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Professor Vicki Hanson
Vicki Hanson is Professor of Inclusive Technologies at the University of Dundee, and Research Staff Member Emeritus from IBM Research. She has been working on issues of inclusion for older and disabled people throughout her career, first as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. She joined the IBM Research Division in 1986 where she founded and managed the Accessibility Research group. She has been at the University of Dundee since 2009.
Her work is part of the Inclusive Design group at the School of Computing, involving research on accessibile and usable technology for diverse populations. She serves as the Dundee lead for the RCUK Hub on Social Inclusion though the Digital Economy (SiDE), leading the Accessibilty activity and SiDEUser Pool engagement.
She is the founder and co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing. She is a member of the UK Computing Research Committee, a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and was named ACM Fellow in 2004 for contributions to computing technologies for people with disabilities. In 2008, she received the ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award for the application of HCI research to pressing social needs.
She currently is the holder of a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.
email: vlh[at]computing.dundee.ac.uk
Current and Recent Research Projects include:
- Social Inclusion though the Digital Economy (SiDE) Research Hub
- Design in the Digital World Network
- SEEDS
- An Inclusive Digital Economy supporting Older and Disabled People
- IBM AccessibilityWorks
Additional Information:
Research Interests:
- Usability
- Use of technology by older adults
- Web accessibility
- Learning and cognitive disabilities