Publications

From TIER

Contents

General TIER

  • The Case for Technology for Developing Regions. Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Bowei Du, Kevin Fall, Melissa Ho, Matthew Kam, Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, and Sonesh Surana. IEEE Computer. Volume 38, Number 6, pp. 25-38, June 2005. PDF
  • Deploying a Rural Wireless Telemedicine System: Experiences in Sustainability. Sonesh Surana, Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi and Eric Brewer. IEEE Computer. Volume 41, Number 6, pp. 48-56, June 2008. PDF
  • The Challenges of Technology Research for Developing Regions. Eric Brewer, Michael Demmer, Melissa Ho, R.J. Honicky, Joyojeet Pal, Madelaine Plauché,and Sonesh Surana.IEEE Pervasive Computing. Volume 5, Number 2, pp. 15-23, April-June 2006. PDF
  • A Scalable Enabling IT Infrastructure for Developing Regions.National Science Foundation (NSF) ITR Proposal, 2003. PDF

DTN/TierStore

  • TierStore: A Distributed File-System for Challenged NetworksMichael Demmer, Bowei Du and Eric Brewer.File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, CA, February 2008 PDF.
  • DTWIKI: A Disconnected and Intermittency Tolerant Wiki. Bowei Du and Eric Brewer. 17th International WWW Conference, Beijing, China, April 2008 PDF
  • Towards a Modern Communications API.Michael Demmer, Kevin Fall, Teemu Koponen, and Scott Shenker. Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), Atlanta, GA, November 2007 PDF.
  • A message oriented phone system for low cost connectivityR.J. Honicky, Omar Bakr, Michael Demmer, Eric Brewer. Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HOTNETS), Atlanta, GA, November 2007 PDF.
  • DTLSR: Delay Tolerant Routing for Developing Regions.Michael Demmer and Kevin Fall.ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems in Developing Regions (NSDR), Kyoto, Japan. August 2007 PDF.
  • Analysis of WWW Traffic in Cambodia and Ghana. Bowei Du, Michael Demmer, Eric Brewer.15th International WWW Conference, Edinburgh, May 2006PDF.
  • Implementing Delay Tolerant Networking. Michael Demmer, Eric Brewer, Kevin Fall, Sushant Jain, Melissa Ho, Rabin Patra.IRB-TR-04-020, Dec. 28, 2004.PDF.
  • DTNLite: A Reliable Data Transfer Architecture for Sensor Networking. Sergiu Nedevschi, Rabin Patra.8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES), September, 2004.PDF.

Education

  • Usage Models of Classroom Computing in Developing Regions. Rabin Patra, Joyojeet Pal, Sergiu Nedevschi, Madelaine Plauche and Udai Pawar.International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2007. PDF.
  • My Child Will Be Respected: Parental Perspectives on Computers in Rural India. Joyojeet Pal, Meera Lakshmanan and Kentaro Toyama,.International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2007.PDF
  • Localized Iterative Design for Language Learning in Underdeveloped Regions: The PACE Framework. Matthew Kam, Divya Ramachandran, Varun Devanathan, Anuj Tewari, and John Canny. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), San Jose, California, April 28-May 3, 2007.
  • Practical Considerations for Participatory Design with Rural School Children in Underdeveloped Regions: Early Reflections from the Field. Matthew Kam, Divya Ramachandran, Anand Raghavan, Jane Chiu, Urvashi Sahni, and John Canny. ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Tampere, Finland, June 2006 PDF.
  • Early-stage practicalities of implementing computer aided education: Experience from India.Joyojeet Pal.4th International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries (TEDC) 2006 PDF.
  • The case for multi-user design for computer aided learning in developing regions. Joyojeet Pal, Udai Singh Pawar, Eric A. Brewer, Kentaro Toyama.15th International WWW Conference, Edinburgh, May 2006PDF.
  • Designing Educational Technology for Developing Regions: Some Preliminary Hypotheses. Matthew Kam, Divya Ramachandran, Urvashi Sahni, and John Canny. 3rd International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries (TEDC), July 2005.PDF
  • The Digital StudyHall. Randolph Wang, Urvashi Sahni, Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Matthew Kam, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson. Technical Report TR-723-05, Computer Science Department, Princeton University. March 2005. PDF


ICT for Development

  • ICTD State of the Union: Where have we reached and where are we headed? Rabin Patra, Joyojeet Pal and Sergiu Nedevschi. International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2009. [PDF]
  • Outsourcing Development: The State, Entrepreneurship and Information Technologies in India. Renee Kuriyan, 2008. PDF.
  • How to Use Technology to Spur Development. Renee Kuriyan, Isha Ray and Daniel Kammen.Issues in Science And Technology, Winter 2008. PDF.
  • Computers and the Promise of Development: Aspiration, Neoliberalism and Technolity in Indias ICTD enterprise. Joyojeet Pal. Confronting the Challenge of Technology for Development: Experiences from the BRICS, Oxford, United Kingdom, May 2008. PDF
  • Constructing Class Boundaries: Gender and Shared Computing. Renee Kuriyan and Kathi Kitner. 2nd Annual Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD), Bangalore, 2007. PDF.
  • ICT and Development: The Kerala Model. Renee Kuriyan. Digital Kerala 2006. Green Chip Publications. Kerala State Information Technology Mission.
  • Social Dynamics of Early Stage Co-Design in Developing Regions. Divya Ramachandran, Matthew Kam, Jane Chiu, John Canny, and James L. Frankel. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), San Jose, California, April 28-May 3, 2007. PDF.
  • Understanding Concepts of 'Development' and Linkages to Deployment Strategies in ICT4D in India Renee Kuriyan and Jennifer Bussell. in Circumventing the Digital Divide: Lessons from Kerala Experience. Eds. Palackal, A. and Shrum W. Southern Book Star: New Delhi PDF.
  • Bayesian Networks: A Statistical Approach for Understanding ICT Adoption. Sergiu Nedevschi, Jaspal Sandhu, Joyojeet Pal, Rodrigo Fonseca, Kentaro Toyama. 1st International Conference on ICT and Development, UC Berkeley, May 2006. PDF
  • Computing Devices for All: Creating and Selling the Low-Cost Computer. Rodrigo Fonseca, Joyojeet Pal. 1st International Conference on ICT and Development, UC Berkeley, May 2006 PDF
  • Will Information Technology Reshape the North-South Asymmetry of Power in the Global Political Economy? Steve Weber, Jennifer Bussell. Studies In Comparative International Development, Vol. 40, No.2, pp. 62-84, Summer 2005. PDF.
  • Will the Digital Revolution Revolutionize Development? Drawing Together the Debate. Taylor Boas, Thad Dunning, Jennifer Bussell. Studies In Comparative International Development, Vol. 40, No.2, pp. 95-110, Summer 2005. PDF.
  • International Norms on ICTs for Development: New Data, Initial Findings, and Opportunities for Analysis. Jennifer Bussell. 101st American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Sept, 2005. PDF.

Kiosks

  • Information and Communication Technologies for Development: The Bottom of the Pyramid Model in Practice. Renee Kuriyan, Isha Ray and Kentaro Toyama. The Information Society. Vol 24 (2)1-12, 2008. PDF.
  • Examining e-literacy Using Telecenters as Public Spending: The Case of Akshaya. Joyojeet Pal. 2nd International Conference on ICT and Development, Bangalore India, December 2007 PDF
  • Public Private Partnerships and Information Technologies for Development in India. Renee Kuriyan and Isha Ray. 2nd International Conference on ICT and Development, Bangalore India, December 2007. PDF.
  • A Multidisciplinary Approach to Open Access Village Telecenter Initiatives: The case of Akshaya. Joyojeet Pal, Sergiu Nedevschi, Rabin Patra, and Eric Brewer. E-Learning, 3(3), pp. 291-316, 2006 PDF.
  • Integrating Social Development and Financial Sustainability: The Challenges of Rural Kiosks in Kerala. Renee Kuriyan, Isha Ray, Kentaro Toyama. 1st International Conference on ICT and Development, UC Berkeley, May 2006 PDF.
  • A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Studying Village Internet Kiosk Initiatives: The case of Akshaya. Sergiu Nedevschi, Joyojeet Pal, Rabin Patra, and Eric Brewer. Policy Options and Models for Bridging Digital Divides, March 2005. PDF.
  • Rural Telecenter Impact Assessments and the Political Economy of ICT for Development (ICT4D). Jessica Aalami and Joyojeet Pal. BRIE (Berkeley Roundtable for the International Economy) Working Paper 164, January 2005. PDF.


Speech

  • How to build a Spoken Dialog System with Limited (or no) Resources. Madelaine Plauché, Özgür Çetin, and Udhaykumar Nallasamy. AI in ICT for Development Workshop of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Hyderabad, India. January, 2007. PDF.
  • Tamil Market: A Spoken Dialog System for rural India. Madelaine Plauché, and Madhu Prabaker. Working papers in Computer-Human Interfaces, April 2006. PDF.
  • Speech Recognition for Illiterate Access to Information and Technology. Madelaine Plauché, Chuck Wooters, Divya Ramachandran, Joyojeet Pal, Udhyakumar N. 1st International Conference on ICT and Development, UC Berkeley, May 2006. PDF.
  • Hardware Speech Recognition on Low-Cost and Low-Power Devices. Sergiu Nedevschi, Rabin Patra, and Eric Brewer. 41st Design Automation Conference, June 2005. PDF.

Wireless/Networking

  • Interference Avoidance and Control. Ramakrishna Gummadi, Rabin Patra, Hari Balakrishnan, Eric Brewer. To appear in ACM HotNets, 2008. PDF.
  • An Adaptive, High Performance MAC for Long-Distance Multihop Wireless Networks. Sergiu Nedevschi, Rabin Patra, Sonesh Surana, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Lashminarayanan Subramanian, Eric Brewer. To appear in ACM MOBICOM, 2008. PDF.
  • A Radio Multiplexing Architecture for High Throughput Point to Multipoint Wireless Networks. Ramakrishna Gummadi, Rabin Patra, Sergiu Nedevschi, Sonesh Surana, Eric Brewer. To appear in ACM MOBICOM Workshop on Wireless Networks and Systems for Developing Regions (WiNS-DR), 2008. PDF.
  • Optimal Scheduling and Power Control for TDMA based Point to Multipoint Wireless Networks. Rabin Patra, Sonesh Surana, Sergiu Nedevschi, Eric Brewer. To appear in ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), August 2008. PDF
  • Economic Analysis of Networking Technologies for Rural Developing Regions. S. M. Mishra, J. Hwang, D. Filippini, T. Du, R. Moazzami, and L. Subramanian. 1st Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, Dec 2005. PDF.

ICT for Healthcare

  • Claim Mobile: Engaging Conflicting Stakeholder Requirements in Healthcare in Uganda. Melissa Ho, Emmanuel K. Owusu, Paul M. Aoki. Proc. IEEE/ACM Conf. on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2009), Apr. 2009, 35-45. PDF
  • ICTD for Healthcare in Ghana: Two Parallel Case Studies. Rowena Luk, Matei Zaharia, Melissa Ho, Brian Levine, Paul M. Aoki. Proc. IEEE/ACM Conf. on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2009), Apr. 2009, 118-128. PDF
  • Cultural Divides in the Construction of Socioprofessional Medical Practice. Rowena Luk, Melissa Ho, and Paul Aoki. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S 2008), Rotterdam, August 2008.
  • Asynchronous Remote Medical Consultation for Ghana. Rowena Luk, Melissa Ho, Paul M. Aoki. Proc. ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), Apr. 2008, 743-752. PDF
  • Applying User-Centered Design to Telemedicine. Melissa Ho, Rowena Luk, Paul M. Aoki. CHI 2007 Workshop on User Centered Design for International Development, Apr. 2007. PDF
  • A Framework for Designing Teleconsultation Systems in Africa. Rowena L. Luk, Melissa Ho and Paul Aoki. Proc. Int'l Conf. on Health Informatics in Africa (HELINA 2007), Bamako, Mali, Jan. 2007, 28(1-5). PDF

Related Publications

Microsoft Research India

  • Multiple Mice for Retention Tasks in Disadvantaged Schools. Udai Pawar, Joyojeet Pal, Rahul Gupta, Kentaro Toyama. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), San Jose, California, April 28-May 3, 2007. PDF
  • Multiple Mice for Computers in Education in Developing Countries. Udai Pawar, Joyojeet Pal, Kentaro Toyama. 1st International Conference on ICT and Development, UC Berkeley, May 2006. PDF
  • Text- Free UI: Prospects and Challenges for Social Access. Indrani Medhi and Renee Kuriyan. Taking Stock of E-development Conference. Sao Paolo, May 2007. PDF.

Sushant Jain

  • Using redundancy to cope with failures in a delay tolerant network Sushant Jain, Michael Demmer, Rabin Patra, Kevin R. Fall. ACM SIGCOMM, August 2005. PDF
  • Routing in a delay tolerant network. Sushant Jain, Kevin R. Fall, Rabin Patra. ACM SIGCOMM, August 2004. PDF


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