my name is yaw anokwa. i am 4th year ph.d. student in computer science at the university of washington. i work with gaetano borriello, tapan parikh and the change and dub groups. i'm currently an intern at google where i am building, deploying and evaluating technologies for the developing world. you can find examples of my work below or in my curriculum vitae. email me at yanokwa@cs.
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ypin: the cell phone revolution in the developing world
at world affairs council, 2009 -
mobile data collection overview
at gcamp: emerging technologies for emerging infections, phnom penh, 2009 -
computer science and global development [talk]
at cs 190 at uw, 2009 -
stories from a computer scientist [talk]
at chief sealth, 2009 -
a young researcher’s thoughts on ictd research [paper]
in yrictd at ictd 2009 -
a new generation of open source data collection tools [paper, demo]
yaw anokwa, carl hartung, adam lerer, brian derenzi, gaetano borriello
in ictd 2009 -
ureport - mobile data collection [talk, demo]
yaw anokwa, carl hartung
at google, 2009 -
better health care delivery in east africa through computing [poster]
at university of washington, 2008 -
hacking africa [poster, talk]
at university of puget sound, 2008 -
computing in the developing world [talk]
at cs4hs, 2008 -
building a simpler clinician experience in openmrs [poster]
yaw anokwa, christian allen, chase yarborough, hamish fraser
in phi 2008 -
computer science in the developing world [talk, video]
yaw anokwa, brian derenzi, benson limketkai
at change, 2009 -
optimizing links in the developing world [paper, talk]
yaw anokwa, colin dixon, gaetano borriello, tapan parikh
in wins-dr at mobicom 2008 -
deploying openmrs in rwanda [talk]
at nokia, 2009 -
deploying a medical record system in rural rwanda [paper, poster]
yaw anokwa, christian allen, tapan parikh
in hci4cid at chi 2008
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reliable data collection in highly disconnected environments using mobile phones [paper]
brian derenzi, yaw anokwa, tapan parikh, gaetano borriello
in nsdr at sigcomm 2007
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beyond device pairing: new interactions on nfc enabled mobile phones [paper, talk]
in master's thesis at university of washington, 2007 -
the orca card: seattle's public transit pass [website]
soctech group, 2007 -
rfid deployments and rfid scenarios [poster 1, poster 2]
yaw anokwa, colin dixon, brian ferris, travis kriplean, evan welbourne
at university of washington, 2007 -
mobiscopes for human spaces [magazine, paper]
tarek abdelzaher, yaw anokwa, peter boda, jeff burke, deborah estrin, leonidas guibas, aman kansal, sam madden, jim reich
in ieee pervasive april 2007
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context to make you more aware [paper]
adrienne andrew, yaw anokwa, karl koscher, jonathan lester, gaetano borriello
in iwsawc at icdcs 2007
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the psi board: realizing a phone-centric body sensor network [paper]
trevor pering, pei zhang, rohit chaudhri, yaw anokwa, roy want
in bsn 2007
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a user interaction model for nfc enabled applications [paper, poster, talk]
yaw anokwa, gaetano borriello, trevor pering, roy want
in pertec at percom 2007
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gesture connect: facilitating tangible interaction with a flick of the wrist [paper, talk]
trevor pering, yaw anokwa, roy want
in tei 2007