{"587135":{"#nid":"587135","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Nithya Sambasivan - \u0022Embracing Infrastructure Constraints in Emerging Markets\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs communities in the emerging markets are increasingly interfacing with technology, the technology landscape is heterogeneous and unevenly distributed. In this talk, I describe \u0026#39;infrawork\u0026#39;: emergent workarounds created by people in getting access to technology infrastructures, and three case studies of designing to leverage these socio-technical hooks: (i) design and evaluation of a mobile data transparency tool intended to help emerging mobile users control and manage their data (ii) design and evaluation of one of the world\u0026#39;s largest public Wi-Fi networks, in train stations in India; and (iii) the study of citizen response in 2015 Chennai floods. Finally, I present some general lessons learned in designing for constrained infrastructures in emerging markets.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENithya Sambasivan is a user experience researcher working in the area of emerging markets in the Next Billion Users team at Google, and previously at Google Access and Google.org. She has a PhD. in Informatics from University of California, Irvine and MS in Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech. Her research has won many awards at CHI and ICTD.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe technology landscape is heterogeneous and unevenly distributed. In this talk, I describe \u0026#39;infrawork\u0026#39;: emergent workarounds created by people in getting access to technology infrastructures.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The technology landscape is unevenly distributed, workarounds could result in access for emerging markets."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2017-02-08 16:11:22","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:12:56","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-02-16T11:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-02-16T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-02-16T13:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-02-16 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-02-16 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-02-16 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"587136":{"id":"587136","type":"image","title":"Nithya Sambasivan Photo","body":null,"created":"1486570364","gmt_created":"2017-02-08 16:12:44","changed":"1486570364","gmt_changed":"2017-02-08 16:12:44","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223762","name":"Nithya.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Nithya.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Nithya.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54782,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Nithya.jpg?itok=VdNAm04p"}}},"media_ids":["587136"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}