Director Wendy A. Rogers, Ph.D., is the Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor of Applied Health Sciences. Her primary appointment is in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health. She has an appointment in Educational Psychology and is an affiliate of the Beckman Institute; Illinois Informatics Institute; Center for Social and Behavioral Science; and the […]
Assistant Director of Research Harshal P. Mahajan, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor in the College of Applied Health Sciences. He serves as the Assistant Director of Research for the LIFE home where he manages research and development activities with smart and robotic technologies. He also serves as a liaison for industry partners to engage […]
Recruitment Contact:Lizzy Lydon, elydon2@illinois.edu ENACT is a longitudinal needs assessment investigating challenges older adults with cognitive disabilities experience in their everyday lives; areas of and preferences for support; and current use of technology applications. In the ENACT study, we will interview older adults with traumatic brain injury, mild cognitive impairment, or post-stroke cognitive impairment. The […]
Recruitment Contact:Elena Remillard, elena.remillard@design.gatech.edu The purpose of this study is to explore the challenges adults with long-term disability have with everyday activities as they age. We are focusing on three subgroups of older adults with long-term disabilities, including 1) late-deafened, 2) vision impairment (macular degeneration or glaucoma), and 3) multiple sclerosis. The study is comprised […]
Recruitment Contact:Maurita Harris, maurita2@illinois.edu The aim of this survey is to understand the usage of smart home and digital health devices by identifying the facilitators and barriers that influence the successful deployment and integration into older adults’ everyday activities.
ENHANCE is a Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR); grant number #90REGE0012‐01‐00). The Principle Investigators/Project Leaders of ENHANCE – Sara Czaja, Walter Boot, Neil Charness and Wendy Rogers – represent a collaboration in research from Weill Cornell Medicine, Florida State University and the […]
Sign up for the participant registry. The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technologies to Support Aging-in-Place for People with Long-Term Disabilities (RERC TechSAge) funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR); grant number 90REGE0006). TechSAge is a collaborative effort between the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois […]
This project is funded by an Illinois Campus Research Research Support Award to develop mobile robots to assist with wayfinding and navigation tasks for people with vision disabilities. The goal is to make innovations in navigation, guidance, and coupled human-robot interaction to enable individuals with visual impairments to navigate in unknown spaces. This interdisciplinary team […]
Our team is currently performing research and development with Hello Robot’s Stretch robot in the McKechnie Family LIFE Home. We are performing task analyses, developing novel end-effectors, and testing the control interface. In addition, our team recently received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute on Aging (National Institutes of […]
CHART was featured as a program on the cutting edge of optimizing technology for older adults in a recent American Psychological Association Monitor article. The article discussed current work being done in this area and the work that CHART researchers have done has gained the attention of this prestigious organization. Read the full article.