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SUMMARY:Brown bag: Nicola Dell
DESCRIPTION:Title: Designing and Building Mobile Technologies for
	 Underserved Communities\nSpeaker: Nicola Dell\nAbstract: The goal of my
	 research is to design\, build\, and evaluate novel computing systems
	 that improve the lives of underserved populations in low-income regions.
	 As computing technologies become affordable and accessible to diverse
	 populations across the globe\, it is critical that we broaden the scope
	 of our research to study the social\, technical\, and infrastructural
	 challenges faced by these diverse communities and build systems that
	 address problems in critical domains such as health care and education.
	 In this talk\, I describe my general approach to building technologies
	 for underserved communities\, including identifying opportunities for
	 technology\, conducting formative research to fully understand the
	 space\, developing novel technologies\, iteratively testing and
	 deploying\, evaluating with target populations\, and handing off to
	 global development organizations for long-term sustainability. I focus
	 specifically on two examples of systems that I built to address
	 challenges faced by rural health workers: one that automatically
	 digitizes data from paper forms\, and another that automatically
	 interprets diagnostic tests for infectious diseases. Both these systems
	 run on cheap\, commercially available mobile devices and use computer
	 vision and machine-learning techniques to automate tasks that were
	 previously tedious or error prone. Through extensive evaluations with
	 target populations in Sub-Saharan Africa\, I highlight the potential for
	 novel technological solutions to help new and diverse populations
	 address global challenges.\n\nBio:\nNicola Dell is an Assistant
	 Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech in New York City. Her
	 research interests are in information and communication technologies for
	 development (ICTD)\, human-computer interaction (HCI)\, and mobile
	 computing with a focus on designing and evaluating systems that improve
	 the lives of underserved populations in low-income regions. Nicki
	 recently completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the
	 University of Washington in Seattle where she was advised by Gaetano
	 Borriello and Linda Shapiro. At UW CSE she was a member of the Open Data
	 Kit (ODK) research team and she also helped to organize the Change group
	 from 2011-2015.
LOCATION:Gates 122
UID:2015-11-03
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DTSTART:20151103T170000Z
DTEND:20151103T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151030T002144Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Shi:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jshi/brownbag/
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