About Me
I completed my PhD working in the eDAPT lab at UBC under professor Joanna McGrenere in December 2022. I've completed undergrad and graduate degrees in Computer Science and HCI at both the University of McMaster and UBC. Professionally I've also worked as a web developer and test automation specialist. Working at Blackberry throughout my summers during my undergrad degree.
As I move forward in academia I am looking forward to greater teaching and mentorship opportunities. I began sessional lecturering in January of 2022 with CPSC 344: Introduction to HCI Methods. I continued teaching 344 in September 2022 and CPSC 444 in January 2023. I have been a teaching assistant (TA) for a variety of computer graphics and HCI courses at UBC, highly enjoying the teaching experience. This led to me being appointed as the UBC Computer Science TA coordinator and to presenting tips and tricks for success at a series of UBC CS TA training events. Post-grad, I am planning to pursue similar positions, possibly moving towards a teaching track faculty position.
HCI Research Interests
- Personalization and Customization
- Interruptions and Notification Management
- Pointing Performance Evaluation
- Universal Usability
Lecturing
- UBC CPSC 444: Advanced HCI Methods - January term 2023
- UBC CPSC 344: Introduction to HCI Methods - September term 2022
- UBC CPSC 344: Introduction to HCI Methods - January term 2022
Teaching Assistant Assignments
Publications
- Izabelle F Janzen and Joanna McGrenere. 2022. Reflective Spring Cleaning: Using Personal Informatics to Support Infrequent Notification Personalization. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 179, 1–16. Online Copy
- Izabelle Janzen, Francesco Vitale, and Joanna McGrenere. 2018 Control and personalization : younger versus older users experience of notifications. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2018, GI 2018, pp. 129-136. Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. Online Copy
- Francesco Vitale, Izabelle Janzen, and Joanna McGrenere. 2018. Hoarding and Minimalism: Tendencies in Digital Data Preservation. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 587, 12 pages. Online Copy
- Izabelle Janzen, Vasanth K. Rajendran, and Kellogg S. Booth. 2016. Modeling the Impact of Depth on Pointing Performance. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 188-199. Online Copy
- Janzen, Izabelle, and Robert J. Teather. "Is 60 FPS better than 30?: the impact of frame rate and latency on moving target selection." CHI'14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2014. Online Copy
Degrees
