Table of Contents

• Design of a 1 kva PV system for electrical laboratory in faculty of engineering, University of Uyo, NigeriaYe-Obong N. Udoakah, Ekpenyong E. Nta, Iyakkenseme E. Okon, Unyime E. Akpabio. 1-5 [doi]
• Solar photovoltaic versus micro -hydroelectricity: A framework for assessing the sustainability of community-run rural electrification projectsMahmoud Kabalan, Benaiah Anabaraonye. 6-13 [doi]
• Off-grid, low-cost, electrical sun-car system for developing countriesOtward M. Mueller, Eduard K. Mueller. 14-17 [doi]
• Scalable DC Micro Grids provide cost effective electricity in regions without electric infrastructureFrank Sharp, Dennis Symanski, Mark S. Dudzinski. 18-24 [doi]
• South sudan rural electrification project the hybrid mini-grid & PBK projectMou Riiny. 25-27 [doi]
• A text mining approach to automated healthcare for the massesVishnu S. Pendyala, Yi Fang, JoAnne Holliday, Ali Zalzala. 28-35 [doi]
• Efficacy of knowledge transfer and exchange between CHWs and community members in low resource settingsGrace Warkulwiz, Laurel Paul, Khanjan Mehta. 36-40 [doi]
• A scalable mHealth system for noncommunicable disease managementGari D. Clifford, Carlos Arteta, T. Zhu, Marco A. F. Pimentel, Mauro D. Santos, João S. Domingos, M. Maraci, Joachim Behar, Julien Oster. 41-48 [doi]
• Making data collection in low-resource contexts intuitive, fun, and interactiveGreg Wenner, Martin Marino, Eric Obeysekare, Khanjan Mehta. 49-56 [doi]
• Tele-consulting through rural health centres for tribal community - A case study from WayanadRoshan Issac, Sreevas Sahasranamam. 57-61 [doi]
• A distributed floor control protocol for next generation PMR based on hybrid LTE and satellite networksJoan Ventura-Jaume, Laurent Franck, Laurent Girardeau. 62-69 [doi]
• Succinct data: Extreme compression for ODK forms making digital field assessment practical during disasters by minimizing data transmission size and costsPaul Gardner-Stephen, Andrew Bettison, Romana Challans, Jeremy Lakeman, Timothee Malossane, Corey Wallis, Matthew Lloyd, Ewan Caldicott, Dione Gardner-Stephen. 70-77 [doi]
• Field technical surveys: An essential tool for improving critical infrastructure and lifeline systems resiliency to disastersAlexis Kwasinski. 78-85 [doi]
• Building coordination capacity: Post-disaster organizational Twitter networksAaron Opdyke, Amy Javernick-Will. 86-92 [doi]
• Disaster mitigation by crowdsourcing hazard documentationYulong Yang, Michael Sherman, Janne Lindqvist. 93-98 [doi]
• Remote labs in developing countries an experience in Brazilian public educationJosé Pedro Simão, Joao Paulo C. de Lima, Willian Rochadel, Juarez Bento da Silva. 99-105 [doi]
• "Learning beyond the Light Bulb" among Least Developed Countries based on a sustainable PV solar utility modelRaymond S. Larsen, Derek G. Welbourn, Daniel Wessner, Robin Podmore, Michelle Lacourciere, A. aymond Larsen, Patrick Lee, Ron Moulton, Seth Myers, Martin Niboh, Patrick Ryan, Michael Wilson. 106-114 [doi]
• Improving science education through new perspectivesAndre Kakiuthi, Rafael Tsuji Matsuyama, Fernando Pisani Pimentel, Thiago Matheus Martins de Moraes. 115-119 [doi]
• Local Content Development Framework and Methodology for knowledge and skill development: IEEE Madras Section SIGHT case studyBalu Anand, A. J. Antony Venus, Mukundhan Srinivasan, Arun Noel Victor, Madhuri K., S. P. Sree Rakshaa, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan, Kartik Kulkarni. 120-124 [doi]
• Energy from anaerobic digesters for water management: A case study of PakistanTariq Mahmood Khalil, Quanbao Zhao, Leena Maqsood. 125-132 [doi]
• Community development through a sustainable micro-business selling clean waterYung Wong, Shavin Pinto, Yan Tang, Marc Compere. 133-139 [doi]
• Malting technology in the development of safe and sustainable complementary composite food from cereals and legumesIdongesit M. Ana, Hannah I. J. Udota, Ye-Obong N. Udoakah. 140-144 [doi]
• An Interactive Nutritional Guide to develop low-cost healthy meals while sustaining indigenous foodsKrista Liguori, Abdalla R. Nassar, Khanjan Mehta. 145-151 [doi]
• Real-time communication based on IEEE 802.11b/g for automation of agricultural vehiclesJulius Schoning, Christian Rusch, Christian Schindelhauer. 152-158 [doi]
• A wireless sensor network platform optimized for assisted sustainable agricultureAbel Rodriguez de la Concepcion, Riccardo Stefanelli, Daniele Trinchero. 159-165 [doi]
• Survey of energy use and costs in rural kenya for community microgrid business model developmentVincent Van Acker, Steve J. Szablya, Henry Louie, J. McLean Sloughter, Ayesha S. Pirbhai. 166-173 [doi]
• The DC House project: An alternate solution for rural electrificationTaufik Taufik. 174-179 [doi]
• Rechargeable lithium ion battery units as supplemental energy in HaitiCourtney Foss, Jared Leventhal, Alan Mickelson. 180-187 [doi]
• Consumer investment in watt-scale energy productsDaniel Soto. 188-191 [doi]
• Modular converter system for low-cost off-grid energy storage using second life li-ion batteriesChristoph R. Birkl, Damien F. Frost, Adrien M. Bizeray, Robert R. Richardson, David A. Howey. 192-199 [doi]
• Battery storage: Comparing shared to individually owned storage given rural demand profiles of a cluster of customersMitchell Lee, Gordon Chester Shaw, Vijay Modi. 200-206 [doi]
• Harnessing local technology: Manufacturing small scale mixers for the fortification of edible oils and wheat flours in northern EthiopiaJennifer R. Head, Besufekad Getachew, Mitiku Gabrehiwot. 207-214 [doi]
• Supporting immunization programs with improved vaccine cold chain information systemsRichard Anderson, Trevor Perrier, Fahad Pervaiz, Norasingh Sisouveth, Bharath-Kumar, Sompasong Phongphila, Ataur Rahman, Ranjit Dhiman, Sophie Newland. 215-222 [doi]
• The IncuLight: Solar-powered infant incubatorVirginia Hall, Eric Geise, Nasser H. Kashou. 223-226 [doi]
• Process modeling and evaluation of a pilot healthcare technology solution in slum communitiesSudipto Banerjee, Ali M. S. Zalzala, Laura Zalzala. 227-234 [doi]
• Practical challenges for large-scale deployment of mHealth solution insights from a field trialNataraj Kuntagod, Sanjoy Paul, Senthil Kumaresan, Sreenivasan Ganti. 235-241 [doi]
• Get a grip! Handgrip strength as a health screening toolMolly Eckman, Christopher Gigliotti, Staci Sutermaster, Khanjan Mehta. 242-248 [doi]
• Low-cost, open-source, collapsible, air-transportable, field-manufacturable telecommunications towerGregory Stevens, David Ilba, Stuart Wildy, Paul Gardner-Stephen, Matthew Lloyd. 249-256 [doi]
• Enabling ICT development with low cost high capacity wireless networks in remote and underdeveloped locations an application to public finance management in Comoros IslandsAbel Rodriguez de la Concepcion, Mazen O. Hasna, Mohamed ElSayed, Riccardo Stefanelli, Daniele Trinchero, Karim Attoumani Mohamed, Naceur Mashmoun. 257-262 [doi]
• Monitoring system for deep-seated landslides using locally-developed tilt and moisture sensors: System improvements and experiences from real world deploymentJoel S. Marciano Jr., Calvin Artemies Hilario, Mary Ann B. Zabanal, Earl V. Mendoza, Brian L. Gumiran, BenJeMar BenJeMar F. Flores, Mark O. Pena, Kennex H. Razon. 263-270 [doi]
• UAVs for humanitarian missions: Autonomy and reliabilityTullio Tanzi, Ludovic Apvrille, Jean-Luc Dugelay, Yves Roudier. 271-278 [doi]
• Flooding through the lens of mobile phone activityDavid Pastor-Escuredo, Alfredo Morales-Guzmán, Yolanda Torres-Fernández, Jean-Martin Bauer, Amit Wadhwa, Carlos Castro-Correa, Liudmyla Romanoff, Jong Gun Lee, Alex Rutherford, Vanessa Frías-Martínez, Nuria Oliver, Enrique Frías-Martínez, Miguel A. Luengo-Oroz. 279-286 [doi]
• Data-driven local planning at national scale: How data collected on mobile phones enable a Conditional Grants Scheme in NigeriaPrabhas Pokharel, Brett Gleitsmann, Salah Chafik, Candice Heberer, Myf Ma, Chris Tan, Zaiming Yao, Vijay Modi. 287-293 [doi]
• Using tablets and satellite-based internet to deliver numeracy education to marginalized children in a developing countryImran A. Zualkernan, Shirin Lutfeali, Asad Karim. 294-301 [doi]
• ICT based solutions for education in rural India- A case studyJineet Doshi. 302-306 [doi]
• Changing a life with technology from a classroomEnrique Aguayo-Lara, Livier Hernandez-Hirales. 307-312 [doi]
• Real-world proficiency augmentation among learners through merger of project based learning (PBL) and student social responsibility (SSR): IEEE Madras Section SIGHT case studyBalu Anand, A. J. Antony Venus, Mukundhan Srinivasan, Arun Noel Victor, Madhuri K., S. P. Sree Rakshaa, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan, Kartik Kulkarni. 313-317 [doi]
• A successful entrepreneurship formula for solving computer illiteracyManuel Silvestre, Susana Munoz, Miguel Angel Rubio. 318-324 [doi]
• Quantifying water savings with greenhouse farmingKelsey A. Czyzyk, Shayne T. Bement, William F. Dawson, Khanjan Mehta. 325-332 [doi]
• Smart irrigation using low-cost moisture sensors and XBee-based communicationAkash Kumar, Khurram Kamal, Mohommad Omer Arshad, Senthan Mathavan, Tanabaalan Vadamala. 333-337 [doi]
• Identifying technical and economic improvements to the MoneyMaker Hip pump through multi-objective optimizationChristopher McComb, Pablo S. Santaeufemia, Nathan G. Johnson, Kenji Shimada. 338-344 [doi]
• LED street lighting as a strategy for climate change mitigation at local government levelRoberto Barraza Garcia, Gilberto Velazquez Angulo, Jaime Romero Gonzalez, Edith Flores Tavizon, Jose Ignacio Huertas-Cardozo. 345-349 [doi]
• Evaluation of renewable energy projects using multi-criteria approachArif Malik, Mohammed Al Badi, Abdullah Al Kahali, Younis Al Nabhani, Alwarith Al Bahri, Hamed Al Barhi. 350-355 [doi]
• Economically designed solar car for developing countries (Pakistan)M. Farooq, Adil Salman, Sohaib Ahmad Siddiqui, M. Ibrahim Khalil, Wasim Mukhtar. 356-360 [doi]
• Investigating the influence of length and cross sectional area in heat storage thermal stratificationAmos Veremachi, B. C. Cuamba, Ole J. Nydal, J. Lovseth, Azhar Zia. 361-368 [doi]
• 3D thermal model of power electronic conversion systems for wind energy applicationsC. Batunlu, M. Musallam. 369-376 [doi]
• Exo-supportive device for individuals with restricted mobilityDmitry Klishch, Sean Horn, Bruno Rocha. 377-381 [doi]
• LIFESUIT Exoskeleton Gives the Gift of Walking so They Shall WalkMonty K. Reed, Monty K. Reed. 382-385 [doi]
• Multidisciplinary design of suitable assistive technologies for motor disabilities in ColombiaRicardo Chavarriaga, Maria N. Hurtado, Marcela Bolanos, Jose A. Loaiza, Juan M. Mayor, Manuel Valencia, Jaime Aguilar-Zambrano. 386-391 [doi]
• Seating fabrication system for clinical rehabilitation settings in low income countries: The experience of Mexico and ColombiaJorge Letechipia, Abel Arredondo, Luis Hernandez, Aldo Alessi, Andres Torres, Robinson A. Torres, Yeison J. Montagut. 392-395 [doi]
• BCI and motion capture technologies for rehabilitation based on videogamesJohn E. Munoz, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Julian F. Villada, David SebastianLopez. 396-401 [doi]
• Technologies for rehabilitation: Problems and opportunities in the Physiotherapy Clinic at PUC Minas - BrazilAngelica Rodrigues Araujo, Marcia L. Drumond das Chagas e Vallone, Isabella Cristina Dante Perdigao, Sara Gladys Fernandes Amaral, Thelma Virginia Rodrigues, Carlos Augusto Paiva da Silva Martins, Plinio Soares Paolinelli Maciel. 402-407 [doi]
• Civil information integration and interoperabilityGerard J. Christman, Brian D. Fila. 408-411 [doi]
• Towards semi-automated satellite mapping for humanitarian situational awarenessStefan Voigt, Elisabeth Schoepfer, Christoff Fourie, Alexander Mager. 412-416 [doi]
• MicroFilters: Harnessing twitter for disaster managementAndrew Ilyas. 417-424 [doi]
• Technological uncertainty: Exploring factors in indian start-upsSusmita Ghosh, Bhaskar Bhowmick. 425-432 [doi]
• Crowdfunding as a catapult for innovation in the middle east: Obstacles and possibilitiesRafat M. Abushaban. 433-440 [doi]
• People driven technology solution: A Uganda exampleAdetunji Sunmonu, Brain Leke-Betechuoh. 441-444 [doi]
• Bottom-up integration of data-aware communities: Some initial work in Kapgari village communityBulbul Sen, Ranjan K. Sen. 445-450 [doi]
• Application and modification of Design for Manufacture and Assembly principles for the developing worldAmy E. Wood, Charles E. Wood, Christopher A. Mattson. 451-457 [doi]
• Multi-Stage Organic Water Filter systemEobin Alex George, Gaurav Tiwari. 458-461 [doi]
• Remote delay tolerant water quality montoringChristie Ritter, Mallory Cottingham, Jared Leventhal, Alan Mickelson. 462-468 [doi]
• A solar sterilization and distillation unit for water in resource-poor settingsAnshul Dhankher, Gryphon Drake, Jinie Haytko, Yatindra Patel, Christine Sidoti, Gihoon Song. 469-473 [doi]
• Implementation of electrochemical sensors in arsenic-contaminated areas of West Bengal in India toward rapid and point-of-use detection of arsenic in drinking waterUnyoung Kim, Jessica VanderGiessen, Xavier Savarimuthu. 474-478 [doi]
• Community capacity building: Collaborative micro-hydropower design in CameroonAnne Dare, Tiago Forin, Klein Ileleji, Brent K. Jesiek, John Lumkes, Patrick Pawletko. 479-485 [doi]
• Humanitarian technology research group: Developments at the University of AdelaideCristian H. Birzer, Paul R. Medwell, Peter A. M. Kalt. 486-490 [doi]
• Potentials of biogas production and GHG mitigation in Guatemalan dairy farmsNicole D. Miranda, Andres Chicol, Malcolm McCulloch. 491-498 [doi]
• An assessment of the potential impacts of knowledge-driven decision support in social welfareRicardo Anderson, Stascia Gordon, Gunjan Mansingh. 499-505 [doi]
• MyVox - Device for the communication between people: blind, deaf, deaf-blind and unimpairedFernando Ramirez-Garibay, Cesar Millan Olivarria, Alejandro Federico Eufracio Aguilera, Joel C. Huegel. 506-509 [doi]
• Four tasks of a robot-assisted autism spectrum disorder diagnostic protocol: First clinical testsFrano Petric, Kruno Hrvatinic, Anja Babic, Luka Malovan, Damjan Miklic, Zdenko Kovacic, Maja Cepanec, Jasmina Stosic, Sanja Simlesa. 510-517 [doi]
• HearThat? - An app for diagnosing hearing lossSilvia Figueira, Kevin Nguyen, Shweta Panditrao. 518-524 [doi]
• Novel smartphone attachment for ophthalmic and otoscopic examsQuinn Tate, Amanda Fujiki, Kirsten Johnson, Matthew M. Wells. 525-527 [doi]
• A sensor-based virtual piano biofeedback system for stroke rehabilitationTing Zhang, Jiang Lu, Fei Hu, Lv Wu, Mengcheng Guo. 528-533 [doi]
• KOM (Keep Out Mosquitoes) project: Anthropo-philic terraforming and manipulation of landscapes for mosquito vector control in malaria disease management and eradicationJohn-Thones Amenyo, Sangeeta Jadoonanan, Salim Gnabode, Tahseen Tabassum, Aerren Kublal. 534-540 [doi]
• Development of mobile-based hand vein biometrics for global health patient identificationRichard Ribon Fletcher, Varsha Raghavan, Rujia Zha, Miriam Haverkamp, Patricia Hibberd. 541-547 [doi]
• Applications of Wood's Lamp technology to detect skin infections in resource-constrained settingsHolly Cardillo, Jennifer Kohler, Ellie Kriner, Khanjan Mehta. 548-554 [doi]
• Incorporating user needs into product development for improved infection detection for malaria elimination programsKelly B. Ebels, Christine Clerk, Chris H. Crudder, Sarah McGray, Kendall Magnuson, Kathy Tietje, Paul LaBarre. 555-560 [doi]
• Diagnostics to support malaria elimination: Choosing an appropriate biomarker to target the subclinical Plasmodium falciparum transmission reservoirKenneth Hawkins, Robert Burton, Paul LaBarre. 561-568 [doi]
• Next generation data classification and linkage: Role of probabilistic models and artificial intelligenceGayan Prasad Hettiarachchi, Nadeeka Nilmini Hettiarachchi, Dhammika Suresh Hettiarachchi, Azusa Ebisuya. 569-576 [doi]
• Hack for the homeless: A humanitarian technology hackathonNatalie Linnell, Silvia Figueira, Neil Chintala, Lauren Falzarano, Vincente Ciancio. 577-584 [doi]
• OpenPLC: An open source alternative to automationThiago Rodrigues Alves, Mario Buratto, Flavio Mauricio de Souza, Thelma Virginia Rodrigues. 585-589 [doi]
• MedizDroids Project: Ultra-low cost, low-altitude, affordable and sustainable UAV multicopter drones for mosquito vector control in malaria disease managementJohn-Thones Amenyo, Daniel Phelps, Olajide Oladipo, Folly Sewovoe-Ekuoe, Sangeeta Jadoonanan, Sandeep Jadoonanan, Tahseen Tabassum, Salim Gnabode, Tanging D. Sherpa, Michael Falzone, Abrar Hossain, Aerren Kublal. 590-596 [doi]
• Universal broadband access in developing countries - The case of BoliviaJavier Eduardo Gorostiaga Vargas. 597-602 [doi]
• Affordable altered perspectives: Making augmented and virtual reality technology accessibleAhmed Amer, Phillip Peralez. 603-608 [doi]
• Project Jagriti: Crowdsourced child abuse reportingDhruv Chand M, Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan, Chandramouli Sharma. 609-613 [doi]
• Designing and developing sustainable housing for refugee and disaster communitiesStuart Ohlson, Robert Melich. 614-619 [doi]
• Youth StreetConnect - Helping homeless young womenSilvia Figueira, Kelsey Dedoshka, Katie Le, Kaitlin Kirasich, Deb Levine. 620-627 [doi]
• Low-cost intelligent gesture recognition engine for audio-vocally impaired individualsRishikanth C, Harini Sekar, Gautham Rajagopal, Ramesh Rajesh, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan. 628-634 [doi]
• Impact of co-firing a traditional Peruvian biomass cookstove with biogas on emissions and combustion efficiencyManil Poudyal, Alexander Cranney, Matthew R. Jones, Randy S. Lewis. 635-642 [doi]
• Utilization of infrared photography to assess heat losses in a Peruvian cookstoveCameron M. Quist, Randy S. Lewis, Matthew R. Jones. 643-648 [doi]
• A global review of end user needs: Establishing the need for adaptable cookstovesKendall S. Thacker, McCall Barger, Christopher A. Mattson. 649-658 [doi]
• Energy storage integrated solar stove: A case of solar Injera baking in EthiopiaAsfafaw Haileselassie Tesfay, Ole Jorgen Nydal, Mulu Bayray Kahsay. 659-666 [doi]
• Healthcare geopolitics in urban slums: An empirical studyLaura Zalzala, V. S. Parasaran, Sanjeev Prashar, Ali M. S. Zalzala. 667-674 [doi]
• Analysis of informational and technological requirements for the respiratory therapy workshops in PeruMila Kwiatkowska, Les Matthews. 675-681 [doi]
• Effective utilization of low cost incineration and its by-products in IndiaShyam Swaroop Nigam, Adil Usman, B. P. Divakar. 682-686 [doi]
• Designing sustainable revenue models for CHW-centric entrepreneurial venturesJonathan Callan, Phillip Sundin, Stephen Suffian, Khanjan Mehta. 687-693 [doi]
• Measuring activities and counting steps with the SmartSocks - An unobtrusive and accurate methodJiang Lu, Ting Zhang, Fei Hu, Yeqing Wu, Ke Bao. 694-698 [doi]
• Mobile-enabled delay tolerant networking in rural developing regionsAdriano Galati, Theodoros Bourchas, Sandra Siby, Seth Frey, Maria Olivares, Stefan Mangold. 699-705 [doi]
• Breaking into the social nervous system: Architecture for reality miningDeepak Kumar Vashisth, Himanshu Sharma. 706-710 [doi]
• Project Stay AlertNayan Jeevagan, Pallavi Santosh, Rishabh Berlia, Shubham Kandoi. 711-715 [doi]
• RFID based vehicle identification during collisionsNayan Jeevagan, Pallavi Santosh, Rishabh Berlia, Shubham Kandoi. 716-720 [doi]
• Advancing electricity-free molecular diagnostics at the point-of-care: Optimizing the NINA platform for a malaria LAMP assayJered Singleton, Dylan Guelig, Josh Buser, Robert Burton, Onyinye Edeh, Kenneth Hawkins, Bernhard Weigl, Paul LaBarre. 721-725 [doi]