Preliminary Conference Program-at-a-glance
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Oral Paper Presentations
| Track, Day & Room | Time | Paper ID | Paper Title | Author Names |
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| Session A1: Energy I October 21, 2013 Monday Session Chair: Kendra Sharp (Riveria & Granada) | 10:30am | 11 | On-Board Solar Power for Small-Scale Distant-water Fishing Vessels | Satish Babu, Vincent Jain |
| 10:45am | 39 | Low Cost Solar Thermal Energy Generation for Developing Economies | Darick LaSelle, Robert Liechty, Nathan Clark, Hassan Alzamzam, Jasmin Dzabic, Robert Foster | |
| 11:00am | 42 | A small-hydro plant model for feasibility analysis of electrification projects in rural Tanzania | Stefano Mandelli, Emanuela Colombo, Bonaventure Saanane, Andrea Redondi, Francesco Bernardi, Prosper Mgaya, Johnstone Malisa | |
| 11:15am | 46 | Biogas An Alternative Household Cooking Technique for Zambia | Likonge Makai, Marta Molinas | |
| 11:30am | 56 | Design of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System for a Northern Ontario Community | Marielle Magtibay, Diana Wong | |
| 11:45am | 57 | A Modular Simulation Platform for testing Hybrid DC/AC Future Grid Solutions for Remote Areas | Eleder Araneta, Marta Molinas, Elisabetta Tedeschi | |
| Session B1: Energy II October 21, 2013 Monday Session Chair: Nathan Johnson (Riveria & Granada) | 1:30pm | 72 | An Integrated Approach to Energy for Development - Case Study of the Malawi Renewable Energy Acceleration Programme | Damien Frame, Peter Dauenhauer, Kelvin Tembo, Catherine Currie, Graham Ault |
| 1:45pm | 79 | Low Cost Lumen Testing Procedure In Bangladesh Perspective | Akm Azad, Sabbir Khan, Rafiur Rahman, Farah Shabnam | |
| 2:00pm | 83 - rescheduled to F1 | Prevention of Power Blackout and Power Theft using IED | Amarnath R, Kalaivani N, Priyanka V | |
| 2:15pm | 87 | Unified Green Village Electricity Project Concept; a Suitable Model for Reliable Renewable Energy Deployment in Nigeria | Ifeanyi Orajaka | |
| 2:30pm | 92 | Solar Park in Gaza City: A Proposed Social Business to bring Renewable Energy Knowledge in the Conflict Region | Yaser Qudaih | |
| 2:45pm | 93 | COSMGrid: Configurable, Off-the-shelf Micro Grid | Jonathan Fürst, Nik Gawinowski, Sebastian Büttrich, Philippe Bonnet | |
| 3:00pm | 118 | Utilizing Microsolar Charging Systems to Combat the Electricity-Poverty Nexus | Naman Trivedi, Thomas Larson | |
| Session C1: Energy III October 21, 2013 Monday Session Chair: Nathan Johnson (Riveria & Granada) | 4:00pm | 144 | The CSI Story: IEEE PES Community Solutions Initiative | Raymond Larsen, Robin Podmore, Michelle Lacourciere, Patrick Ryan, Derek Welbourn, Daniel Wessner |
| 4:15pm | 151 | Customizable Timing Control Device for Natural Gas Home Appliances to Save Natural Gas | Assad Iqbal, Muhammad Shamoon Khan, Sangeen Khan, Sajjad Hussain Shah | |
| 4:30pm | 155 | A Low Power Control System Optimized for Solar Thermal Power Generation | Darick LaSelle | |
| 4:45pm | 159 | Sustainable Solar Electrification for Rural Communities in Cameroon | Michael Wilson, Jude Numfor | |
| 5:00pm | 161 | Microgrid Test Bench for Small-Scale Renewable Microsources | Michael Rios, Giri Venkataramanan | |
| 5:15pm | 164 | The Economic Challenge of Rural Electrification: Community Solutions Initiative in Africa | Seth Myers | |
| 5:30pm | 166 | South Sudan Rural Electrification Project | Ronald Moulton, Mou Riiny | |
| Session A2: Education I October 21, 2013 Monday Session Chair: Charles Herget (Castillian) | 10:30am | 3 | An EPICS-in-IEEE initiative: learners of St Albans College and students of the University of Pretoria seek earth observation solutions through air-quality microsensing | Saurabh Sinha, Chris Mouton, Phumudzo Bebwele |
| 10:45am | 8 | An electronic solution to automate the process of Grade-1 Braille training | Piotr Osuch, Saurabh Sinha | |
| 11:00am | 10 | Engaging Diverse Learners through New Technologies | Carol Shepherd, Nadelon Alpert | |
| 11:15am | 62 | Developing Engineering Programmes specialising in renewable energy for Environmental Sustainability | Alan Rocha | |
| 11:30am | 81 | The IEEE Actionable Data Book: A Platform For Inclusive Education | Edilson Arenas, Tyde Richards, Avron Barr | |
| 11:45am | 109 | Enhancing Student Engagement in the Online Classroom | Enid Acosta-Tello | |
| Session B2.1: Education II October 21, 2013 Monday Session Chair: Ed Perkins (Castillian) | 1:30pm | 117 | GreenEduComp: Low Cost Green Computing System for Education in Rural India A Scheme for Sustainable Development Through Education | Mukundhan Srinivasan, Anand B, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan, Venus Antony A. J. |
| 1:45pm | 174 | Motivating Interest in Electrical Engineering Through Altruism at the Middle School Level | Thomas McKay, Carter Milhous | |
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| Session B2.2: Disaster I October 21, 2013 Monday Track Chair: Mike Andrews (Castillian) | 2:15pm | 163 | Transforming In-kind Giving in Disaster Response: A Case for On-line Donation Registry with Retailers | Md. Islam, John Vande Vate, Alex Nordenson, John Heggestuen, Katherine Dolan |
| 2:30pm | 33 | Determine Additional Locations of Tsunami Escape Building in Meuraxa Banda Aceh, Indonesia | Hendri Yuzal | |
| 2:45pm | 53 | Cognitive-Cultural Simulation of Local and Host Government Perceptions In International Emergencies | Daniel Olsher | |
| 3:00pm | 94 | System of People Search under Avalanches in Mines | Igor Shirokov | |
| 3:15pm | 95 | Cognitive/AI Peacekeeping Decision Support Models | Daniel Olsher | |
| Session C2: Disaster II October 21, 2013 Monday Track Chair: Mike Andrews (Castillian) | 4:00pm | Invited Paper | The Serval Mesh: A Platform for Resilient Communications in Disaster & Crisis (Invited Paper from Serval Project , Humanity United) | Paul Gardner-Stephen, Romana Challans, Jeremy Lakeman, Andrew Bettison, Dione Gardner-Stephen, Matthew Lloyd (Serval Project Inc) |
| 4:15pm | 99 | Family Information Sharing System based on a Judgment of Emergency | Yuka Hasegawa, Masato Oguchi | |
| 4:30pm | 102 | Radio Signal-based Measurements for Localized Heavy Rain Detection using Smartphones | Jane Louie Zamora, Shigeru Kashihara, Suguru Yamaguchi | |
| 4:45pm | 126 | WSN-SA: Design Foundations for Situational Awareness Systems Based on Sensor Networks | Agnelo Silva, Mingyan Liu, Mahta Moghaddam | |
| 5:00pm Online | 154 | CrowdHelp: a Crowdsourcing Application for Improving Disaster Management | Liliya Besaleva, Alfred Weaver | |
| 5:15pm Online | 59 | Experimental Analysis of Effects of Installation Alignment and Solar Insolation on Power Generation by Solar Panels | Moein Jazayeri, Sener Uysal, Kian Jazayeri | |
| Session D1: Health I October 22, 2013 Tuesday Session Chair: Lew Terman (Riveria & Granada) | 10:30am | Featured Paper | "Unlocking the Catalytic Power of Invention" | Feature Speaker: Maurizio Vecchione, VP for Global Good at Intellectual Ventures |
| 11:00am | 49 | Digitization of Health Records in Rural Villages | Rajan Vaish, Sascha Ishikawa, Jing Liu, Stephanie Berkey, Philip Strong, James Davis | |
| 11:15am | 9 | User Interface Design of a Digital Sphygmomanometer for Rural India | Prabir Mukhopadhyay, IIITDM Jaba | |
| 11:30am | 26 | Non-invasive Microwave Breast Cancer Detection - A Comparison Study | Arezoo Modiri, Kamran Kiasaleh | |
| 11:45am | 27 | Experimental Results for a Novel Microwave Radiator Structure Targeting Non-invasive Breast Cancer Detection | Arezoo Modiri, Kamran Kiasaleh | |
| 12:00pm | 48 | Senior Design Project for Humanitarian Purpose: Sign Language Device for Children with Hearing Disability | Mouna Nakkar | |
| 12:15pm | 50 | Field-Portable Lensfree Holographic Color Microscope for Telemedicine Applications | Alon Greenbaum, Najva Akbari, Alborz Feizi, Aydogan Ozcan | |
| Session F1: Health II October 22, 2013 Tuesday Session Chair: Soon Wan (Riveria & Granada) | 1:30pm | 65 | On the Performance of GRASP and Dynamic Programming for the Blood Assignment Problem | Kevin Igwe, Micheal Olusanya, Aderemi Adewumi |
| 1:45pm | 74 | Augmented Wastage Remover | Saronroy Albert, Duraiarasan A | |
| 2:00pm | 82 | Challenges and Successes in Making Health Care More Accessible To Rural Communities In Waslala, Nicaragua Using Low-Cost Telecommunications | Pritpal Singh, Ruth McDermott-Levy, Elizabeth Keech, James Klingler, Maria Moncada | |
| 2:15pm | 96 | Affordable Dermascope for Resource-Poor Settings | Jenna Johnstone, Brian Bacik, Shannon Burke, Rachel Dzombak, Khanjan Mehta, Peter Butler | |
| 2:30pm | 100 | Modeling Social Media Network For Effective Healthcare In Emerging Economies' Semi-Urban/Urban Context | Amrita Amrita, Sreekanth Vettikkadu, Dhrubes Biswas | |
| 2:45pm Online | 101 | A sustainable approach to municipal solid waste management in Southern Nigeria | Ye-Obong Udoakah, Uduak Akpan | |
| 3:00pm | 106 | Modeling Malnutrition Toddlers In East Java Province Using Geographically Weighted Regression Approach | Rahandini Lestari, Sutikno Sutikno | |
| 3:15pm Online | 83 | Prevention of Power Blackout and Power Theft using IED | Amarnath R, Kalaivani N, Priyanka V | |
| Session G1.1: Health III October 22, 2013 Tuesday Session Chair: Ed Perkins (Riveria & Granada) | 4:00pm | 148 | Challenges Facing Medical Data Digitization in Low-Resource Contexts | Alex Shovlin, Mike Ghen, Khanjan Mehta, Peter Simpson |
| 4:15pm | 153 | Cloud Based Health Care Delivery Model For Affordable and Accessible Health Services in Rural/Semi Urban India | Partha Pandey, Sharad Kumar, Dhrubes Biswas | |
| 4:30pm | 157 | Sanitation Quality Index and its Relation With Diarrheal Prevalence in Pallikaranai, Southern Chennai, India | Gowri Velu, Lavanya Vaidhyanathan | |
| 4:45pm | 114 | LARN: Indoor Navigaion for Elderly and Physically Challenged | Rajesh Megalingam, Ananthakrishnan Ponnileth Rajendran | |
| Session G1.2: Best Papers from GHTC-SAS October 22, 2013 Tuesday Session Chair: Ed Perkins | 5:00pm | GHTC-SAS Invited Paper | Embedded Wireless-enabled Low Cost Plastic Sorting System for efficient Waste Management (Invited Paper from GHTC-SAS 2013) | L. Madan Kumar, K. Shankar, Karan H. Shah, T. Chinnu, V. Venkataraman |
| 5:15pm | GHTC-SAS Invited Paper | Computerized Assessment of Phonological Processes in Malayalam (Invited Paper from GHTC-SAS 2013) | Sindhusha Chandran, N. Sreedevi, Merin John | |
| Session D2: Water & Agriculture I October 22, 2013 Tuesday Session Chair: Jay Pearlman (Castillian) | 10:30am | 15 | Gutter Design and Selection for Roof Rainwater Catchment Systems | Jillian Zankowski, Yixin Sun, Chiyan Poon, Emily Passauer, Abdalla Nassar, Khanjan Mehta |
| 10:45am | 16 | Beneficial Microbes Jeevatu for Biodegradable Waste Management and Plant Disease Control | Bharat Poudyal | |
| 11:00am | 25 | Simple Algorithm for Chlorine Concentration Control | David Peter | |
| 11:15am | 34 | Effect of contaminated filtration sand on performance of household biosand filters | Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, Caleb White, Jodi Sangster, Stacey Joy, Matt Pirog, Elizabeth Jones | |
| 11:30am | 55 | Powering & Watering Agriculture: Application of Energy-Water Nexus Planning | Amro Farid, William Lubega | |
| 11:45am | 58 | Functional Water Sources That Dont Work: A case for household self supply through the Mzuzu Smart Centre, Malawi | Rochelle Holm, Elijah Wanda, James McGill | |
| 12:00pm | 98 | The Feasibility of Rice Bags as a Low-Cost and Locally-Available Alternative to Greenhouse Glazing | Shayne Bement, Abdalla Nassar, Khanjan Mehta | |
| Session F2: Water & Agriculture II October 22, 2013 Tuesday Session Chair: Nancy Searby (Castillian) | 1:30pm | 103 | Chataka: An Open Data Initiative for the Water Sector | Santosh K, Subrat Rout |
| 1:45pm | 121 | Mobile Sensing for Agriculture Activities Detection | Somya Sharma, Jabal Raval, Bhushan Jagyasi | |
| 2:00pm | 123 | A VoIP Enabled Cooperative Network for Agricultural Commerce in Amazon Peru | David Espinoza, Alan Mickelson, Jared Leventhal, Christie Ritter, River Quispe, Leopoldo Linan | |
| 2:15pm | 124 | A Review of Direct and Indirect Implications of Laser Land Leveling as Agriculture Resource Conservation Technology in Punjab Province of Pakistan | Leena Maqsood, Tariq Mahmood Khalil | |
| 2:30pm | 170 | A Holistic Optimization Framework for Improving Ceramic Pot Filter Performance | Amelia Servi, Peter Kang, Susan Murcott, Daniel Frey | |
| 2:45pm | 172 | Feasibility of Rain Water Harvesting on Scott Laboratory | Deep Shah, Purav Patel , Patrick Kudo, William Herold | |
| Session G2: Connectivity & Communication October 22, 2013 Tuesday Session Chair: Adil Usman (Castillian) | 4:00pm | 13 | A Crowd-sourced Approach for Wild Elephant Tracking | Satish Babu, Tarsh Thekaekara |
| 4:15pm | 51 | A Survey on Wireless Mesh Network Applications in Rural Areas and Emerging Countries | Christian Köbel | |
| 4:30pm | 70 | Remote Monitoring of Off-Grid Renewable Energy: Case Studies in rural Malawi, Zambia, and Gambia | Peter Dauenhauer, Damien Frame, Scott Strachan, Michael Dolan, Million Mafuta, Daniel Chakraverty, Jeff Henrikson | |
| 4:45pm | 108 | Remote Health Monitoring through an Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks, Mobile Phones & Cloud Computing Technologies | Sajjad Hussain Shah, Assad Iqbal | |
| 5:00pm | 133 | Technologically Enabling Resource-constrained Enterprises in Developing Nations Through The Implementation of E-Commerce on-Demand Service Portals for a Grid Utility Computing Platform | Babafemi Odusote | |
| Session H1: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities I October 23, 2013 Wednesday Track Chair: Jery Althaf (Riveria & Granada) | 10:30am | Featured Paper | "Occupational Ergonomics and Safety in Developing Countries: A Humanitarian Imperative" | Feature Speaker: Pamela McCauley Bush, Professor, University of Central Florida |
| 11:00am | 21 | Technologies, Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Community Capacity Building | Carolyn Woodley, Stewart Taylor, Sean Fagan, Sue Marsshall | |
| 11:15am | 22 | Key Challenges of Product Development for Humanitarian Markets | Ana Laura Santos, Brita Nielsen | |
| 11:30am | 24 | Research and Development in Humanitarian Engineering | Gary Conkol | |
| 11:45am | 35 | Sustainable Community Development- Westwood Solar Furnace Project | Aaron Brown, Elisa Teipel, Kaitlin Litchfield, Leigh Gilmore | |
| 12:00pm | 64 | Creating Opportunities for Young Humanitarian Entrepreneurs to Use Technology to Change the World and Reduce Poverty in Developing Communities | Gim Soon Wan, Darrel Chong | |
| 12:15pm | 80 | Big Data and Humanitarian Supply Networks - Can Big Data give Voice to the Voiceless? | Asmat Monaghan, Mark Lycett | |
| Session J1: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities II October 23, 2013 Wednesday Track Chair: Jery Althaf (Riveria & Granada) | 1:30pm | 107 | PulaCloud: Human Computation for Economic Development | Andrew Schriner, Daniel Oerther |
| 1:45pm | 128 | Design and Implementation of a Test Rig for Disruption of Unexploded Ordnance | Mark Jeunnette, Gim Song Soh | |
| 2:00pm | 134 | Entrepreneurship as an IEEE Workforce Development Theme | Tinus Stander, Saurabh Sinha | |
| 2:15pm | 152 | Creating Shared Value by aligning Business and Social Objectives through the Application of Technology | Suyash Chopra, Narayana Mandaleeka | |
| 2:30pm | 165 | StreetConnect Apps for Homeless People | Silvia Figueira, Natalie Linnell | |
| 2:45pm | 178 | Humanitarian Opportunities In The Network Age | Maryam Heidaripour, Vahid Choopankareh, Jamshid Emami | |
| Session H2: Humanitarian Applications I October 23, 2013 Wednesday Session Chair: Nancy Searby (Castillian) | 10:30am | *open* | ||
| 11:00am | 14 | The Praxis of Systems Thinking for Concurrent Design Space and Business Strategy Exploration | Rachel Dzombak, Chanakya Mehta, Khanjan Mehta, Sven Bilen | |
| 11:15am | 66 | Crowd-sourcing urban air-quality in developing countries through open source technologies | Justin Henriques, Brian Bojarski, Kyle Byrd, Melissa Von Wald | |
| 11:30am | 88 | Rehabilitating Former Landfill Sites: A Case Study in Habitat Restoration | Peter Ash, Anju Bist, Dan Sullivan, Smitha Chandran, Nikhil Kothurkar | |
| 12:00pm | 110 | Synthetic Aperture Radars for Humanitarian Purposes: Products and Opportunities | Guiseppe Ruello, Donato Amitrano, Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Maria Nicolina Papa, Fabio Ciervo, Youssouf Koussoube | |
| 12:15pm | 122 | The Case for Interdisciplinarity: Lessons from the Field | Revi Sterling, John Bennett | |
| Session J2: Humanitarian Applications II October 23, 2013 Wednesday Session Chair: Adil Usman (Castillian) | 1:30pm | 139 | Municipal Solid Waste Management In Bangalore And The Concept Of Mini Biogas Plant In Urban Localities | Suchitra Ramesh, Asif Usman, Adil Usman, Divakar BP |
| 1:45pm | 177 | Using Earth observations to enhance water resources decision-making and disaster assessment processes in the United States and the developing world | Christine Lee, Sarah Hemmings, Nancy Searby | |
| 2:00pm | 179 | Sub-micrometer salt aerosol production: Marine cloud brightening | Armand Neukermans | |
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Poster Paper Presentations
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| Track | Paper ID | Poster Title | Author Names |
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| Session E: Poster Papers October 22, 2013 Tuesday Noon – 2:00 PM and 3:00 – 4:30 PM | |||
| Agricultural Technology | 90 | Improved grain dryer based on the principle of an 'Ondol': Application to Cambodian rural areas | Seong Uk Hong, Juhern Kim, Mangab Kim |
| 91 | Management of Tropical Bio-geo-resources through Integrated Bio-Cycle Farming System for Healthy Food and Renewable Energy Sovereignty | Cahyono Agus | |
| Connectivity & Communication | 12 | A Hybrid Sensor Network for Flexible, Unattended, Multipurpose Deployment | Satish Babu |
| 89 | An Assessment Study on White Spaces in Malawi Using Affordable Tools | Marco Zennaro, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, JSP Mlatho, Martin Thodi, Chomora Mikeka | |
| Education | 138 | Micro donation preventing Child exploitation and Envisaging the plan to save Humanity | Suhasini K, Bindiya Patil, Pavan Kumar, Adil Usman |
| 149 | Capability and Compatibility Measure in Knowledge Management Framework for Knowledge Retention in Higher Education Institution | Kenneth Osigwelem, Valentina Plekhanova, Peter Smith | |
| Energy | 6 | Effective Utilization of Power in Wireless Networks Using Hybrid Renewable Energy Resources in a Smart Grid Environment | Manoj Reddy Gopu, Siddarth V R, Dinesh Kumar A |
| 78 | Hybridization of Solar Energy with National Grid to Power Classroom DC Loads | Akm Azad, Sharzana Reza, Rashik Ahmad, Shadman Patwary | |
| Health | 36 | Sound Visualization and Localization Device | Chandykunju Alex, Kevin Martin Jose, Arun Joseph |
| 173 | A Feasibility Study for the Development of Value Added Services for Rural Healthcare | Ali Zalzala, Adeshwar Raja B, Sanjeev Prashar, Stanley Chia | |
| Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunity | 142 | A Visualizing Interface for ICT in Grass-roots Economic Planning and Development - A Pilot Study in Kapgari and Surrounding Villages | Bulbul Sen, Ranjan Sen |
| 175 | Inverted Humanitarian Service and Learning: The CSI Haitian Pilot Examined in Doodles and Parables | Daniel Wessner | |
| Water | 168 | Innovative pH Control for Water: Reusing Rainwater | Plinio Paolinelli Maciel, Samuel Batista, Guilherme Medeiros, Thelma Rodrigues |