September 2017 - change - Mailing Lists

UW Change Seminar Fall 2017
by Esther Jang 28 Sep '17

28 Sep '17

Greetings! Please join us for the Change Seminar starting next week on *Tuesday 10/3/2017 in HUB 214 at 12-1 pm*. Change is an association of researchers broadly interested in technology as applied to global development, poverty alleviation, and social justice. This semester we will begin an exciting cross-campus collaboration involving faculty and students from TASCHA (Technology and Social Change) at the iSchool, Global WACh and I-TECH (International Training and Education Center for Health) at the Department of Global Health, the UW School of Nursing, and ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) at CSE. We hope that the presence of students and faculty from each of these groups will foster increased collaboration, fruitful discussion, and awareness of related projects and shared interests between groups. Other student and faculty volunteers are welcome to join our organizing team; if interested, please reply to this email. *Time: Tuesdays at 12-1 pm* *Location:* The seminar will be held in *HUB 214* unless otherwise announced. On 10/24 and 11/28 it will be held in the large conference room in the Harris Hydraulics building. -------------------------------------- This week, Naveena Karusala and Neha Kumar will be presenting their CSCW 2018 paper titled *Care as a Resource for Underserved Learning Environments* . *Who: *Naveena Karusala (UW) & Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech) *What:* Care as a Resource for Underserved Learning Environments *When:* Tuesday Oct 3 *Where:* 12pm in CSE 203 *Abstract: *We present results from an ethnographic inquiry of technology-based learning at an after-school learning center in Mumbai (India) that caters to students from neighboring slum communities. We conducted participant observation for 120 hours and 58 semi-structured interviews with different stakeholders (including teachers, staff, parents, and students) at the center over nine weeks from December 2015 to July 2016. Taking an assets-based approach in an underserved context, we uncover the role of care as a resource and present the rich and varied caring behaviors enacted in this sociotechnical system.We then discuss how care effects a greater sense of ownership, interdependency, and community. Examining the role of aligning values in motivating caring behavior, we conclude with recommendations for supporting, leveraging, and extending care via technology design in an underserved, technology-enhanced learning environment. *Bios: *This paper will be presented jointly by Naveena Karusala <https://nkarusala.wixsite.com/home/about> and Neha Kumar <http://www.nehakumar.org/>. Naveena is a first-year Computer Science PhD student at UW. She worked on this paper during her undergrad at Georgia Tech, where she was advised by Neha -- assistant professor doing research at the intersection of human-centered computing and global development (read HCI4D). The paper they will present is joint work with Aditya Vishwanath <http://adityavishwanath.me/> (joint lead author), Arkadeep Kumar, and Aman Mangal, all incredible Georgia Tech students.

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UW Digital Financial Services (DFS) Workshop, October 4th
by Richard Anderson 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

The University of Washington's Digital Financial Services Research Group (DFSRG) will host a Digital Financial Services (DFS) Workshop on October 4th. This event will take place in the Gate's Commons in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE 691) between 1-4:45 pm, with a reception to follow from 5-6 pm. The goal of this workshop is to bring members of the DFS academic community together with industry partners to develop an agenda for successful collaboration on research and the dissemination of new technologies. We will also share some of our research team member's recent research results. The University of Washington's DFSRG focuses on developing technologies for people from resource constrained regions around the world to facilitate financial inclusion and alleviate poverty. More broadly, we collaborate with social scientists and industry partners, including the newly opened FinTech Center at Information Technology University in Lahore. Some of our current research highlights include an exploration of mobile money adoption and use by women in Pakistan, the implementation of digital agricultural directories to facilitate business transactions in Tanzania, and an evaluation of security within digital transactions. The UW DFS Workshop will highlight two panels: 1) "Gender and Mobile Money" with panelists Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech), Emer Dooley (UW Foster School of Business), Skye Gilbert (PATH), Heidi Stephens Metz (Imani), and Samia Ibtasam (UW CSE). and 2) "DFS Technologies." with panelists Ben Lyon (Caribou Digital), Lubna Razaq (ITU, Lahore), Kurtis Heimerl (UW CSE), and Sam Castle (UW CSE). We will feature talks from Himanshu Nagpal, a Senior Program Officer for Financial Services for the Poor, at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Jake Kendall, the Director of Digital Financial Services Innovation Lab, at Caribou Digital; and Joyojeet Pal, Assistant Professor, at the University of Michigan School of Information. Also, our graduate students will offer a poster session to accompany the reception. Please send inquiries to jenniweb(a)cs.washington.edu<mailto:jenniweb@cs.washington.edu>.

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Digital Health Job Announcement @ Johns Hopkins
by Larry William Chang 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

"The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of International Health (IH) seeks a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor specializing in digital health / mobile health (mHealth) or Information & Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Health. The successful candidate will be based in the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control program or Health Systems program of the Department of International Health. Responsibilities include contributing to ongoing research as well as maintaining an independent program of externally-funded research (with a particular emphasis on public health and digital systems innovation in low and middle-income countries), graduate-level teaching, and participation in University service activities. Click here for more information on this announcement: http://apply.interfolio.com/45006" -- Larry William Chang, MD, MPH|Associate Professor|Infectious Diseases|Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Epidemiology & International Health|Bloomberg School of Public Health Co-Principal Investigator|Rakai Health Sciences Program|www.rhsp.org Research Faculty|Center for Clinical Global Health Education| www.ccghe.jhmi.edu Associate Director|Global mHealth Initiative|www.jhumhealth.org

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Fall HCDE class designing for Red Cross + Talk 9/18 on cultures of preparedness
by Dharma Dailey 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Hi All, HCDE is offering a class fall quarter on designing for complex systems. It will feature a Red Cross project. HCDE 520 Design and Management of Complex Systems (4). For more info contact Robin Mays rmays(a)uw.edu <mailto:rmays@uw.edu>. If designing for Red Cross is of interest, you might like to attend an upcoming public talk by a major figure in disaster sociology Kathleen Tierney: Creating a Culture of Disaster Preparedness <https://depts.washington.edu/cossar/events/event/cossar-seminar-series-kath…> September 18, 2017 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Gould Hall Room 322 Dharma Dailey PhD Candidate Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington dharmadailey.info > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Robin E. Mays" <rmays(a)uw.edu> > Subject: Fwd: [HCDE PhD Students] Updated information on HCDE 520 > Date: September 8, 2017 at 8:05:20 AM PDT > To: dharma dailey <ddailey(a)uw.edu>, Amirah Majid <amirah(a)uw.edu> > > Hi Dharma and Amirah! > Would you share this? We need 5 more students. > > Thank you! > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Pat Reilly" <preilly(a)uw.edu <mailto:preilly@uw.edu>> > Date: Aug 14, 2017 11:40 AM > Subject: [HCDE PhD Students] Updated information on HCDE 520 > To: "hcde-phd(a)uw.edu <mailto:hcde-phd@uw.edu>" <hcde-phd(a)uw.edu <mailto:hcde-phd@uw.edu>> > Cc: > > Hi all, > > > > Mark Haselkorn and Robin Mays have been hard at work preparing for the upcoming fall quarter HCDE 520 Design & Management of Complex Systems course. Course descriptions are not always the best way to get a sense of what to expect in a class, especially with the constraint of 450 characters required for entry into the General Catalog. Here is a more user-friendly description: > > > > What would an HCDE student get out of this class? > > Designing technology that works well is only half of the battle of building successful socio-technical systems. What about whether it actually gets adopted, or meets the non-technical needs of your audience? Most technologies do not operate as stand-alone systems, they are an intervention within a greater social ecosystem made of multiple stakeholders, larger missions, shared values and ways of operating. Accommodating these complexities is often the greater challenge or barrier to designing effective and successful technology. This class addresses those realities and provides some insight and skills for recognizing, considering and incorporating them into your design process. In this class we will use and apply human-centered design principles, approaches and methods to develop a socio-technical solution for a real-world humanitarian organization need. > > Here is the new General Catalog description: > > HCDE 520 Design and Management of Complex Systems (4) > > Design and implementation of enhancements to complex work systems. Human-centered approaches to the design and management of technological systems embedded within complex social and organizational systems. Designing to support decision-making and situational awareness, including sense making and adaptation in ambiguous situations. Focus on meeting diverse stakeholder needs in the context of emerging design methodologies. > > Best, > > Pat > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > hcde-phd mailing list > hcde-phd(a)u.washington.edu <mailto:hcde-phd@u.washington.edu> > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/hcde-phd <http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/hcde-phd> >

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