News Archive

    2024
  • MAY: eDAPT presents 3 papers at CHI’24
  • MAY: eDAPT presents at the UK-Canada Digital Communities Exchange (DComX)
  • MAY: Carrie presents at the AGE-WELL EPIC Conference
  • APR: Carrie is invited to speak at the Thesis Finishers’ Roundtable by the McGill Writing Centre
  • MAR: Joanna awarded the 2024 Killam Research Award
  • MAR: Welcome to visiting researcher Pam Briggs
  • MAR: Welcome to visiting MSc student Kersten Smith
  • FEB: Carrie and Mui attend the DFP Hackathon at the University of Victoria
  • FEB: Joanna attends the SIGCHI Futures Summit
  • JAN: Two CHI papers accepted! Mui and Elise are the lead authors.
    • 2023
  • OCT: Carrie attends the AGE-WELL annual conference
  • SEPT: Carrie serves on the CHI’24 Program Committee
  • SEPT: Joanna becomes co-Head of UBC CS Department
  • SEPT: Welcome to MSc student Clair Ross
  • AUG: Carrie awarded an AGE-WELL EPIC AT Fellowship
  • AUG: Elise finishes her MSc thesis
  • JULY: Welcome to NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow Carrie Dai
  • JUN: Kevin starts internship at Slack
  • MAY: Sang-Wha starts internship at the Center for Digital Citizens
  • MAY: Our CSCW paper is accepted! Sang-Wha is lead author.
  • MAY: Our TOCHI paper is accepted! Kevin is lead author.
  • MAY: Joanna gives invited talk at Northumbria University
  • APR: Sang-Wha participates in the CHI Doctoral Consortium
  • FEB: Joanna gives invited talk at the University of Aukland
  • JAN: Joanna gives invited talk at Meta Reality Labs
    • 2022
  • DEC: Joanna is named ACM Distinguished Member
  • NOV: Izabelle Janzen successfully defends her PhD!
  • OCT: Joanna participates at CAN-CWiC
  • SEPT: Welcome to grad students Ishita Haque and Zhe Liu
  • SEPT: Joanna starts her sabbatical year
  • JUN/JUL: Joanna makes it back to Paris for her Inria/Paris-Saclay Chair, first visit since COVID-19 hit
  • MAY: Joanna receives a grant from Meta
  • MAY: Manos presents our paper at Graphics Interface 2022
  • MAY: Sang-Wha, Izabelle, and Laton all presenting papers at CHI 2022
  • MAR: Laton Vermette successfully defends his PhD!
    • 2021
  • SEPT: Welcome to grad students Elise Shen and Mui Tanprasert
  • AUG: Farewell to postdoc Emmanouil Giannisakis
  • MAY: Our CHI 2021 paper received an honorable mention
  • MAY: News coverage of our research: e.g., CTV news and Vancouver is Awesome
  • MAR: Joanna gives invited talk in Designing for People seminar
  • JAN: 3 papers accepted to CHI 2021
    • 2020
  • AUG: Farewell to PhD student Francesco Vitale
  • JUL: Our paper is accepted to CSCW 2020
  • MAY: Our DIS 2020 paper received an honorable mention
  • APR: CHI 2020 is canceled due to COVID-19, marking the end to Joanna’s role as Technical Program Chair
  • APR: 3 papers are accepted to DIS 2020
  • MAR: Our CHI 2020 paper wins Best Paper Award
  • FEB: Farewell to postdoc Jessalyn Alvina, who is off to Paris Telecom to a new postdoc
  • FEB: Farewell to MSc student Yelim Kim
  • JAN: 4 papers are accepted to CHI 2020
    • 2019
  • NOV: Welcome to postdoc Emmanouil (Manos) Giannisakis
  • NOV: Joanna gives an invited talk at the 2019 Psychology of Technology Conference
  • FALL: Farewell to MSc students Shareen Mahmud, Taslim Arefin Khan, and Hayley Guillou
  • SEP: PhD Track students Sang-Wha Sien & Kevin Chow join eDAPT
  • AUG: Our paper is accepted to CSCW 2019