Older adults and people with diverse accessibility needs offer opportunities for new personalized technologies beyond one-size-fits-all solutions. Such interaction design faces unique challenges: the need for technologies that can adapt to varied and evolving user capabilities, highly contextualized user needs, and conflicting stakeholder interests, compounded by rapidly changing technologies.
In this talk, Dr. Jiamin (Carrie) Dai will present her research on supporting aging and accessibility needs in social, financial, and digital engagements where she: 1) diversifies sociotechnical design for the dementia community across in-person and virtual settings, 2) innovates accessible interventions for aging situated in financial technology landscapes, and 3) advances methodological guidance and tools for inclusive design.
Dr. Jiamin (Carrie) Dai is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UBC Computer Science and holds a PhD from McGill School of Information Studies. Her research innovates inclusive technologies to tackle complex accessibility challenges, notably supporting older adults in social, financial, and digital engagements. Her work has been published in top-tier ACM human-computer interaction (HCI) venues, including CHI (flagship HCI conference), CSCW (premier conference on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing), and ASSETS (premier accessible computing conference). Her postdoctoral work has been awarded two fellowships (NSERC and AGE-WELL) and a grant (Healthy Aging Research Program), all at the federal level. She has collaborated with researchers beyond her home departments, such as the University of Toronto Computer Science, McGill Family Medicine, and McGill Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her industry partners include Microsoft Research, Samsung Electronics Canada, and the Bank of Canada.