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Audrey Girouard is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Research for the Faculty of Engineering and Design at Carleton University. She leads the Creative Interactions Lab, a multidisciplinary research team focused on human-computer interaction, exploring how people utilize tangible devices and wearable technologies. Her work emphasizes co-design with people with disabilities, creating and evaluating new devices that offer innovative input capabilities. Girouard is a principal investigator in the Research Education Design, Innovation (READi) training program. She has received the CS-Can|Info-Can Outstanding Early-Career Computer Science Researcher Award and the Carleton Outstanding Faculty Graduate Mentor Award. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Tufts University in 2010 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University. Girouard's research areas include Generation Interaction Techniques, Deformable User Interactions, Rehabilitation Research, Usability, User Experience, and Tangible User Interactions, and she has also engaged in game design and interactions with wearables.
Carleton University • Ottawa, ON
Teaching and researching in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, focusing on creative interactions, usability, and tangible technologies.
Includes MEng and MASc options.