This post describes a research study on community cellular network maintenance and repair done in collaboration with the University of the Philippines and the University of Washington.
About 90% of the world’s 285 million visually impaired people live in low-income settings. India, a fast developing economy, is home to over 63 million visually impaired people —…
Qualitative researchers rely on methods such as interviews, field observation, and document analysis for data collection, which produce large amounts of textual data in…
(Speech delivered at the Diversity and Inclusion Lunch @ CHI 2018 where I was awarded Diversity Champion Recognition Emerging Voice)
Thinking about human-centered computing across borders, a concern that naturally arises is how systems can work with the multiplicity of language abilities…
Telemedicine solutions have been explored across the world in attempts to potentially transform healthcare delivery in low-resource environments. They aim to enable extension of medical…
What is the internet?
I’ve been asking myself (and others) this question a lot lately. I’ve found that, especially in highly-connected contexts, people often conflate the internet with the world wide web (WWW), with an…