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SUMMARY:DDI Summer Speaker Series - Dr. Parmit Chilana
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Parmit Chilana\, 3rd July from 12:30- 1:30pm PST \nDr. Chilana is  Associate Professor and Ebco-Eppich Research Chair at the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. She co-directs the Interactive Experiences Lab  at SFU. Her main area of research is in human-computer interaction (HCI)\, particularly\, focusing on inventing and deploying user-centered software help and learning techniques for feature-rich applications in a variety of domains\, such as 3D modeling\, education\, health\, and software development. She is passionate about using interdisciplinary approaches to understand and design for user diversity and empower users from all backgrounds and skills levels to use\, learn\, and program emerging technologies. Her work has been recognized with several awards and honors\, including the 2022  CS-CAN  Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher Award\, an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award\, and Best Paper Awards at venues such as ACM CHI. Before coming to SFU\, She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. I received my PhD from the University of Washington  where I co-founded AnswerDash \, a venture-funded startup that commercialized my award-winning dissertation work on crowdsourced contextual help retrieval. \n\n\n\nThis is a in-person event. Please email: ddi_comms@sfu.ca to rsvp.
URL:https://digitaldemocracies.org/calendar/ddi-spring-speaker-series-dr-parmit-chilana/
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