Technology for Emerging Markets
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Microsoft Design Expo 2016: Savannah College of Art and Design
Each year, Microsoft Research sponsors a semester-long class at leading design schools. Students are asked to form interdisciplinary teams of two to four students to design a user experience prototype that solves a real-world problem.…
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Experiments in Indoor Localization and Vehicle Classification
Sensing, Computing and Communication are essential components of an IoT system. The talk will cover two experiments in indoor localization for harsh environments and vehicle classification for road traffic monitoring. Details about the system specifications,…
Publication
Urban Sensing Based on Human Mobility
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Real-time Air Quality Monitoring Network Using Low-Cost Devices
India has the dubious distinction of having 10 out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world. The number of government air quality monitoring stations in these cities, baring New Delhi (which has 12),…
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Planetary Scale Swarm Sensing, Planning and Control for Weather Prediction
Weather forecasting is a canonical predictive challenge that relies on extensive data gathering operations. We explore new directions with forecasting weather as a data-intensive challenge that involves large-scale sensing of the required information via planning…
Project
Future workplaces
Technology platforms are emerging as a new kind of workplace: from crowdwork to ‘peer economy’ platforms. This project uses ethnographic methods to address questions such as: Who are the workers on these platforms? What are…