Dr. Audrey Girouard
Associate Professor, Associate Dean, FED – Research
- AP230D Azrieli Pavilion , Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
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Audrey Girouard is a Professor in the School of Information Technology and the Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Engineering and Design at Carleton University. She leads the Creative Interactions Lab, a multidisciplinary research team in human computer interaction that considers how people use tangible devices and wearable technologies, understands their applications, with a focus on accessibility. Her lab co-designs with people with disabilities to create and evaluate new devices that offer new input capabilities. She is an investigator on the Research and Education in Accessibility, Design, and Innovation (READi) training program. She received the CS-Can|Info-Can Outstanding Early-Career Computer Science Researcher Award and the Carleton Outstanding Faculty Graduate Mentor Award.
Dr. Girouard received her PhD in Computer Science from Tufts University in 2010, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Human Medial Lab at Queen’s University the following year. Her undergraduate degree is in software engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.
Research Areas
- Next Generation Interaction Techniques
- Deformable User Interactions
- Novel Technologies for Rehabilitation
- Accessibility Research
- Usability, User Experience
- Tangible User Interactions
Research Topics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Game Design, Development, & Interactions
- Wearables
Activities
- Steering Committee Member, ACM TEI Tangible, Embodied and Embedded Interaction, since 2012
Chairs and Program Committees
- PC Co-Chair, ACM TEI Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interfaces, 2018
- Awards Co-Chair, ACM TEI Tangible, Embodied and Embedded Interaction, 2016
- ACM UIST User Interface Software and Technology, 2017, 2018
- ACM CHI Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016
- Graphics Interface Conference, 2016
- ACM TEI Tangible, Embodied and Embedded Interaction, 2016
Other
- Collaborative Learning in Usability Experiences (CLUE) program committee, since 2017
- Research and Education in Accessibility and Design Innovation (READi) program committee, since 2017