[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 12/06 - Leah Rosenzweig and Molly Offer-Westort

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Hi everyone!

For our last UW CHANGE Seminar talk for the quarter (December 6th) will be
hearing from Leah Rosenzweig  and Molly
Offer-Westort  from the University of
Chicago. Leah and Molly's talk is titled "Designing adaptive experiments
for policy learning and inference".

*Description*
In this talk we will first provide an overview of adaptive experiments and
discuss their utility for policy learning and evaluation in social science
research. The second half of the talk will present results from two
adaptive experiments focused on countering COVID-19 misinformation and
increasing vaccine acceptance among social media users in Kenya and Nigeria.

*Seminar Details*
*Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates
Center)
*Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/95324763742

*Presenter Bio*

Leah Rosenzweig is Director and Lead Researcher at the Development
Innovation Lab  at
the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the micro-foundations of
political and social behavior to gain leverage on macro policy-relevant
questions. Her current work in the political economy of development
explores the existence and consequences of social norms of voting
 in semi-authoritarian states,
government accountability
 in low- and
middle-income countries, and inter-group relations
. She also works on
designing and evaluating optimal policies to combat the spread of online
misinformation  and
increase vaccination , as
well as applied research methods
. Prior to joining DIL,
Leah held positions at Stanford University, the Institute for Advanced
Study in Toulouse, and was a consultant for the Nigerian government. Leah
received her PhD in Political Science from MIT.

Molly Offer-Westort is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Political Science with an affiliation in the Department of Statistics at
the University of Chicago. Molly works on quantitative methodology for
social science research, with a focus on causal inference, machine
learning, and experimental design–particularly for adaptive experiments.
She earned her PhD from Yale, joint in Political Science and Statistics &
Data Science. Previously, Molly was a postdoctoral fellow in Susan Athey’s
Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business. In addition to the PhD, Molly holds a Masters in Statistics, also
from Yale, and a Masters in Public Affairs, from the Princeton School of
Public and International Affairs.

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[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 11/29 - Dr. Nuttada Panpradist

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This week's Change Seminar Speaker will be Dr. Nuttada Panpradist. Dr.
Panpradist's talk is titled "Overcoming barriers in diagnostics in and
outside the lab through local capacity building and cross-disciplined
collaborations".

*Seminar Details*
*Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates
Center)
*Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/95324763742

*Present Bio*
Dr. Nuttada Panpradist is Post-doctoral Scholar in the Lutz Lab @ UW
Bioengineering. During her time as a Ph.D. student in UW Bioengineering –
she completed her degree in December ’21 – Panpradist has developed
successful rapid tests to detect HIV, tuberculosis and drug resistance, and
most recently, tests for COVID-19, including one that is now being
commercialized .
She has published one book chapter and co-authored 21 publications – eight
with a lead role as the first author – with more in the works. She has
collaborated with clinicians worldwide and is an award-winning mentor and
role model for women in engineering. *Read more about her contributions to
bioengineering and global health here*:
https://bioe.uw.edu/new-ph-d-grad-nuttada-panpradist-ready-for-next-challenge-faculty-position/


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[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 11/22 - Yael Borofsky

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This week's Change Seminar Speaker will be Dr. Yael Borofsky
. Dr. Borofsky's talked
is titled "Solar Public Lighting & Sensors in Informal Settlements: Lessons
from Research and Practice"

*Description: *Informal settlements are unplanned neighborhoods where
approximately 1 in 7 people worldwide live. In Cape Town, where my research
is focused, nearly 14% of households live in one of the more than 400
informal settlements. The vast majority of research has focused on access
to services like shared sanitation, water taps, and housing, but these
studies have often ignored an important aspect of life in informal
settlements: nighttime. I will discuss how my colleagues and I drew on
transdisciplinary methods and  used both novel and traditional data
collection techniques, including light meters, pedestrian motion, and
household surveys to test the impact of wall-mounted solar public lighting
in an informal settlement in South Africa. In describing the project, I
will also share some key lessons from both research and practice intended
to promote discussion and inspire other researchers to take on
transdisciplinary research methods.

*Seminar Details*
*Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates
Center)
*Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/95324763742

*Present Bio*
Dr. Yael Borofsky is a Senior Scientist in the Development Economics Group,
where she helps manage the research group and conducts research focused on
access to infrastructure in informal urban settlements. She is a co-founder
and editor of the ETH Energy Blog . Yael
received her PhD from ETH Zurich in 2022. She has a dual masters' degree in
City Planning as well as Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a BS in Human Development from Cornell
University.


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[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 11/15 - Canceled

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Hi everyone,

We hope you all had a wonderful long weekend. This week's change will be
canceled. See you all back again in CSE2 271 or virtual next week.

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[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 11/8 - Teddy Woodhouse

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This week's Change Seminar Speaker will be Teddy Woodhouse
. In his presentation, Teddy
will pose the question: can technological innovation ever be just? Drawing
from his years of experience in the ICT for development (ICT4D) space,
Teddy reflects on some of the recent work of the Alliance for Affordable
Internet , the moral arc of internet access (and the lack
thereof), and the importance of thinking about the social implications to
the technologies we create and use.

*Seminar Details*
*Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates
Center)
*Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/95324763742

*Present Bio*
Teddy (he/him) is the Senior Research Manager for the Alliance for
Affordable Internet. In his role, he oversees A4AI’s research program,
conducts original analysis and research to support the organisation’s
mission, and uses the team’s insights as evidence for policy change.  His
expertise spans a range of research methods and themes across ICT4D and
telecommunications policy. He first joined the Alliance in early 2016 and
has since helped co-author a number of publications, including four
editions of the Affordability Report; From Luxury to Lifeline
,
A4AI’s first study of device prices in low- and middle-income countries;
the Costs of Exclusion
 research series to
estimate the economic consequences of digital gender inequality; and Advancing
Meaningful Connectivity
,
A4AI’s initial analysis on meaningful connectivity as a foundation for
inclusive digital societies.  Teddy holds an MA (Hons) in International
Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MSc in Global Politics
(Global Civil Society) from the London School of Economics and speaks
English, French, Spanish, and Czech.


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[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 11/1 - Richard Anderson

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This week's Change Seminar Speaker will be Richard Anderson. Richard's talk
is titled "Making good ideas last".

*Abstract*

A goal of HCI research is to invent technology that improves people’s
lives. In this talk I will reflect on challenges in sustaining innovations
as they transition from researchers to organizations or governments who
deploy them at scale.  I will draw on examples from low cost Video-Based
education, mobile data management for national immunization programs and
training in global health projects. The main theme of the talk is to
formulate a set of downstream research challenges that target the post
innovation phase of HCI research with the hope that this will strengthen
long term impact.

*Seminar Details*
*Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates
Center)

*Present Bio*

Richard Anderson is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, where
he has been on the faculty since 1986, with brief leaves to Indian
Institute of Science, Microsoft Research, and PATH. His research has
focused on computing for the developing world since 2005, when he became
involved with the Digital Study Hall project. In 2009, Richard spent a
sabbatical year working with the Digital Health Solutions group at PATH, a
global health NGO based in Seattle. This opportunity allowed him to
increase his efforts on applying computing technologies to challenges in
global health. While working with PATH, he co-founded the Projecting Health
project, which used the Community-Led Video Education model to promote
healthy practices in rural areas in India. His research interests in ICTD
include technologies for behavior change communication, improving tools to
support the use of data in strengthening health systems, and digital
financial services. In 2020 he received the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for
Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics for
contributions bridging the fields of computer science, education, and
global health.


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[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 10/25 - Chinasa T. Okolo

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Good Afternoon Everyone,

This week's Change Seminar Speaker will be Chinasa T. Okolo. Chinasa's talk
is titled "Navigating the Limits of AI Explainability: Designing for Novice
Technology Users in Low-Resource Settings''.

*Abstract*
As researchers and technology companies rush to develop artificial
intelligence (AI) applications that aid the health of marginalized
communities, it is critical to consider the needs of the community health
workers (CHWs) who will be increasingly expected to operate tools that
incorporate these technologies. My previous work has shown that these users
have low levels of AI knowledge, form incorrect mental models about how AI
works, and at times, may trust algorithmic decisions more than their own.
This is concerning, given that AI applications targeting the work of CHWs
are already in active development and early deployments in low-resource
healthcare settings have already reported failures that created additional
workflow inefficiencies and inconvenienced patients.

Explainable AI (XAI) can help avoid such pitfalls, but nearly all prior
work has focused on users that live in relatively resource-rich settings
(e.g., the US and Europe) and that arguably have substantially more
experience with digital technologies such as AI. My research works to
develop XAI for people with low levels of formal education and technical
literacy, with a focus on healthcare in low-resource domains. This work
involves demoing interactive prototypes with CHWs to understand what
aspects of model decision-making need to be explained and how they can be
explained most effectively, with the goal of improving how current XAI
methods target novice technology users.


*Seminar Details*
*Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates
Center)

*Present Bio*
Chinasa T. Okolo is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of
Computer Science at Cornell University. Before coming to Cornell, she
graduated from Pomona College with a degree in Computer Science. Her
research interests include explainable AI, human-AI interaction, global
health, and information & communication technologies for development
(ICTD). Within these fields, she works on projects to understand how
frontline healthcare workers in rural India perceive and value artificial
intelligence and examines how explainability can be best leveraged in
AI-enabled technologies deployed throughout the Global South.

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[change] [CSE 590C1] Change seminar 10/11 - Caryl Feldacker

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Good Afternoon Everyone,

This week's Change Seminar Speaker will be Caryl Feldacker, PhD, MPH
. Caryl
will present,
“Mobile Health Innovations for Low-Resource Settings: Benefits and pitfalls
of prioritizing open-source tools and participatory engagement.” She will
present recent digital health innovations in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and
Malawi that use the open-source Community Health Toolkit, including
two-way, interactive texting (2wT) to increase patient engagement and an
offline-first, mobile electronic medical record system (EMRs). Both 2wT and
the offline EMR are being designed, developed, and optimized for routine
public clinic contexts using a human-centered design (HSD) approach and
implementation science methods.

*Seminar Details*
*Location*: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates
Center)
*Virtual Attendance*: https://washington.zoom.us/j/93100061611

*Present Bio*
Caryl Feldacker, PhD, MPH, has over 20 years of international experience
focused on ensuring quality public health programming and rigorous program
monitoring and evaluation (M), including more than 10 years conducting
HIV-related implementation science (IS) research in sub-Saharan Africa. Her
current NIH-funded research focuses on applying IS and human-centered
design (HCD) principles to implement digital health innovations aimed at
improving the quality of patient care while reducing provider workload and
program costs in routine low- and middle-income settings. For each
initiative, she partners closely with Ministries of Health and local
partners with the aim of helping strengthen M and research capacity for
sustained improvement. Her digital health interventions employ the
open-source Community Health Toolkit in collaboration with technology
steward, Medic. Results from these collaborations demonstrate safety of the
two-way, text-based (2wT) approach for male circumcision (MC) follow-up,
reducing healthcare worker burden with high usability and lower cost. 2wT
for MC is now scaling nationally in Zimbabwe. New projects aim at
establishing an offline-first mobile electronic medical record and applying
the 2wT approach to improve retention in ART care both at Lighthouse Trust
in Lilongwe Malawi. Other current collaborations using IS and HCD
approaches include partnerships with Aurum Institute on 2wT for MC
follow-up in South Africa and 2wT for both MC and ART in collaboration with
Zimbabwe Technical Assistance, Training and Education Centre for Health -
ZIM-TTECH (Harare, Zimbabwe).   For more information, check out
publications here or contact directly: cf...@uw.edu.


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[change] CSE 590C1: Change Seminar

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Please join the Change Seminar (CSE 590 C1, SLN: 12925) which will meet 
Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 203 of the Paul Allen Center.  The first meeting 
will be next week on September 30th.


Change (http://change.washington.edu) is a group of faculty, students, 
and staff at the UW who are exploring the role of information and 
communication technologies (ICT) in improving the lives of undeserved 
populations, particularly in the developing world. We cover topics such 
as global health, education, micro finance, agricultural development, 
and general communication, and look at how technology can be used to 
improve each of these areas.


The seminar is available for all UW students and the content is designed 
to be widely accessible. We encourage students from all departments to 
enroll/attend if interested.


Please forward this message to any other relevant mailing lists.

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