Designing for People takes an intensely multidisciplinary approach to human-centered research and design of interactive technologies, to address complex problems requiring diverse viewpoints and methodologies by integrated teams. DFP is sharing this approach through many pathways, from an NSERC CREATE graduate training program to regional outreach and translation initiatives.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Abdulai, Fatawu | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Clinical nursing, primary (preventive care); Health informatics; human-computer interaction; Health technology design; Informatics/Digital health; Sexual health equity |
| Beschastnikh, Ivan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; software engineering; distributed systems; cloud computing; software analysis; Machine Learning |
| Beznosov, Konstantin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; computer security and privacy; mobile security and privacy; online social networks security and privacy; usable security and privacy |
| Bullard, Julia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Organization of information and knowledge resources; Library science and information studies; classification systems; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Information Systems; metadata; values-in-design |
| Carenini, Giuseppe | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Artificial intelligence, user modeling, decision theory, machine learning, social issues in computing, computational linguistics, information visualization |
| Carpenter, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | neural control of movement, fear of falling, Neural control of movement, postural control, fears of falling, balance disorders, Parkinson's disease |
| Cenfetelli, Ronald Timothy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human computer interaction, E-Business, IT-mediated customer service, Negative aspects of technology, Structural equation modeling, Survey research techniques, Multi-level modeling |
| Chua, Romeo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human perceptual-motor control, vision and action, perceptual-motor compatibility, coordination |
| Code, Jillianne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; Specialized studies in education; Educational Context; Educational Technologies; Formative assessment; Immersive learning; Learner agency; Learning and Memory; Learning design; Self-efficacy; Self-regulated Learning; Situated and embodied cognition; Virtual augmented and mixed reality for learning; Virtual learning environments |
| Conati, Cristina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, affective computing, personalized interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent interface agents, virtual agent, user-adapted interaction, computer-assisted education, educational computer games, computers in education, user-adaptive interaction, Artificial intelligence, adaptive interfaces, cognitive systems, user modelling |
| Currie, Leanne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Nursing; Health Care Technologies; Health information systems; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Technologies; decision making; Computer Architecture; Software Development; Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare; Biomedical and Health Informatics; data science; Human Computer Interaction and Design |
| Dunn, Elizabeth | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Happiness, money and spending decisions, self-knowledge |
| Enns, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Behavioural neuroscience of reward and motivation; attention; action kinematics; social perception; perceptual development |
| Fels, S Sidney | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human computer interaction, human 3D biomechanical modeling, speech synthesis, medical applications of modeling, computer vision, interactive arts and music |
| Fisher, Kevin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Prehistoric archaeology; Anthropology; Archaeological theory; Archaeometry; Archeological Data Analysis; Archeological Excavation Methods and Techniques; architecture; built environments; digital archaeology; Dynamics of Social Transformations; Mediterranean archaeology; Near Eastern archaeology; power; Social Life / Societal Life; social interaction; Urban Spaces and Urbanity; urbanism |
| Goerges, Matthias | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Electronic health (e-Health); Health information systems (including surveillance); Expert systems technologies in artificial intelligence; Anesthesiology; Medical devices; Human-computer systems and interface; Bio-signal processing and analysis; Digital health; predictive analytics; decision support systems; Critical Care Medicine; Biomedical Technologies; Health Care Technologies; Human Computer Interaction and Design; Medical informatics; Software Development; patient-oriented research; Data sharing / open data |
| Ho, Kendall | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | eHealth, knowledge translation, educational research, continuing professional development, interprofessional education, evidence informed policy, eLearning, global eHealth |
| Hodgson, Antony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Image guided surgery systems; computer assisted orthopaedic surgery; Medical Imaging; surgical navigation; orthopaedics; biomechanics; surgical robots; Image Processing; Machine Learning |
| Holsti, Liisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; premature infants; neurodevelopment; stress; pain; measurement; technology transfer; sucrose; rehabilitation; pediatrics |
| Huot, Suzanne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Occupational therapy; Human geography; asylum seekers; bilingualism; community-engaged research; critical theory; francophone minority communities; francophones; french; Gender; immigration; intersectionality; Migration Studies; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; occupational science; Qualitative research; refugees; social inclusion; social integration; Platform economy |
| Inglis, J Timothy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Exercise science, neurophysiology, biomechanics, stance and balance control, human microneurography, physical therapy and rehabilitation, vestibular system |
| Kingstone, Alan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognitive sciences; Brain mechanisms of human perception, attention, and behaviour in experimental & everyday situations |
| Lemieux, Victoria | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; Blockchain technology; information visualization and visual analytics; International development; Records and information management; Risk management; Transparency and the public interest (in public sector and financial contexts); Trustworthy records |
| MacLean, Karon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Information Systems; design of user interfaces; haptic interfaces; human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction |
| McGrenere, Joanna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; computer science; computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); human-computer interaction; interactive technologies for older users and people with cognitive disorders; personalized user interfaces; universal usability |
| Meyers, Eric | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | youth online behavior, information seeking, web search, libraries, public libraries, school libraries, academic libraries, learning, virtual worlds, collaboration, social networks, new media, digital literacy, information literacy |
| Mitchell, Ian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | safety critical systems, assistive technology (mobility), robotics, scientific computing, cyber-physical systems, Mathematical software, computational science and engineering, hybrid and cyber-physical systems, verification and validation, reproducible research, level set methods, robotic path, planning |
| Munzner, Tamara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human-centered computing; visualization; information visualization; visual analytics; data science |
| Nathan, Lisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Media and communications; Critical studies of technology; Climate Justice; Indigenous-led Information Initiatives; Collapse | Adaptive Informatics; Values & Design; Information Ethics & Policy |
| Norman, Wendy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Health equity; Health care effectiveness and outcomes; Fertility and maternal health; Knowledge translation and implementation science in health; Population health interventions; Health services and systems, n.e.c.; Family planning; Health services and policy research; Contraception; Abortion; Population health equity research; Applied public health and population health intervention research; Health professional scope of practice research |
| O'Brien, Heather | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | All other social sciences, n.e.c.; user engagement; user experience; community engagement; information seeking and retrieval; information access; cognitive processes related to information searching and evaluation; health technologies |
| Pottinger, Rachel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Computer Science and Statistics; data integration; data management; databases; metadata management |
| Robillard, Julie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Medical, health and life sciences; Patient experience/patient engagement; eHealth; Assistive technology; Neuroethics; Brain health technology; Artificial Intelligence; Dementia; mental health; Social robots; pediatrics |
| Sinnamon, Luanne Silvia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Archival, repository and related studies; Library science and information studies; human information interaction; Information Systems; information retrieval; New Technology and Social Impacts |
| Todd, Rebecca | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Human Cognition and Emotion; Neurophenomenology and participatory sensemaking; Dance as a laboratory for interactive cognition; cognition; Emotional learning; Human Neurocognitive processes underlying all of the above; Learning and Memory; Motivation, Emotions and Rewards |