Ed Cutrell - Publications

Publications

Talks, lectures & presentations

Designing computer vision algorithms to describe the visual world to people who are blind or low vision
Microsoft Research Webinar Series
Free webinar sponsored by MSR, focusing on the use of CV for image descriptions. Delivered with the fabulous Dr. Danna Gurari.
26 March, 2020
Inclusive design for all, or ICT4D and 4U! with Dr. Ed Cutrell
Microsoft Research Podcast. A chat about research in ICTD, accessibility and HCI.
4 September, 2019
10 years of TEM: What can we learn from a decade of ICT(4)D Research?
Keynote for ACM DEV 2015
Reflections on scaling research interventions in ICT4D. I discuss some successes and failures (by some metric) and reflect on some of the factors that may have influenced them.
2 December, 2015
Social media platforms for low-income blind people in India
Keynote for Indo-US Workshop on Emerging Accessibility Technologies for the Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI), Delhi.
This talk summarized research on the way in which low income BVI people in India use social media and other tools for education and entertainment. Mostly based on work with Aditya Vashistha (now at UW). Research papers here and here.
21 September, 2015
Innovating in India: Designing for constraint, computing for inclusion
Keynote for CHASE/ICPC workshops at ICSE 2014. The talk addressed issues in designing technologies for users and populations that are substantially different from the researchers and engineers who build them. I touched on three projects from TEM that help to illustrate this: Managing Microfinance with Paper, Pen & Digital Slate; CGNet/Swara and IVR Junction; and Participant Response Bias in HCI Research
3 June, 2014
MOOCs in the developing world: Lessons from India
With Bill Thies. Invited talk, ACM Conference on Learning at Scale 2014.
5 March, 2014
Fundamentals of user studies
Guest lecture, IIIT Delhi, Masters HCI class (Prof. Ponnurangam K.)
10 February, 2014
Online education for a global audience
Guest lecture, EPFL, Personal interaction studio course (Prof. Alex Barchiesi, et al.)
26 March, 2013
Innovating in India: Disruptive technology for the developing world
Keynote for Digital Futures 2012, Aberdeen, UK
23 October, 2012
See CV for more complete list...