"My tv is the family oven/toaster/grill": personalizing tv for the indian audience
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Designing interactive user experiences for TV and video
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
ViralVCD: tracing information-diffusion paths with low cost media in developing communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Technology for emerging markets at MSR india
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Design and implementation of contextual information portals
Proceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web
Utilizing DVD players as low-cost offline internet browsers
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enriching textbooks with images
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
On the feasibility and utility of web based educational lesson plans
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
Data mining for improving textbooks
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Spoken web: using voice as an accessibility tool for disadvantaged people in developing regions
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
A participatory video and audio platform for community interaction using DVDs and IVR systems
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
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While many technologies remain out-of-reach for households in the developing world, one exception to this rule is that of entertainment technologies. Even in poor communities, there is a strong drive to own devices such as TVs and, increasingly, DVD players. Though they are typically used for video content, ordinary DVD players also support rich interactivity and programmability, including the capability to browse over 100,000 menus using the remote control. Our vision is to leverage these capabilities to support interactive applications -- such as encyclopedias, language tutoring, and medical decision systems -- without any dependence on a computer. As a step towards this vision, in this paper we explore two novel applications of interactive DVDs in the context of education. The first is as a platform for PowerPoint presentations, where TV-DVDs have the potential to replace computers while reducing costs and improving teacher familiarity. The second is as a platform for children's books, where one can provide thousands of books on DVD for the same price as printing a single book. We evaluate each of these solutions -- which have already found uptake with NGOs -- via case studies in Indian schools.