Undergraduate research assistant Husna Hussaini recently presented a poster titled “Instructional Assessing the Potential of Voice-Activated Digital Home Assistants for Older Adults with Mobility Disability” at the Stanford Research Conference. Husna was selected as a recipient of a Conference Travel
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Congratulations, Mimi!
Human Factors & Aging Laboratory graduate student Mimi Trinh successfully defended her master’s thesis “Understanding Older Adults’ Motivations to Use Digital Health Technology” on April 7. Mimi’s study was very creative and explored an important area of community health.
Samuel Presents at HFES Health
Postdoctoral research associate recently presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Health Care Symposium in Orlando. His presentation was titled “A participatory design project to evaluate benefits and workload costs for a domestic assistive robot.” To learn more about
Congratulations, Eldrick!
Eldrick Surheyao, a former undergraduate research assistant in the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory, was recently selected as a recipient of the F. Patricia Cullen Scholarship Award. Congratulations, Eldrick! To see the full list of KCH 2023 Honors & Awards, please
Emma Lachs Presents at AMIA
Research Assistant Emma Lachs presented “Facilitators and Barriers to Older Adults’ Use of Digital Home Assistants: Implications for Informatics” based off research from TechSAge R2 at the American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit earlier this month in Seattle.
Hello Robot Partnership Featured in News Gazette, on WCIA, and in AHS News
The collaborative efforts between the Human Factors and Aging Laboratory and Hello Robot were recently featured on several media outlets.
The News Gazette posted the following article detailing how Stretch could help older adults: Stretch your imagination: UI researchers looking
Congratulations, Graduates!
Congratulations to Drs. Kenneth Blocker, Maurita Harris, Qiong (Tina) Nie, and Madina Khamzina who all earned their PhDs this year. We cannot wait to see where you will go from here and will miss having you in the lab!
Congratulations, George!
Postdoctoral research associate George Mois was awarded a $10,000 trainee pilot grant for his project “Leveraging Presence through Virtual Reality to Support Social Connectivity.” The award is part of the the Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology
“Home is where the robot is”
Dr. Wendy A. Rogers and the McKechnie Family LIFE Home were featured on the Illinois homepage. Click here to learn more about how the LIFE Home is used “to define the future of independent living for all ages and abilities.”
TechSAge News
The Fall 2022 TechSAge Newsletter is now available. Please click here the view the PDF of the newsletter.