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Jury: an automation framework for protocolised primary healthcare delivery 陪审团:用于协议化初级卫生保健交付的自动化框架
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537059
D. Mathew, Amit Samarth, Zeena Johar, Aaditeshwar Seth
It is often hard to get trained doctors as primary healthcare providers in rural India. In an emergent tiered model, clinicians trained in basic health practices are deployed at rural clinics, and instructed to follow structured clinical protocols. Medical records are maintained electronically and a regular medical audit is performed on the records by skilled doctors to ensure that the clinicians stationed in rural clinics provide high quality delivery of care. Manual audit of the medical records is however non-scalable and prone to error. We describe the development of Jury, a highly configurable and extensible framework for automation of clinical audit of electronic medical records (EMRs). Socio-economic complexities and paradigmatic differences between public health research and computer science throw up interesting challenges that were tackled on the way to arriving at a solution. A pilot implementation was done for the hypertension protocol. Our field partner ICTPH has evinced interest in integrating Jury into their regular workflow.
在印度农村,通常很难找到训练有素的医生作为初级卫生保健提供者。在紧急分层模式中,在农村诊所部署了经过基本卫生实践培训的临床医生,并指示他们遵循结构化的临床协议。医疗记录以电子方式保存,并由熟练的医生对记录进行定期医疗审计,以确保派驻农村诊所的临床医生提供高质量的医疗服务。然而,对医疗记录进行人工审计是不可扩展的,而且容易出错。我们描述了陪审团的发展,这是一个高度可配置和可扩展的框架,用于电子病历(emr)的临床审计自动化。社会经济的复杂性和公共卫生研究与计算机科学之间的范式差异带来了有趣的挑战,这些挑战在找到解决方案的过程中得到了解决。对高血压方案进行了试点实施。我们的现场合作伙伴ICTPH表示有兴趣将陪审团整合到他们的常规工作流程中。
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引用次数: 1
Social and spatial ethnic segregation: a framework for analyzing segregation with large-scale spatial network data 社会与空间种族隔离:基于大尺度空间网络数据的种族隔离分析框架
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537061
J. Blumenstock, Lauren Fratamico
While ethnic segregation plays an important role in determining the development trajectories of many countries, empirical measures of the dynamics of segregation remain rudimentary. In this paper, we develop a new computational framework to model and measure fine-grained patterns of segregation from novel sources of large-scale digital data. This framework improves upon prior work by providing a method for decomposing segregation into two types that previous work has been unable to separate: social segregation, as observed in interactions between people, and spatial segregation, as determined by the co-presence of individuals in physical locations. Our primary contribution is thus to develop a set of computational and quantitative methods that can be used to study segregation using generic spatial network data. A secondary contribution is to discuss in detail the strengths, weaknesses, and implications of this approach for studying segregation in developing countries, where ethnic divisions are common but data on segregation is often plagued by issues of bias and error. Finally, to demonstrate how this framework can be used in practice, and to illustrate the differences between social and spatial segregation, we run a series of diagnostic tests using data from a single city in a large developing country in South Asia. The case study we develop is based on anonymized data from a mobile phone network, but the framework can generalize easily to a broad class of spatial network data from sources such as Twitter, social media, and networked sensors.
虽然种族隔离在决定许多国家的发展轨迹方面起着重要作用,但对种族隔离动态的经验措施仍处于初级阶段。在本文中,我们开发了一个新的计算框架来建模和测量来自大规模数字数据新来源的细粒度分离模式。该框架改进了先前的工作,提供了一种方法,将隔离分解为以前的工作无法分离的两种类型:社会隔离,如在人与人之间的互动中观察到的,以及空间隔离,如由个人在物理位置的共同存在所决定的。因此,我们的主要贡献是开发一套可用于使用通用空间网络数据研究分离的计算和定量方法。第二个贡献是详细讨论了这种方法在研究发展中国家种族隔离方面的优势、劣势和影响,在这些国家,种族分裂是常见的,但关于种族隔离的数据经常受到偏见和错误的困扰。最后,为了演示如何在实践中使用这一框架,并说明社会隔离和空间隔离之间的差异,我们使用来自南亚一个大型发展中国家单个城市的数据进行了一系列诊断测试。我们开发的案例研究是基于来自移动电话网络的匿名数据,但该框架可以很容易地推广到来自Twitter、社交媒体和网络传感器等来源的广泛的空间网络数据。
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引用次数: 35
KrishiEkta: integrated knowledge and information distribution system for Indian agriculture KrishiEkta:印度农业综合知识和信息分发系统
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537071
Rakshit Agrawal, Mridu Atray, S. Sundari
In this publication, the authors describe KrishiEkta, an integrated knowledge distribution system for Indian Agriculture. KrishiEkta addresses the inadequate access of important information to various stakeholders in Indian agriculture. Access of rich internet platforms is not available to various farmers in small rural parts of the country. KrishiEkta system collects information from multiple sources through the internet on different categories falling under the theme of Agriculture. It then organizes this data into categorical models. This information with categorical information is the prepared for distribution in four different formats: SMS, tweet, Facebook post and digests e-mail. SMS are the preferred medium of information distribution among small farmers. Whereas many educated stakeholders use e-mails and social networking services. Summarized information with relevant links and identifiers per format are finally distributed to the subscribed users through the Distribution Engine.
在这篇文章中,作者描述了KrishiEkta,一个印度农业的综合知识分配系统。KrishiEkta解决了印度农业各利益相关者获取重要信息不足的问题。在我国的小农村地区,许多农民无法访问富互联网平台。KrishiEkta系统通过互联网从多个来源收集农业主题下不同类别的信息。然后将这些数据组织到分类模型中。这些分类信息准备以四种不同的格式分发:SMS、tweet、Facebook帖子和摘要电子邮件。短信是小农首选的信息传播媒介。而许多受过教育的利益相关者使用电子邮件和社交网络服务。汇总的信息以及每种格式的相关链接和标识符最终通过分发引擎分发给订阅的用户。
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引用次数: 3
Tuning a mid-range rural WiFi-based mesh network 调整中档农村wifi网状网络
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2541914
Carlos Rey-Moreno, W. Tucker, F. Simó-Reigadas
Little is known about how mid-range, or several km, distances affect multipoint-to-multipoint links when single radio nodes with omnidirectional antennas are used. In this poster, a real network with these characteristics is described and empirical results of its performance are presented. In particular, the effect of increasing the SlotTime value for optimizing the aggregated throughput has been analyzed. Results show the need to increase the SlotTime to considerably bigger values than those oberved for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint long-range links. With the new value of SlotTime, an increase of 115% in aggregated throughput was obtained over the standard Slottime value.
当使用带有全向天线的单个无线电节点时,很少有人知道中距离或几公里距离如何影响多点对多点链路。在这张海报中,描述了一个具有这些特征的真实网络,并给出了其性能的实证结果。特别地,分析了增加SlotTime值对优化聚合吞吐量的影响。结果表明,需要将SlotTime增加到比点对点和点对多点远程链路所观察到的值大得多的值。使用SlotTime的新值,聚合吞吐量比标准SlotTime值增加了115%。
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引用次数: 2
Interactive web caching for slow or intermittent networks 用于缓慢或间歇性网络的交互式web缓存
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537057
Jay Chen, L. Subramanian
We explore the limitations of existing caching mechanisms in slow networks and propose a new model of web caching designed for developing regions called interactive caching. Unlike conventional caching, interactive caching makes interacting with the cache the focus of web browsing when the connection is bad. Interactive caching achieves this by organizing the cache into topics for presentation to the user, optimizing for latency, and unaliasing cached content. In this paper we implement a prototypical version of interactive caching that includes: topic identification and presentation, a latency aware value function, DNS caching, and missing hyperlink suggestions. We evaluate our system based on a system implementation and web traces from multiple web cache deployments across different geographic locations in developing regions. We show how interactive caching can dramatically improve the user experience for slow connections by allowing users to explore the cache using trending topics that cover 60 - 80% of requests and reducing page load times by up to 72.86%.
我们探讨了现有缓存机制在慢速网络中的局限性,并提出了一种为发展中地区设计的新的web缓存模型,称为交互式缓存。与传统的缓存不同,交互缓存使与缓存的交互成为网络连接不良时浏览网页的重点。交互式缓存通过将缓存组织为主题以呈现给用户、优化延迟和消除缓存内容的混叠来实现这一点。在本文中,我们实现了一个交互缓存的原型版本,其中包括:主题识别和表示、延迟感知值函数、DNS缓存和缺失超链接建议。我们基于系统实现和来自发展中地区不同地理位置的多个web缓存部署的web跟踪来评估我们的系统。我们展示了交互式缓存如何极大地改善慢速连接的用户体验,它允许用户使用覆盖60 - 80%请求的趋势主题来探索缓存,并将页面加载时间减少了72.86%。
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引用次数: 16
Improving usability and correctness of a mobile tool to help a deaf person with pharmaceutical instruction 提高移动工具的可用性和正确性,以帮助聋人进行药物指导
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537063
Michael B. Motlhabi, W. Tucker, Mariam B. Parker, M. Glaser
The computing for development community knows how to build user interfaces using qualitative methods for text illiterate users, especially on mobile devices. However, little work has been done specifically targeting Deaf users in developing regions who cannot access voice or text. This paper describes a multi-disciplinary collaboration towards iterative development of a mobile communication tool to support a Deaf person in understanding usage directions for medication dispensed at a pharmacy. We are improving usability and correctness of the user interface. The tool translates medicine instruction given in English text to Sign Language videos, which are relayed to a Deaf user on a mobile phone. Communication between pharmacists and Deaf patients were studied to extract relevant exchanges between the two users. We incorporated the common elements of these dialogues to represent content in a verifiable manner to ensure that the mobile tool relays the correct information to the Deaf user. Instructions are made available for a Deaf patient in signed language videos on a mobile device. A pharmacy setup was created to conduct trials of the tool with groups of end users, in order to collect usability data with recorded participant observation, questionnaires and focus group discussions. Subsequently, pre-recorded sign language videos, stored on a phone's memory card, were tested for correctness. Results of these two activities are presented and discussed in this paper.
计算开发社区知道如何使用定性方法为文本文盲用户构建用户界面,特别是在移动设备上。然而,专门针对发展中地区无法使用语音或文本的聋人用户所做的工作很少。本文描述了一种多学科合作,旨在迭代开发一种移动通信工具,以帮助聋人理解药房配药的使用说明。我们正在改进用户界面的可用性和正确性。该工具将英文医学指导翻译成手语视频,然后通过手机传送给聋哑人。研究药师与聋哑人之间的交流,提取两者之间的相关交流。我们结合了这些对话的共同元素,以可验证的方式表示内容,以确保移动工具将正确的信息传递给聋人用户。通过移动设备上的手语视频,聋哑患者可以获得指导。为了通过记录参与者观察、问卷调查和焦点小组讨论收集可用性数据,创建了一个药房设置,在最终用户群体中对该工具进行试验。随后,预先录制的手语视频存储在手机存储卡上,测试其正确性。本文介绍并讨论了这两项活动的结果。
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引用次数: 19
Blacknoise: lightweight low-fi steganography in defense of free speech 黑噪:捍卫言论自由的轻量级低保真隐写术
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537054
Michael Paik
Censorship of communications is a widespread and current practice in various countries with repressive governments in order to prevent or restrict speech; political speech in particular. In many cases state-run telecommunications agencies, including those providing Internet and phone service, actively filter content or disconnect users in defense of incumbents in the face of widespread criticism by citizens. In this paper I present the results of experiments with Blacknoise, a system that uses commodity low-cost mobile telephones equipped with cameras, and takes advantage of their low-fidelity, noisy sensors in order to enable embedding of arbitrary text payloads into the images they produce. These images can then be disseminated via MMS, Bluetooth, or posting on the Internet, without requiring a separate digital camera or computer to perform processing.
为了防止或限制言论,在许多专制政府的国家,通信审查是一种普遍和当前的做法;尤其是政治演讲。在许多情况下,国有电信机构,包括那些提供互联网和电话服务的机构,在面对公民的广泛批评时,积极过滤内容或断开用户的连接,以维护在位者。在这篇论文中,我展示了blackknoise的实验结果。blackknoise是一种系统,它使用配备了摄像头的廉价移动电话,并利用其低保真、噪声传感器,以便将任意文本有效载荷嵌入到它们产生的图像中。然后,这些图像可以通过彩信、蓝牙或在互联网上发布,而不需要单独的数码相机或计算机进行处理。
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引用次数: 1
Measuring broadband performance in South Africa 衡量南非的宽带性能
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537053
M. Chetty, S. Sundaresan, Sachit Muckaden, N. Feamster, Enrico Calandro
Broadband penetration is increasing in South Africa, particularly on mobile devices, but little is known about the performance of fixed or mobile broadband in the country. This lack of empirical data imposes significant limitations to innovation, because broadband performance metrics help users audit their connectivity costs and regulators to make informed decisions about policies and infrastructure investments. We present the results from a measurement study of both fixed and mobile broadband connections in South Africa. We use measurement software that we implemented on mobile phones and home routers and adapted to address challenges that are unique to the developing world. Our findings suggest that consumers in South Africa are not getting advertised speeds, that mobile broadband generally has higher throughput than fixed broadband, and that interconnection between ISPs (or lack thereof) plays a significant role in determining the reliability and performance that users ultimately receive. Often, high latencies to destinations introduce significant performance bottlenecks, suggesting that, in addition to investments in higher throughput links, effort should be devoted to improving interconnection between ISPs and locating content closer to users. Our study, along with our open source technical platform, embodies an archetypal method for monitoring broadband performance in developing countries.
南非的宽带普及率正在增加,特别是在移动设备上,但人们对该国固定或移动宽带的性能知之甚少。经验数据的缺乏严重限制了创新,因为宽带性能指标可以帮助用户审计其连接成本,也可以帮助监管机构就政策和基础设施投资做出明智的决策。我们提出了对南非固定和移动宽带连接的测量研究结果。我们在移动电话和家庭路由器上安装了测量软件,并对其进行了调整,以应对发展中国家独有的挑战。我们的研究结果表明,南非的消费者并没有得到广告中宣传的速度,移动宽带通常比固定宽带具有更高的吞吐量,互联网服务提供商之间的互连(或缺乏互连)在决定用户最终获得的可靠性和性能方面起着重要作用。通常,到目的地的高延迟会带来显著的性能瓶颈,这表明,除了投资于更高吞吐量的链路之外,还应该致力于改善isp之间的互连,并将内容定位在更靠近用户的位置。我们的研究,连同我们的开源技术平台,体现了一种监测发展中国家宽带性能的典型方法。
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引用次数: 70
Design implication for a customized smartphone file explorer from user feedback 从用户反馈设计一个定制的智能手机文件浏览器
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537079
Sabirat Rubya, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Storage in mobile phones has become increasingly important with massive usage of smartphones in recent days. People access the file system of their smartphones to store or use files and folders via different file explorer applications. Although there are numerous file explorers available in the app stores, these lack a great deal of features the users frequently demand for easy access and manipulation of the file systems of their smartphones. We have conducted interviews among smartphone users to determine the most desired and claimed aspects for the file browser applications and try to evaluate some popular file browsers according to these features' presence in them. Finally we propose a design implication for a customized file explorer application based on users' preference.
最近,随着智能手机的大量使用,手机的存储变得越来越重要。人们通过不同的文件资源管理器应用程序访问智能手机的文件系统来存储或使用文件和文件夹。尽管应用商店中有许多文件浏览器,但它们缺乏用户经常需要的方便访问和操作智能手机文件系统的大量功能。我们在智能手机用户中进行了采访,以确定文件浏览器应用程序最需要和声称的方面,并尝试根据这些功能来评估一些流行的文件浏览器。最后,我们提出了一个基于用户偏好的自定义文件资源管理器应用的设计建议。
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Kwaabana: file sharing for rural networks Kwaabana:农村网络的文件共享
Pub Date : 2013-12-06 DOI: 10.1145/2537052.2537055
D. Johnson, E. Belding-Royer, Consider Mudenda
As usage of online social networks and social media continues to experience exponential growth, the amount of data being shared between users is increasing without bound. While this has revolutionized communication for many Internet users, users in rural or developing areas connected behind slow, congested gateways are falling increasingly behind the growing bandwidth requirements of the modern Internet. To address this problem, we present Kwaabana, a system to enable efficient sharing of content between users within a given region and to support reliable sharing of content between local village users and external users on the Internet. In this work, we describe the Kwaabana architecture and evaluate its performance in the rural village of Macha, Zambia. The results show that our localized file sharing service facilitates reliable sharing amongst rural users. Importantly, it also removes the cost barrier present for similar Internet-based services. We outline the process used by Kwaabana to achieve eventual database consistency and minimize impact on the Internet gateway link when synchronizing content between local and remote servers. In addition, we discuss some of the challenges specific to designing a solution for a remote community, and how we addressed those challenges.
随着在线社交网络和社交媒体的使用持续经历指数级增长,用户之间共享的数据量正在无限制地增加。虽然这已经彻底改变了许多互联网用户的通信方式,但农村或发展中地区的用户通过缓慢、拥挤的网关连接,越来越不能满足现代互联网日益增长的带宽需求。为了解决这个问题,我们提出了Kwaabana,这是一个系统,可以在给定区域内的用户之间有效地共享内容,并支持在互联网上本地村庄用户和外部用户之间可靠地共享内容。在这项工作中,我们描述了夸阿巴纳建筑,并评估了它在赞比亚马查农村的表现。结果表明,我们的本地化文件共享服务促进了农村用户之间的可靠共享。重要的是,它还消除了类似基于互联网的服务的成本障碍。我们概述了Kwaabana在本地和远程服务器之间同步内容时用于实现最终数据库一致性和最小化对Internet网关链接的影响的过程。此外,我们还讨论了为远程社区设计解决方案所特有的一些挑战,以及我们如何应对这些挑战。
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