Karyn Moffatt
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Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing
Graduate Program Director, PhD
On Sabbatical Leave: January鈥揓une 2026
- PhD (Computer Science), University of British Columbia
- MSc (Computer Science), University of British Columbia
- BASc (Computer Engineering), University of British Columbia
Karyn Moffatt is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at 91丝瓜视频 and the Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing. She leads the Accessible Computing Technologies Research Group where she studies how computing applications can be designed to be more inclusive of diverse needs and preferences across the lifespan, especially with respect to supporting social engagement and interaction. Her work has been recognized with Best Paper awards from ASSETS, CHI, and CSCW. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for ACM鈥檚 Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), and recently served as Program Co-Chair for ASSETS 2020 and Sub-Committee Co-Chair鈥擜ccessibility and Aging for ACM CHI 2023.
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- Associate Editor:
| 2024鈥�2029 |
Ethical and appropriate AI enhanced services to support active aging in later life. NSERC Discovery Grant. (Principal Investigator) |
| 2022鈥�2027 |
Inclusive Social Computing. Canada Research Chair Program. (Principal Investigator) |
| 2023鈥�2025 |
The Collaborative Design, Usability and Acceptability of 鈥渋Respite鈥�: An mHealth App Prototype to Coordinate Palliative Oncology Respite Care Services in Quebec.聽91丝瓜视频 Nursing Collaborative for Education and Innovation in Patient- and-Family-Centered Care. (Co-Investigator) |
A full listing of publications is available on . Recent publications include:聽聽
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Muhe Yang and Karyn Moffatt. 2025. Breaking barriers: Co-designing physical activity promoting technologies with older adults living alone. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 18, 3, Article 13, (Sept. 2025), 1鈥�31. doi:10.1145/3763796
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Robert Douglas Ferguson, Rebekah Willson, and Karyn Moffatt. 2025. Am I being responsible?": Navigating coming-of-age transitions through personal financial information management (PFIM). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Early View, 1鈥�18. doi:10.1002/asi.24990
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Muhe Yang and Karyn Moffatt. 2024. Navigating the maze of routine disruption: exploring how older adults living alone navigate barriers to establishing and maintaining physical activity habits. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�24) Article聽464, 15 pages. doi:10.1145/3613904.3642842.
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Mauricio Fontana de Vargas, Christina Yu, Howard C. Shane, and Karyn Moffatt. 2024. Co-designing QuickPic: automated topic-specific communication boards from photographs for AAC-based language instruction. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�24) Article 910, 16 pages. doi:10.1145/3613904.3642080.
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Amira Ghenai, Philips Ayeni, Jing Yu, Robin Cohen, and Karyn Moffatt. 2023. Guidelines for designing social networking sites for older adults: a systematic review with thematic synthesis. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 16, 3, Article 19, Article 19, 1鈥�23. doi:10.1145/3615662
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Jiamin Dai聽and Karyn Moffatt. 2023. Enriching social sharing for the dementia community: in-sights from in-person and online social programs. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 16, 1, Article 11, 1鈥�32. doi:10.1145/3582558
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Jiamin Dai, Joan Bartlett, and Karyn Moffatt. 2023. Library services enriching community engagement for dementia care: the Tales & Travels program at a Canadian public library as a case study. Journal of Librarianship & Information Science, 55, 1, 123鈥�136. doi:10.1177/09610006211065170
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Jiamin Dai, John Miedema, Sebastian Hernandez, Alexandra Sutton-Lalani, and Karyn Moffatt.聽2023. Cognitive accessibility of digital payments: a literature review. In Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A鈥�23), 116鈥�121. doi:10 . 1145 / 3587281 . 3587294.
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Mauricio Fontana de Vargas, Jiamin Dai, and Karyn Moffatt. 2022. AAC with automated vocabulary from photographs: insights from school and speech-language therapy settings. In Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS鈥�22) Article 23, 18 pages. doi:10.1145/3517428.3544805. [Awarded Best Student Paper &聽Best Artifact]
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Jiamin Dai, Karyn Moffatt, Jinglan Lin, and Khai Truong. 2022. Designing for relational maintenance: new directions for AAC research. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�22) Article 602, 15 pages. doi:10.1145/3491102.3502011
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Mauricio Fontana de Vargas聽and Karyn Moffatt. 2021. Automated generation of storytelling聽vocabulary from photographs for use in AAC. in Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) (ACL-IJCNLP 鈥�21), 1353鈥�1364. doi:10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.108
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Jiamin Dai聽and Karyn Moffatt. 2021. Surfacing the voices of people with dementia: Strategies for effective inclusion of proxy stakeholders in qualitative research. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�21) Article 374, 13 pages. doi:10.1145/3411764.3445756
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Carolyn Pang, Zhiqin Collin Wang, Joanna McGrenere, Rock Leung, Jiamin Dai, and Karyn聽Moffatt. 2021. Technology adoption and learning preferences for older adults: evolving perceptions, ongoing challenges, and emerging design opportunities. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�21) Article 490. Yokohama, Japan, 13 pages.聽doi:10.1145/3411764.3445702.