Category: News

Congratulations to HFA graduate student Veronica Falcon on a successful thesis proposal! She did a wonderful job and we are excited to see the results of her thesis!

Congratulations to HFA graduate student Yao-Lin Tsai on passing his preliminary exams! We’re excited to see what he does next with his dissertation!

HFA graduate students Veronica Falcon and Yao-Lin Tsai both won awards at the HFES Conference in October. Veronica won the Best Paper Award and Yao-Lin the Best Poster Award, both from the Aging & Ability Technical Group. Both presentations were

Several HFA Lab members presented at the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting in Boston in November.

We are pleased to once again welcome two Student Aging Researchers in Training members to the HFA Lab. Abigail Anokye will be assisting on graduate student Mimi Trinh’s dissertation and Gizel Fahimi will assist postdoc Pallabi Bhowmick on the Soft

The HFA Lab was pleased to have Dr. Neil Charness visit to collaborate on research and offer his advice at the end of October. The discussion continued as several lab members attended dinner with Dr. Charness.

Congratulations to Drs. Qiong (Tina) Nie, Dan Morrow, Renato Azevedo, and Wendy Rogers on winning the Human Factors in Healthcare Best Article Award at HFES for their paper “Developing Feedback Visualizations to Support Older Adults” based on their work in

Congratulations to the Illinois Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Student Chapter on winning the Silver Award at HFES last week! HFA graduate student Veronica Falcon Borbolla is the Vice President of the Illinois Chapter.

The Human Factors & Aging Lab was well represented at the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting in Chicago October 13-17. Lab members, alumni, and collaborators joined together to celebrate at Illinois Night.

Several HFA Lab members enjoyed the Chittenden Symposium, a collaboration between Health & Kinesiology and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at Illinois, on October 8^th. Graduate student Yao-Lin Tsai and visiting scholar Zoey Hu presented posters showcasing their