I am Gaurav Paruthi, a design technologist with a deep interest in solving real-world problems with creative use of available technologies
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HEED Self-Reporting Devices
UbiComp-2017 PosterSituated and distributed interactive devices for simple one-touch self-reporting targetting the most common situations.
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Designing Context-Aware Applications for Behavior Change
CHI-2014 WorkshopWe propose the notion of “sweet spots” to encapsulate how particular contextual factors converge to create optimal states for performing physical activities.
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Mobile Crowdsourcing for Experience Sampling
IJHCS-2016 UbiComp-2015Mobile and situated crowdsourcing to collect annotated travel activity data in real-word settings.
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Sophus App
ExpoSItion-2016Context-Aware Knowledge Sharing Platform that allows people nearby to leverage each other’s expertise.
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Internet of Shoes
An experimental swarm light installation exploring a network for collective action.
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Crowd-generated Contextualized Behavior Change Messages
SBM 2015Crowdsourcing system that enables paid crowd workers to create context-appropriate behavior messages.
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StoneSoup: A Community Driven Proactive Display
ExpoSItion-2014A community driven proactive display system that allows personalization of content.
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The Role of Rating and Loan Characteristics in Online Microfunding Behaviors
ICWSM-2015 arXivIn-depth analysis of a kiva.com lending activity.
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Interactive DVD as a Platform for Education
T4E-2012 CHI-2011 ICTD-2010Leveraged the capabilities of the standard DVD player to view interactive educational content like Wikipedia, children books and slides.
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Crowd-sourced Financial Support: Kiva lender networks
Can lender networks of Kiva based on the team membership predict (1) how soon a loan is funded, as well as (2) whether the loan gets funded by the deadline.
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G-Money: Earning Calls Predict Stock Performance
We show that the beliefs of informed investors can be learned during earning conference calls. This can be used to explain variations in stock price performance not accountable by current asset pricing theory.
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Artificially Intelligent Grid Assistant (A.I.G.A)
HIPC-2007AIGA is a Grid based application which works in collaboration with natural language processing (NLP), to act as a virtual assistant. The application can answer queries in a conversational manner.