June 2019 - change - Mailing Lists

Summer Internship Opportunity with PATH
by Matthew Johnson 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Hi Change, It looks like PATH (a Seattle local NGO) is looking for a summer intern in cervical cancer screening research who would be interested in doing a review of the space. Cheers, -Matt J. --------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I am a recent graduate of the UW Epidemiology PhD student, and previous student of Brandon Guthrie and Keshet Ronen in their Bioengineering Solutions to Improve Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children course. I am now working at PATH and am recruiting someone with bioengineering experience for a summer internships, description posted here <https://path.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&id=23&…>. Could you please share with the Change mailing list? Many thanks! Regards, Kerry Thomson [image: cid:image001.png@01D4D7F8.615F8C20] *Kerry A. Thomson, PhD, MPH* *Research Officer, Reproductive Health Team*

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ICTD evaluation: Moonjung Yim dissertation defense (iSchool)
by Ricardo Gomez 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Earlier this year, Moonjung presented some preliminary findings of her work at Change. She is now defending her dissertation on Evaluation of ICT4D. Yet another ICTD related dissertation to wrap up this academic year! Join us in person or online. Friday, June 21, 2019 12:00-2:00 pm Bloedel Hall Room 070, or online via zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/my/rgomez Title: Information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) evaluation: Examining its foci, gaps, challenges, and associations with other areas to strengthen the field's conceptual underpinnings Abstract: The effectiveness of ICT for development (ICT4D) projects has been deeply questionable over the past decades, despite the much attention paid to ICTs among the academics and practitioners as a possible catalyst in the betterment of people's lives in the Global South. However, ICT4D evaluation is yet to be seen as a field with a clear global consensus on what it constitutes. In this setting, the study aims to identify the major foci, gaps, and challenges of ICT4D evaluation and explore ways to strengthen its conceptual elements and resolve prevailing issues. To address the above research problem, content analyses and interviews were conducted. Moreover, to identify and strengthen the field's conceptual elements, the study refers to other areas of evaluation with a long history of rich discourse and/or strong foundation of models, theories, and approaches. Supervisory Committee: * Ricardo J Gomez, Chair * Andres Barria-Roman, GSR * Michelle Suzanne Carter, Member * Negin Dahya, Member Ricardo Gomez Associate Professor, iSchool, University of Washington www.ricardogomez.net<http://www.ricardogomez.net/> - rgomez(a)uw.edu<mailto:rgomez@uw.edu>

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Trevor Perrier, PhD Defence
by Richard Anderson 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

(It's a busy week for ICTD PhD defences) Please join us on Friday, June 7 at 2pm in CSE2 371 for the final exam talk of Trevor Perrier Title: Connecting End Users to Domain Experts With Universal Mobile Phones Services Where: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 02:00 PM, CSE2 371 (Gates Center) and streamed: Meet URL: https://meet.google.com/bax-bgia-dhe Abstract: The potential for communication services available on any mobile phone to engage users, disseminate information, and facilitate behavior change has been well documented. Designing using universal applications such as SMS and voice services enables programs for individual empowerment and behavior change to reach marginalized segments of the global population. The majority of mobile messaging services for development are either one-way push messaging or use fully automated bi-directional end points. In this thesis, I present the design and evolution of a semi-automated bi-directional SMS platform for global health interventions. This novel system mediates personalized conversations between patients and trained medical professionals. In five Kenyan based projects over 140 thousand SMS messages have been sent and 35 thousand messages received. Analysis of this system data shows longitudinal trends in messaging and engagement which will inform the design of future systems.

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Aditya Vashistha, PhD Defense
by Richard Anderson 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

Hi All, Please join us tomorrow (June 6) at 10am in CSE2 271 (Gates Center) for the final exam talk of Aditya Vashistha<http://www.adityavashistha.com/>. Title: Social Computing for Social Good in Low-Resource Environments Where: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 10:00 AM, CSE2 271 (Gates Center) as well as on Hangout<http://meet.google.com/hth-qxwo-hmf> Abstract: Mainstream social computing technologies—like social media platforms, online discussion forums, or crowdsourcing marketplaces—have revolutionized how literate people with access to smartphones and the Internet participate in the information ecology and digital economy. However, these technologies currently exclude billions of those who are illiterate, who speak low-resource languages, or who do not have access to Internet-connected devices. To enable these communities to report and access information, global development researchers and practitioners have designed voice-based social computing services by using IVR technology. However, challenges in managing local language audio content, high cost of voice calls, and technical difficulties in setup makes these services difficult to scale, sustain, and replicate despite their demonstrated impact. In this talk, I will present three systems that I built to address these scalability, sustainability, and replicability concerns. Sangeet Swara is a voice-based social media service that uses community moderation from low-income, low-literate people to manage and moderate audio content recorded in local languages. Respeak is a voice-based crowdsourcing marketplace that enables even basic mobile phone users to complete speech transcription tasks to subsidize their cost of voice calls. IVR Junction is free and open source toolkit that makes it easier for global development organizations to build and maintain these services. Together, these systems fulfill my vision of building scalable, sustainable, and replicable voice-based social computing services that enable people without literacy, smartphones, or the Internet to participate in informative dialogues at both community and global scales. Bio: Aditya Vashistha is a graduating Ph.D. student in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). He builds inclusive and appropriate computing technologies to address information and instrumental needs of people living in low-resource communities. His research spans human-computer interaction (HCI), computing for development, and accessibility technology.

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Change Seminar June 4: CSE482b Capstone Presentations
by Galen Weld 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

Hi All, Please join us next Tuesday, June 4, in CSE 203 from 12:00pm-12:50pm for the last Change seminar of the quarter! CSE 482b is a capstone course where students develop applications to address global problems. Two project groups will present the work that they have done this term in designing and prototyping systems. *Twitter Analysis of Mobile Money Challenges:* Mobile Money has become an important mechanism for Financial Inclusion in many countries, yet there are a range of barriers that prevent people from adopting mobile money. To gain a better understanding of the challenges consumers phase, the Twitter group looked at the customer care Twitter feeds of mobile money operators in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and other countries to analyze problems reported by consumers. The group developed a software pipeline for processing tweets and applied various classification algorithms for both identification of mobile money complaints and labelling of specific types of complaint. *Global Cold Chain Mapper:* The immunization cold chain is the collection of refrigerators and cold rooms that keep vaccines safe as they move from manufacturers, through levels of storage, to remote health facilities for use. To ensure that the country immunization programs are effective, it is important to have an accurate understanding of the cold chain through a cold chain equipment inventory. This project studied the generalization of country wide inventories to investigate how a global cold chain inventory could be visualized and utilized by different global stakeholders.

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Fwd: [TIER] SIGCHI Summer School on Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI (July 24-27, 2019)
by Kurtis Heimerl 02 Jun '19

02 Jun '19

mobile ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Neha Kumar <neha.kumar(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jun 2, 2019, 10:40 AM Subject: [TIER] SIGCHI Summer School on Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI (July 24-27, 2019) To: <tier(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu> Dear friends, followers, and skeptics of Human-Centered AI, We invite you to apply to our SIGCHI-sponsored Summer School on Expanding the Horizons of Human-Centered AI (HCAI). In this four-day program to be held from July 24 to July 27, 2019, in New Delhi, India, participants will engage with various aspects of human-centered AI and discuss the challenges and opportunities that it presents for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and HCI-friendly researchers, designers, practitioners, educators, and entrepreneurs. The program consists of four modules: Systems and Design, Human-Centered Machine Learning, AI and Social Good, and Critical Perspectives on HCAI. Our goal is to identify future roles, undertakings, and collaborations for participants interested in exploring and expanding on these areas from varied professional perspectives. We welcome a range of backgrounds, including HCI of course, but also informatics, computer science, science and technology studies, communication, product design, global development, and more. You can find more details, including presenters' names, in this Medium post <https://medium.com/@nehakumar/expanding-the-horizons-of-human-centered-ai-8…>. The program will be conducted at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. Registration fees are INR 4K per day, and INR 10K for all four days. If interested to attend, *apply here* <https://forms.gle/58LdXbj6sXmiEHvp7>*. *Applications received by June 15 will be given highest priority, but later applications will also be considered. Participation is by application only. Please note that participants selected to attend (and be provided a registration fee waiver) must be SIGCHI members prior to the event. This is an HCI Across Borders <http://www.hcixb.org/> event, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI <https://sigchi.org/>, hosted at IIIT-Delhi, and held in cooperation with ACM FCA <https://www.acm.org/fca>. Feel free to contact us at expandinghcai(a)gmail.com with any questions. Neha Kumar (Georgia Tech) Pushpendra Singh (IIIT-Delhi) _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER(a)tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier

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