Gregg C. Vanderheiden Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Publications Awards & Honors Interests Summary Files and Links

Contact Information

2112 Engineering Centers Building 1550 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/263-5788 E-mail: gv@trace.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

Education

• BS 1972, electrical engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MS 1974, biomedical engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• PhD 1984, technology in communication rehabilitation and child development, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Fields of Interest

• ergonomics
• mobile computing
• universal design
• computer interface design
• rehabilitation engineering
• computer access for people with disabilities
• accessible design of mass market products
• design of next-generation information and transaction systems
• human augmentation
• modality translation

Publications

• Vanderheiden, G.C. (2009). Accessible and usable design of information and communication technologies. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), The universal access handbook (pp. 31-56).
• Vanderheiden, G C. (2008). Ubiquitous Accessibility, Common Technology Core, and Micro Assistive Technology. ACM Transactions in Accessible Computing 1(2), 10.1-7
• Vanderheiden, G. C. (2006). Design for people with functional limitations. In G. Salvendy (Ed.), Handbook of human factors and ergonomics (pp. 1387-1417). New York: Wiley.
• Vanderheiden, G.C. (2006). Potential impact of new technologies on telecommunication for elders. Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging, XXX(2), 9-12.
• National Council on Disability. (2006). Over the horizon: Potential impact of emerging trends in information and communication technology on disability policy and practice. Washington, DC: Author. (Written by Gregg Vanderheiden for NCD.)
• Vanderheiden, G. (2002). Interaction for diverse users. In J. Jacko & A. Sears (Eds.) Human-computer interaction handbook (pp. 397-400). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Vanderheiden, G., & Iacono S. (2001). Information technology impacts, Proceedings from White House Technologies for Successful Aging Workshop, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 38 (1, Supplement) S52-S53. Baltimore, MD

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• ACM Social Impact Award for the Human-Computer Interaction Community (2005).
• Who's Who in America (2004-present).
• Compaq Accessibility Program Award (2001).
• Ron Mace Designing for the 21st Century Award (2000).
• National Partnership for Reinventing Government Award, comprehensive requirements for accessible software design (1999).
• RESNA Mentor Award, presented by the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (1998).
• Strache Leadership Award, California State University-Northridge (1998).
• Ameritech and National Council of the Aging "Innovator in Communications Technology" Award (1997).
• Yuri Rubinski Memorial World Wide Web Award, presented at the 6th Annual International World-Wide-Web Conference (1997).
• U.S. Access Board, Outstanding Contribution Award (TAAC) (1996-1997).
• Access Award, American Foundation for the Blind (1991).
• Outstanding Faculty Award, McBurney Disability Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (1991).
• Ragnar E. Onstad Service to Society Award, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989).
• RESNA Distinguished Service Award, Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America (1978, 1985, 1989).
• Kishpaugh Award, Center for Computers and the Disabled, Dallas, Texas (1987).
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation Outstanding Clinical Achievement Award (1985).
• Wisconsin Speech, Language, and Hearing Association Clinical Achievement Award (1985).).
• National Council on Communicative Disorders Research Award (1984).
• National Easter Seal Society Certificate of Honor (1984).
• Isabelle and Leonard H. Goldenson Award for Outstanding Research in Medicine and Technology (1978).

Interests

Professor Vanderheiden's interests cover a wide range of research areas in technology, human disability, and aging. Current research includes development of new interface technologies, models for information transfer across sensory modalities, network-based services, techniques for augmenting human performance, enhancing the usability of the environment, and matching enhanced abilities to environmental demands. He also studies and develops standards for access to Web-based technologies, operating systems and telecommunicaiton systems.

He is Director of the Trace R&D Center. More complete information on Prof. Vanderheiden's work can be found at http://trace.wisc.edu, http://raisingthefloor.net and http://GPII.org.

Summary

Short Bio

Gregg Vanderheiden is Director of the Trace R&D Center and a Professor in both the Industrial & Systems Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Departments at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Vanderheiden has been working on technology and disability for just under 40 years. He was a pioneer in the field of Augmentative Communication (a term he coined in the 1970's) before moving to computer access in the 1980s. Many of the accessibility features that are now built into every Macintosh, Windows and Linux computer were created by his group in the 1980s. He has worked with over 50 companies, served on numerous governmental advisory and study committees on both sides of the ocean, and has chaired and/or edited many of the early accessibility standards. He is co-founder of "Raising the Floor" (http://raisingthefloor.net) and initiated the international efforts to build National and Global Public Inclusive Infrastructures (http://GPII.org).

Files and Links of Interest

• Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure
• Trace R&D Center