EXPECTED OUTCOMES

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Child-Centered C3BridgesUniversity of Southern
California (Lead)
Domestic Partners UC San Diego UC
Berkeley CSU-Los Angeles CSU-Long Beach
International Partners UNAM, Mexico City NUS,
Singapore Tsinghua, Beijing
VISION A world where personalized engineering
technologies positively transform the lives of
children and their parents, teachers and
caregivers CHALLENGE A multitude of disparities
linguistic, social, cultural, cognitive, and
economic challenge todays children and youth,
limiting their potential and societal
contributions APPROACH Create the science and
technology to enable systematic development of
highly personalized engineered systems that
maximize children's cognitive, intellectual,
social, emotional, and interpersonal functioning
to enable them to compete on all levels of the
global economy.

• EXPECTED OUTCOMES
• New, better ways of accomplishing established
  practices, e.g.,
• individualized technology-based integrated
  classroom assessment and instruction empowering
  both students and teachers
• New paradigms for hitherto impossible
  applications, e.g.,
• linguistically and socio-cognitively personalized
  games and robots for inquiry-based problem
  solving and learning
• health and safety-monitoring body sensor
  networks for at-risk children
• agent technologies for individualized
  intervention
• Personalized systems that are adaptive, scalable,
  secure, safe, economical, and easy to use

APPROACH

• MERIT AND IMPACT
• Unique interdisciplinary scientific advances
• informed multi-sensor monitoring and feedback
  technology
• human aware intelligent systems games, virtual
  humans, and assistive robotics
• wireless communication and computing systems
• scalable software architectures for real-time
  information dissemination and security management
• a novel context-aware assessment framework that
  unifies quantitative and qualitative measures
  with end use
• Seamlessly embedded education and care beyond
  traditional settings on a scale never before
  possible
• Contributions to foundational technologies for
  transforming the Information Age to the Age of
  Knowledge
• Broad inclusion and diversity in all aspects of
  the center
• Promotion of collaborative innovation and
  commercialization in a global context
• Evolving 21st century cyberinfrastructure in
  user-cognizant ways
• Creating an international hub for child-centered
  engineering research

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C3Bridges Strategic Plan