The collaboration between the Human Factors and Aging Laboratory and Hello Robot was recently featured on the College of Applied Health Sciences Blog.

Read Dr. Rogers’ history with the creators of Stretch and the ongoing research article.

The McKechnie Family LIFE Home Dedication Ceremony was held October 7th. Dr. Wendy Rogers was interviewed by WAND-TV regarding the McKechnie Family LIFE Home. The College of Applied Health Sciences also published an article about this exciting milestone.

They received an Aging Technical Group Student Best Paper Honorable Mention for their paper Smartphone and Digital Home Assistant Use Among Older Adults: Understanding Adoption and Learning Preferences. They presented at the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting

Dr. Lizandra Vergara and Doctoral Student Juliana Tissot have joined the HFA Lab as Visiting Scholars from Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). While they are here, they will be using the LIFE Home to conduct research on supportive environments

The Human Factors and Aging Lab joined the Aging and Neurocognition lab at the Champaign-Urbana Walk to End Alzheimer’s on October 2nd. Read more information about the walk in Champaign-Urbana and general information about the walk.

Dr. Wendy A. Rogers was named the 2021 King McCristal Distinguished Scholar in the College of Applied Health Sciences. Her lecture, given at the Fall College Meeting, focused on designing robots that support successful aging. Read more about her lecture

The American Psychological Association Digital Monitor recently released a piece entitled Optimizing tech for older adults. The piece discusses work completed in the HFA Lab and with our collaborators. Read the full article.

The Human Factors and Aging Laboratory is currently collaborating with Hello Robot to perform research and development with Hello Robot’s Stretch RE1 robot. Read a brief piece about ongoing research with Stretch RE1 taking place at Pacific University.

Brian Pastor, who has been a member of the HFA Lab since 2018, will be taking the role of the Adult Protective Services Program Administrator for the State of Illinois Department on Aging. He will direct the state-wide program that

The HFA Lab is pleased to welcome our second Community Academic Scholar program student, Husna Hussaini. Husna will continue working on the collaboration between CRIS Healthy Aging Center and the HFA lab by assisting with the digital home assistant project.