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Vicki Hanson
Research Lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Dr. Vicki Hanson has been involved in working with persons with disabilities for nearly 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. She has worked extensively with deaf children and adults (and was awarded multiple grants from the U.S. government for this research) and more recently has been working with older adults who use computers.
She is Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS), whose annual conference, ASSETS, is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on accessible technology. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers and conference presentations, in addition to having given the Keynote address at several scientific conferences. Primary research areas consist of computers and usability and web access, as well as reading and language processing in learning environments.
She was named ACM Fellow in 2004 for her contributions to computing technologies for people with disabilities.
Currently she holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Dundee through an award from the Leverhulme Trust.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, 1978, University of Oregon
M.A. Cognitive Psychology, 1976, University of Oregon
B.A., Psychology and Speech Pathology & Audiology, 1974, University of Colorado
AWARDS AND HONORS (selected)
- ACM Fellow
- Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS CITP)
- SIGCHI 2008 Social Impact Award
- Chair of ACM's Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS)
- ACM SIG Governing Board Executive Committee
- 1995 Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellows Award, Profiles in Achievement. University of Oregon
- National Merit Winner, Johns Hopkins National Search for Computing to Assist Persons with Disabilities, 1992.
- IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards:
- Contributions to Web Accessibility, Research Division, 2003
- NetVista, Internet Division, 1996
- K12.Net, Research Division, 1995
SERVICE (selected)
- Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Andrew Sears), ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing
- Guest editor, ACM TOCHI – Special Issues on Web Accessibility, 2007
- Guest editor, IBM Systems Journal – Special Issue on Accessibility, 2005
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on the Web
- Chair, ACM Assets 2002 International Conference on Assistive Technologies
- Chair, ACM CUU 2003 Conference on Universal Usability
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
- Advisory Board, University of Washington, AccessAlliance
- Advisory Council, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, RERC for the Advancement of Cognitive Technologies
- Advisory Board, Carnegie-Mellon University,
Quality of Life Technology Engineering Research Center
- Advisory Board, Georgia Institute of Technology, RERC on Workplace Accommodations
- Advisory Panel, CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology)
- NSF and NIH scientific review panels
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ‘Peer Review College’
- Editorial Board, American Annals of the Deaf, 1993 -- 1994
- Editorial Board, Reading Research Quarterly, 1987 – 1991
- Advisory Panel, The Caption Center, WGBH Public Broadcasting Television, Boston, 1990 - 1991.
- Invited participant, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH) Working Group on Research and Training: Perspectives of the Deaf Community, 1990.
Last updated 5 May 2008
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