PROJECT LEADER (Western Canada)

Dr. David Kaufman

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
EMAIL: DKAUFMAN@SFU.CA
WEBSITE: http://www.sfu.ca/education/faculty-profiles/dkaufman.html

David Kaufman has been a faculty member at Concordia, Saint Mary's, Dalhousie and Simon Fraser Universities, in the fields of Engineering, Computer Science, and Education.  He has served as Director of Course Design for the BC Open Learning Agency, and Professor and Director of the Medical Education Unit in Dalhousie's Faculty of Medicine. He is the 1998 recipient of Dalhousie University’s Instructional Leadership Award. Dr. Kaufman has presented more than 200 lectures and workshops at conferences and universities in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America.  He has published extensively with more than 120 published articles in peer-reviewed journals and books, and has three books to his credit. Dr. Kaufman serves as a reviewer for many journals, granting agencies and professional associations, and has received more than $4 million in grants and contracts during his career.  From 2001 to 2008, he served as Director, Learning & Instructional Development Centre at Simon Fraser University. Since 2003, has been a Professor in the Faculty of Education and an Associate Faculty member in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Department of Gerontology at Simon Fraser University. His current research is investigating digital games and digital storytelling for older adults and intergenerational teams. He is presently a co-workproject leader with Dr. Cosmin Munteanu at the University of Toronto and is funded for five years by the AGE-WELL National Centre of Excellence. 

PROJECT LEADER (Eastern Canada)

Dr. Cosmin Munteanu

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
EMAIL: COSMIN.MUNTEANU@UTORONTO.CA
WEBSITE: http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~mcosmin/

Cosmin Munteanu is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at University of Toronto Mississauga, and Co-Director of the Technologies for Ageing Gracefully Lab at the University of Toronto. His area of expertise is at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural User Interfaces, Mobile Computing, Ethics, and Assistive Technologies. He has extensively studied the human factors of using imperfect speech recognition systems that improve human's access to and interaction with information-rich media and technologies through natural language. Cosmin's multidisciplinary interests include speech and natural language interaction for mobile devices, mixed reality systems, learning technologies for older adults, and ethics in human-computer interaction research.

PROJECT CO-LEADER (Eastern Canada)

Dr. Karyn Moffatt

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, MCGILL SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN INCLUSIVE SOCIAL COMPUTING
MCGILL UNIVERSITY
WEBSITE: http://act.mcgill.ca/karyn/

Dr. Karyn Moffatt is an Associate Professor in the McGill School of Information and Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing. Her research explores the ways in which technology can be employed to meet human needs and enable older individuals to overcome everyday challenges and obstacles. The overarching goal of her work is to design and build new technologies that enable older adults to engage with the world and each other. To support this long term goal and make these technologies possible, she also examines and addresses core accessibility issues. She focusses on older adults because they form a diverse demographic leading to rich opportunities for exploring the ways that human abilities and disabilities impact our interactions with technology. Beyond her core of aging and accessibility, she is interested in human perception, adaptive interfaces, mobile devices, and ubiquitous computing. Her PhD in Computer Science, supervised by Dr. Joanna McGrenere, was completed at the University of British Columbia in 2010 and examined methods for improving pen-based interaction for older adults. Currently, she gets to work with a number of wonderful students and collaborators in the Accessible Computing Technologies Research Group (ACT Lab).

International Collaborator

Dr. Neha Shivhare

ASSISTANT  PROFESSOR
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
DAYALBAGH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE (DEEMED UNIVERSITY)
WEBSITES: https://www.dei.ac.in/dei/education/index.php/pedagogicalstaff/91-facultystaffpedagogical/167-dr-neha-shivhare
https://nehashivhare.com/

Dr. Neha Shivhare is an Assistant Professor of Education at Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University) in Agra, India. With over a decade of multifaceted experience in research; designing and delivering curriculum and learning solutions; teaching at university and school level; mentoring research scholars, she is keen to explore more about smart learning designs, consciousness studies, and contemplative practices.

Being a teacher-educator and a lifelong learner, she is always interested in finding ways to make the learning process effective yet simple and fun. As such her research dwells around designing and developing meaningful, engaging and psychologically sound curriculum for educating the learners of various age-groups with face-to-face and online learning experiences. As a Visiting Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University, she is working collaboratively with Prof. David Kaufman on projects aiming at the wellbeing of older adults.