Research


I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the SPIRL Lab at Carleton University working under Dr. Elizabeth Stobert, working in collaboration at the University of Waterloo as a Research Associate under Dr. Cosmin Munteanu, in the Technologies for Aging Gracefully lab, where I am working on Usable Privacy for voice-based IoT agents for older adults.

I earned my PhD (2024) and MSc (2019) in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, supervised by Dr. Cosmin Munteanu. I completed my Honours B.Sc (2017) in Computer Science from the University of Toronto as well.

My research looks at the usability and design of conversational voice interfaces, and the development of different tools and resources to aid designers in CUI & VUI design and education – with a particular focus on the development of design guidelines. My research also explores how to bridge the industry-academia gap in CUI & VUI design, and how to improve knowledge transfer between the two. 

I’ve published CUI research and organized CUI workshops across several international SIGCHI venues such as CHI, IUI, MobileHCI, CSCW, CUI, etc. I’ve been part of the CUI steering committee since its inception in 2019.

Professional & Committee Roles

  • Conversational User Interfaces Steering Committee (2019 - Present)

  • Conversational User Interfaces Organizing Committee (2020-Present)
    • Full Papers Track Co-Chair (2024)
    • Workshops Track Co-Chair (2024)
    • Provocations Track Co-Chair (2023)
    • Demos Track Co-Chair (2022)
    • Showcases Track Co-Chair (2020-2021)

  • Associate Chair (Understanding People – Qualitative Methods Subcommittee)  (CHI 2024/2025)

  • Conversational User Interfaces Program Committee (2019 - 2022)

  • Graphics Interface Program Committee (2020)

  • Reviewer for SIGCHI conferences (CHI, MobileHCI, CSCW, CUI, GI, DIS) (2018 - Present)

Theses

Supporting Designers in Voice User Interface Design


Christine Murad

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, University of Toronto, 2024, pp. 1-209

Projects

Below are both current and previous research projects I have been involved in. Click any link to see details about the project and resulting publications.

Usable Privacy for Voice-Based IoT Agents for Older Adults


Post-Doctoral Research, Carleton University & University of Waterloo (Jan 2024 - Present)


Supporting Designers in Voice User Interface


PhD Thesis Research, University of Toronto (Jan 2019 - Present)


Translating GUI Heuristics into VUI Heuristics


Master's Thesis Research, University of Toronto (Sep 2017 - Jan 2019)


LitSense: Supporting Academic Literature Review Workflows


Research Intern, University of Toronto (May 2017 - Aug 2017)


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