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Book chapters (peer-reviewed)
[B.1] Susan M. Dray, Ann E. Light, Vanessa Evers, Andy Dearden, Melissa Densmore, Matthew Kam, Gary Marsden, Divya Ramachandran, Nithya Sambasivan, Thomas Smyth, Darelle van Gruenen, and Niall Winters. Human Computer Interaction for Development: Changing HCI to Change the World. To appear in the 3rd Edition of the Human-Computer Interaction Handbook, edited by Julie Jacko, published by Taylor & Francis in 2011

Journal articles (peer-reviwed)
[J.1] Rangaswamy, N. and Sambasivan. N. Cutting Chai, Jugaad, and Here Pheri: towards UbiComp for a global community. In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Special issue on the Digital Divide edited by Matt Jones and Gary Marsden. 15(6). pp. 553-564, June 2011. [pdf]

Conference papers (peer-reviewed)
[C.11] Sambasivan, N. and Cutrell, E. (2012). Understanding Negotiation in Airtime Sharing in Low-income Microenterprises. To appear in Proc. of ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI), Austin, TX, USA. (AR: 23%) [pdf] [Best paper honourable mention] Top 5% of conference

[C.10] Sambasivan, N., Weber, J. and Cutrell, E. Designing a Phone Broadcasting System for Urban Sex Workers in India. (2011). In Proc. of ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 267-276. (AR: 26%) [pdf] [Best paper honourable mention] Top 5% of conference

[C.9] Cervantes, R., Warschauer, M., Nardi, B. and Sambasivan, N. (2011). Infrastructures for low-cost laptop use in Mexican schools. In Proc. of ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 945-954.(AR: 26%) [pdf] (AR: 26%)

[C.8] Sambasivan, N. and Smyth, T. The Human Infrastructure in ICTD. ACM/IEEE Interactional Conference on Information and Commmunication Technologies for Development (ICTD) 2010. London, UK. [pdf] (AR: 39%)

[C.7] Light, A., Ladeira, I., Roberson, J., Bidwell, N. J., Rangaswamy, N., Sambasivan, N. and Gitau, S. Gender Matters: Female Perspectives in ICT4D Research. ACM/IEEE Interactional Conference on Information and Commmunication Technologies for Development (ICTD) 2010. London, UK. [pdf] (AR: 39%)

[C.6] Sambasivan, N., Cutrell, E., Toyama, K. and Nardi, B. (2010). Intermediated Technology Use in Developing Communities. In Proc. of ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI), Atlanta, GA. pp. 2583-2592 (AR: 22%) [pdf] [Best paper honourable mention] Top 5% of conference

[C.5] Sambasivan, N., Cutrell, E. and Toyama, K. (2010). ViralVCD: Tracing Information-Diffusion Paths with Low Cost Media in Developing Communities. In Proc. of ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIGCHI), Atlanta, GA pp. 2607-2610 (AR: 22%) [pdf]

[C.4] Sambasivan, N., Rangaswamy, N., Cutrell, E. and Nardi, B. (2009). Ubicomp4D: Interaction and Infrastructure for International Development- The Case of Urban Indian Slums. In Proc. of ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP), Orlando, Florida. pp. 155-164 (AR: 12.5%) [pdf]

[C.3] Sambasivan, N., Ventä, L., Mäntyjärvi, J., Isomursu, M., Häkkilä, J. (2009). "Designing for Social Context of Mobility: Mobile Applications for Always-on Users". In Proc. of ACM Australian Computer-Human Interaction conference (OzCHI), Melbourne, Australia, pp. 137-144 (AR: 53%) [pdf]

[C.2] Best, M., Dearden A., Dray S., Light A., Thomas, J.C., Greenblatt D., Krishnan G., Pittman C., and Sambasivan N., (2007). Sharing Perspectives on Community-Centered Design and International Development. In Proc. of The eleventh International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 696-697 [pdf]

[C.1] Sambasivan, N., Jackson M.M., "Design of Pervasive Brain-computer Interfaces", 3rd Symposium on Usability and HCI in Medicine, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Graz, Austria, pp. 267-272. [pdf]

Workshop papers (peer-reviewed)
[WP.6] Sambasivan, N., Ventä, L., Mäntyjärvi, J., Isomursu, M., Häkkilä, J., "Rhythms of Non-use of Device Ensembles", (2009). Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Boston, U.S.A., pp. 4531-4536. [pdf]

[WP.5] Hui-chun, L., Liu, K., Sambasivan, N., "GreenSweeper: A Persuasive Mobile Game for Environmental Awareness", Workshop on Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism, Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, South Korea [pdf]

[WP.4] Sambasivan, N., Häkkilä, J., Mäntyjärvi, J., "Liminal, Spiritual, and Ritual: Fabrication and Evasion in Urban Journeys through Portable Devices", workshop on Automated Journeys, Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, South Korea [pdf]

[WP.3] Sambasivan, N., Hui-chun, L., Liu, K., "Journalling Urban Infrastructures through Mobile Games", workshop on MobiMundi: Citizen Journalism, MobileHCI 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands [pdf]

[WP.2] Sambasivan, N., "Value-sensitive Design in Pervasive Brain-computer Interfaces", position paper for the workshop on Brain Computer Interfaces for HCI and Games, CHI '08, Florence, Italy [pdf]

[WP.1] Jimison D., Sambasivan N., Pahwa S., "Wigglestick: An Urban Pedestrian Social Navigation Mobile Application", position paper for PERMID, 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive), Toronto, Canada, 2007 [pdf]

Workshops and Panels organized (juried/peer-reviewed)
[W.3] Thomas, J., Dearden, A., Dray, S., Light, A., Best, M., Arkin, N., Maunder, A., Kam, M., Chetty, M., Sambasivan, N., Buckhalter, C., and Krishnan, G. 2008. HCI for Community and International Development. In CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Florence, Italy [pdf]

[W.2] Sambasivan, N., Ho, M., Kam, M., Dray, S., Thomas, J.C., Light, A., Toyama, K., "Human-centered Computing in International Development", Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Boston, U.S.A., 2009 [pdf]

[W.1] Dearden A., Light A., Dray S., Thomas, J.C., Best, M., Sambasivan N., Greenblatt D., Krishnan G., Pittman C., User-Centered Design and International Development, in Extended Abstracts, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI), San Jose, USA, April, 2007. [pdf]

[PN.2] Dimond, J., Gitau, S., Hamel, Y., Hudachek-Buswell,M., Lapsansky, C., Madhavi,B., Moolman, J., Sambasivan, N. and Shackleton, S. Take Back The Tech: A Feminist and Techie Dialogue on Taking Control of Technology to End Violence against Women., at the Grace Hopper Conference, Atlanta, 2010

[PN.1] Ladeira, I., Ramachandran, D., Sambasivan, N., Weber, J., Panel on "Women on Women--Gateways to Socio-economic Development", at the Grace Hopper Conference, Tuscon, Arizona, 2009

Posters and extended abstracts (peer-reviewed)
[P.2] Cervantes, R. and Sambasivan, N. (2008). Voicelist: User-driven Telephone-based Audio Content. 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI). Amsterdam, Netherlands [pdf]

[P.1] Sambasivan N., Dempski K., Harvey B., "One Size Fits All : Contention, Co-operation and the Social Protocol around Large, Public, Multi-touch Displays", poster at ACM Conference on GROUP, Sannibel Island, Florida, 2007 [pdf]

Magazine articles (peer-reviewed)
[M.1] Sambasivan, N., Rangaswamy, N., Toyama, K., and Nardi, B. Encountering Development Ethnographically. ACM Interactions. XVI.6. 2009, pp. 20-23 [pdf]

Demos and non-peer reviewed stuff
Jimison D., Sambasivan N., Pahwa S., Social Tagging for Urban Pedestrians, Georgia Tech Graduate Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, 2007 [pdf]

Murray J., Sambasivan N., Levisohn A., "Casablanca: The Digital Critical Film Edition", demonstrated at the LCC Demo Day in Fall 2005 and Spring 2006, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA


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