Table of Contents

• Development and evaluation of solar powered sprayer with multi-purpose applicationsD. Yallappa, Vijayakumar Palled, M. Veerangouda, Sushilendra. 1-6 [doi]
• A sustainable strategy of farming in radioactive contaminated farmland: A case study in FukushimaEric Z. Ma, Mansun Chan. 7-14 [doi]
• A framework for performance evaluation of plucking activity in teaSomya Sharma, Sanat Sarangi, Srinivasu Pappula. 14-21 [doi]
• Implementation of a low cost aerial vehicle for crop analysis in emerging countriesLuis C. Velasquez, Juan Argueta, Kevin Mazariegos. 21-27 [doi]
• Densified mango residues as biofuel from low-resource agricultural processingChristopher R. Rumple, Siri Maley, Khanjan Mehta. 27-32 [doi]
• Small-scale solar pumping systems in India: Analysis of three implementation modelsJonars B. Spielberg, Amit Gandhi, Sara Lynn Pesek, Jennifer L. Green, Vandana Pandya, Eadaoin Ilten. 33-40 [doi]
• Design and implementation of a low-cost and reliable wireless mesh network for first-response communicationsAngelie A. dela Cruz, Miguel Luis A. Parabuac, Nestor Michael C. Tiglao. 40-46 [doi]
• The mesh network for refugees and displaced personsRaghad Al Saadi, Dave Evans. 47-53 [doi]
• Developing a lean data management system for an emerging social enterpriseEric Obeysekare, Anthony Marucci, Khanjan Mehta. 54-62 [doi]
• Maintaining both availability and integrity of communications: Challenges and guidelines for data security and privacy during disasters and crisesFlor Álvarez, Matthias Hollick, Paul Gardner-Stephen. 62-70 [doi]
• An experimental evaluation of delay-tolerant networking with servalLars Baumgärtner, Paul Gardner-Stephen, Pablo Graubner, Jeremy Lakeman, Jonas Hochst, Patrick Lampe, Nils Schmidt, Stefan Schulz, Artur Sterz, Bernd Freisleben. 70-79 [doi]
• Development of mobile learning application to promote world heritage site preservation awareness: Case of Luang Prabang, Lao PDRYew Siang Poong, Shinobu Yamaguchi, Jun-ichi Takada. 78-84 [doi]
• Triaging deforestation alerts: Clustering alerts for reviewChris Goodman. 84-90 [doi]
• The balsapuerto network: A case study in jungle InternetAlan Mickelson, Martin Murillo. 91-98 [doi]
• Mobile infrastructure for coastal region offshore communications and networksSethuraman N. Rao, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh, P. Venkat Rangan. 99-104 [doi]
• Making telecommunications services accessible to people with severe communication disabilitiesRosanna Yuen-Yan Chan, Junnan Ding, Lam Wang Kong, Gladys Yan, Xue Bai, Xiaojuan Ma, Soby So, Xiangjie Wang, Jessica Tsz Ching Chow. 105-112 [doi]
• Sustainability analysis off-grid community solar PV projects in MalawiPeter M. Dauenhauer, Damien F. Frame. 113-120 [doi]
• A prelminary look at PPPs in the nexus of water-energyYesim Sireli. 121-127 [doi]
• ROGER: Robust and rapidly deployable GSM base station and Backhaul for emergency responseJoel Joseph S. Marciano, Patth Rick Ramirez, Philip Martinez, Mary Claire Barela. 128-135 [doi]
• Measuring usage and adoption of improved cookstoves in ugandan households using quantitative and qualitative methodsPrithiviraj Sundararaman, Amit Gandhi, Daniel Frey, Acuku Helen Ekolu, Betty Ikalany, Megha Hegde, Kendra Leith, Daniel Sweeney. 136-142 [doi]
• A testbed for WiLDNet and white spaceWallace Kenyon, Alan Mickelson, Alexander Anderson. 143-150 [doi]
• Electrically facilitated solar cargo hauler - A key to easy and safe transportation of goods without dependency on the national gridA. E. Purbasha, F. R. Khan, M. Sanjib, A. Azad. 150-156 [doi]
• When academia meets rural India: Lessons learnt from a MicroGrid implementationFabien Chidanand Robert, Ullas Ramanathan, Mukundan, P. Durga, Renjith Mohan. 156-163 [doi]
• Live-in-Labs: Rapid translational research and implementation-based program for rural development in IndiaManeesha Vinodini Ramesh, Renjith Mohan, Soumya Menon. 164-171 [doi]
• Autonomous OCR dictating system for blind peopleChristos Liambas, Miltiadis Saratzidis. 172-179 [doi]
• A multi-agent simulation tool for micro-scale contagion spread studiesDaniel B. Koch. 179-182 [doi]
• Thermal autonomous housing for the developing world: A case study in BhujLeon Glicksman, Emma Nelson. 183-189 [doi]
• Human power generator: Emergency-disaster managementP. J. Mahesh, Minhas Naheem, Razak Mubafar, S. Shyba, Sunitha Beevi. 190-196 [doi]
• A survey on IEEE 802.11-based MANETs and DTNs for survivor communication in disaster scenariosMaria del Pilar Salamanca, Jorge Camargo. 197-204 [doi]
• 3D printing for disaster preparedness: Making life-saving supplies on-site, on-demand, on-timeSrinivas Saripalle, Humanitarian Maker, Abi Bush, Naiomi Lundman. 205-208 [doi]
• Disaster management in India - An analysis using COBIT 5 principlesChippi Mohanan, Vivek Menon. 209-212 [doi]
• WeDoCare: A humanitarian people-centric cyber-physical system for the benefit of refugeesAshley Figueira, David Nunes, Ricardo Barbosa, André Reis, Hugo Aguiar, Soraya Sinche, André Rodrigues 0001, Vasco Pereira, Hugo Dias, Carlos Herrera 0002, Duarte Raposo, Jorge Sá Silva, Fernando Boavida. 213-219 [doi]
• Smart-phone battery-life short-fall in disaster response: Quantifying the gapWatcharachai Kongsiriwattana, Paul Gardner-Stephen. 220-225 [doi]
• Image based spare parts reconstruction for repairing vital infrastructure after disasters: Creating or ordering replica of spare parts for overhauling infrastructureJulius Schöning, Gunther Heidemann. 225-232 [doi]
• The exploration of alternative phone charging strategies for disaster or emergency situationsWatcharachai Kongsiriwattana, Paul Gardner-Stephen. 233-240 [doi]
• Agile development of disaster information systems for the Kumamoto Earthquake: How geeks should respond in deadly disaster situationsTeruhiro Mizumoto, Takashi Okumura. 241-247 [doi]
• Web-based, multi-platform, centralized, offline-compatible supply chain management system for emergency responsesDawei Wang, Yuehwern Yih, John Service, Lionel Lajous, Sarah Robbins-Penniman. 248-253 [doi]
• Development and deployment of the IEEE MOVE emergency relief vehicleJames M. Conrad, Mary Ellen Randall, Gregg Vaughn, Percy F. Shadwell, Grayson W. Randall. 255-260 [doi]
• Technical capabilities of the IEEE MOVE emergency relief vehicleGrayson W. Randall, James M. Conrad, Gregg Vaughn, Mary Ellen Randall, Percy F. Shadwell. 261-266 [doi]
• Delay and energy optimization in multilevel balanced WSNs for landslide monitoringBalaji Hariharan, Venkat P. Rangan, Simi Surendran, P. Rekha, R. D. Arya Devi, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh. 266-271 [doi]
• Universal laws of disasterClaudio Cioffi-Revilla. 272-279 [doi]
• Community engagement assessment of global humanitarian-based projectsRandy S. Lewis, Cameron M. Quist, Terri C. Bateman, Carol J. Ward. 278-285 [doi]
• Using a recycled container to setup a community learning centre in rural Cambodia - A case studyKenneth W. K. Lo, Stephen C. F. Chan, Grace Ngai. 286-291 [doi]
• Challenge-driven social entrepreneurship and high impact student engagementLeslie E. Ruyle, Rodney Boehm, Magda Lagoudas. 292-295 [doi]
• DidacTronic: A low-cost and portable didactic lab for electronics: Kit for digital and analog electronic circuitsBernardo Guerra Pereira Cunha, Selmar Tarcisio Mendes, Priscila Maciel Dutra, Thelma Virginia Rodrigues, Lorena Morais Nunes, Felipe Mascarenhas Franchini Machado, Carlos Augusto Paiva da Silva Martins. 296-303 [doi]
• Comprehensive model for fostering humanitarian engineering educationMohammed Hassan Ba-Aoum. 304-311 [doi]
• TextTETEA - An SMS-based education serviceMichael Neumann, Keegan Wincewicz. 312-315 [doi]
• Tech4SocialChange: Crowd-sourcing to bring migrants' experiences to the academics: Humanitarian challenges and opportunities, connectivity & communicationAndré Reis, David Nunes, Hugo Aguiar, Hugo Dias, Ricardo Barbosa, Ashley Figueira, Soraya Sinche, Duarte Raposo, Vasco Pereira, Jorge Sá Silva, Fernando Boavida, André Rodrigues 0001, Carlos Herrera 0002. 316-321 [doi]
• Teaching bilingual workshops on data mining in PeruMila Kwiatkowska, Alberto Un Jan. 322-327 [doi]
• Elevating visually challenged children towards S&T education through scaling-up humanitarian technologies by networking with higher learning centres, NGOs, and parent-teacher partnershipsRanjit R. Nair, Ramkamal Manoj, Piyush Chanana, V. K. Damodaran, K. P. Mani. 327-331 [doi]
• Achieving critical mass: Execution of a 5-year strategy to raise awareness levels for engineering as a career optionRanjit R. Nair, Shahim Baker, Jithin Krishnan, Namith Najeeb, Ajin Baby. 332-335 [doi]
• Exploring problem definition in student global humanitarian design project cases in the literatureMatthew Vedrin, Rebecca Hardin. 336-341 [doi]
• Educational outdoor mobile robot for trash pickupKiran Pattanashetty, Kamal P. Balaji, Shunmugham R. Pandian. 342-351 [doi]
• Participatory smartgrid control and transactive energy management in community shared solar cogeneration systems for isolated rural villagesGerro Prinsloo, Andrea Mammoli, Robert Dobson. 352-359 [doi]
• Electronic load controller (ELC) design and simulation for remote rural communities: A powerhouse ELC compatible with household distributed-ELCs in NepalJ. Chan, W. Lubitz. 360-367 [doi]
• Engineering and socio-economic aspects of sustainable energyMehrdad Ehsani, Hussein M. K. Al-Masri. 368-371 [doi]
• A novel application of machine learning techniques for activity-based load disaggregation in rural off-grid, isolated solar systemsVarun Mehra, Rajeev Ram, Claudio Vergara. 372-378 [doi]
• Why not connect? Untapped power markets and FACTS for interconnecting islanded microgridsAlexander A. Anderson, Robin Podmore. 379-386 [doi]
• Technical design of Off-grid energy kiosksMatt Shields, Henry Louie, Ben Blainedavis, George Goldsmith, Daniel Nausner. 387-394 [doi]
• Insights on thermal efficiency analysis for the water boiling testCameron M. Quist, Matthew R. Jones, Randy S. Lewis. 395-400 [doi]
• Designing a sustainable business plan for an off-grid energy kiosk in Chalokwa, ZambiaJ. McLean Sloughter, Jenna Isakson, Yin Ping Mak, Alexandra Keiko Schleicher, Henry Louie, Kimberly Shields, Matt Salmon. 401-405 [doi]
• Energy demands of off-grid ice production and refrigerationMatt Shields, Alexander Bouck, Patrick Duffy. 406-412 [doi]
• Assesment of building integrated photovolatics for the residential section in representative Urban areas in EgyptMonica Kares, Pritpal Singh. 413-420 [doi]
• Intelligent dynamic grid forecasting algorithm for a grid-connected solar PV based microgridHarini Sekar, R. Rajashekar, Farhan Faisal, Rohan Ganpati, Vineeth Vijayaraghavan. 421-427 [doi]
• Optimization of a solar-hybrid system: For the village of El rescate, El SalvadorCarlos O. Guadron. 428-435 [doi]
• Short-term operation of a hybrid minigrid under load and renewable production uncertaintyDavide Fioriti, Romano Giglioli, Davide Poli. 436-443 [doi]
• Concentrating solar power systems with advanced thermal energy storage for emerging marketsMariana Lanzarini Lopes, Nathan G. Johnson, James E. Miller, Ellen B. Stechel. 444-450 [doi]
• Development of double burner smart electric stove powered by solar photovoltaic energyS. Siddiqua, S. Firuz, B. M. Nur, R. J. Shaon, S. J. Chowdhury, A. Azad. 451-458 [doi]
• A universal charge controller for integrating distributed energy resourcesShammya Shananda Saha, Samantha Janko, Nathan G. Johnson, Robin Podmore, Alain Riaud, Raymond S. Larsen. 459-465 [doi]
• A systematic methodology to transform campuses in the developing world into sustainable communitiesEkanath Rangan, Krishna Das. 466-473 [doi]
• Developing for developing nations: Exploring an affordable solar home system designNishant Narayan, Jelena Popovic, Jan Carel Diehl, Sacha Silvester, Pavol Bauer, Miro Zeman. 474-480 [doi]
• Domestic electric consumers response to load-shedding: A case study of Kitwe, ZambiaRobert Ngoma, Abel Tambatamba, Benta Oyoo, Henry Louie. 481-487 [doi]
• Determining the effects of load-shedding on residential electricity consumption using meter data - A case study of Kitwe, ZambiaD. Mulongoti, G. Mugala, B. Kumwenda, H. Louie. 488-494 [doi]
• Impacts of using microwave oven transformers on micropower distribution gridsRichard Sandoval, Patricio A. Mendoza-Araya. 495-501 [doi]
• A limited-power-limited-energy system design approach for remote areasSyed Aun Abbas. 502-506 [doi]
• E-Cycle: An offgrid solution for rural electrificationS. Amritanand, P. L. Divya, U. G. Gosh, Tinu Vinod. 507-513 [doi]
• Solar electric ambulance van unfolding medical emergencies of rural BangladeshR. Tarek, A. Anjum, M. A. Hoque, A. Azad. 514-519 [doi]
• Assessing solar lantern usage in Uganda through qualitative and sensor-based methodsAmit Gandhi, Victor Lesniewski, Daniel Frey. 520-524 [doi]
• Tool for detecting waveform distortions in inverter-based microgrids: A validation studyGeir Kulia, Marta Molinas, Lars Lundheim. 525-531 [doi]
• Expanding energy access through the improvement of the regulatory framework for renewable distributed generation in NicaraguaMaria Virginia Moncada, Wadaed Uturbey. 532-537 [doi]
• Reducing criminality and saving energyThiago Matheus Martins de Moraes, Lucas de Paula Santos Petri. 538-541 [doi]
• A hand-cranked, affordable defibrillator for resource-poor settingsSreeram Dhurjaty, Aniruddha Atre. 542-546 [doi]
• Fighting weight problems and insulin resistance with the metabolic health monitor app for patients in the setting of limited access to health care in rural AmericaZsolt Ori, Ilona Ori. 547-554 [doi]
• A SDD and PCM solution for vaccine storage and outreachJunshan Michael Li, Michael Friend, Andrew Miller, Shannon Stone. 555-562 [doi]
• Global social acceptance of prosthetic devicesAdam Arabian, Dante Varotsis, Caitlin McDonnell, Elinor Meeks. 563-568 [doi]
• Mobile urinalysis for maternal screening: Frugal medical screening solution and patient database to aid in prenatal healthcare for expecting mothers in the developing worldJoseph Neumeyer, Jacob Prince, Amy Miller, Blair Koeneman, Silvia Figueira, Unyoung Kim. 569-575 [doi]
• Community-based neurorehabilitation in underserved populationsCharmayne Mary Lee Hughes, Alisa Aguirre, Asif Hussain, Aamani Budhota, Domenico Campolo. 576-588 [doi]
• Inexpensive urinalysis test strips to screen for diabetes in developing countriesNathan Arnett, Alice Vergani, Amanda Winkler, Sarah Ritter, Khanjan Mehta. 589-596 [doi]
• Micronutrient deficiencies in the developing world: An evaluation of delivery methodsDhruv Rao, Connor Higgins, Hartini Margot, Taylor Lyle, Shannon McFalls, Eric Obeysekare, Khanjan Mehta. 597-604 [doi]
• Stamping: A low-cost manufacturing method to deposit assaysGabrielle Gundermann, Shweta Sen, Sarah Ritter, Khanjan Mehta. 605-612 [doi]
• Mobile health adoption in Burundi: A UTAUT perspectivePatrick Ndayizigamiye, Manoj Maharaj. 613-623 [doi]
• Diagnosis of autism using an eye tracking systemNatalia I. Vargas-Cuentas, Daniela Hidalgo, Avid Roman Gonzalez, Michael Power, Robert H. Gilman, Mirko Zimic. 624-627 [doi]
• Robot-assisted intelligent emergency system for individual elderly independent livingLei Wu, Jiang Lu, Ting Zhang, Jiaqi Gong. 628-633 [doi]
• Optical sensing system for detecting water adulteration in milkAditya Dave, Dishant Banwari, Satyam Srivastava, Shashikant Sadistap. 634-639 [doi]
• Evaluating upper-extremity (dys)function using measurement unit technology and its applications to resource-constrained settingsAlisa Aguirre. 640-645 [doi]
• Low-cost electrocardiogram device for preventive health care in rural populations of developing countriesJ. P. Ertola, Silvia Figueira, Meghan Carlsen, Uma Palaniappan, Kelsey Rondini. 646-655 [doi]
• A wearable diagnostic device to combat children's pneumoniaK. Mala, B. Manoj Kumar, R. Vignesh, K. Manoj Kumar. 654-659 [doi]
• The role of health informatics in volunteer supported healthcare for underserved populationsChilukuri K. Mohan, Dayaprasad Kulkarni. 660-665 [doi]
• Implications of baseline study findings from rural and deep rural clinics in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and South Africa for the co-design of mHealth4AfrikaPaul M. Cunningham, Miriam Cunningham, Darelle van Greunen, Alida Veldsman, Chipo Kanjo, Emmanuel Kweyu, Abebaw Gebeyehu. 666-674 [doi]
• Fuzzy inference system for osteoporosis detectionC. Reshmalakshmi, M. Sasikumar. 675-681 [doi]
• IoT-enabled air quality monitoring device: A low cost smart health solutionAkshata Tapashetti, Divya Vegiraju, Tokunbo Ogunfunmi. 682-685 [doi]
• Improving health information systems in Guatemala using weighted correlation network analysisLee Voth-Gaeddert, Devin Cornell. 686-693 [doi]
• Large scale remote health monitoring in sparsely connected rural regionsRahul Krishnan Pathinarupothi, Ekanath Rangan. 694-700 [doi]
• Development of smart phone tools for printed diagnostics: Challenges and solutionsRichard Ribon Fletcher, N. Pignatelli, Adrian Jimenez-Galindo, S. Ghosh-Jerath. 701-708 [doi]
• Humanitarian engineering opportunities and challenges in rural dominican republic: A case study of El CercadoSavanna Blair, Danford Jooste, Devyn Bryant, Christopher Ashkar, Sam Burt, Truc T. Ngo, Deanna Wolf, Katie Kuwahara, Joanne Peterson. 709-716 [doi]
• mBody health: Digitizing disabilities in Sierra LeoneEmma Hebert, William Ferguson, Spencer McCullough, Margaret Chan, Arsen Drobakha, Sarah Ritter, Khanjan Mehta. 717-724 [doi]
• History of technology and humanitarian technologies: A case study regarding the design and deployment of humanitarian technologies among rural communities in ColombiaJuan Arturo Camargo, Luz Dary Espitia. 725-730 [doi]
• Evaluation of non-ionizing radiation emitted by FM broadcasting and free-to-air TV systems in the municipality of El Crucero, ManaguaJulio C. Cruz Icabalzeta, Gabriel E. Delgadillo Fernandez, Marvin R. Arias. 731-737 [doi]
• Solar based lemon grass essential oil distillation for sustainability and livelihood in tribal communityUdaya Bhaskar Reddy Ragula, Sriram Devanathan, Renjith Mohan. 738-744 [doi]
• An aerial landmine detection system with dynamic path and explosion mode identification featuresShaikh Anowarul Fattah, M. Z. Haider, D. Chowdhury, M. Sarkar, R. I. Chowdhury, M. S. Islam, R. Karim, A. Rahi, Celia Shahnaz. 745-752 [doi]
• Evaluating water infrastructure and agriculture practices for drought adaptations in East Africa: A combined hydrological and system dynamics approachDatu Buyung Agusdinata. 753-760 [doi]
• Affordable, rapid, electrochemical nitrate detection towards point-of-use water quality monitoringLillian Tatka, Unyoung Kim. 761-764 [doi]
• Quantification of a latex agglutination assay for bacterial pathogen detection in a low-cost capillary-driven fluidic platformOn Shun Pak, Kyle Pietrzyk, Andy Ly, Andres Maldonado-Liu, Scott Fukuoka, Unyoung Kim. 765-769 [doi]
• Design and introduction of pit-latrine assistive devices in Lira, UgandaHarrison Schmachtenberger, Caleb Avery, Mei-Li Hey. 770-775 [doi]
• Ultrasound assisted stand alone toilet for rural areasPrakash T. Sonwalkar, Dinesh Bindiganavale. 776-781 [doi]
• An acoustic based approach for mitigating sewer system overflowsMuhammad Safeer Khan. 782-789 [doi]
• Plastic waste cycle biomimicry of natural nutrient cycle - An integrated technology case studyKeegan G. Clarke, Christiaan Mouton. 790-796 [doi]
• Micro water distribution networks: A participatory method of sustainable water distribution in rural communitiesManeesha Vinodini Ramesh, Renjith Mohan, M. Nitin Kumar, Deepak Brahmanandan, C. Prakash, P. Lalith, M. Ananth Kumar, R. Ramkrishnan. 797-804 [doi]
• Proposal on the affordable and sustainable water supply approaches in disaster response by application of innovative water flocculant: A case study of a community based water supply business model in rural areas of TanzaniaYasuhiro Soshino, Akira Miyata. 805-810 [doi]
• Sports and sports technology as an enabler of global health and understandingTerrance John Malkinson. 811-814 [doi]
• Prototype and model of passive tropical fruit dryer utilizing a flexible transpired solar collectorSamantha Huselstein, Steven J. Weinstein, Robert J. Stevens. 815-816 [doi]
• A personal particulate matter exposure monitor to support household air pollution exposure and health studiesSeung Hyun Cho, Ryan T. Chartier, Kevin Mortimer, Mukesh Dherani, Terence Tafatatha. 817-818 [doi]
• New aspect for organic farming practices: Controlled crop nutrition and soilless agricultureP. J. Mahesh, Minhas Naheem, Razak Mubafar, S. Shyba, Sunitha Beevi. 819-824 [doi]
• Intelligent control of showers in solar heating systems and gas to water economyC. R. Lopes, M. R. P. Oliveira, R. E. Silva, T. V. Rodrigues, V. A. D. Souza, W. S. C. Morais. 825-830 [doi]
• Internet of Things (IoT): A relief for Indian farmersNishant Kumar Verma, Adil Usman. 831-835 [doi]
• Learning strategies in mobile and industrial robotics for people with auditory impairmentTito Alberto Nuncira Gacharna, Alba Dalila Angel Rodriguez, Cristian Barbosa. 836-841 [doi]
• Human tracking system embedded in stuffed animalMiwo Sakai, Masashi Sugano. 842-844 [doi]
• Using data assimilation method to predict people flow in areas of incomplete data availabilityYongwei Xu, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Xiaowei Shao. 845-846 [doi]
• Performance of a vertical subsurface flow constructed wetland in treating biomethanation effluentStephanie Olivia Wietlisbach, Kaavya Ram, Nikhil K. Kothurkar, Revathy Nair, Sreedhar Harigovind. 847-853 [doi]