Reminder: Change seminar happening now in CSE 203! On Oct 16, 2017 4:53 PM, "Esther Jang" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reminder: Please join us for Change Seminar in *CSE 203* (Paul G. Allen > Center for Computer Science and Engineering) tomorrow at 12 pm. Note the > location change for this week! > > This week will be a shorter conference-style talk by Kushal Shah, with > feedback welcome at the end in preparation for the ICTD conference in > November. Samia Ibtasam will not be joining us this week due to unforeseen > circumstances. > > *Who: *Kushal Shah (UW iSchool and CSE) > *What: **An Investigation of Phone Upgrades in Remote Community Cellular > Networks* > *When: *Tuesday Oct 17 > *Where:* 12pm in CSE 203 > > *An Investigation of Phone Upgrades in Remote Community Cellular Networks* > In the last decade, billions of people worldwide have upgraded from basic > 2G feature phones to data-enabled 4G smartphones. In most cases, people > upgrade in areas with 4G coverage (typically cities and large towns), but > increasingly, people choose to upgrade in areas that only have 2G coverage > or no cellular coverage at all. This counterintuitive behavior – upgrading > your phone despite living in an area that does not actively support many of > the features of that new device – is the focus of this work. We investigate > the rates and reasons for 4G upgrades and adoption in two extremely remote > areas in Indonesia and the Philippines. Our mixed-methods approach combines > the quantitative analysis of several years of mobile phone registration > logs with the qualitative analysis of multiple interviews in one of these > communities. *Bio:* Kushal is a Master's student in the Information > School at UW. He is working as a Research Assistant with the ICTD lab to > analyze different datasets to find ways to improve Financial Services for > the Poor. He also works on projects in other domains such as Telecom > Connectivity, Crisis Informatics and Urban Computing. > > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Matthew Johnson <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Please join us for the Change Seminar this week on *Tuesday 10/17/2017 >> in CSE 203 from 12-1 pm*. We will be covering two shorter conference >> style talks this week, so please try and arrive on time! >> >> *Who:* Samia Ibtasam (UW CSE) >> *What: **An Exploration of Smartphone based Mobile Money Applications in >> Pakistan* >> *Who: *Kushal Shah (UW CSE) >> *What: **An Investigation of Phone Upgrades in Remote Community Cellular >> Networks* >> *When: *Tuesday Oct 17 >> *Where:* 12pm in CSE 203 (Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and >> Engineering) >> >> *Kushal: An Investigation of Phone Upgrades in Remote Community Cellular >> Networks* In the last decade, billions of people worldwide have upgraded >> from basic 2G feature phones to data-enabled 4G smartphones. In most cases, >> people upgrade in areas with 4G coverage (typically cities and large >> towns), but increasingly, people choose to upgrade in areas that only have >> 2G coverage or no cellular coverage at all. This counterintuitive behavior >> – upgrading your phone despite living in an area that does not actively >> support many of the features of that new device – is the focus of this >> work. We investigate the rates and reasons for 4G upgrades and adoption in >> two extremely remote areas in Indonesia and the Philippines. Our >> mixed-methods approach combines the quantitative analysis of several years >> of mobile phone registration logs with the qualitative analysis of multiple >> interviews in one of these communities. *Bio:* Kushal is a Masters >> student in the Information School at UW. He is working as a Research >> Assistant with the ICTD lab to analyze different datasets to find ways to >> improve Financial Services for the Poor. He also works on projects in other >> domains such as Telecom Connectivity, Crisis Informatics and Urban >> Computing. --- *Samia: An Exploration of Smartphone based Mobile Money >> Applications in Pakistan* Worldwide, two billion people remain unbanked, >> the majority of whom reside in resource-constrained environments. While >> banks have limited reach due to high overhead costs of physical expansion, >> the global increase in mobile penetration has created opportunities to >> serve the unbanked using mobile-based Digital Financial Services (DFS). >> However, access to mobile applications alone is insufficient to ensure >> their trial, adoption, or continued usage. In this paper, we report a >> three-phase learnability evaluation (N=118) of smartphone-based mobile >> wallet applications conducted in Pakistan. We discuss ways in which >> previous exposure or domain knowledge improve learnability, and we >> recommend that metrics for learnability should include effectiveness and >> help sought, independent of usability. We also identify DFS adoption >> opportunities such as user readiness, interface improvements, and women's >> independence. All of these opportunities stem from awareness and >> understanding of relevance, which in our case occurred as a consequence of >> exposure to the application under evaluation. *Bio: * Samia is a second >> a second year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science >> and Engineering at the University of Washington and is advised by Richard >> Anderson. Previously, she worked as the founding co-director of Innovations >> for Poverty Alleviation Lab (IPAL) at Information Technology University, >> Pakistan and taught courses like DLab: Global Development, Human Centered >> Design, Design thinking, and Technology for Global Development. She has >> been working as a researcher in using Information and Communication >> Technologies for Development (ICT4D) since 2010. She started her work with >> speech interfaces for low-literate users with Umar Saif, Roni Rosenfeld and >> Agha Ali Raza. At IPAL, she worked to design Maternal, Neonatal and Child >> Health (MNCH) solutions including information systems, diagnosis >> applications etc. She also worked with Government of Punjab, Pakistan to >> redesign the Immunization card and creating digital health records for the >> province of Punjab. Currently, she is using her knowledge in Human-Computer >> Interaction to work with unbanked to design and adapt financial >> technologies and to expand the financial inclusion. She is Acumen Fund >> Regional Fellow for 2015 and sometimes tweets at @SamiaRazaq >> >> *Subscribe to the Change mailing list:* >> http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change >> *Google Calendar link: * >> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/uwchange%40gmail.c >> om/public/basic.ics >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> change mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change >> >> >
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