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 |
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04 Jan |
Organizational |
|
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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 |
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 |