Technology for Emerging Markets

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Anthropology, development and ICTs: Slums, youth and the mobile internet in urban India

Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell

Proceedings of ICTD 2012, the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development | July 2012

Proceedings of ICTD 2012, the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

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Mapping Large Educational Websites to Interactive DVDs

Swati Ittan, Gaurav Paruthi, Bill Thies

July 2012

Microsoft Research Blog

A Simple Way to ‘Poll’ Students

June 28, 2012

By Douglas Gantenbein, Senior Writer, Microsoft News Center In a classroom near Bangalore, India, young students packing a classroom eagerly wave sheets of white paper covered with black symbols. They aren’t misbehaving—they are participating in a…

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Android permissions: a perspective combining risks and benefits

Bhaskar Pratim Sarma, Nighui Li, Chris Gates, Rahul Potharaju, Cristina Nita-Rotuaru, Ian Molloy

SACMAT ’12 Proceedings of the 17th ACM symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies | June 2012

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“You’re Capped!” Understanding the Effects of Bandwidth Caps on Broadband Use in the Home

Marshini Chetty, Richard Banks, A.J. Brush, Jonathan Donner, Rebecca E. Grinter

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2012

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mClerk: Enabling mobile crowdsourcing in developing regions

Aakar Gupta, Bill Thies, Ed Cutrell, Ravin Balakrishnan

CHI 2012: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2012

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“Yours is better!” Participant Response Bias in HCI

Nicola Dell, Vidya Vaidyanathan, Indrani Medhi Thies, Ed Cutrell, Bill Thies

CHI 2012: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2012

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Understanding negotiation in airtime sharing in low-income microenterprises

Nithya Sambasivan, Edward Cutrell, Ed Cutrell

CHI 2012: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | May 2012

Best of CHI honorable mention

Video

A Natural UI for Polling Students in a Classroom

March 6, 2012

One of the biggest challenges facing teachers in a classroom is to gauge whether students are keeping up with the lesson. This challenge is especially acute in distance-education programs, because of the physical separation between…

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Emergent Practices Around CGNet Swara, A Voice Forum for Citizen Journalism in Rural India

Preeti Mudliar, Jonathan Donner, Bill Thies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development | March 2012

Kahani: Visual Storytelling

Teachers in India help Microsoft Research design AI tool for creating great classroom content

Ideas: Language technologies for everyone with Kalika Bali

Keynote: Building Globally Equitable AI

Anthropology, development and ICTs: Slums, youth and the mobile internet in urban India

Mapping Large Educational Websites to Interactive DVDs

A Simple Way to ‘Poll’ Students

Android permissions: a perspective combining risks and benefits

“You’re Capped!” Understanding the Effects of Bandwidth Caps on Broadband Use in the Home

mClerk: Enabling mobile crowdsourcing in developing regions

“Yours is better!” Participant Response Bias in HCI

Understanding negotiation in airtime sharing in low-income microenterprises

A Natural UI for Polling Students in a Classroom

Emergent Practices Around CGNet Swara, A Voice Forum for Citizen Journalism in Rural India

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