HCI4D
with Ed
Cutrell.
 We seek to understand airtime and broadband
management practices among low-income microenterprises in urban India.
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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
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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 |
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 |
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with Ruy
Cervantes
Website here.
VoiceList is a telephone-based, user-generated audio classified
service.
MobileHCI
2008
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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
|
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.
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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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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. |
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
|
 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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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
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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
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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. |
SonicTouch (2005)
A multi-touch
music composition tool emphasizing on direct manipulation,
collaboration, large size and touchability.
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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
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StrategyShopper(2005)
 Redesigned the existing shopping process in
in medium to large grocery stores a more efficient and less frustrating
process.
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 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. |