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Centre Head:
Ray Adams
Telephone:
+44 (0) 20 8411 5789
Email: r.g.adams@mdx.ac.uk

Executive

Tony White
Telephone:
+44 (0)20 8411 5212
Email: a.white@mdx.ac.uk

Serengul Smith-Atakan
Telephone:
+44 (0) 20 8411 6247
Email: s.smith@mdx.ac.uk

Introduction to CIRCUA

Invitation to participate

People in CIRCUA


Collaborative International Research Centre
for Universal Access (CIRCUA)

 

People

 


CIRCUA Middlesex University Members

International Fellows

 

New International Fellows
  • Demosthenes Akoumianakis Ph. D
    Associate Professor, Department of Applied Informatics & Multimedia
    Faculty of Applied Technologies, Technological Education Institution of Crete
    P.O. Box 1939 IRAKLIO, Crete, Greece, GR 710 04
    Email: da@epp.teicrete.gr
  • Faustina Hwang
    Tel: +44 (0) 118 378 7668
    f.hwang@reading.ac.uk
    James E. Hoffman
    Department of Psychology
    University of Delaware
    Newark, DE 19716
    302-831-2453
    https://hoffman.psych.udel.edu
  • Vicki L Hanson, Ph.D.
    Manager, Accessibility Research
    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA
    Phone: 914-784-6603 (tie line 863-6603)
    FAX: 914-784-7455 (tie line 863-7455)
    website: https://www.research.ibm.com/people/v/vlh/index.html
Dr. Hanson has been involved in working with people 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 on issues of computer access for people with disabilities.
Vicki manages the Accessibility Research group at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers and conference presentations, in addition to having given the Keynote address at several scientific conferences. Holding a doctorate in Cognitive Psychology, her primary research areas consist of computer usability and Web access, as well as reading and language processing in learning environments.
She is Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Accessibility (SIGACCES) and has chaired their ASSETS’02 conference on Assistive Technologies. She has received multiple awards from IBM for Outstanding Technical Achievement in the areas of education and accessibility and in 1992 was an award winner in the Johns Hopkins National Search for Computing to Assist Persons with Disabilities. She serves on Advisory Boards for universities and non-profit organizations in disability areas (Access Alliance, CAST, and the Georgia Institute of Technology RERC on Workplace Accommodations), and on government review panels in the U.S. and U.K. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing and Associate Editor for Accessibility of ACM Transactions on the Web and has served as guest editor for several Special Issues on accessibility topics for journals. She was named ACM Fellow in 2004 for her contributions to computing technologies for people with disabilities.

 

CIRCUA Partners
  • British Computer Society HCI Group
  • Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre
  • Churchill College, Cambridge
  • ENAV (Italian Agency for Air Navigation Services)
  • EQUAL Network for Extending Quality Life of Older and Disabled People
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
  • Institute of Computer Science at Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
  • Lloyds Register of Shipping
  • London Ambulance Service
  • Loughborough University
  • National Air Traffic Services
  • Oxford Brooks University Intelligent Systems Research Group
  • Papworth Trust, Cambridge
  • Reading University Research Group for Inclusive Environments
  • Royal National Institute for the Blind
  • Serco Usability Services
  • Special Needs Working Group of ANEC (European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer