CREATE is a multidisciplinary and collaborative center founded in 1999. It is dedicated to ensure that the benefits of technology can be realized by older adults to support and enhance the independence, productivity, health, safety, social connectedness and quality of life of older people.
The center strives to develop and evaluate interventions and design solutions to promote successful technology adoption among older adults.
CREATE represents a consortium of five universities:
The Wireless Networking Proficiency Questionnaire, a useful tool for facilitating wireless network training and assessing proficiency in research, is now available in multiple versions and can be downloaded by visiting the Survey Instruments section of the site! To access the measures after downloading, be sure to contact the website administrator by emailing Kenneth Blocker at blocker3@illinois.edu.
Congratulations to CREATE graduate student Andrew Dilanchian on his first publication, based on work he completed as an undergraduate honors thesis student in the CREATE lab at Florida State University! The paper, entitled, "A Pilot Study Exploring Age Differences in Presence, Workload, and Cybersickness in the Experience of Immersive Virtual Reality Environments", can be found by clicking here!
CREATE's Neil Charness represented North America at an international conference Friday on digital equity for people of all ages, part of the celebration of the UN International Day of the Older Person. The remote conference, sponsored by International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, brings together aging experts from across the globe to discuss a variety of topics related to digital equity.
CREATE's Dr. Neil Charness, the Grandmaster of the International Society for Gerontechnology, was honored with a special issue by the journal which contains one editorial, five original research papers, and one commentary. Click here to learn more, then click on Vol. 19, No. 2 in the left column.
