Events and talks
Invited presentations
Oct 2020 “Challenges and Approaches to the Ethical Design, Development, and Procurement of Age-Tech” – AGE-WELL Policy Forum (online / Canada)
Jun 2020 “Designing for Older Adults: Overcoming Barriers toward a Safe Retirement”. Invited talk at the International Pension Reform Association Annual Meeting held at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France
Mar 2020 “Toward a Supportive and Healthy Retirement: Designing Digital Applications”. Invited community outreach presentation. Burlington Cronic Pain Network (McMaster University).
Jan 2020 “From user-friendly to senior-friendly: leveraging UX practice to develop inclusive services” – Invited presentation at the NRC Aerospace Canada-Japan summit. Ottawa
Oct 2019 “Designing Natural, Social, and Inclusive Applications for Older Adults” – Invited presentation to the Fredericton City Council, New Brunswick.
Aug 2019 “My dearest Alexa, would you be so kind as to let me know what the bloody weather may be today?”. Opening plenary keynote. International Conference on Conversational User Interface (ACM In-cooperation). Dublin, Ireland
June 2019 “Ethical challenges during field studies of emerging technologies in sensitive settings”. Plenary keynote at the Ethics and Personal Data Protection Symposium. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
June 2019 “A policy and practice-based workshop on avoiding and mitigating ethical traps in technocentric fieldwork”. Full-day training workshop for faculty members at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Apr 2019 Overcoming Older Adults' Digital Marginalization through Empowering Design Approaches. Invited talk at the Health Innovation Week, University Health Network Toronto, and Invited talk at the Thought and Cognition Symposium, University of Toronto.
Mar 2019 “Overcoming Older Adults' Digital Marginalization through Empowering Design Approaches”, invited talk at the Thought and Cognition Symposium, Toronto.
Feb 2019 Seniors’ Online Safety: Privacy, Security, & Online Scams. Invited community outreach presentation. Flemingdon Health Centre, North York, ON, Canada
Oct 2018 Overcoming Digital Marginalization through UX Design Toward a Supportive, Safe, and Healthy Retirement. Plenary talk. AGE-WELL Annual General Meeting, Vancouver.
Jul 2018 Inclusive Interactive Apps for Older Adults. Invited community outreach presentation. Greater Fredericton Social Innovation foundation, New Brunswick, Canada
June 2018 From user-friendly to senior-friendly digital technologies: improving the practice of UX design. Design Meets Health. Toronto.
May 2018 “Designing for Older Adults”. Invited presentation at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania – Symposium on Pension Reform.
Apr 2018 Creating Digital Picture Reminiscence with Older Adults. Invited talk at the annual NICE-ANKE symposium. Toronto.
Apr 2018 Research Ethics Town Hall. Invited panel. ACM CHI conference. Montreal.
Apr 2018 Conversational Voice UI. Invited panel. ACM CHI conference. Montreal.
Apr 2018 User-Centred Design and Stakeholder Engagement: A Practical Perspective. Invited talk at the NextGenUX Industry-Academia partnership event. Fredericton.
Apr 2018 Designing Natural, Social, and Safe User Interfaces to Reduce the Digital Marginalization of Older Adults Invited plenary at the NextGenUX Industry-Academia partnership event. Fredericton.
Feb 2018 Ethical challenges during field studies of emerging technologies in sensitive settings. Invited talk, Carleton University, Ottawa.
Feb 2018 A policy and practice-based workshop on avoiding and mitigating ethical traps in technocentric fieldwork. Invited graduate training workshop. Carleton University, Ottawa.
Nov 2017 Research Ethics Town Hall. Invited panel. ACM ICMI conference. Montreal.
Nov 2017 Bridging Generations and Reducing Marginalization through Interactive Technologies. Invited Talk, Gilbrea Centre for Ageing, McMaster University, Hamilton.
March 2017 Research Ethics Town Hall: Working Towards Community Norms. Invited panel. ACM CSCW Conference, Portland, USA.
Apr 2017 Natural Language Processing and Human-Computer Interaction: Opportunities for Fintech. Invited Tech Talk. RBC Bank, Toronto.
March 2017 Bridging Generations and Reducing Marginalization through Natural and Social User Interfaces. Invited lecture. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Oct 2016 Ethical challenges during field studies of emerging technologies in sensitive settings. Invited lecture. McGill University, Montreal.
Aug 2016 “AI, Seniors, and Family Stories”. Invited talk at the launch event for the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Toronto.
July 2016 User-Centred Design and Stakeholder Engagement: A Practical Perspective. Invited workshop at the AGE-WELL Summer Institute, Mont-Tremblant, Canada
March 2016 Natural interactions with assistive technologies for under-represented users.
Invited presentation at the TUX Speaker Series (Toronto area User Experience professional network), Toronto, Canada.
March 2016 Challenges in the Ethical Conduct of Research with Human Participants in Sensitive Settings. Cross-Canada AGE-WELL HQP Training Webinar.
Feb 2016 The rise of the intelligent machines: Bridging or widening the digital divide for underserved users? Invited talk, The Speaker Series of the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, Coach House Institute, University of Toronto.
Jun 2015 “Technologies for Ageing Gracefully”, Invited presentation at the NRC Summit on Ageing (Industry / Academia / Government stakeholder consultation), Ottawa, 2015
Jun 2015 Invited hands-on design workshop, Markham Library Staff Conference, Markham, Canada.
May 2015 Instruments of Change: the politics of voice and voice recognition technology. Panellist at the 18th Annual Subtle Technologies Festival on Expanded Notions of Sound in Science and Art. Toronto, Canada.
May 2015 “Bridging Generations with Interactive Technologies”. Invited talk, Markham Public Library, Markham, Canada.
April 2015 “Breaking the barriers of conventional interfaces: natural interactions with assistive technologies”. Invited lecture, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Faculty of Sciences, Oshawa, Canada.
February 2015 “Technologies for Ageing Gracefully: Bridging Generations”. With Barbara Barbosa-Neves. Invited talk, Conference Board of Canada symposium on Healthy Aging: Bridging Generations through Technology. Toronto, Canada
December 2014 “Breaking the barriers of conventional interfaces. Multimodal interfaces and new media making interaction with assistive technologies more natural”. Invited talk, University of British Columbia, Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, Canada.
October 2014 “Frailty Focused Care: Challenges and Technological Opportunities”. With Barbara Barbosa-Neves. Invited talk, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada.
September 2014 “Dude, where's my interface? How natural interactions and new media are helping us forget about the traditional interface”. Invited lecture, Knowledge Media Design Institute, Toronto, Canada.
October 2013 “Speech and Language-based Literacy Support Technologies”. Invited presentation at the Health Literacy Research Conference, panel on Technology-based Interventions for Low Health Literacy, Washington, DC, October 2013.
December 2011 “Next-generation mobile learning”. Invited talk at the 2011 GoFredX Inspiring Innovation Conference, Fredericton, Canada.
May 2011 Invited panellist for the “Research on the Digital Economy” Colloquium, in conjunction with the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Fredericton, Canada
2010-11 “IRET: Multimodal Interactive Simulator for Public Safety and Defence Training” – panel presentation at the
• 2011 Heidelberg Innovation Forum, Heidelberg, Germany
• 2010 New Brunswick Innovation Forum, Saint John, NB, Canada
June 2010 “Supporting Low-Literacy Adults through Mobile Computing”. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (invited talk)
October 2009 “ALEX: Mobile Adult Literacy Support Application for EXperiential Learning”, panel presentation at the 2009 New Brunswick Innovation Forum, Saint John, NB, Canada
November 2007 “Usable speech recognition: can humans improve ASR?”. Invited talk at the:
• Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
• Computer Science Department / Centre for Management Informatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada