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. Her primary research areas are human-computer interaction, ageing, and cognition.  Applications she has created have received multiple awards from organizations representing older and disabled users.  She is Past Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS) and is the founder and co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing.   Prof Hanson is a Fellow of the British Computer Society 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.

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