Technology for Emerging Markets

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Affording Extremes: Incivility, Social Media and Democracy in the Indian Context

Anmol Panda, Sunandan Chakraborty, Noopur Raval, Han Zhang, Mugdha Mohapatra, Joyojeet Pal

ICTD 2020 | June 2020

Editor(s): Carleen Maitland, Monica Villavicencio Cabezas

Project

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Modulo: Drive-by Sensing at City-scale on the Cheap

Dhruv Agarwal, Srinivasan Iyengar, Swami Manohar, Eash Sharma, Ashish Raj, Aadithya Hatwar

COMPASS 2020 | June 2020

Best Paper Award

Github Project

Publication

Twitter and political culture: Short text embeddings as a window into political fragmentation

Amar Budhiraja, Joyojeet Pal

COMPASS | June 2020

Project

Publication

Using Mobile Airtime Credits to Incentivize Learning, Sharing and Survey Response: Experiences from the Field

Devansh Mehta, Ramaravind K. Mothilal, Alok Sharma, Bill Thies, Amit Sharma

ACM COMPASS: Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies | June 2020

Project

Social Media and Society

Social science research into the impacts of digital technologies on society, politics, and culture in India

Publication

Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: A Case-Study on Gondi

Devansh Mehta, Sebastin Santy, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, Alok Sharma, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, Venkanna U, Amit Sharma, Kalika Bali

Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) | May 2020

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Facilitating Media Distribution With Monetary Incentives

Devansh Mehta, Alok Sharma, Ramaravind K. Kommiya Mothilal, Chiraag, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, Bill Thies, Venkanna U, Colin Scott, Amit Sharma

2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2020

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“Like Shock Absorbers”: Understanding the Human Infrastructures of Technology-Mediated Mental Health Support

Sachin Pendse, Faisal Lalani, Munmun De Choudhury, Amit Sharma, Neha Kumar

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | April 2020

Project

Publication

When the King turns Jester: A Carnivalesque Analysis of Police Outreach on Social Media in Kerala

Drupa Dinnie Charles, Joyojeet Pal

The 11th International Development Informatics Association conference (IDIA2020) | March 2020

Editor(s): Araba Sey

Project

Video

Designing Computer Vision Algorithms to Describe the Visual World to People Who Are Blind or Low Vision

March 26, 2020 | Danna Gurari, Ed Cutrell

A common goal in computer vision research is to build machines that can replicate the human vision system (for example, detect an object or scene category, describe an object or scene, or locate an object).…

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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

Affording Extremes: Incivility, Social Media and Democracy in the Indian Context

Modulo: Drive-by Sensing at City-scale on the Cheap

Twitter and political culture: Short text embeddings as a window into political fragmentation

Using Mobile Airtime Credits to Incentivize Learning, Sharing and Survey Response: Experiences from the Field

Social Media and Society

Learnings from Technological Interventions in a Low Resource Language: A Case-Study on Gondi

Facilitating Media Distribution With Monetary Incentives

“Like Shock Absorbers”: Understanding the Human Infrastructures of Technology-Mediated Mental Health Support

When the King turns Jester: A Carnivalesque Analysis of Police Outreach on Social Media in Kerala

Designing Computer Vision Algorithms to Describe the Visual World to People Who Are Blind or Low Vision

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