Author: Juan Maestre

I will be giving a guest lecture remotely in the Department of Computer Science at Yachay Tech to a senior class led by Prof. Gabriela Cajamarca on Wednesday Feb 22nd at 7am (Ecuador time).

I am excited to announce the acceptance of our most recent paper to the ACM CHI’23 Conference to be held in Germany later this year! The title of the paper is “”It’s like With the Pregnancy Tests”: Co-design of Speculative Technology for Public HIV-related Stigma and its Implications for Social Media”. More details about the…

Next Monday, I will be giving a talk “Participatory Design as a Method for More Ethical Computer Science” at the Colloquium series hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. The talk will be held in Keller Hall 3-230. Full talk abstract: https://z.umn.edu/FernandoMaestre

I have been invited to be a panelist in the CSCW workshop “Information-Seeking, Finding Identity: Exploring the Role of Online Health Information in Illness Experience“. The workshop focuses on technology-mediated health information and how it influences people in understanding and making decisions regarding their health. The workshop and panel will take place virtually on November…

The student poster presentation event officially concluded this summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. Great experience working with this amazing research team: undergraduate student Noah Gersich from Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and PhD student Matthew Zent from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota.

It was great to be part of the 2022 New England Future Faculty workshop organized by Northeastern University. Great tips and advice for a successful career in academia!

I have been invited to attend the CSST 2022 Workshop hosted by the University of Texas at Austin from June 6 to 10. I’m so excited to meet colleagues in my research field and learn a lot from expert mentors!

I’m glad I could attend the CHI 2022 Conference held in New Orleans, USA. It was great meeting colleagues and making new friends! I also presented work which resulted from a collaboration with the School of Information at the University of Michigan. A link to the paper “Trust, Reciprocity, and the Role of Timebanks as…

I have been invited to be a member of the Program Committee of the 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW2022). ECSCW2022 will take place from June 27th to July 1st, 2022, in Coimbra, Portugal. For more information: https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2022/

I have been invited to give a talk on my research in rural areas as part of the Rural Computing Speakers Series hosted by the Rural Computing Research Consortium at Michigan State University on April 8th, 2022.