1.
Fall: an
exploration phase to identify interesting problems
2.
Winter: a
brainstorming phase to come up with and evaluate possible solutions
3.
Spring: an
implementation phase to actually create robust prototypes
The theme for the course is "Technology for
Low-Income Regions". We will be
looking at problems in health care, agriculture, transportation, and education
that arise in the developing world and rural regions of the developed
world. There will be projects that will
involve hardware design, software design, embedded devices, web applications,
and every combination of these. Some
example projects:
-
PDA/phone-based
medical protocols for pediatric health tracking
-
Smart pill
bottles to help train patients to their medication regimen
-
SMS-based
transportation coordination
-
Mash-ups to
visualize medical data
-
Connecting rural
producers and urban consumers
-
Sensor networks
for environmental monitoring
-
Peer-to-peer data
dissemination for areas without reliable connectivity
This fall, please register for CSE490D (the
exploration seminar). This will be
followed by a 2-credit design studio in the Winter
quarter. Finally, CSE477 will serve a
5-credit implementation course in the Spring. Note that although CSE477 is the official CompE capstone, it is open to all students with no pre-requisitive requirements except all the CSE core courses
(i.e., 300-level requirements). Projects
will
accomodate a wide range of backgrounds. Final reports will be in the form of research
workshop/conference submissions - high-quality reports will be submitted for
publication.
The
477/490D Blog – please post your comments as you complete each
reading, post your notes after class, and participate in discussions. Make sure to subscribe to
the class e-mail list.
Date |
Topic |
Paper |
26 Sep |
|
Organizational |
03 Oct |
Health care |
e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income
Countries Brian DeRenzi,
Neal Lesh, Tapan Parikh, Clayton Sims, Marc Mitchell, Werner Maokola, Mwajuma Chemba, Yuna Hamisi, David Schellenberg, |
10 Oct |
Education |
Multiple Mice for
Computers in Education in Developing Countries Udai Singh Pawar, Joyojeet Pal, Kentaro Toyama |
17 Oct |
Microfinance |
Using Mobile
Phones for Secure, Distributed Document Processing in the Developing World Tapan S. Parikh |
24 Oct |
Micro-enterprises |
Jonathan Donner |
31 Oct |
|
Discussion of possible
projects – take
the mid-quarter survey |
07 Nov |
Agriculture |
Issue
30 on Precision Agriculture – January 2006 ICT Update Rikin Gandhi, Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Kentaro
Toyama, Vanaja Ramprasad |
14 Nov |
Transportation |
Issue 63 on
Mobility – July 2006 id21insights Transport, mobility and social capital in
developing countries Annabel Bradbury |
19 Nov (not 21 Nov) |
Markets |
Warana Unwired: Replacing PCs with Mobile Phones in a
Rural Sugarcane Cooperative Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Naga Yasodhar, Kentaro Toyama (see e-mail attachment or
contact gaetano@cs.washington.edu
for copy of paper) |
28 Nov |
|
Discussion of possible
projects and initial forming of groups |
07 Dec (not 05 Dec) at 3:30 |
|
Wrap-up and planning for
next quarter |