Led by Chorong Park / University of Houston
ELARA Lab
Human agency.
Across the lifespan.
AI should expand human agency across the lifespan, not replace human judgment, relationships, or care.
Our mission
From human agency
to everyday impact.
ELARA Lab develops and evaluates autonomy-preserving embodied AI systems that help older adults and people living with chronic conditions maintain independence, well-being, and control.
We integrate participatory design, behavioral science, and safe generative AI to create clinically credible, implementation-ready interventions with viable pathways to adoption, reimbursement, and sustainable scale across diverse health and care systems.
These are the goals that guide our research and evaluation, not claims of established clinical effectiveness.
A collaborative research home
Built with people,
not just for them.
Through community engagement, co-design, and interdisciplinary collaboration, we investigate how emerging technologies can support everyday life while keeping people in control.