Research
Read how they describe their research on their University of British Columbia profile.
Latest papers
A Tailored Self-Management App to Support Older Adults with Cancer and Multi-Morbidities: Development and Usability Testing.
Studies in health technology and informatics · 2024
Tailored Self-Management App to Support Older Adults With Cancer and Multimorbidity: Development and Usability Testing.
JMIR aging · 2024
Scientific and ethical features of English-language online tests for Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2015
Latest funding
- $138,000
Designing interactive digital technologies for a post pandemic world
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $1,650,000
NSERC CREATE in Designing for People (DFP): Cross disciplinary Program in Interactive Computational Technology
NSERC · 2017 · Co-investigator
- $489,650
Making it personal: tools and techniques for fostering effective user interaction with feature-rich software
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
A Tailored Self-Management App to Support Older Adults with Cancer and Multi-Morbidities: Development and Usability Testing.
Kobekyaa FK, Sien SW, Puts M, Currie LM, Tompson M, Hedges P, McGrenere J, Mariano C, Haase KR
Tailored Self-Management App to Support Older Adults With Cancer and Multimorbidity: Development and Usability Testing.
Sien SW, Kobekyaa FK, Puts M, Currie L, Tompson M, Hedges P, McGrenere J, Mariano C, Haase KR
Scientific and ethical features of English-language online tests for Alzheimer's disease.
Robillard JM, Illes J, Arcand M, Beattie BL, Hayden S, Lawrence P, McGrenere J, Reiner PB, Wittenberg D, Jacova C
C-TOC (Cognitive Testing on Computer): investigating the usability and validity of a novel self-administered cognitive assessment tool in aging and early dementia.
Jacova C, McGrenere J, Lee HS, Wang WW, Le Huray S, Corenblith EF, Brehmer M, Tang C, Hayden S, Beattie BL, Hsiung GY
Designing interactive digital technologies for a post pandemic world
Principal investigators: McGrenere, Joanna
Keywords: human-computer interaction; personalization; collaboration; universal usability; assistive technology; mental health and wellbeing; learning support; personal information management; user studies; qualitative/quantitative methods
NSERC CREATE in Designing for People (DFP): Cross disciplinary Program in Interactive Computational Technology
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon KE
Making it personal: tools and techniques for fostering effective user interaction with feature-rich software
Principal investigators: Mcgrenere, Joanna
Highly personalized user interfaces
Principal investigators: McGrenere, Joanna
The Design of Information Computing Technology for Older Adults
Principal investigators: McGrenere, Joanna
The Design of Information Computing Technology for Older Adults
Principal investigators: McGrenere, Joanna
Developing innovative and usable smart phone technologies for older adults
Principal investigators: McGrenere, Joanna
Development of a Computer-Based Screening Test to Support the Evaluation of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in British Columbia
Principal investigators: Jacova, Claudia
Keywords: Alzheimer'S Disease; Cognitive Impairment No Dementia (Cind); Cognitive Screening; Computerised Testing; Diagnosis; Triage
HALO: Transparent guidance of networked interactions through a haptic-affect loop
Principal investigators: MacLean, Karon
Design and evaluation of adaptive and adaptable information technology
Principal investigators: McGrenere, Joanna
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Martine Puts and Joanna McGrenere: 2 shared papers
- Judy Illes and Joanna McGrenere: 1 shared paper
- Martine Puts and Leanne Currie: 1 shared paper
- Leanne Currie and Joanna McGrenere: 1 shared paper
- Medicine/Neurology
- MacIsaac School of Nursing
- Other
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