Silvia Figueira -- Mobile Computing for Social Benefit

Our group is part of the Frugal Innovation Lab at SCU.

• We develop applications for social benefit, particularly to enable cellular phones to help individuals in under-served communities.
• We have collaborations with local companies and social enterprises around the world.
• If you are interested in joining our group, get in touch with Prof. Figueira.

2013/2014

2012/2013

StreetConnect -- COEN 129 students, Spring 2013

Collaboration with CTA in San Jose, to provide homeless people and low-income families with access to helpful information.

P2P IhaveIneed Mechanism -- Aaraadhya Narra

Phone application to enable individuals in under-served communitites to sell and buy goods within their own community.

eBooks for all -- Maya Hough, Victorial Hall, Elysia Chu, and Urvashi Reddi

Web-based editor to export books to any phone. This project is a collaboration with Anudip/iMerit in India.

Mobile Education Forum -- Alexandria Shearer and Suzanne Lien

Collaboration with Equal Access to enable the broadcast of educational materials onto simple text-based phones in emerging markets.

Mobile Vocal Pattern Analyzer -- Samantha Pham and Rohini Deb

Smartphone-based application to record a vocal pattern, analyze it, and identify possible voice-related diseases.

Poverty Map -- Jonathan Ahumada, Kurt Jurgens, and Jasmine Farias

Web-based application to analyze poverty indices in an attempt to improve resource distribution.

Lab in a Chip -- Rapid and Affordable Point-of-Care Water Monitoring -- Allison Kamiya, Adib Zuhayr Elahi, John Seubert

This project is a collaboration with students in Bio and Electrical to develop a frugal water analyzer.

Android-Based Farming Info Tool -- Geeta Bisht

Collaboration with M-Farm to help farmers in Kenya.

Skipping the Computer Age -- Shreya Kunjir

Evaluating the usage of phones and tablets as computers in emerging markets.

2011/2012

MedRec -- Sonam Sharma

jQTouch-based mobile application for medicine-adherence control.

Humanitarian Market Place -- Amanda Chong

This project entails the research for the creation of a Mobile Market Place for Humanitarian Applications.

mHealth Lab -- Ryan Davidson

This lab is part of a project led by NetHope to analyze and develop solutions for mHealth.

Water Analyzer -- Android Interface -- John Seubert and Connor Carey

This project is a collaboration with students in Bio and Electrical to develop a frugal water analyzer.

eRescue -- Rosemary Pham, Casey Larson, Kristen Muramoto, and Timothy So

This project entails the development of an app to locate CPR-certified users within a region where they are needed.

Where Am I? -- Monica Camorongan and Joseph Schneider

This project will provide an app to help people with mental disabilities find their way around the streets.

2010/2011

mHealth Demo Lab -- Arturo Posadas and Sanjay Rao

This lab was created as part of a project led by NetHope to analyze solutions developed for mHealth: openXdata, DHIS 2, and openMRS.

Mobile Application for Fair Wage Guide -- Rosalie Tolentino, Eva Jensen, and Ryan Davidson

This project was a collaboration with World of Good.

Mobile Application for Providing Fairly-Priced Phone Calls to Africa -- Arturo Posadas

This project was a collaboration with Palm Call.

Mobile Applications for Emerging Markets, a Taxonomy -- Rosalie Tolentino and Eva Jensen

This project was a collaboration with Radha Basu and Andy Lieberman,
from the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, at Santa Clara University.