Biography

Paulina Villacreces serves as Director of Product Development for the Healthy Home Laboratory (HHL), a community-based laboratory that brings people together from the community and the University of Pittsburgh to tackle major problems of aging in place and to come up with scalable solutions. Her research focuses on creating innovative solutions to obtain optimal human-environment interactions that promote health and well-being.  Villacreces has over 10 years of experience in the design, development and evaluation of assistive technology for people with disabilities in less–resourced settings.