Congratulations to graduate student Mimi Trinh on passing her written and part I prelim oral examinations! Mimi is now all but dissertation. Well-done, Mimi!

Multiple undergraduate students in the HFA Lab received departmental awards. Cam Jaime-Rivera received the Carol L. Chittenden Scholarship. Fatima Pantoja-Lara received the Joanne M. Carraway & Charles M. Carraway Scholarship.… Read more: Lab Members Receive Awards

Congratulations to HFA Lab member Yao-Lin Tsai on receiving the 2024-2025 Chittenden Fellowship! The Chittenden Fellowship is intended to support a doctoral student in the Health & Kinesiology Department who… Read more: Yao-Lin Receives Chittenden Fellowship

Several members of the HFA Lab attended the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society Health Care Symposium. Many lab members gave presentations from current research. To view the conference program, please click… Read more: HFA at HFES Health

Lab Director Dr. Wendy Rogers has been selected to serve on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Board on Human Systems Integration. Congratulations, Wendy!

Congratulations to HFA postdoctoral research associate Dr. Renato Azevedo as one of the 24 recipients of the Mistletoe Research Fellowship by the Momental Foundation. This professional development program awards research… Read more: Congratulations, Renato!

Congratulations to Megan Nickrent on her promotion to Assistant Lab Director. Megan has previously worked as our Lab Coordinator and has been at our lab since 2017. Her new role… Read more: Congratulations, Megan!

Congratulations to HFA postdoctoral research associate Dr. Renato Azevedo. He was selected as the CREATE Trainee Pilot Grant recipient for this year. The title of his grant is “Meta-Analyses of mHealth… Read more: Congratulations, Renato!

Several HFA Lab members had the opportunity to network attending the Aging Technical Group Luncheon at the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society meeting in Washington DC on October 24. To… Read more: <strong>HFES Aging Technical Group Luncheon</strong>

Graduate student Mimi Trinh represented the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory at the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting. Click here to learn more about joining our team,… Read more: <strong>Human Factors & Aging Lab Represented at HFES</strong>

Members of the HFA Lab attended the 10th Year Anniversary Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium on October 16, celebrating a decade of the Jump ARCHES partnership. Lab Director Wendy Rogers and… Read more: <strong>HFA Members attend Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium</strong>

HFA Lab members Tooba Umar and Gabriella Schneider presented posters at the Chittenden Symposium October 4th. Gabriella’s poster “Documenting the Development of mHealth Applications” came from the Blood Pressure Study,… Read more: <strong>HFA Members Present at Chittenden Symposium</strong>

Thank you to our Community Academic Scholars, Afnaan Afsar Ali and Adam Syed, for all the work completed this summer! Afnaan and Adam worked with the Stretch team and our… Read more: <strong>Thank you, Afnaan & Adam!</strong>

Postdoctoral research associate Renato Azevedo recently received the prestigious American Psychological Association (APA) Briggs Dissertation Award. This award is presented for the best doctoral dissertation in applied experimental/engineering psychology. Renato… Read more: Congratulations, Renato!

Lab Director Wendy Rogers and Postdoctoral Research Associate Samuel Olatunji recently traveled to California to meet with the Hello Robot team. It was a wonderful trip advancing human-robot interaction research.

Lab Coordinator Megan Nickrent has been accepted to the Emerging Women Leaders Forum for 2023-2024. This is a program designed to “equip participants with leadership skills that will positively impact their departments… Read more: <strong>Megan accepted to Emerging Women Leaders</strong>

Undergraduate research assistant Zolzaya Byambasuren was recently awarded the James Scholar Preble Research Award, a scholarship supporting James Scholars involved in undergraduate research. Zolzaya works on the Human Robot Interaction… Read more: <strong>Congratulations, Zolzaya!</strong>

Postdoctoral research associate Samuel Olatunji was recently quoted for the proto.life article “Can we learn to embrace robotic caregivers? An aging population and elder care shortages means we may not… Read more: <strong>Dr. Olatunji Quoted in proto.life</strong>

HFA Lab Director Dr. Wendy A. Rogers served on a panel titled “What Can Diabetes Quality Teams Learn from Engineers and Designers?” at the 83rd Scientific Session of the American Diabetes… Read more: <strong>American Diabetes Association Scientific Session</strong>

HFA Participant Recruitment Coordinator Emma Lachs and Research Assistant Tooba Umar attended the Champaign County Annual Summer Senior Event on June 10. The Summer Senior Event allowed for networking with… Read more: <strong>Summer Senior Event</strong>

Postdoctoral research associates Nila Albuquerque, Hye Soo Lee, and George Mois attended the CREATE Workshop in New York City. Nila, Hye Soo, and George learned alongside more than 20 participants… Read more: <strong>HFA Postdocs Attend CREATE Workshop</strong>

The Human Factors and Aging Laboratory welcomed two Community Academic Scholars this summer. Undergraduate students Afnaan Afsar Ali and Adam Syed will assist on a project working with ClarkLindsey called “Understanding the… Read more: <strong>HFA Lab Welcomes Community Academic Scholars</strong>

Megan Bily received an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for her presentation “What is Aging Independently and What’s a Robot Got to do with it?” at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations, Megan!… Read more: Congratulations, Megan Bily!

Eight undergraduate students presented research posters from the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 27th. Congratulations to Afnaan Afsar Ali, Divya Bhookya, Maya Dye,… Read more: HFA Undergrads Present at Research Symposium

Afnaan Afsar Ali, an undergraduate research assistant in the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory, was featured in the College of Applied Health Sciences News. She was interviewed about her research… Read more: Afnaan Featured in AHS News