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ICT4D:

Sambasivan, N., Rangaswamy, N., Cutrell, E., and Nardi, B. "Ubicomp4D: Interaction and Infrastructure for International Development--The Case of Urban Indian Slums". UbiComp 2009. Orlando, Florida, USA. pp. 155-164 (12% acceptance rate)pdf

Sambasivan, N., Nardi B., Kam, M., "Shared Access and Collaboration in Mobile Phones for International Development", workshop on Designing Future Mobile Software for Underserved Users. CSCW 2008, San Diego, U.S.A. [pdf] [pdf]

Cervantes, R., Sambasivan, N.,"Voicelist: User-driven Telephone-based Audio Content", MobileHCI 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands [pdf]

Dearden A., Light A., Dray S., Thomas, J.C., Best, M., Sambasivan N., Greenblatt D., Krishnan G., Pittman C., "Sharing Perspectives on Community-Centered Design and International Development", the eleventh International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 2007 [pdf]

Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing:

Sambasivan, N., Ventä, L., Mäntyjärvi, J., Isomursu, M., Häkkilä, J. "Designing for Social Context of Mobility: Mobile Applications for Always-on Users". Australian Computer-Human Interaction conference (OzCHI), Melbourne, Australia, 2009 (Pre-publication copy) [pdf]

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

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]

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]

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

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, 2007 [pdf]

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]

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]

Jimison D., Sambasivan N., Pahwa S., Social Tagging for Urban Pedestrians, Georgia Tech Graduate Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA, 2007 [pdf]

Methods and Design Research:

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

Sambasivan, N., Rangaswamy, N., Toyama, K., and Nardi, B. Encountering Development Ethnographically. ACM Interactions. XVI.6. 2009, pp. 20-23 [pdf]

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]

ICT4D workshops co-organized:

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]

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]

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]

Category impossibility:

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

Sambasivan N., Peter V., Krishnan M.R.V., Optimization Techniques in Production of Bio-degradable Plastic using Artifical Neural Networks, National Conference on Modeling and Analysis of Production Systems(MAPS), Trichy, India, 2004 pdf
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