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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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(no subject)
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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FW: [Sehc10-pc] CFP: Special Issue on eHealth Interoperability - Springer ISF
by Kristin Tolle 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

FYI Cheers! Kris From: sehc10-pc-bounces(a)csc.uvic.ca [mailto:sehc10-pc-bounces@csc.uvic.ca] On Behalf Of Jens Weber Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:13 PM To: Jens Weber Subject: [Sehc10-pc] CFP: Special Issue on eHealth Interoperability - Springer ISF (We apologize if you should receive multiple versions of this message.) *************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS Special Issue on eHealth System Interoperability http://simbioses.ca/ISF/ http://www.som.buffalo.edu/isinterface/ISFrontiers/ *************************************************** Guest editors ------------- Dr. Jens Weber-Jahnke, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, jens(a)uvic.ca Dr. Liam Peyton, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada lpeyton(a)site.uottawa.ca Dr. Thodoros Topaloglou, Rouge Valley Health System, ON, Canada thodoros(a)acm.org Target audience --------------- This special issue wishes to reach researchers and practitioners in health care information systems, including academics in health information science, computer science, software engineering, management, technology policy, and IT workers and managers from the health care industry. Topics ------ Topics of interest include but are not limited to * Methods, standards and tools to achieve eHealth interoperability * Experience reports with interoperability methods, standards and tools * Management issues and economics of interoperable eHealth systems * Interoperability standards * Engineering aspects of interoperable eHealth systems, including requirements analysis, design, construction, maintenance, and decommissioning * Human aspects and education * multi-jurisdictional policy development * legal aspects * health informatics as related to interoperability We welcome a wide range of submissions, including research papers, surveys, tutorials and case studies of theoretical value and/or practical significance. Schedule -------- We plan two submission/review cycles in order to assure maximum paper quality. * Abstract submission (recommended): authors are asked to submit title and abstract ahead of time to probe fit with the objective of the special issue: May 1, 2010 * Submission due date: July 1, 2010 * First round review completed: October 1, 2010 * Submission due date of revised papers: December 1, 2010ÿ * Second round review completed: February 1, 2011 * Submission of final version of the paper: one month after notification of acceptance Submission & Review ------------------- The special issue will accept approximately eight articles of 7,000-8,000 words each. Papers, which have appeared previously in proceedings of conferences, may be submitted to this special issue if they are substantially revised, extended or improved from their earlier versions, due to copyright issues. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three qualified experts in a blind review process. Submissions must be directly uploaded to Springer's Editorial Manager system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/isfi/ Paper submissions must conform to the layout and format guidelines of Information Systems Frontiers. Instructions for Contributors are available at http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/10796 Criteria and Evaluation for paper acceptance ---------------------------------------------------------- * Significance to the journal's audience * Relevance to this special issue * Quality of the paper including originality, technical depth, significance of results, adequacy of priori works referenced, overall organization, clarity and readability, satisfactory English writing, sufficient support for assertions and conclusion, appropriate title, abstract adequately summarizes the paper, introduction provides proper orientation, clear tables and figures. * Overall reviewers recommendation on the paper

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Cliff Schmidt and Trina Gorman on Literacy Bridge
by Yaw Anokwa 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

This Thursday at Change, Cliff Schmidt and Trina Gorman will be discussing their work at Literacy Bridge. In rural Ghana, Literacy Bridge piloted 21 low-cost audio computers (“Talking Books”) to measure the impact of giving farmers access to health and agriculture information. In a village with 90% illiteracy and no access to electricity, farmers using these devices showed a 48% increase in crop production over their peers. The Talking Book project brings local expertise to rural farmers, similar to Digital Green, but without a moderator and in audio form rather than video. The Talking Books are therefore able to consume less power and run on locally available batteries. This Thursday, look forward to hearing about the following: Qualitative feedback. How did farmers respond to the device from a training/usability perspective? How were the devices allocated? Quantitative harvest results. How did Literacy Bridge arrive at the 48% yield increase? How frequently was guidance adopted? Future work. Literacy Bridge is experimenting with uploading/downloading messages via mobile phones, the effects of peer recognition on behavior change, and more. For a two-minute video summary, see http://literacybridge.org. For a video demonstration of the Talking Book, see http://literacybridge.org/talkingbook.html. What: Cliff Schmidt and Trina Gorman on Literacy Bridge When: Thursday, February 25 at Noon Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 203

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Talk on March 4th: Making Government Work with Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra
by Rosalyn Mahashin 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hey Change folks, The Evans School is sponsoring a talk next week with Vivek Kundra, the Federal Chief Information Officer. Details are below. --------------- Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra - Making Government Work: Closing the IT Gap to Deliver for the American People March 4, 2010 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Student Union Building/HUB Room 108, University of Washington Seattle *[image: Vivek Kundra Photo]* *Vivek Kundra *was appointed as the Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States by President Obama in March 2009. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Kundra served in Mayor Fenty's cabinet as the CTO for the District of Columbia and Governor Kaine’s cabinet as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has also served in leadership roles in the private sector. Kundra has been recognized by InfoWorld among the top 25 CTO's in the country and as the 2008 IT Executive of the Year for his pioneering work to drive transparency, engage citizens and lower the cost of government operations. He has also been named to Government Technology magazine’s Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers. *The Federal Chief Information Officer *directs the policy and strategic planning of federal information technology investments and is responsible for oversight of federal technology spending. The Federal CIO establishes and oversees enterprise architecture to ensure system interoperability and information sharing and ensure information security and privacy across the federal government. The CIO also works closely with the Chief Technology Officer to advance the U.S. President’s technology agenda. This event is sponsored by the Wolfle Endowment for Excellence, honoring Dael L. Wolfle. <http://evans.washington.edu/info/about/history/wolfle> -- Rosalyn Mahashin University of Washington MPA '11 Evans School of Public Affairs Google Voice: (206) 651-5875

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