Intel & Healthcare
Not two words you expect to see together, nonetheless I have been blown away by the ambition of the new TRIL centre (Technology Research for Independent Living). In a joint venture between Intel and the IDA, the team at TRIL are taking design for accessibility to new levels in their approach to some of the most common human problems as we age. They describe themselves as:
“a coordinated collection of research projects addressing the physical, cognitive and social consequences of ageing, all informed by ethnographic research and supported by a shared pool of knowledge and engineering resources.”
I would say that they are taking core design principles and applying them to one of the largest problems we face: the aging population. We really want to work with these people.
