Robots: Enabling wellness, independence and enhanced quality of life by Marilynn Larkin, MA

"I define successful aging as being able to do what you want, when you want, where you want and with whom you want," says Wendy Rogers, PhD, an internationally known researcher in the area of technology and aging, and director of the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A cognitive psychologist by training, she pursued her interest in how older adults learn and use new technologies for close to 20 years at Georgia Institute of Technology. The Journal on Active Aging recently spoke with Dr. Rogers, who is also an ICAA member, about her research on how robots can support successful aging, what's "out there" now with regard to these devices, and what's to come.