{"id":1783,"date":"2023-01-30T14:53:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiwork.org\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2023-01-30T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:53:24","slug":"conversation-with-melissa-densmore-hosted-by-naveena-karusala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/uncategorized\/conversation-with-melissa-densmore-hosted-by-naveena-karusala\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation with Melissa Densmore hosted by Naveena Karusala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Join us for a CHIWORK conversation on February 2  at 9am EST. Click here:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Melissa-Densmore.ics\">Download Calendar Invite<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speaker: Melissa Densmore<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Associate Professor at University of Cape Town<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Densmore\u00a0is 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\u2019s research explores\u00a0digital content creation and collaboration with low-resource communities\u00a0in the context of\u00a0community wireless networks\u00a0and for\u00a0maternal 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: \u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.melissadensmore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.melissadensmore.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Melissa-Densmore-2021-1020x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1784\" width=\"510\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Melissa-Densmore-2021-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Melissa-Densmore-2021-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Melissa-Densmore-2021-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Melissa-Densmore-2021-768x771.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Melissa-Densmore-2021.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conversation Details:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Date: February 2 2023<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time: 9:00 AM EST (US \u2013 eastern time)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zoom link: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/unh.zoom.us\/j\/98157385667\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/unh.zoom.us\/j\/98157385667<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Calendar Invite: <a href=\"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Melissa-Densmore.ics\">Download Calendar Invite<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a CHIWORK conversation on February 2 at 9am EST. Click here:\u00a0Download Calendar Invite Speaker: Melissa Densmore Associate Professor at University of Cape Town Melissa Densmore\u00a0is 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&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/uncategorized\/conversation-with-melissa-densmore-hosted-by-naveena-karusala\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conversation with Melissa Densmore hosted by Naveena Karusala<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiwork.org\/23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}