Nithya Sambasivan on HCI 4 Development

Nithya Sambasivan, a 4th year Informatics PhD student at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science here at UCI, talks about her research on Human Computer Interface, or HCI, and its potential to effect change in developing communities. We discuss the usage of phone and other transmission technologies in various rural developments in India, including phone call systems and the distribution of physical media and information over a physical social network