Professor Vicki Hanson (IBM) - The Age Wave: Technology and the Maturing Workforce

The School was delighted to be joined recently by Vicki Hanson from IBM Research New York. Dr Hanson, who was recently awarded ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award, gave a talk on The Age Wave: Technology and the Maturing Workforce.

Dr. Hanson has been involved in working with people with disabilities for 30 years. From 1978 to 1986, she conducted research in the areas of American Sign Language (ASL) and reading, first as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Language and Cognition at the Salk Institute and then as a Research Associate in the Reading Research Group at Haskins Laboratories. She joined the IBM Research Division in 1986 and currently manages the Accessibility Research group at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. Holding a doctorate in Cognitive Psychology, her primary research areas consist of computer usability, aging, web accessibility, and learning and cognitive disabilities. Through an Award from the Leverhulme Trust to the University of Dundee, she is serving as a Visiting Professor at the university during 2007-08, focusing her research on approaches to improving computer technology to make it more useful and usable for older adults.

 

Related links:

• Professor Vicki Hanson's home page at Dundee University.
• The Human Centred Web Lab at the School.