The Quality of Life Technology Center has published The Quality of Life Technology Handbook, a comprehensive resource on the process of developing, testing, and commercializing advanced technologies that improve daily living for older persons, persons with disability, and ultimately everyone.

Now available from CRC Press, it is the first available textbook on QoLT. The book describes the QoLT Center's key findings, from its interdisciplinary team approach to the process of technology development, and charts the future directions of quality-of-life technologies. The work also provides direction on how to identify user needs and preferences, engage end-users in the design and development process, and evaluate and commercialize the technologies.

Contributors include QoLT Center Director Daniel P. Siewiorek and Anind Dey of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute; Takeo Kanade, Martial Hebert, Reid Simmons and Siddhartha Srinivasa of the Robotics Institute; Asim Smailagic of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems and James F. Jordan of the Heinz College. The book is edited by Richard Schulz, associate director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Pittsburgh and the QoLT Center's Person and Society Thrust leader.

Browse the table of contents or purchase the book from the publisher: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466505346

The Quality of Life Technology Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center operated jointly by Carnegie Mellon and Pitt.