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SUMMARY:The Age Wave: Technology and the Maturing Workforce - Prof Vicki H
 anson - IBM's Accessibility Research Group
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CONTACT:Julie Jupp
DESCRIPTION:Much has recently been written about the impact of the retirin
 g ‘baby boomer’ generation and the corporate and societal impacts of s
 uch a shift. One facet of this shift is that older adults who choose to wo
 rk past the traditional retirement age often will be employed in jobs that
  require new technical skills.  These older workers\, however\, are often 
 confused by rapidly changing technologies and fall short of the skills req
 uired to successfully learn and operate new systems.  Notably\, technology
  challenges for older workers are unlikely to be resolved when the current
  middle aged workers become older themselves. Not only will the abilities 
 of currently middle age workers change as they grow older\, but technology
  will continue to evolve.  This talk considers the implications of demogra
 phic shifts on the workforce and inclusive design considerations for suppo
 rting older workers.\n\nBio: Prof. Hanson has been involved in working wit
 h 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 t
 he Salk Institute and then as a Research Associate in the Reading Research
  Group at Haskins Laboratories. She joined the IBM Research Division in 19
 86 and currently manages the Accessibility Research group at IBM's T. J. W
 atson Research Center. Holding a doctorate in Cognitive Psychology\, her p
 rimary research areas consist of computer usability\, aging\, web accessib
 ility\, and learning and cognitive disabilities. Through an Award from the
  Leverhulme Trust to the University of Dundee\, she is serving as a Visiti
 ng 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.
LOCATION:Meeting Rooms 1A+1B\, (off the Oatly Lab)\, 2nd Floor\, Engineeri
 ng Department
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