Technology for Emerging Markets
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Chatbots for young, urban India
As text-messaging chatbots become increasingly “human”, it will be important to understand the personal interactions that users are seeking with a chatbot. What chatbot personalities are most compelling to young, urban users in India? To…
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VideoKheti- Video Search for Low-Literate Users
VideoKheti is a multimodal video search system for low-literate farmers that combines local language speech, graphics and touch interaction to help find and watch agriculture extension videos (of digitalGreen), in the farmer’s own language and dialect.
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KrishiPustak- Social Networking for Low-Literate Farmers
With the wide penetration of mobile internet, social networking systems are becoming increasingly popular in the developing world. However, most social networking sites contain medium to heavy text, and are therefore unusable by low-literate populations. KrishiPustak (CSCW’15)…
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Sneakernet: Facilitating Ubiquitous Device-to-Device File Transfers
Device-to-device file transfers are pervasive in many emerging markets, but users typically only share content with close friends or informal media vendors. We seek to facilitate ubiquitous device-to-device file transfers beyond one’s immediate social network.…
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Collage
Sample video collected from our pilot schools demonstrating how Collage is used in a classroom. I’m not sure of the video date??
Microsoft Research Blog
Stack of Microsoft researchers earn distinctions from premier computing society
By John Roach, Writer, Microsoft Research Eight computer scientists at Microsoft research labs around the world have been honored as Fellows of the Association of Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society. The organization also…
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