This year's projects in the multi-disciplinary CSE481K - Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments will be giving presentations in the Gates Commons from 5:00 to 6:30 in the Gates Commons. You are welcome to join us.
WHAT: CSE481K Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments Project Presentations
DATE: Wednesday, June 1, 2011
TIME: 5:00pm - 6:30pm
PLACE: Gates Commons (6th floor), Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, UW Campus
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HOSTS: Gaetano Borriello (CSE), Ruth Anderson (CSE), Beth Kolko (HCDE), Rohit Chaudhri (CSE)
Smartphones are becoming and important tool in helping under-served populations improve their healthcare, citizen groups increase their reach, small entrepreneurs improve their businesses, and much more. Come and see how six projects - all connected to real customers - are tackling some interesting problems for which existing commercial products are inadequate, inflexible, or just too expensive.
CSE and HCDE students teamed up over the winter and spring quarters. First, the HCDE students took the lead in developing project ideas and their requirements. Then, the CSE students took those project ideas to working prototypes. There will also be a poster/demo session next week.
WHAT: CSE481K Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments Project Posters and Demos
DATE: Wednesday, June 8, 2011
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
PLACE: Atrium, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, UW Campus
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HOSTS: Gaetano Borriello (CSE), Ruth Anderson (CSE), Beth Kolko (HCDE), Rohit Chaudhri (CSE)
Here is a list of this year's six projects:
- Global2Local: helping local (SeaTac) health clinics coordinate interpreter services for the over 60 languages spoken in the SeaTac community (with the Global2Local program run by the Washington Global Health Alliance, Swedish Hospital, HealthPoint, and the King County Department of Public Health)
- Paper2Digital: using smartphone cameras to translate optical mark forms to spreadsheets automatically (a Gates Foundation funded project with VillageReach - a local NGO working in health clinics in Mozambique)
- WaterUse: using low-power sensing to precisely determine the pattern and duration of water gathering activities in rural Ethiopia (in collaboration with Prof. J. Cook, an economist in the Evans School)
- MilkBank: a low-cost sensor for guiding the flash-heat pasteurization of human breast milk (to eliminate HIV) to used in South Africa (with PATH - a large local NGO with activities in many countries)
- ODK Tables: a new tool in the Open Data Kit suite developed at UW, allows the SMS population and queries of an on-phone database and presents a phone-optimized table viewing interface (intended to lower the barrier to entry by providing an alternative to cloud-hosted servers)
- NatureMapping: extensions to ODK Collect (also a tool in Open Data Kit) to allow data collection and decision tree forms to extract choices from a database (local or remote) based on data already entered - think advanced field guide (with the Nature Mapping project in the UW's Department of Forestry)
We hope to see you at either or both of these events.
Gaetano Borriello
Computer Science & Engineering