Melissa Densmore

Orcid: 0000-0003-1733-2653

Affiliations:
  • University of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa


According to our database1, Melissa Densmore authored at least 62 papers between 2005 and 2023.

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2023
Reconsidering Priorities for Digital Maternal and Child Health: Community-centered Perspectives from South Africa.
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2023

Community Networks powered by Community Currencies.
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2023

Research with Communities: Learning with Experts from Global Community Network.
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2023

Self-directed digital learning for maternity health workers A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure application for empathic care.
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2023

HCI Across Borders: Towards Global Solidarity.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

African Co-Design: Past, Present, and Emerging.
Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference, 2023

Reconsidering Network Management Interfaces for Communities.
Proceedings of the 4th African Human Computer Interaction Conference, 2023

2022
Community-based Co-design across Geographic Locations and Cultures: Methodological Lessons from Co-design Workshops in South Africa.
Proceedings of the PDC 2022: Participatory Design Conference 2022, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 19 August 2022, 2022

A Descriptive Analysis of Cohesion within Virtual and Physical Small Groups of Mothers in Bandwidth-Constrained Communities in Cape Town.
Proceedings of the COMPASS '22: ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Seattle, WA, USA, 29 June 2022, 2022

Situating Network Infrastructure with People, Practices, and Beyond: A Community Building Workshop.
Proceedings of the Companion Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2022

2021
Poster: Lessons from Doing Fieldwork with Bandwidth-constrained communities Online.
Proceedings of the COMPASS '21: ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Virtual Event, Australia, 28 June 2021, 2021

The Future of Care Work: Towards a Radical Politics of Care in CSCW Research and Practice.
Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2021 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2021

SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee Town Hall.
Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2021 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2021

Detection of Malicious Nodes Using Collaborative Neighbour Monitoring in DSA Networks.
Proceedings of the Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Wireless Internet, 2021

From Research to Practice: The Operationalisation of Human-Computer Interaction and Service Design in an African Context.
Proceedings of the AfriCHI 2021: 3rd African Human-Computer Interaction Conference, 2021

2020
Translation in conversation.
Interactions, 2020

Stakeholder Relations and Ownership of a Community Wireless Network: The Case of iNethi.
Proceedings of the Innovations and Interdisciplinary Solutions for Underserved Areas, 2020

iNethi Community Network: A first look at local and Internet traffic usage.
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2020

Research Ethics Roundtable.
Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2020

2019
A Characterization of Digital Native Approaches To Mobile Privacy and Security.
Proceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2019

On the potential of Google AMP to promote local content in developing regions.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks, 2019

Artful Integrations of Infrastructures by Community-based Telecoms.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies, 2019

2018
Localize-It: Co-designing a Community-Owned Platform.
Proceedings of the Locally Relevant ICT Research, 2018

Experimental Analysis of 5 GHz WiFi and UHF-TVWS Hybrid Wireless Mesh Network Back-Haul Links.
Proceedings of the Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, 2018

Exploring Co-design with Breastfeeding Mothers.
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

Research Ethics for HCI: A Roundtable Discussion.
Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

Co-designing with mothers and neonatal unit staff: use of technology to support mothers of preterm infants.
Proceedings of the Second African Conference for Human Computer Interaction: Thriving Communities, 2018

2017
Video Consumption Patterns for First Time Smartphone Users: Community Health Workers in Lesotho.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

Co-Design Across Borders Special Interest Group.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

Research Ethics in HCI: A Town Hall Meeting.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017

Performance Analysis of a Collaborative DSA-Based Network with Malicious Nodes.
Proceedings of the e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, 2017

2016
Leveraging Intermediated Interactions to Support Utilization of Persuasive Personal Health Informatics.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2016

A First Look at Mobile Internet Use in Township Communities in South Africa.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2016

Apps and Skits: Enabling New Forms of Village-To-Clinic Feedback for Rural Health Education.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2016

A Family Health App: Engaging Children to Manage Wellness of Adults.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2016

Using Co-Design to Discern and Overcome Barriers to Employment in Cape Town.
Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2016


Characterisation of Clinical Practice Guideline Changes.
Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2016), 2016

Head to Head Battle of TV White Space and WiFi for Connecting Developing Regions.
Proceedings of the e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, 2016

Designing with Community Health Workers: Enabling Productive Participation Through Exploration.
Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 2016

2015
Real mobiles: Kenyan and Zambian smallholder farmers' current attitudes towards mobile phones.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2015

Towards an architectural design of a guideline-driven EMR system: a contextual inquiry of Malawi.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2015

How to choose a mobile phone for an ICT4D project.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2015

2014
Online Gaming for Crowd-sourcing Phrase-equivalents.
Proceedings of the COLING 2014, 2014

2013
Balancing burden and benefit: non-prescribed use of employer-issued mobile devices.
Proceedings of the International conference on information and communication technologies and development, 2013

Understanding Jugaad: ICTD and the tensions of appropriation, innovation and utility.
Proceedings of the International conference on information and communication technologies and development, 2013

The evolving braid: how an organization in Uganda achieved reliable communications.
Proceedings of the International conference on information and communication technologies and development, 2013

Featured community SIG: human-computer interaction for development.
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

2012
The Evolving Braid: An Ethnography of Technology Change in Uganda.
PhD thesis, 2012

Experiences with bulk SMS for health financing in Uganda.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

Claim mobile: when to fail a technology.
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

2010
Human Performance Challenges in Port/Harbour Security Systems.
Proceedings of the Human Systems Integration to Enhance Maritime Domain Awareness for Port/Harbour Security, 2010

A Methodology for Designing a Human/Machine Information System to Support Harbour Security: NATO ARW Group Two Report.
Proceedings of the Human Systems Integration to Enhance Maritime Domain Awareness for Port/Harbour Security, 2010

Communication and computing in health facilities of southwest Uganda.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010

2009
ICTD for healthcare in Ghana: Two parallel case studies.
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2009

Claim Mobile: Engaging conflicting stakeholder requirements in healthcare in Uganda.
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2009

Human-centered computing in international development.
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009

2008
A Framework for Designing Teleconsultation Systems in Africa
CoRR, 2008

Asynchronous remote medical consultation for Ghana.
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008

2006
The Challenges of Technology Research for Developing Regions.
IEEE Pervasive Comput., 2006

Rethinking Wireless in the Developing World.
Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, 2006

2005
The Case for Technology in Developing Regions.
Computer, 2005


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