Meet the Team

Lab Director

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Maurita T. Harris, Ph.D. (She/Her)

Email: mauharris@wlu.ca
I am an Assistant Professor in User Experience Design at Wilfrid Laurier University. I received my B.A. (2015) in Psychology from North Carolina State University, and I received my M.S. (2019) and Ph.D. (2022) in Community Health at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The research conducted in the Well-Tech Research & Design Laboratory aims to design inclusive technologies that can support adults with varying abilities to complete their everyday activities, which is heavily influenced by my grandparents, great-grandmother, great-aunt, and other members of my familial village who helped raise me.

Research Interests:

Aging with and without disabilities; digital health; health and racial equity; motivation; and technology lifecycle (design to adoption)

CV

Lab Assistants

Sydney Giancola (She/Her)

Lab Coordinator
gian3940@mylaurier.ca
Stephanie Kiggundu (She/Her)

Policy Analyst
kigg6730@mylaurier.ca
Audrey Iteka (She/Her)

Social Media Coordinator
itek0130@mylaurier.ca

Graduate Research Assistants

Helana Marie Boutros (she/her)

Ph.D. Student in Health, Society and Aging, McMaster University
hboutros@wlu.ca
Michelle Goonasekera (she/her)

MPH Student (Health Promotion), University of Toronto
mgoonasekera@wlu.ca