CLEMSON, S.C. - When it comes to signing up for meals and a wide range of activities, residents at Clemson Downs are steering toward a paperless system.

A Quick Connect touch-screen kiosk is set up where residents can log in with their room number. Their choices are saved on a remote server, and the residents are sent multiple reminders.

“It makes a big difference as far as keeping the residents informed,” Ruthie Millar, director of community outreach, told FOX Carolina. “It actually streamlines our process and saves a lot of physical (work).”

Dr. Julian Brinkley, a human-centered computing professor at Clemson University, introduced Quick Connect to the retirement community,

“I’m getting a ground-level understanding about older adults or people with disabilities and their desire t

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