ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY News Release

August 23, 2006

Intel Corporation Becomes Newest InnovationSpace Sponsor

Tempe, Ariz.--How can new sensor-based devices, wireless networks and other emerging

technologies help elders maintain independent, healthy and productive lifestyles

in their own homes? That’s the challenge Intel Corporation is extending to

students in this year’s InnovationSpace program.

“As these new technologies become pervasive and embedded in a whole range of

devices,” says InnovationSpace project leader Prasad Boradkar, “our environments

become ‘smart’ and capable of communicating without our direct intervention.

This creates revolutionary opportunities to rethink the ways in which domestic

environments can better support the changing needs of older residents.”

An entrepreneurial joint venture among the W.P. Carey School of Business, Ira A.

Fulton School of Engineering and College of Design, InnovationSpace is a

transdisciplinary research and educational laboratory at ASU that brings

together students from design, business and engineering to create products that

create value for business while also contributing to a socially responsible and

environmentally sustainable future.

Three of this year’s student teams will consult with engineers from Intel’s

Digital Health Group to explore such technologies as activity detection,

adaptive and distributed interfaces, as well as wireless sensor networks. Their

goal is to create product concepts that help older consumers become more

proactive in managing their health and wellness needs at home. The students also

will conduct observational field research and interviews to better understand

how these new and emerging technologies can help elders better navigate the

obstacles they encounter in their kitchen, bathroom and living environments. 

Intel joins two other InnovationSpace partners for the 2006-07 academic year.

Herman Miller Inc., a global leader in the design of sustainable furniture and

systems for workplaces and homes, will sponsor three teams of students to

develop design solutions that improve the lives of patients and healthcare

workers in acute care environments and ambulatory care environments.

Also partnering with this year’s program is ASU’s Center for Nanotechnology in

Society, which conducts research on the societal implications of

nanotechnologies. Under the guidance of center researchers, three

InnovationSpace teams will create socially responsible innovations using the

positive potential of nanoscale science and engineering. They will focus on

innovative applications of nano-based science and technology that enhance the

freedom, privacy and security of citizens and communities.

This year’s partners join a list of past program sponsors that have included

ASU’s Flexible Display Center and Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing as

well as Procter & Gamble and Arizona Business Accelerator. Now in its third

year, the InnovationSpace program has worked with students to create projects

that improve the daily lives of Baby Boomers, increase the safety and efficiency

of emergency medical responders and expand access to printed materials for

people who are blind.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Heidi Fischer, Adelheid.Fischer@asu.edu

(480) 965-6367

InnovationSpace

College of Design

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona USA

www.innovationspace.org

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