About Doctoral & Masters Consortium
The AfriCHI’23 Doctoral and Masters Consortium is an in-person full-day event that will take place during the AfriCHI’23 conference. The primary goal of the DMC is to provide a forum for in-depth research discussions and to build a mentoring and peer network among a small group of participating Masters and Ph.D. students.
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE (ICC)
| TIME | SESSION | VENUE | SESSION ACTIVITIES |
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08:00 - 09:00 |
Welcome Tea/Coffee
Registration |
ICC Foyer |
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09:00 - 10:30 |
Doctoral & Masters Consortium - Student presentations |
REGENCY 1 |
Melissa Densmore, Jacki O’Neill and Nic Bidwell |
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Mid-morning Tea/Coffee Break |
ICC Foyer |
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11:00 - 12:30 |
Doctoral & Masters Consortium - Student presentations |
REGENCY 1 |
Melissa Densmore, Jacki O’Neill and Nic Bidwell |
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12:30 -13:30 |
Lunch |
ICC Dining Hall |
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13:30 -15:00 |
Doctoral & Masters Consortium - Student challenges |
REGENCY 1 |
Melissa Densmore, Jacki O’Neill and Nic Bidwell |
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15:00 -15:30 |
Afternoon Tea/Coffee |
ICC Foyer |
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15:30 - 17:00 |
Doctoral & Masters Consortium - Student challenges |
REGENCY 1 |
Melissa Densmore, Jacki O’Neill and Nic Bidwell |
- Dr Jacki O’Neill is founding Director of Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI). She is passionate about designing technologies which enhance, rather
than remove, agency and create sustainable futures. She brings this passion to the MARI where she is building a multi-disciplinary team, combining
research, engineering, and design to solve local problems globally. An ethnographer by trade, specializing in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) her
research aims to drive innovation to make the best possible technologies for work, health, and society. She has led major research projects in the future
of work, financial inclusion, and global healthcare. She has >50 peer-reviewed articles, two innovation awards and 16 patents. - Associate Professor Melissa Densmore is Director of the HCI Lab at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and Coordinator of Hasso Plattner Institute
Research School at UCT. Her research has a specific focus on co-design of local content and services for communities, particularly around digital maternal
and child health, as well as contributing to the development of iNethi, a software platform designed to support community wireless networks. Melissa
gained her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Information and completed her postdoc with the Technology for Emerging Markets
group at Microsoft Research in Bangalore, India. - Dr Nic (Nicola) Bidwell has held academic positions in Australia, Denmark, Namibia, and South Africa. Her research, at the intersection of HCI and social
informatics, focuses on rural settings and the Global Souths. Her recent studies include Community Networks and community radio and exploring
predictive logics with Indigenous groups to produce more epistemically accountable AI. Nic has >120 peer-reviewed articles and an award for
contributions to social and economic development and her work has influenced policy discussion. Nic co-founded AfriCHI and is chair for Sustainability
on SIGCHI’s Executive Committee. She currently has a role in Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne, while maintaining her home in rural Namibia.