From: Au-instructors <au-instructors-admin@cs.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Marianne Kiga Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 4:17 PM To: researchers@cs.washington.edu; postdocs@cs.washington.edu; cs-grads@cs.washington.edu; au-instructors@cs.washington.edu Cc: Kay Beck-Benton <kbeck@cs.washington.edu>; production - Mailing List <production@cs.washington.edu> Subject: [Au-instructors] Allen School Colloquium / Thursday, October 1, 2020 / Allen School / ICTD Research Group UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PAUL G. ALLEN SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER: Various Presenters, Allen School ICTD Research Group DATE: Thursday, October 1, 2020 TIME: 3:30 pm HOST: Kurtis Heimerl Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84511209436?pwd=eGg4bDBTS3hZZWZwU0wwVW1tcFhCZz09 Meeting ID: 845 1120 9436 Passcode: 806730 Title: Designing for users realities: Women’s technological inclusion and the Sociocultural Norms Presenter: Samia Ibtasam What prerequisites and enablers must we consider when designing for low-resourced users, especially women? Even for a technology advantaged population, the meaning and dynamics of access and use are nuanced and varied. Gendered roles, generational differences in a family, household dynamics, and the wider socio-cultural influences can impact women's technological engagement. In this talk, I will discuss how the consideration of these factors during the design and implementation processes can broaden accessibility and diversity in the acceptance and use of evolving technologies by women in emerging economies. Bio: Advised by Richard Anderson, her current work focuses on devising tools and frameworks to increase the technological and financial inclusion of women in emerging markets. Before UW, Ibtasam was the founding co-director of Innovations for Poverty Alleviation Lab (IPAL) at the Information Technology University (ITU) and taught Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, and product development courses to undergraduate and graduate CS students. Title: Accept the Risk and Continue: Measuring the Long Tail of Government https Adoption Presenter: Sudheesh Singanamalla Across the world, government websites are expected to be reliable sources of information, regardless of their view count. Interactions with these websites often contain sensitive information, such as identity, medical, or legal data, whose integrity must be protected for citizens to remain safe. To better understand the government website ecosystem, we measure the adoption of https including the "long tail" of government websites around the world, which are typically not captured in the top-million datasets used for such studies. We identify and measure major categories and frequencies of https adoption errors, including misconfiguration of certificates via expiration, reuse of keys and serial numbers between unrelated government departments (and sometimes even different country governments), use of insecure cryptographic protocols and keys, and untrustworthy root Certificate Authorities (CAs). Finally, we observe an overall lower https rate and a steeper dropoff with descending popularity among government sites versus commercial and provide recommendations to improve government https use. In this talk, we will present our findings, discuss challenges and impact of this work. Bio: Sudheesh is a 2nd year PhD student in the ICTD lab advised by Prof. Kurtis Heimerl and Prof. Richard Anderson and broadly works at the intersection of Systems, Networks, Security and ICTD. Title: Making Chat at Home in the Hospital: Exploring Chat Use by Nurses Presenter: Naveena Karusala We examine WhatsApp use by nurses in India. Globally, personal chat apps have taken the workplace by storm, and healthcare is no exception. In the hospital setting, this raises questions around how chat apps are integrated into hospital work and the consequences of using such personal tools for work. To address these questions, we conducted an ethnographic study of chat use in nurses’ work in a large multi-specialty hospital. By examining how chat is embedded in the hospital, rather than focusing on individual use of personal tools, we throw new light on the adoption of personal tools at work - specifically what happens when such tools are adopted and used as though they were organizational tools. In doing so, we explicate their impact on invisible work and the creep of work into personal time, as well as how hierarchy and power play out in technology use. Thus, we point to the importance of looking beyond individual adoption by knowledge workers when studying the impact of personal tools at work. Bio: Naveena Karusala is a 4th year PhD student in the ICTD lab, advised by Richard Anderson. Her work is at the intersection of HCI, global development, and health messaging. Title: Can Phones Build Relationships? A Case Study of a Kenyan Wildlife Conservancy’s Community Development Presenter: Matt Ziegler Wildlife conservancies across the globe are increasingly recognizing their need to support their surrounding communities to sustainably operate. Rapidly shifting environmental and sociopolitical climates increasingly stress existing resource and service provisions, forcing wildlife conservancies to co-manage with local communities shared resources like water, wildlife, soil, pollinators, and security. This work presents a case study in Laikipia, Kenya on Ol Pejeta Conservancy’s use of text-based technologies to provide services and build relationships with the many widely-dispersed communities on its borders. Through technology deployments, staff interviews, and community focus groups, we investigate a potential role for basic mobile phone services, like SMS and USSD, to help conservancy personnel disseminate accurate and timely information, gather community feedback, address grievances, and improve accountability. Our findings show that communication with locals requires intense and ongoing effort from conservancy staff. Partially successful deployments of phone services provide a proof-of-concept for their utility in community relations but highlight particular design challenges for wildlife conservancies; having critical needs for broad inclusive engagement; clear, deliberate communication; and careful trust-building. Bio: Matt is a 3rd year PhD student in the ICTD lab, working on technologies for wildlife conservation and environmental justice. *NOTE* This talk will be broadcast live via the Internet. See http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information. 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