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Dr. Vergara will first provide an overview of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC-Brazil) and the Department and Ergonomic Laboratory where her work focuses on Universal Design for older adults’ User Experience at home. UFSC has a Programmer of Internationalization called PRINT to development research involving “Healthy Aging and Urban Mobility”. UIUC, specifically the Human Factors and Aging Laboratory is one of our partners in a project involving research for the diagnosis, at the individual and collective level, intervention and development of technologies, in all age groups, integrating researchers in the area of Health Sciences and Applied Social Sciences.
