CSE590F: ICTD Seminar – Winter 2011

ICTD - Information and Communication Technologies for Development

We will meet on Tuesdays 1:30-2:20 in CSE203.

Also consider attending and registering for the Change Seminar/Lunch on Thursdays 12:00-12:50 in CSE203.  This is a less formal and more inter-disciplinary seminar where we’ll be hosting some external speakers as well as discussions of some of the work going on in the many ICTD-related groups at UW.  Check out UW Change.

Interested students meet weekly to discuss recent research in the ICTD field.  The format is fairly standard for research seminars in the department.  First, all participants read a research paper (see the table below for the readings selected for this quarter) chosen from recent publications.  A discussion leader is chosen to present a short summary of the paper (15-20 minutes) and close with a series of questions raised by the paper.  The summary should include the larger context of the paper (research group, evolution of the work, context in which it is being applied, etc.).  The questions raised by the discussion leader serve as a starting point for discussion of the work among all the participants.

Typically, students register for a single credit and are expected to lead or co-lead one session and participate in each of the meetings.  Students may register for more credit by prior arrangement with the instructor.

Please sign up for the seminar mailing list.  You can find the mail archives here and links to the webs of earlier quarters here.

This quarter we will read and discuss papers from the ACM First Annual Symposium on Computing for Development (DEV2010) held at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) in Egham, England in December 2010.

Date

Leader

Paper

04 Jan

Organizational

11 Jan

Nicki

Technology drives Development [slides in pdf]

Eric Brewer

The Case for Technology for Developing Regions [pdf]

Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Kevin Fall, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, and Sonesh Surana

IEEE Computer, Volume 38, Number 6, pp. 25-38, June 2005

18 Jan

Nell

Tangaza: Frugal Group Messaging through Speech and Text [pdf]

Billy Odero, Brian Omwenga, Pauline Githinji, Mokeira Masita-Mwangi, Jonathan Ledlie

25 Jan

Yaw

Small-Vocabulary Speech Recognition for Resource-Scarce Languages [pdf]

Fang Qiao, Jahanzeb Sherwani, Roni Rosenfeld

01 Feb

Brittany

Comparing Web Interaction Models in Developing Regions [pdf]

Jay Chen, Aditya Dhananjay, Saleema Amershi, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

08 Feb

Coco

Local Ground: A Paper-Based Toolkit for Documenting Local Geo-spatial Knowledge [pdf]

Sarah Van Wart, K. Joyce Tsai, Tapan Parikh

15 Feb

Carl
Brian

Evaluating and Improving the Usability of Mechanical Turk for Low-Income Workers in India [pdf]

Shashank Khanna, Aishwarya Ratan, James Davis, William Thies

Scalable crisis relief: Crowdsourced SMS translation and categorization with Mission 4636 [pdf]

Vaughn Hester, Aaron Shaw, Lukas Biewald

22 Feb

YoonSung

Uju: SMS-based Mobile Applications Made Easy [pdf]

Wei-Chih Lu, Matt Tierney, Jay Chen, Faiz Kazi, Alfredo Hubard, Jesus Garcia Pasquel, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Bharat Rao

01 Mar

Rohit

Enriching Textbooks Through Data Mining [pdf]

Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Nitish Srivastava, Raja Velu

08 Mar

Kyle

Hijacking Power and Bandwidth from the Mobile Phone’s Audio Interface [pdf]

Ye-Sheng Kuo, Sonal Verma, Thomas Schmid, Prabal Dutta