Activities

Workshops

• Co-organized a Workshop - IUI4DR: Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions at ACM IUI, Canary Islands, Spain, Jan 13th, 2008
  
  • Michelle X. Zhou, Shimei Pan, IBM
  
  
  • Sheetal K. Aggarwal, IBM Research
  
  
  • Michael Best, Georgia Tech
  
  
  • Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research
  
  
  • Pearl Pu, EPFL
  
  
  • Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research
  
  
  • John Canny, Berkeley
  
  
  
  
  
• Conducted a Workshop - Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments at ACM Mobile HCI, Singapore, September 9th, 2007. Organizers from IBM India Research Lab: Amit A. Nanavati and Nitendra Rajput.
  
  Keynote speaker: Matt Jones, Swansea
  

Panels

• Information "Uptrieval": Exploring Models for Content Assimilation and Aggregation for Developing Regions, at ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, April 23rd, 2008.
  
  Moderators
  
  • Arun Kumar, IBM India Research Lab.
    
  • Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Lab.
  
  
  Panelists
  
  • Richard Gowen, President, IEEE Foundation
    
  • Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU, USA
    
  • Stephane Boyera, W3C Mobile Web Initiative
    
  • Shadi Abou-Zahra, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
  
  
  
• “Web Delivery Models for Developing Regions”, WWW 2007 Panel, Banff, Canada, May 9th, 2007
  
  Moderator
  
  • Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Lab.
  
  
  Panelists
  
  • Saman Amarasinghe (MIT, USA)
  
  
  • Ken Banks (kiwanja.net, UK)
  
  
  • Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay, India)
  
  
  • Umar Saif (MIT, USA and LUMS, Pakistan)
  
  
  • Kentaro Toyama (Microsoft Research, India)
  
  
  
• “Building self-sustainable communities while delivering IT to masses: Learning from experiences" HoIT 2007, August 24th, 2007
  
  Moderator
  
  • Sheetal K. Aggarwal, IBM India Research Lab.
  
  
  Panelists
  
  • Dr. Timothy A. Gonzalves, Professor, IIT Madras
  
  
  • Dr. Krithi Ramamritham: Professor, IIT Bombay
  
  
  • T. Dinesh, Janastu, India