Technology and Empowerment | India
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The following projects are associated with both the Technology and Empowerment research area and the SCAI center.
At Microsoft Research Lab India, we conduct a variety of healthcare related research, including smartphone-based low-cost diagnostics, generative AI chatbots to support the healthcare ecosystem, and promote mental well-being of employees.
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With Emphasis on the Global South The work on accessibility at MSR India has spanned the range from spatial audio with HoloLens to the use of feature phones to reach children with vision impairments and a spectrum of tangible toys…
uniVersal Empowerment with LLMs The technology landscape is being rapidly transformed by Large Language Models (LLMs), allowing users to address real-world applications in various domains. However, a digital divide exists that may exclude large populations from benefiting and contributing to…
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Developing a smartphone-based paid crowdsourcing platform that offers local-language digital work and is accessible to people in rural communities
In the Harnessing AutoMobiles for Safety (HAMS) project, we use low-cost sensing devices to construct a virtual harness for vehicles. The goal is to monitor the state of the driver and how the vehicle is being driven in the context…
Our goal is to provide a simple and easy way to (i) remotely measure and observe the health of a sensor, and (ii) empower users to specify their acceptable data quality threshold driven by the application requirements.
Learn2Earn is a project that encourages learning through incentives that are delivered using a mobile phone.
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Social science research into the impacts of digital technologies on society, politics, and culture in India
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Device-to-device file transfers are pervasive in many emerging markets, but users typically only share content with close friends or informal media vendors. We seek to facilitate ubiquitous device-to-device file transfers beyond one’s immediate social network. Based on initial interviews with…