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LAURA: Hi, everyone and welcome. And thank you so much for joining us today. My name is Laura. I work on accessibility here at Google. It's great to be here today. And accessibility is something that's really, really critical and core to our mission here at Google. To organize the world's information, make it universally accessible and useful. And 15% of the global population has some form of disability. And we need to be thinking about how people are actually interacting with our interfaces and with our devices. Kind of stripping away those assumptions of how we might think that they're interacting and really building inclusive products. When we are thinking about the principles of accessible design, it's often helpful to kind of break down the groups into personas of users and think about the different interaction models that people may be using. So we can break down into a few different groups. For example, maybe thinking about blind or low vision users, deaf or hard of hearing users, people with motor dexterity challenges, and people who are considered neurologically diverse, or who have a range of intellectual disabilities. But there's a huge population of people that absolutely needs to be factored into this discussion. And that's the aging population, which has been growing and growing since life expectancies have thankfully been increasing over the years. And the World Health Organization estimates that by 2050 over 2 billion people will be over the age of 60. It's a huge population. And as we all age we may experience disabilities in different ways. We may experience just slight deterioration of certain senses, of vision, of hearing, of dexterity, for example. Many other sorts of things. So as technologists it's really, really important for us to factor in the needs of this very important and very large population. So we're super excited about today. Tim? TIM: Jeff Johnson is a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco. There he teaches courses that introduce students to computer science and also special topics in human-computer interaction. Beyond academia, Jeff has worked as a UI designer and implementer, an engineering manager, a usability tester, and a researcher at companies like Cromemco, Xerox, US West, Hewlett-Packard Labs, and Sun Microsystems. Building on a PhD in psychology, Jeff has spent decades contributing to our understanding of human-computer interaction. He's addressed both technical and social issues including working as chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility in the late '80s and early '90s. In 2016, Professor Johnson was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement in Practice Award from SIGCHI, the ACM special interest group on computer-human interaction. At the award ceremony, Stanford professor Terry Winograd cited the influence of Professor Johnson's books on interface design. Many of these books stem from the idea that you learn more from things that don't work than from things that do. Today, Professor Johnson will be sharing lessons that he's learned from things that don't work. Because our bodies change...