Robin Brewer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan whose research is at the intersection of human-computer interaction, accessibility, and social computing. She studies how older adults and people with disabilities engage with technology, leveraging the strengths of these communities to design for connection, social well-being, and agency. Robin co-directs the Accessibility, Human-Computer Interaction, and Aging (AHA) lab, is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing, and is an affiliated faculty member with the Digital Studies Institute. Robin’s research has been funded by an NSF CAREER award (2022), Google (2022), the National Institutes of Health (2022), the Retirement Research Foundation (2020), and the Department of Transportation (2018). She was also awarded the prestigious Anita Borg Early Career Award from the Computing Research Association (2023) and the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Michigan (2017). Robin received her B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, M.S. in Human-Centered Computing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Ph.D. in Technology and Social Behavior from Northwestern University.
Robin Brewer
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