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ORCIDGHTC 2013: San Jose, CA, USA
- 2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2013, San Jose, CA, USA, October 20-23, 2013. IEEE 2013, ISBN 978-1-4799-2402-8
- Keith Moore:
Welcome to GHTC 2013!
Session A1: Energy I
- Satish Babu, J. Vincent Jain:
On-board solar power for small-scale distant-water fishing vessels. 1-4 - Darick W. LaSelle, Robert Liechty, Hassan Alzamzam, Robert Foster, Jasmin Dzabic, Nathan Clark:
Low cost solar thermal energy generation for developing economies. 5-10 - Stefano Mandelli
, Emanuela Colombo, Andrea Redondi, Francesco Bernardi, Bonaventure B. Saanane, Prosper Mgaya, Johnstone Malisa:
A small-hydro plant model for feasibility analysis of electrification projects in Rural Tanzania. 11-16 - Likonge Makai, Marta Molinas:
Biogas - An alternative household cooking technique for Zambia. 17-22 - Marielle Magtibay, Diana Wong:
Design of a hybrid renewable energy system for a northern ontario community. 23-28 - Eleder Araneta Estala, Marta Molinas, Elisabetta Tedeschi:
A modular simulation platform for testing hybrid DC/AC future grid solutions for remote areas. 29-34 - Moein Jazayeri, Sener Uysal, Kian Jazayeri:
Experimental analysis of effects of installation alignment and solar insolation on power generation by solar panels. 35-40
Session A2: Education I
- Saurabh Sinha, Phumudzo R. Bebwele, Chris Mouton:
An EPICS-in-IEEE initiative: Learners of St Alban's College and students of the University of Pretoria seek earth observation solutions through air-quality microsensing. 41-46 - Piotr J. Osuch, Saurabh Sinha:
An electronic solution to automate the process of Grade-1 braille training. 47-52 - Carol M. Shepherd, Nadelon Alpert:
Engaging diverse learners through new technologies. 53-56 - Alan Sanjay Rocha, Vijay Kumar Agrawal:
Developing engineering programmes specialising in renewable energy for environmental sustainability. 57-62 - Edilson Arenas, Tyde Richards, Avron Barr:
The IEEE Actionable Data Book: A platform for inclusive education. 63-67 - Enid Acosta-Tello:
Enhancing student engagement in the online classroom. 68-71
Session B1: Energy II
- Damien F. Frame, Peter M. Dauenhauer, Kelvin Tembo, Catherine Currie, Graham W. Ault:
An integrated approach to energy for development: Case study of the Malawi Renewable Energy Acceleration Programme. 72-77 - Sabbir A. Khan, Rafiur Rahman, Farah Shabnam, A. K. M. Abdul Malek Azad:
Low cost cylindrical lumen testing procedure in Bangladesh perspective. 78-81 - R. Amarnath, N. Kalaivani, V. Priyanka:
Prevention of power blackout and power theft using IED. 82-86 - Ifeanyi B. Orajaka:
Unified green village electricity project concept: A suitable model for reliable renewable energy deployment in Nigeria. 87-91 - Yaser Soliman Qudaih, Yasunori Mitani, Narima Amin:
Solar park in Gaza City: A proposed social business to bring renewable energy knowledge in the conflict region. 92-95 - Jonathan Fürst, Nik Gawinowski, Sebastian Büttrich, Philippe Bonnet:
COSMGrid: Configurable, off-the-shelf micro grid. 96-101
Session B2.1: Education II
- Mukundhan Srinivasan, Balu Anand, A. J. Antony Venus, Arun Noel Victor, Madhuri Narayanan, Sree Rakshaa S. P., Vineeth Vijayaraghavan:
GreenEduComp: Low cost green computing system for education in Rural India: A scheme for sustainable development through education. 102-107 - Thomas G. McKay, Tara McKay, Jeremy Chatwin, Carter Milhous:
Motivating interest in electrical engineering through altruism at the middle school level. 108-111
Session B2.2: Disaster I
- Daniel J. Olsher:
Cognitive-cultural simulation of local and host government perceptions in international emergencies. 112-117 - Igor B. Shirokov:
System of people search under avalanches in mines. 118-121 - Daniel Olsher:
Cognitive/AI peacekeeping decision support models. 122-127
Session C1: Energy III
- Raymond S. Larsen, Robin Podmore, Michelle Lacourciere, Patrick Ryan, Derek G. Welbourn, Daniel Wessner:
The CSI story: IEEE PES Community Solutions Initiative. 129-134 - Darick W. LaSelle:
A low power control system optimized for solar thermal power generation. 135-141 - Jude Numfor Kawep:
Sustainable solar electrification for rural communities in Cameroon. 142-146 - Michael Rios, Giri Venkataramanan, Bettina Benito, Pedro A. Melendez-Vega:
Microgrid test bench for small-scale renewable microsources. 147-151 - Seth Myers:
The economic challenge of rural electrification: Community solutions initiative in Africa. 152-157 - Mou Riiny, Ronald Moulton:
South Sudan rural electrification project. 158-161
Session C2: Disaster II
- Paul Gardner-Stephen, Romana Challans, Jeremy Lakeman, Andrew Bettison, Dione Gardner-Stephen, Matthew Lloyd:
The serval mesh: A platform for resilient communications in disaster & crisis. 162-166 - Yuka Hasegawa, Masato Oguchi:
Family Information Sharing System based on a judgment of emergency. 167-172 - Jane Louie Fresco Zamora, Shigeru Kashihara, Suguru Yamaguchi:
Radio signal-based measurements for localized heavy rain detection using smartphones. 173-178 - Agnelo R. Silva, Mingyan Liu, Mahta Moghaddam:
WSN-SA: Design foundations for situational awareness systems based on sensor networks. 179-184 - Liliya I. Besaleva, Alfred C. Weaver:
CrowdHelp: A crowdsourcing application for improving disaster management. 185-190 - M. Moinul Islam, John H. Vande Vate, John Heggestuen, Alex Nordenson, Katherine Dolan:
Transforming in-kind giving in disaster response: A case for on-line donation registry with retailers. 191-196
Session D1: Health I
- Arezoo Modiri, Kamran Kiasaleh:
Non-invasive microwave breast cancer detection - A comparative study. 197-202 - Arezoo Modiri, Kamran Kiasaleh:
Experimental results for a novel microwave radiator structure targeting non-invasive breast cancer detection. 203-208 - Rajan Vaish, Sascha T. Ishikawa, Jing Liu, Stephanie C. Berkey, Philip Strong, James Davis:
Digitization of health records in rural villages. 209-214 - Alon Greenbaum, Najva Akbari, Alborz Feizi, Aydogan Ozcan:
Field-portable lensfree holographic color microscope for telemedicine applications. 215-220 - Kevin Igwe, Micheal Olusanya, Aderemi Adewumi:
On the performance of GRASP and dynamic programming for the blood assignment problem. 221-225
Session D2: Water & Agriculture I
- Jillian Zankowski, Yixin Sun, Chiyan Poon, Emily Passauer, Abdalla R. Nassar, Khanjan Mehta:
Gutter design and selection for roof rainwater catchment systems. 226-231 - Bharat K. Poudyal, Pratik Poudel:
Beneficial microbes "Jeevatu" for biodegradable waste management and plant disease control. 232-237 - David A. Peter:
Simple algorithm for chlorine concentration control. 238-242 - Caleb White, Jodi L. Sangster, Stacey R. Joy, Amanda Dunekacke, Matthew Pirog, Elizabeth G. Jones, Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt:
Effect of contaminated filtration sand on performance of household biosand filters. 243-247 - Amro M. Farid, William Naggaga Lubega:
Powering & watering agriculture: Application of energy-water nexus planning. 248-253 - Shayne T. Bement, Abdalla R. Nassar, Khanjan Mehta:
The feasibility of rice bags as a low-cost and locally available alternative to greenhouse glazing. 254-259
Session E: Poster Papers
- Satish Babu:
A hybrid sensor network for flexible, unattended, multipurpose deployment. 260-261 - Chandykunju Alex, Kevin Martin Jose, Arun Joseph:
Sound localization and Visualization device. 262-264 - Marco Zennaro, Ermanno Pietrosemoli, J. S. P. Mlatho, Martin Thodi, Chomora Mikeka:
An assessment study on white spaces in Malawi using affordable tools. 265-269 - Man-gab Kim, Juhern Kim, Seong Uk Hong:
Improved grain dryer based on the principle of an 'Ondol': Application to Cambodian rural areas. 270-274 - Cahyono Agus:
Management of tropical bio-geo-resources through Integrated Bio-cycle Farming System for healthy food and renewable energy sovereignty. 275-278 - K. Suhasini, Bindiya Patil, P. Pavan Kumar, Adil Usman:
Micro donation preventing child exploitation and envisaging the plan to save humanity. 279-284 - Theo Economides:
The state of the art in educational technology. 285-287 - Plinio Soares Paolinelli Maciel, Samuel Batista da Silva, Guilherme Fernandes Beraldo de Medeiros, Thelma Virgínia Rodrigues:
Innovative pH control for water: Reusing rainwater. 288-293 - Ali M. S. Zalzala, B. Adeshwar Raja, Sanjeev Prashar, Stanley Chia:
A feasibility study for the development of value added services for rural healthcare. 294-299 - Daniel Wessner:
Inverted humanitarian service and learning: The CSI haitian pilot examined in doodles and parables. 300-303 - Saronroy Albert, A. Duraiarasan:
Augmented wastage remover [AWARE]. 304-308 - Pritpal Singh, Ruth McDermott-Levy, Elizabeth Keech, Bette Mariani, James Klingler, Maria Virginia Moncada:
Challenges and successes in making health care more accessible to rural communities in Waslala, Nicaragua using low-cost telecommunications. 309-313 - Jenna Johnstone, Brian Bacik, Shannon Burke, Rachel Dzombak, Khanjan Mehta, Peter Butler:
Affordable dermascope for resource-poor settings. 314-320 - Ye-Obong N. Udoakah, Uduak S. Akpan:
A sustainable approach to Municipal Solid Waste management in Southern Nigeria. 321-325 - Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Ananthakrishnan Ponnileth Rajendran, Deepak Dileepkumar, Abhiram Thejus Soloman:
LARN: Indoor navigation for elderly and physically challenged. 326-330
Session F2: Water & Agriculture II
- K. Santosh, Subrat N. Rout:
CHATAKA: An open data initiative for the water sector. 331-336 - Somya Sharma, Jabal Raval, Bhushan G. Jagyasi:
Mobile sensing for agriculture activities detection. 337-342 - David Espinoza, Alan Rolf Mickelson, Jared Leventhal, Christie Ritter, River Quispe, Leopoldo Linan:
A VoIP enabled cooperative network for agricultural commerce in Amazon Peru. 343-348 - Leena Maqsood, Tariq Mahmood Khalil:
A review of direct and indirect implications of laser land leveling as agriculture resource conservation technology in Punjab province of Pakistan. 349-354 - Amelia Tepper Servi, Peter Kyungchul Kang, Daniel Frey, Susan Murcott:
A holistic optimization framework for improving ceramic pot filter performance. 355-360 - Deep Shah, Purav Patel, Patrick Kudo, Aaron Steinberg, William Herold:
Feasibility of rainwater harvesting on Scott Laboratory. 361-364
Session G1.1: Health III
- Alex Shovlin, Mike Ghen, Peter Simpson, Khanjan Mehta:
Challenges facing medical data digitization in low-resource contexts. 365-371 - Lavanya Vaidhyanathan, Velu Gowri:
Sanitation quality index and its relation with diarrheal prevalence in Pallikaranai, Southern Chennai, India. 372-375
Session G2: Connectivity & Communication
- Satish Babu, Tarsh Thekaekara:
A crowd-sourced approach for monitoring Asian elephants outside protected areas. 376-379 - Ramsey Meyer:
Simple messaging and collaboration system for disaster environments. 382-387 - Christian Köbel, Walter Baluja García, Joachim Habermann:
A survey on Wireless Mesh Network applications in rural areas and emerging countries. 389-394 - Peter M. Dauenhauer, Damien F. Frame, Scott M. Strachan, Michael J. Dolan, Million Mafuta, Daniel Chakraverty, Jeff Henrikson:
Remote monitoring of off-grid renewable energy Case studies in rural Malawi, Zambia, and Gambia. 395-400 - Sajjad Hussain Shah, Assad Iqbal, Syed Shaukat Ali Shah:
Remote health monitoring through an integration of wireless sensor networks, mobile phones & Cloud Computing technologies. 401-405
Session H1: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities I
- Carolyn Woodley, Sue Marshall, Stewart Taylor, Sean Fagan:
Technologies, indigenous Cultural Heritage and community capacity building. 406-410 - Brita Nielsen, Ana Laura R. Santos:
Key challenges of product development for humanitarian markets. 411-415 - Gary K. Conkol:
Research and development in Humanitarian Engineering. 416-420 - Aaron Brown, Elisa Teipel, Kaitlin Litchfield, Leigh Gilmore:
Sustainable community development: Westwood solar furnace project. 421-425 - Gim Soon Wan, Darrel Sau-Foong Chong:
Creating opportunities for young humanitarian entrepreneurs to use technology to change the world and reduce poverty in developing communities. 426-431 - Asmat Monaghan, Mark Lycett:
Big data and humanitarian supply networks: Can Big Data give voice to the voiceless? 432-437
Session H2: Humanitarian Applications I
- Rachel Dzombak, Chanakya Mehta, Khanjan Mehta, Sven G. Bilén:
The praxis of systems thinking for concurrent design space and business strategy exploration. 438-446 - Justin J. Henriques, Brian Bojarski, Kyle Wayne Byrd, Melissa Von Wald:
Crowd-sourcing urban air-quality in developing countries through open source technologies. 447-451 - Peter Ash, Anju Bist, Dan Sullivan, Smitha Chandran, Nikhil K. Kothurkar:
Rehabilitating former landfill sites: A case study in habitat restoration. 452-456 - Donato Amitrano, Gerardo Di Martino, Antonio Iodice, Daniele Riccio, Giuseppe Ruello, Maria Nicolina Papa, Fabio Ciervo, Youssouf Koussoube:
Synthetic Aperture Radars for humanitarian purposes: Products and opportunities. 457-462 - S. Revi Sterling, John K. Bennett:
The case for interdisciplinarity: Lessons from the field. 463-467 - Suchitra Ramesh, Asif Usman, Adil Usman, B. P. Divakar:
Municipal solid waste management in Bangalore and the concept of mini biogas plant in urban localities. 468-473
Session J1: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities II
- Andrew W. Schriner, Daniel B. Oerther:
PulaCloud: Human computation for economic development. 474-478 - Mark N. Jeunnette, Gim Song Soh:
Design and implementation of a test rig for disruption of unexploded ordnance. 479-484 - Tinus Stander, Saurabh Sinha:
Entrepreneurship as an IEEE workforce development theme. 485-488 - Suyash Kumar Chopra, Narayana G. P. L. Mandaleeka:
Creating shared value by aligning business and social objectives through the application of technology. 489-494 - Silvia Figueira, Natalie Linnell, Nicholas Fong:
StreetConnect: SMS announcements for homeless people. 495-500 - Maryam Heidaripour, Vahid Choopankareh, Jamshid Emami:
Humanitarian opportunities in the network age: Empowering disadvantaged communities. 501-505
Session J2: Humanitarian Applications II
- Christine M. Lee, Sarah N. Hemmings, Nancy D. Searby:
Using Earth observations to enhance water resources decision-making and disaster assessment processes in the United States and the developing world. 506-511 - Armand Neukermans, Gary Cooper, Jack Foster, Lee Galbraith, Sudhanshu Jain, Bob Ormond:
Sub-micrometer salt aerosol production: Marine Cloud Brightening. 512-515
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