Assistant Professor, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Email: ghajargar@chapman.edu
EDUCATION/TRAINING
2014 - 2018: Ph.D. (cum laude) in Management, Production and Design, Politecnico di Torino
2012 - 2014: Master of Science in Eco Design, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design
2009 - 2012: Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design, Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design
ACADEMIC/INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
2019 - 2023: Associate Senior Lecturer (Universitetslektor, biträdande), Malmö University, Sweden
2018 - 2019: Lecturer and Postdoc researcher, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS
Dr. Maliheh Ghajargar is an Assistant Professor at the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Chapman University. Prior to joining Chapman University, she held an assistant professorship position at Malmö University, Sweden and a post-doc position at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.
Her research is in the areas of Graspable AI, Human-AI creative collaboration, and posthumanistic design. In her research she uses qualitative and self-reflexive methods such as autoethnography and autobiographical design, as well as co-design workshops and interviews, to learn about people’s experiences and their interactions with non-humans.
She teaches UX, interdisciplinary design practices and research methods.
Her research has been published by top-ranked journals in the field of design and HCI, such as MIT Design Issues, The Design Journal, International Journal of Design, ACM interactions, and Digital Creativity. Her scholarly works have been also published in HCI and design conference proceedings such as ACM CHI, ACM TEI, NordiCHI, and EAD. She has organized several workshops in international venues such as ACM TEI and NordiCHI conferences on the topics of UX of AI and Graspable AI.
She has been part of conference program committees as Associate Chair at the ACM TEI, DIS, CHI conferences and Doctoral Consortium Chair at the Academic MindTrek conference.