Join us for a CHIWORK conversation on February 2 at 9am EST. Click here: Download Calendar Invite
Speaker: Melissa Densmore
Associate Professor at University of Cape Town
Melissa Densmore is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She directs the HCI Lab and coordinates the South African international branch of the Hasso Plattner Institute Research School. Densmore’s research explores digital content creation and collaboration with low-resource communities in the context of community wireless networks and for maternal and child health and well-being, with a particular interest in understanding how to conduct ICT4D research in an appropriate and ethical community-centered manner. She currently serves on the SIGCHI research ethics committee, as chair of her institutional review board, and is General Chair for ACM COMPASS 2023. Prior to joining UCT, Densmore completed a postdoc at Microsoft Research India and worked in Silicon Valley as a software developer for various startups. Melissa completed her PhD at University of California, Berkeley in Information Management and Systems, has an MSc in Data Communications, Networks and Distributed Systems from University College London, and holds a BA in Computer Science from Cornell University. Learn more at: http://www.melissadensmore.com.
Conversation Details:
- Date: February 2 2023
- Time: 9:00 AM EST (US – eastern time)
- Zoom link: https://unh.zoom.us/j/98157385667
- Calendar Invite: Download Calendar Invite