yaw anokwa hi. i'm yaw anokwa and below is a bit about me. i'm a 3rd year ph.d. student at the university of washington. i take advice from gaetano borriello and tapan parikh. i collaborate with the ubicomp group, dub and change. i am currently funded by the national science foundation and was previously funded by the ford motor company. you can reach at yanokwa@cs or stop by cse 386.

as far as research interests go, i'm interested in building, deploying and evaluating low cost technologies which positively impact the developing world and the ubiquitous computing and human computer interaction issues in that space. i also care about the conflicts between technology and society, rfid and nfc, mobile sensor networks, and activity recognition. i generally work with embedded systems, sensors, phones and other such gadgets, but i prefer working with people.

these days, my current projects focus on tools for the developing world. my first project aims to help organizations extract useful data from the various paper forms used. the project is based on issues discovered during a six month stint in rwanda working with partners in health on openmrs (a medical records system). i am also working on open source, standards-based tools for data collection (openrosa) and reporting (gather). i've also been playing with techniques to catch data entry mistakes in data captured in rural environments. if you are interested in my previous projects, read my curriculum vitae or check out the publications below.

projects sometimes turn into recent publications. download my papers and talks below.

oh. i guess there's one more thing. i like to tell stories. it's usually about me doing something dumb and usually told at a bar. buy me a pint, and i just may tell you one...