Aging, Technology and Health

"The distinguished contributing authors in this volume are engaged in promising research programs essential to establishing technology efficacy and effectiveness for healthy aging." --Neil Charness, Florida State University, Gerontologist, 2019, Vol. 59

Richard Pak is Associate Professor at Clemson University Department of Psychology. His research looks at how age-related changes in cognition affect people's ability to use technology. He is the lab director of the Cognition, Aging, and Technology Lab at Clemson. Anne Collins-McLaughlin, an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University Department of Psychology, is the lab director of the Learning, Aging, and Cognitive Ergonomics Lab, and co-directs the Gains Through Gaming Lab. Her research looks at the motivation for cognitively complex activities, age-related changes in cognitive abilities, training to use technology, and cognitive ergonomics.