The Change community should be interested in attending this week's DUB talk. Details below! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martez E Mott <memott@uw.edu> Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:05 PM Subject: [dub] 11/26 DUB Seminar: Ed Cutrell (Microsoft Research India) To: dub@dub.washington.edu Cc: "speak@dub.washington.edu" <speak@dub.washington.edu> Come to this week's DUB seminar to hear a talk by Ed Cutrell! *Ed Cutrell (Microsoft Research India)* November 26, 2014 12pm - 1:20pm *HUB 334* Title: Phones for Farmers and Apps for Activists: Designing Mobile Applications for Rural Indians Abstract: As prices continue to drop, smartphones are beginning to find their way into the hands of low-income people in rural areas of India. At the same time, internet connectivity is spreading to more and more remote areas at increasingly affordable rates. In anticipation and response to these trends, we have been exploring how to design mobile applications that can serve people who are able to use the internet for the very first time. What kinds of apps would be useful for people in rural India? How are they different from apps anywhere else? How do we manage constraints in literacy, cost, power, connectivity, and language? In this talk, I will discuss a few projects that explore these questions. Projects range from design research to pilot deployments, and include applications for agricultural extension, social networking for farmers, and citizen journalism/grievance redressal for marginalized rural communities (this last together with several folks from UW!). Bio: Ed Cutrell manages the Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research India. TEM is a multidisciplinary group working to study, design, build, and evaluate technologies and systems useful for people living in underserved rural and urban communities. The goal of this work is to understand how people in the world's poor and developing communities interact with information technologies, and to invent new ways for technology to meet their needs and aspirations. Ed has worked in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) since 2000; he is trained in cognitive neuropsychology, with a PhD from the University of Oregon. Ed currently holds affiliate faculty appointments in the Information School at the University of Washington and the Department of Software Information Systems at UNC Charlotte. http://research.microsoft.com/~cutrell http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/tem/ ~ Martez -- Martez E. Mott PhD Student, Information School University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2840 USA http://students.washington.edu/memott/ _______________________________________________ dub mailing list dub@dub.washington.edu http://dub.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/dub