wirtanen | Feb 8, 2022 | Technical milestones

August 2021 – Storytelling Robots for Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers Project Director Troy McDaniel The newly-published book entitled Multimedia for Accessible Human Computer Interfaces, edited by Troy McDaniel and Xueliang Liu...

Summer 2021 – Passive Radiative Heat Pump Surfaces for Urban Cooling: From Laboratory to Field Testing

by Erik Wirtanen | Feb 7, 2022 | Technical milestones

Summer 2021 – Passive Radiative Heat Pump Surfaces for Urban Cooling: From Laboratory to Field Testing Project Director David Sailor       In this partnership with the City of Tempe and 3M, the Zimin-Institute-funded team installed 3M-supplied radiative cooling...

Spring 2021 – Treated Waste Plastics: Enhancing the Performance of Concrete

by Erik Wirtanen | Feb 6, 2022 | Technical milestones

Spring 2021 – Treated Waste Plastics: Enhancing the Performance of Concrete Project Director Christian Hoover    This Zimin Institute project focused on repurposing waste plastic generated within a city and subjecting to a treatment process to enable its use in...