Monday, May 19, 2008

Visual and speech interfaces for Cell phones for use by Lady Health Workers in rural health clinics in Pakistan

Cell phones have great possibilities to improve the delivery of health services in rural areas such as Pakistan and India. But traditional interactions with cellphones using an Internet browser and text is ill suited to rural illiterate populations.

Either speech or visual (pictographs such as cartoons) interfaces could reduce this problem.

Read this: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jsherwan/JS-proposal.pdf

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