Industry and Consumer Newsletter

This August, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced requirements and compliance deadlines that impact communications and technology accesses for people with hearing loss.  The first was the order requiring closed captioning of internet video clips [MB Docket No. 11-154] which establishes an effective date of September 4, 2014. They also adopted rules that complement previous commitments made by wireless carriers to support text-to-911 by May 2014.

The Re:Wireless Industry and Consumer Newsletter is usually distributed on a quarterly basis, but sometimes waiting three months in between issues is just too long. Such is the case now where I'm able to share two new SUNspots and a Research Brief for your reading pleasure. I couldn't just sit on these golden nuggets for another month or two. Share and share alike, I say.

During Fall semester 2012, students at the School of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech spent 15 weeks at the Wesley Woods retirement community learning from older adults.  The “studio” class, headed by Assistant Professor Dr. Claudia B. Rebola, focused on the full cycle of designing products from problem definition to design iteration and prototype deliverables.