Translating Research to Reality
The McKechnie Family LIFE Home is designed to support interdisciplinary research to advance the science and engineering of home innovations. The research is focused in the home environment, user-centered, and intended to advance solutions that are accessible for a broad range of individuals and families in both existing home designs and future home concepts.
Spotlight of Research Projects
Robotic Support in Everyday Activities For Older Adults
The Stretch project aims to refine and broaden the functional capabilities of Stretch, a mobile manipulator robot, to support older …
Assessing the Use of Digital Assistant Technologies by Older Adults with Mobility Disabilities
The aim of R2 (Assessing the Use of Digital Assistant Technologies by Older Adults with Mobility Disabilities) is to assess …
The Fireside Exploration Project
A study on enrichment seeking in midlife and older adulthood The research aims to explore the potential of electric fireplaces …
Older Adults’ and Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives on Telehealth Robotics
The research aims to investigate perceptions and attitudes towards a telehealth robot, explore potential health care use-cases, and elicit design …
CREATE Virtual Reality Project
Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement The goal of this project is to design and evaluate …
TechSAge RERC
Sign up for the participant registry. The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technologies to Support Aging-in-Place for People with Long-Term …
Wayfinding Assistance via Mobile Robotics for People with Vision Impairments
This project is funded by an Illinois Campus Research Research Support Award to develop mobile robots to assist with wayfinding …
Stretch Robot Research & Development
Our team is currently performing research and development with Hello Robot’s Stretch robot in the McKechnie Family LIFE Home. We …