Research situated in non-Western contexts continues to be exceptionalized and marginalized in Computing venues. This exceptionalizing creates power differences that result in additional labor of self-location performed by the periphery in order to be understood by researchers situated in …

A greenhouse designed as a sitting room, storage, and indoor garden, blending Split-Level architecture with Northwest Regional style.

This custom bike shed that provides storage for a bicycle and supports gardening and outdoor cooking activities. As a highly visible feature, the shed also extends design elements and materials from the house to fit cohesively in its environment.

We present an SMS-based system for providing transit information based solely on existing cellular and GPS networks. We developed and applied our system to privately-run marshrutka buses in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. However, our goal is to more broadly address issues of ad-hoc shared transportation …

This work consists of two main components: (a) a longitudinal ethnographic study in Kyrgyzstan that demonstrates the importance of transportation resources in the developing world and how to plan for an appropriate ICT solution, and (b) the results of a proof-of-concept system engineered to …

In recent decades, new sociological theories have risen to try to explain the barriers to reaching middle-class experienced by recent immigrants to America. A key issue is the relationship between cultural and socioeconomic assimilation. In this work, I use data from the Beyond High School …

Short message service (SMS) is cell phone technology that is a simple and flexible transport mechanism for programmatic information exchange in developing regions for database-based applications. MySMS takes advantage of this medium by providing a framework using SMS as a transport layer to …