Divya Lalitha Ramachandran 
354/360 Hearst
Memorial Mining Building (510) 642-1268divya AT cs DOT berkeley DOT
edu I'm a
graduate student studying computer science at the EECS department and Berkeley Institute of Design at UC Berkeley. My research
is in the field of Human-Computer Interaction, specifically in the area of
using mobile, persuasive speech-based interaction for health information access
and training in developing regions. My advisor is Professor John Canny. I did my undergrad at
the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
Education
B.S. in Computer
Engineering, University
of Utah, May 2004
Projects
Mobile
Persuasive Health Information Access and Training Speech Recognition
for the Mobile Phone Mobile
Immersive Language Learning in Emerging Economies (MILLEE)
Papers
Divya Ramachandran and John Canny.
The Persuasive Power of
Human-Machine Dialogue. H.
Oinas-Kukkonen et al. (Eds.):
PERSUASIVE 2008, LNCS 5033, pp. 189-200, 2008 (Oulu, Finland),
June 4-6, 2008. Best Paper Award. Divya
Ramachandran, Matthew Kam, Jane Chiu, John Canny, and James L. Frankel. Social Dynamics of Early Stage Co-Design in
Developing Regions. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems (San Jose,
California), April 28-May 3,
2007. Matthew Kam, Divya Ramachandran, Varun Devanathan, Anuj Tewari,
and John Canny. Localized Iterative Design for
Language Learning in Underdeveloped Regions: The PACE Framework . Proceedings
of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California),
April 28-May 3, 2007. Matthew Kam, Divya Ramachandran, Anand
Raghavan, Jane Chiu, Urvashi Sahni, John Canny. Practical
considerations for participatory design with rural school children in
underdeveloped regions: Early reflections from the field. In Proceedings
of 5th International Conference for Interaction Design and Children (Tampere, Finland),
June 7-9, 2006. Matthew Kam, Divya Ramachandran, Urvashi Sahni, and
John Canny. Designing Educational Technology for
Developing Regions: Some Preliminary Hypotheses. IEEE 3rd International
Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries. In Proceedings of
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (Kaohsiung, Taiwan),
July 5-8, 2005.
Links
Technology and Infrastructure for
Emerging Regions Research Group at Berkeley
ICT for Development
Reading Group
Personal
A glimpse into my mind.