Cosmin Munteanu
is an Associate Professor and Schlegel Research Chair in Technology
for Healthy Aging at the Department of Systems Design Engineering,
University of Waterloo, and Director of the Technologies for Ageing
Gracefully lab. They are a transdisciplinary scholar, drawing from a
wide range of disciplines such as engineering, computing sciences,
critical theory, and technology and society studies. Cosmin takes a
primarily ethnomethodological approach to study how to design
intelligent applications that improve access to information, support
social connections late in life, and reduce digital marginalization
for underrepresented groups such as older adults. Their work is
situated at the intersection of user experience design, digital
inclusion, aging, natural language processing, and ethics, primarily
focusing on the sociotechnical design of inclusive interfaces with
and for older adults.
Sayan Sarcar is a
Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at the Birmingham City
University, UK. His
research area includes Computational UI Design, Ageing &
Accessibility, Input and Interaction.
Jaisie Sin
is
is a graduate student at the Technologies
for Ageing Gracefully Lab and the Faculty of Information at the
University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the inclusive design
of conversational interfaces for underrepresented users, with a
primary focus on ageing. She is a Full Papers Co-Chair at the CUI
2023 conference. She has also been a co-organizer of the CUI
conference series, related workshops at CHI ’19–’22, IUI ’20–’21,
and CSCW ’20. She was also the lead organizer of the panel on
age-based inclusivity at CHI '22.
Christina Wei is a
Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information.
Her research is at the intersection of conversational user
interfaces and financial technology, on using CUIs to improve
financial inclusion for marginalized communities such as older
adults.
Sergio Sayago is a Lecturer in Interactive Systems and Languages at the University of Lleida (Spain). Since 2009, his research examines the everyday use of digital technologies by older adults from an interdisciplinary, mostly ethnographic—and qualitative—perspective. His long-term research goal is to understand and improve aging (and living) with digital technologies. He is the author of Cultures in Human-Computer Interaction (Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics, Springer) and editor of Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction Research with Older Adults (Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer).