Human Factors & Aging Laboratory

Great reunion of HFA folks at the HFES meeting.

Congratulations to Tina Nie and Kenneth Blocker on their successful presentation at the 2018 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania!

Lyndsie Koon Represents Human Factors & Aging Laboratory at NASPSPA and RESNA National Conferences

For more information on Lyndsie's presentation topics, visit our website!

http://hfaging.illinois.edu/news

Members of the TechSAge team convened in St. Petersburg, Florida for the 2018 International Society for Gerontechnology conference. The TechSAge symposium, "Technology Design for Aging with Disability", highlighted new advances with research, development & training projects. Presenters pictured here (left to right): Laura Levy, Wendy Rogers, Maurita Harris, Jon Sanford, and Charles Consel (Discussant).

Exciting News!

Dr. Wendy Rogers, laboratory director, and Kenneth Blocker, graduate student, have been featured in the new book entitled "Aging, Technology, and Health" edited by Richard Pak and Anne Collins-McLaughlin. Rogers and Blocker co-authored a chapter in this book that takes a case study approach focusing on how older adults use technology for health and issues of technology adoption, basic human factors, cognitive aging, mental health and automaton.

"Aging, Technology, and Health" is now available for purchase on Amazon.

Aging, Technology and Health Aging, Health and Technology takes a problem-centered approach to examine how older adults use technology for health. It examines the many ways in which technology is being used by older adults, focusing on challenges, solutions and perspectives of the older user. Using aging-health technology as...

Kenneth Blocker successfully defended his master's project "Assessing Influences on the Medication Management Strategies of Older Adults with Hypertension." Way to go Kenny!

Rachel Stuck successfully defended her master's thesis on Understanding Dimensions of Trust Between Older Adults and Human or Robot Care Providers. Congratulations Rachel!

Rachel Stuck presented "Understanding Older Adults' Perceptions of Factors that Support Trust in Human and Robot Care Providers" at the Assistive Robots: Technological Challenges and the User Perspective Workshop at the 10th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments on June 23rd, 2017 in Rhodes, Greece.

Ranjani Sundaresan received a President's Undergraduate Research Award which will support her future research on Spatial Presence in Virtual Reality during the Fall 2017 semester. Ranjani is a second year undergraduate Psychology major at Georgia Tech. This research will be done in collaboration with Sean McGlynn on his dissertation project.

Wendy Rogers presented the Presidential Scholar Address at the Association for Behavioral Analysis International Conference on May 27th, 2017 in Denver, Colorado!

See the link below for event details:

https://www.abainternational.org/events/program-details/event-detail.aspx?sid=53053&by=Special