HCI4D
Airtime and broadband management among micro-enterprises in India (ongoing)
with Ed Cutrell.
We seek to understand airtime and broadband management practices among low-income microenterprises in urban India.

Intermediated Technology Use in Developing Communities (2009)
with Ed Cutrell and Kentaro Toyama.
Intermediation is a prevalent mode of information access in low- income communities of the developing world. They enable persons for whom technology is inaccessible due to non-literacy or financial constraints, to benefit from technologies through digitally-skilled users—thus, expanding the reach of technologies.
CHI 2010
Ubicomp 2009
ICTD 2010
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2011

VoiceList (2008)
with Ruy Cervantes
Website here. VoiceList is a telephone-based, user-generated audio classified service.
MobileHCI 2008

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ICT4D
Tribal Practices meet Modern Policies: A Modified sustainable Livelihoods Approach for Indigenous Tribes of Papua, Indonesia (2009)
with Harya S. Dillon, Mayank Patel, and Jessica Perez.
q We attempted to examine  poverty in the rural regions of Papua, given its vulnerability to infectious diseases, a history of famine, and a lack of economic stability. Due to the tribal nature of the population, poverty was defined in terms of very basic needs- nutrition and health care.
Report

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HCI
Designing for Social Context of Mobility: Mobile Applications for Always-on Users (2008)
How does the always-on usage impact our day-to-day lives? How do we escape use? We designed and evaluated three mobile applications, which utilize context-awareness to promote increased sociability, stress relief, and reduced intrusiveness.
OzCHI 2009
CHI 2009
UbiComp 2008

Wigglestick: A Social Navigation System for Next-generation Smart Phones (2007)
Wigglestick is a prototype software application for use on next generation smart phones. Taking advantage of these phones' awareness of their location, Wigglestick enables users to drop media at specific spots, have their location visible to approved friends, and find their way to desired places.
Pervasive 2007
Presented at the Georgia Tech Graduate Student Symposium 2007







MyConcierge (2005)
Making entertainment plans in new cities through a system for making plans in various stages such as by offering overall information about a city's entertainment, businesses, restaurants, etc., allowing users to search for and buy tickets to an event, search for and buy tickets to movies, help find locations and offer directions, offering opportunities for social networking etc.

Designing for epistemological challenges in instructional labs (2006)
For an independent study with Dr.Wendy Newstetter, I wrote an ethnography of students in a bio-medical engineering instructional lab setting.
View the report here

Designing a Phone Broadcasting System for Urban Sex Workers in India (2010)
with Ed Cutrell.
Design, implementation, and deployment of a phone-based broadcasting system for outreach for Pragati: a non-profit, healthcare project targeted at Urban Sex Workers (USWs) in Bangalore, India.

CHI 2011 | New Scientist | Open Magazine | MobileActive.org | KUCI Tech Talk

Design Methods for Low-income Communities (ViralVCD) (2009)
ViralVCD is a low-cost method for tracing paths of information diffusion in developing communities using physical media. 
CHI 2010
HCI Handbook

Greensweeper (2008) with Kah Liu and Hui-chun Lin
GreenSweeper is a collaborative, mixed-reality, photo-based mobile game aimed at promoting environmental awareness.
Ubicomp 2008 | Mobile HCI 2008

Simple Navigation and Access Platform (2006):
Design and development of a simplified cross-cultural software platform based on an alternate interaction metaphor free from western WIMP tradition.
Workshop proposals on HCI4D in CHI 2007 |  CHI 2008 |  CHI 2009.

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Pirate Practices and the Local Imagination
This paper attempts to uncover how a grey market good, the Video Compact Disc made an entry into the slum communities of Bangalore, India. By constructing the VCD as a market device, I seek to uncover the heterogeneous networks and commodity or information flows in a grey economy.
E-mail for paper.

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Studying Socio-technical Intersections around a Multi-touch Wall-sized Display  (2006)
Patterns of cooperation, competition, and other social protocol when a group of unacquainted people uses a large, multi-touch, multi-user software surface to accomplish varying independent goals.

Group 2007

SonicTouch (2005)
A multi-touch music composition tool emphasizing on direct manipulation, collaboration, large size and touchability.

StrategyShopper(2005)
Redesigned the existing shopping process in in medium to large grocery stores a more efficient and less frustrating process.










Qualitative study of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS) patients (2007) I studied the locked-in ALS patient community in the United States to understand their lifestyles better, as part of my master's project. I employed the value-sensitive framework in understanding their lifestyles and in creating guidelines for a neurally-controlled browser.
CHI 2008 | USAB 2007.
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