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Monday | Tuesday

Monday  
7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome/Intro – Bentley College
8:45 to 9:30 a.m. Keynote: Universal Usability: A Grand Challenge for Interface Designers: Ben Shneiderman, Univ. of Maryland
9:30 to 10:00 a.m. Improving the Design of New Medical Products for Older People Using a Team Approach: Michael Cantor, MD, JD
Marc Drucker MBA, IDSA
10:00 to 10:30 a.m. Employer strategies for adapting to a maturing workforce: Mr. Vitalos, IBM and Mr. John Evans, IBM
10:30 to 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 to 11:30 a.m. Health Disparities in Older Minority Populations: Peter Deutsch, Former Congressman, Florida
11:30 a.m. to noon Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems and Older Adults: Lessons Learned: Michelle McNulty and Ellen Mangan: Fidelity Investments
Noon to 1:30 p.m. Lunch and tour
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Town hall – Web
Town hall – Health Care
2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Telephony and Aging Populations, Dr. Jack Carroll
3:00 to 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 to 4:00 p.m. Independence and Connectedness: Designing Internet Access to Meet the Needs of Seniors: Dr. Mary C. Gilly ,University of CA, Dr. Hope Jensen Schau, University of Arizona, and Dr. Mary Finley Wolfinbarger, California State University Long Beach
4:00 to 4:30 p.m. Build It and They Will Use It?
Gary M. Moulton, Microsoft
4:30 to 5:00 p.m. Growing Older in America: How Prepared Are You?:
Findings from a 2005 CommonHealth ACTION National Survey
:
Vincent N. Lafronza, Ed.D., M.S.
5:00 to 5:30 p.m. Preparing for Aging Consumers, Citizens and Workforces: Ajit Kambil, Global Director, Deloitte Research, Deloitte Services LP
5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Reception
6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner

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Tuesday  
7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Registration/ Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome/Intro
8:45 to 9:30 a.m. Aging in Place: Exploring "Place" to Design Better Products and Services: Lillian Shieh: NEST – the Home Lab
9:15 to 9:45 a.m. Open Source Building: A Strategy for Housing that Responds to Needs and Values: Kent Larson, MIT
9:45 to 10:15 a.m. From Cells to Cities: An Outline of the Scope of Global Aging and its Impact on the Development of New Product and Services, Craig Vogel University of Cincinnati
10:15 to 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 to 11:30 a.m. Online Learning for Seniors: Barriers and Opportunities: Lesa Lorenzen Huber, Ph.D. and Mark Notess, Indiana University
11:30 a.m. to noon Using Technology to Isolate Health Disparities in Older Minority Populations: The Diabetes Atlas: Roger W. Morrell, Ph.D., National Minority Health Month Foundation
Noon to 1:30 p.m. Lunch and tours
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Town-Hall: What Don’t We Know? Brainstorming and discussion about future research about designing for aging humans: Dana Chisnell: UsabilityWorks
2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 to 3:30 p.m. Functional Illiteracy and the Aging Population: Creating Appropriate Design Support: Bill Gribbons, PhD, Bentley
3:30 to 4:00 p.m. Where is the Search? Examination of Schemas for the Location of Common Web Objects among Older Users
Ms. Lena Dmitrieva, Bentley
4:00 to 4:15 p.m. Closing Remarks – Bentley College

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