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Bridging the paper and electronic worlds: the paper user interface
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Linking and messaging from real paper in the Paper PDA
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WEST: a Web browser for small terminals
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Power browser: efficient Web browsing for PDAs
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Satchel: providing access to any document, any time, anywhere
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction with mobile systems
Using while moving: HCI issues in fieldwork environments
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction with mobile systems
Improving mobile internet usability
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Extended abstract a field computer for animal trackers
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Implementing physical hyperlinks using ubiquitous identifier resolution
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The missing link: augmenting biology laboratory notebooks
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Overcoming the Lack of Screen Space on Mobile Computers
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
WAP: designing for small user interfaces
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Books with voices: paper transcripts as a physical interface to oral histories
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Design studies for a financial management system for micro-credit groups in rural india
CUU '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Universal usability
Paper augmented digital documents
Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Turning the postal system into a generic digital communication mechanism
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Summary thumbnails: readable overviews for small screen web browsers
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Seeing-Is-Believing: Using Camera Phones for Human-Verifiable Authentication
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Visual Code Widgets for Marker-Based Interaction
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Using Mobile Phones for Secure, Distributed Document Processing in the Developing World
IEEE Pervasive Computing
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CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Image stablization for 2D barcode in handheld devices
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Foundations and Trends in Web Science
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ACM SIGWEB Newsletter
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Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
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Implementing successful rural computing applications requires addressing a number of significant challenges. Recent advances in mobile phone computing capabilities make this device a likely candidate to address the client hardware constraints. Long battery life, wireless connectivity, solid-state memory, low price and immediate utility all make it better suited to rural conditions than a PC. However, current mobile software platforms are not as appropriate. Web-based mobile applications are hard to use, do not take advantage of the mobile phone's media capabilities and require an online connection. Custom mobile applications are difficult to develop and distribute. To address these limitations we present CAM - a new framework for developing and deploying mobile computing applications in the rural developing world. CAM applications are accessed by capturing barcodes using the mobile phone camera, or entering numeric strings with the keypad. Supporting minimal navigation, direct linkage to paper practices and offline multi-media interaction, CAM is uniquely adapted to rural device, user and infrastructure constraints. To illustrate the breadth of the framework, we list a number of CAM-based applications that we have implemented or are planning. These include processing microfinance loans, facilitating rural supply chains, documenting grassroots innovation and accessing electronic medical histories.