Joanna McGrenere is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is an Inria International Research Chair (France). Joanna received a PhD from the University of Toronto in 2002, an MSc from UBC in 1996, and a BSc from Western University in 1993, all in Computer Science. Her broad research area is Human Computer Interaction (HCI), with a specialization in interface personalization, universal usability, assistive technology, and computer supported cooperative work. She often serves on program committees for the top conferences in HCI, including serving as the Papers Co-Chair for CHI in 2015 and will be the overall Technical Program Co-Chair for CHI 2020. She is a member of the editorial board for ACM Transactions on Computer-Human-Interaction (ToCHI) and ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS). Joanna is an elected Member of the College of New Scholars in the Royal Society of Canada (2017), won a Killam Research Award (2015), a Microsoft Research Software Engineering Innovation Foundation award (2013), a Killam award for Excellence in Mentoring (2012), an Outstanding Young Computer Science Research Award from the Canadian Association of Computer Science (2011), was appointed as a Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Early Career Scholar (2010), and was the first recipient of the Anita Borg Early Career Scholar Award (2004). Joanna was recently an Associate Head in the Department of CS at UBC (2013-15) and lead the new HCI@UBC initiative: an interdisciplinary meeting for scholars working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction at UBC (2013-15).

AGE-WELL Funded Projects

• Improving the Learnability and Usability of Mobile Devices for Older Adults (4.8-CAT)
• Designing and evaluating a voice-based AI banking tool for/with older adults (AW-HARP-2024-08)
• Inclusive Interactive Apps to Reduce Older Adults' Social Isolation and Digital Marginalization (AWCRP-2020-10)

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