April/18/2009 SNAPSHOTS

We attended the Twenty-fourth Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference：“Changing the world for people with disabilities” in Los Angeles last March. It was organized by the Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge. The conference provided us many sessions, more than 360 workshops, exhibits. Here are the snapshots we took.

The program.
This event has become known to all over the world. In 2008, as many as 4500 researchers, caregivers and manufacturers took part in the event. More than 360 foreign people attented, too.




Mr. Jim Kjendalen, LaZee Tek, demonstarated utilization of a small sensor which clinged to a human body. The sensor on a finger feels the movement and the inclination of the finger. So we can use this sensor as a mouse. It is named eeZee Mouse.




66 companies showed products which helped people with visual impairment to watch displays easily, for example to enlarge letters on the display.




We saw many people in a wheelchair. And we also saw people with his/her guide dog.




Ms.Laurie M. Orlov's presentation slide. Caregiving is becoming a serious problem. More and more elders well need care, but the number of younger women who can care elders will not be enough. The care costs will be more and more needed.




Ms. Susan Ayers Walker's presentation slide. She introdoced some services and devices which supported elders' independent living.




Ms. Susan Ayers Walker (left) , Smart Silvers Alliance and Ms. Laurie M. Orlov, Aging in Place Technology Watch. Both of them are the experts who know a lot about technologies which are useful for elder lives.




An engineer of Apple was asking a question.



The 25th anniversary conference will be held during March 22-27, 2010, in San Diego, CA.






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