March 2010 - change - Mailing Lists

Fwd: Course Presentations: Technology for Resource Constrained Environments (fwd)
by Gaetano Borriello 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:24:25 -0800 From: Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa(a)gmail.com> To: Change Group <change(a)change.washington.edu> Subject: [change] Course Presentations: Technology for Resource Constrained Environments In Winter quarter, students from CSE 490 and HCDE 419 (HCI) worked together on projects designed to build technologies for resource constrained environments; they are presenting the results of their projects and prototypes at a poster session in the Allen Center Atrium on Tuesday 3/16 from 4:30-6:30. In spring quarter these projects will continue as CS capstone projects with HCDE students enrolling in a research group to participate in user testing and evaluation stages of the projects. Check out http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=1236 for all the project descriptions and contact either Ruth Anderson at rea(a)cs.washington.edu or Beth Kolko at bkolko(a)uw.edu if you have any questions! _______________________________________________ change mailing list change(a)change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change -- For detailed contact information, see: http://www.cse.washington.edu/homes/gaetano

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Lecture: Reducing Health Disparities through Informatics -- Dr. Suzanne Bakken, Columbia University
by Sherrilynne Fuller 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

FYI Sherri Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D. Professor Biomedical and Health Informatics School of Medicine and Department of Health Services (Adj) School of Public Health Co-Director, Center for Public Health Informatics University of Washington BOX 35-4943 Seattle, Washington 98105 206-221-7444 206-491-6380 (mobile) 206-616-5249 (FAX) <mailto:sfuller@u.washington.edu> sfuller(a)u.washington.edu From: bhi-folk-bounces(a)mailman2.u.washington.edu [mailto:bhi-folk-bounces@mailman2.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sandy S. Turner Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:37 AM To: 'bhi-folk(a)uw.edu'; 'dbi(a)u.washington.edu' Subject: [BHI-Folk] Special Guest Lecturer Sponsored by CIPCT Program Importance: High Special Guest Lecturer Sponsored by CIPCT Program Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Health Sciences, Room T-661 The Clinical Informatics and Patient Centered Technologies (CIPCT) Program is sponsoring a lecture "Reducing Health Disparities through Informatics," by Dr. Suzanne Bakken, RN, DNSc, FAAN, FACMI, Columbia University. Dr. Bakken is the Director of the Center for Evidence-based Practice in the Underserved, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Alumni Professor, Columbia University School of Nursing. Dr. Bakken's research pursuits are at the crossroads of healthcare informatics, evidence-based practice and underserved populations. Clinical interests include utilization of informatics interventions to aid patient self-management of illness, enhancement of health literacy, and improvement of patient safety through the use of clinical decision support and translating research to practice. Populations include: HIV/AIDS, depression, obesity, tobacco cessation. In her presentation Dr. Bakken will provide an overview of several projects that utilize informatics to reduce health disparities.

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Rohit Chaudhri on A Programmable Accessory for Cell Phones
by Yaw Anokwa 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

This Thursday at Change, UW grad student Rohit Chaudhri will presenting his work on A Programmable Accessory for Cell Phones. Like last week, we'll provide food for attendees. Rohit says, “Low-tier cell phones like the Nokia 1100, 1200, 2600 etc, are commonly used by individuals from low-income groups in developing regions. While these phones are cheap and affordable (within the $20-$30 range), they do not have a programmable runtime environment like Android, J2ME, Symbian, Windows Mobile etc, as is available on mid to high tier mobile phones. Hence mobile application developers are unable to create applications for these phones. This restricts the services that can be delivered to users of such phones. In this talk I will present an approach to extend the capabilities of low-tier cell phones. This uses a microcontroller-based accessory connected to the phone to achieve the goal. The idea is to use the cell phone for IO and communications, while application specific computation is offloaded to the microcontroller. I will present the high-level architecture of the system and then discuss implementation and platform capabilities. I will show a location aware application based on this platform. Towards the end I will discuss other possible applications. If folks have ideas about how this platform can be used for ICTD research, it would be great to discuss those during the talk. I built this platform during my recent internship at MSR India in Bangalore. In prototype scale production, a completely assembled unit costs around $15. A tech report about this work is available at: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/?id=117754. If time permits I will mention about other fun projects I was involved in during this awesome internship!” What: Rohit Chaudhri on A Programmable Accessory for Cell Phones When: Thursday, March 11 at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 203

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Course Presentations: Technology for Resource Constrained Environments
by Yaw Anokwa 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

In Winter quarter, students from CSE 490 and HCDE 419 (HCI) worked together on projects designed to build technologies for resource constrained environments; they are presenting the results of their projects and prototypes at a poster session in the Allen Center Atrium on Tuesday 3/16 from 4:30-6:30. In spring quarter these projects will continue as CS capstone projects with HCDE students enrolling in a research group to participate in user testing and evaluation stages of the projects. Check out http://ugradnews.cs.washington.edu/?p=1236 for all the project descriptions and contact either Ruth Anderson at rea(a)cs.washington.edu or Beth Kolko at bkolko(a)uw.edu if you have any questions!

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Fwd: [hci4d] India HCI 2010 / IDID 2010 - less than 2 weeks away
by Yaw Anokwa 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anirudha Joshi <anirudhaidc(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 01:50 Subject: [hci4d] India HCI 2010 / IDID 2010 - less than 2 weeks away To: hci4d <hci4d(a)googlegroups.com> It is less than 2 weeks to go for the India HCI 2010 / Interaction Design for International Development 2010. The keynote speakers are Prof. Mary Beth Rosson, Pennsylvania State University, Anurag Gupta, A Little World, Prof. Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad and Prof. Edwin Blake, University of Cape Town. Also lined up are 38 peer reviewed papers, 5 presentations by leading industry experts and 7 student projects. The advance programme is out - check it out at http://www.indiahci.in/programme.html. Visit http://www.indiahci.in/registration.html to register. If you can't get away from work during the week, we also have an exciting programme lined up on the weekend before the conference http://www.indiahci.in/workshops.html. We have interesting half- and one-day long tutorials - opportunities to learn from the experts: Intellectual Property Rights: Protecting and monetizing our ideas and designs - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t01.html New modes of interaction - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t03.htm Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t04.htm Right Fidelity Rapid Prototyping Using MS Excel - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t06.htm Fundamentals of Web Typography - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t07.htm Soft Prototyping - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t08.htm Classical think aloud evaluation of Human Computer Interaction - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t11.htm Gesture Analysis - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t13.htm Best Practices - Eye Tracking and Behavioral Research in Design and Usability: Make Perception Tangible - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t15.htm Tips for Effective Usability Testing in India - http://www.indiahci.in/tutorials/t16.htm We also have participative workshops where you can engage in half to one-day of engaging discussions with like-minded people: HCI aspects of information visualisation in industrial Software Systems - http://www.indiahci.in/workshops/w01.htm HCI education in India - http://www.indiahci.in/workshops/w02.htm A national UX conference and national UX body in India - http://www.indiahci.in/workshops/w03.htm Approaching Culture(s): Myths and Realities on the Culture Trail - http://www.indiahci.in/workshops/w04.htm Moving Up the Value Chain - http://www.indiahci.in/workshops/w05.htm Modelling for accessibility personalization in HCI - http://www.indiahci.in/workshops/w06.htm Designing for Social Impact and Social Innovations - http://www.indiahci.in/workshops/w08.htm To register to any of the above, go to http://www.indiahci.in/registration.html. Apologies if you got this message more than once. Anirudha Joshi Andrew Dearden General Chairs -- India HCI 2010 / IDID 2010 (March 20-24, 2010) www.indiahci.in -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hci4d" group. To post to this group, send email to hci4d(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hci4d%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hci4d?hl=en.

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Graduate Workshop With Castells (Workshop is April 9th; Deadline for Proposals is March 22)
by Philip N. Howard 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Dear Colleagues: Dr. Karine Barzilai-Nahon (karineb(a)uw.edu) and I are coordinating a half-day workshop for graduate research about information, communication, and society. Like the Technology and Society workshop from 2 years ago, the goals is to give advanced graduate students the stage, and interested faculty will serve by offering feedback. Manuel Castells--visiting as an Walker-Ames lecturer--will also be there to help workshop graduate research. (Please note this is different from the 1 credit seminar that will be meeting to discuss Castells' writing.) I've attached the announcement and would be grateful if you could circulate this to grads. Sincerely, Phil Howard Information, Communication & Power A Graduate Workshop with Manuel Castells Friday April 9th, 10:30-3:00 Deadline for Proposals: March 22nd 2010 Manuel Castells, one of the most cited contemporary scholars and author of The Rise of the Network Society (1996) and Communication and Power (2009), will be a 2010 Walker-Ames Lecturer. His campus visit is organized by the Graduate School, and will include a large public lecture on April the 8th at 6:30 in Kane Hall (Room 120). In addition, the Information School and the Department of Communication of the University of Washington will host a workshop for advanced graduate students working on questions of technology, information, media and society. The workshop will be an opportunity for students to present research that is in development, including dissertation chapters, fieldwork observations, and drafts of article-length manuscripts. The event will involve core technology and society faculty from both the Information School and the Department of Communication, along with visiting scholar Manuel Castells. The workshop will be held between 10:30 and 3:00, on April 9th 2010. Lunch will be provided. Six applicants will be selected to join the workshop with Castells. Students will be selected on the basis of fit with workshop themes and the progress towards completing their graduate research. Overview. The aim of this event is to advance scholarship on networks, communication, society and power through focused discussions of ideas and research strategies with scholars who are innovative thinkers in the area of technology and society. The workshop will allow for research strategizing around questions of inequalities and power, politics and networks, institutions and work, sociopolitical movements, and organizing processes and practices-in relation to technology and culture. Logistics. The workshop will comprise approximately six faculty and six graduate students from UW, along with visiting scholar Manuel Castells. In preparation for the workshop, participants will be asked to share a draft manuscript one week prior to meeting. Eventually, powerpoint slides or other digital artifacts can also be shared in an online workspace. The workshop will take place at the Simpson Center, and lunch will be provided at the University of Washington Club. Graduate students will be expected to make a 20 minute presentation about their research questions, the progress of their work, and some reflection on the remaining challenges they face in their project. The workshop will be a great opportunity for substantive feedback from both Castells and UW faculty. Selection. To be considered for participation in the workshop, please email a copy of your CV to either Karine Barzilai-Nahon (karineb(a)uw.edu) or Phil Howard (pnhoward(a)uw.edu) the deadline is March 22nd. In your cover email, briefly introduce your project and describe where you are in the research process. Invitations will be extended to graduate students, so in your email to us please describe where you are in the process of completing a graduate degree. Selection will be based on several factors, including the quality and innovation of your work, progress towards completing the graduate degree, the ideas articulated in your letter, the fit between your research interests and the likely contribution of your research to scholarship on technology and society, understanding communication networks and power.

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Urgent Evoke: A online game which seeks to empower Africa
by Yaw Anokwa 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

EVOKE is a ten-week crash course in changing the world. The goal of the social network game is to help empower young people all over the world, and especially young people in Africa, to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems. Top players will also earn online mentorships with experienced social innovators and business leaders from around the world, seed funding for new ventures, and travel scholarships to share their vision for the future at the EVOKE Summit in Washington DC. EVOKE was developed by the World Bank Institute, the learning and knowledge arm of the World Bank Group, and directed by alternate reality game master Jane McGonigal. http://www.urgentevoke.com/ http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/01/evoke.game.africa.poverty/

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by ghalib yacoub 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi Team, I have a COM function that call a database(SQL) stored procedure having 48 parameters. The COM behaves nicely when called from VB program, but the stored procedure sometimes failed when it is called from classic ASP project. Sometimes it succeeded as well. In case of failure the returned HRESULT value is -2147217887. The Profiler never shows that the stored procedure is called in case of failure. The behavior is quite unpredictable. regards Ghalib,Tanzania _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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Help on Chinese
by Richard Anderson 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

I am looking for a Chinese speaker who could provide assistance for a project at PATH - there is device that needs to be evaluated for a TB project - it is manufactured in China, and all of the documentation is in Chinese - so we need help with translation and evaluation of the device. If you have appropriate background and are interested, please let me know. Some compensation is available. - Richard

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Nell O'Rourke discussing Kentaro Toyama's talk "Ten Myths of Technology and Development"
by Eleanor O'Rourke 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

This Thursday at Change, Nell O'Rourke will provide an overview of the key points of Kentaro Toyama's talk "Ten Myths of Technology and Development" and lead a discussion about this material. Please take a brief look at the slides (http://change.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/2009-11-19-Ten-Myth…) thinking about which myth you agree with and disagree with most, and come prepared to share your ideas. Kentaro Toyama is a visiting scholar at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and until 2009 he was the assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India, which he co-founded in 2005. "In the same world where there are 1.4 billion Internet users, a very different 1.4 billion people live below the World Bank's poverty line. As if in sudden recognition of this gap, the past decade has seen incredible interest in applying information and communication technologies for global development, an endeavor often abbreviated "ICT4D." How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? Can you keep five rural schoolchildren from fighting over one PC? What value is technology to a farmer earning $1 a day? Interventionist ICT4D projects seek to answer these kinds of questions, but the excitement has also generated a lot of hype about the power of technology to solve the deep problems of poverty. In this talk, I will present 10 myths of ICT4D which continue to persist, despite increasing evidence to the contrary. My hope is to temper the brash claims of technology with realism about its true potential." What: Nell O'Rourke discussing Kentaro Toyama's talk "Ten Myths of Technology and Development" When: Thursday, March 4th at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 203

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