Rate My Professor Sajay Arthanat

Arthanat's research focuses on user-centered design and implementation of innovative technologies such as wearables, robotics, virtual reality, and smart home automation to address physical dysfunctions, promote health, community living, and aging-in-place. His efforts have attracted over $5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, including as Principal Investigator for the NIH-NIA grant on smart home-based social assistive robots for Alzheimer's disease care (2022-2027) and NSF-supported robot-assisted aging-in-place projects. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including "Perspectives on a telepresence robot at an independent living facility: lessons learned and implications" (Journal of Enabling Technologies, 2024), "Multilevel factors influencing eHealth adoption among older adults during the pandemic" (Frontiers in Public Health, 2025), "Who over 65 is online? Older adults' dispositions toward information communication technology" (Computers in Human Behavior, 2015), and "Conceptualization and measurement of assistive technology usability" (Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 2007). Arthanat has received the 2025 Excellence in Rehabilitation of Aging Persons Award from the Gerontological Society of America, the Roger A. Ritvo Faculty Mentor Award (2016), and the Outstanding New Investigator Research Award (2010). He teaches assistive technology and research methodology courses, oversees Doctoral Capstone projects, and has served in leadership roles with the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and RESNA.