Dhaval Joshi

Senior Researcher: Design & User Experience
Bangalore, India

I am a Researcher based at Nokia Research Center, Bangalore.

Professional Activities

International Review Committee: Mobile For Development Conference, Nov 10-11, 2010, Kampala, Uganda

International Program Committee: m4Life 2009 Conference, Sept 2-4, 2009, Barcelona, Spain

Committee member for 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Internet User eXperience (MIUX'08), Amsterdam

Reviewer - Conference papers on design - Mobile HCI 08, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Chaired the session on Novel User Interfaces, Mobility Conference 07, Singapore

Research Interests

I am interested in exploring New Design Research Methods and Techniques along with locally relevant areas such as role of mobile technology in Literacy, Agriculture, Health etc. Field research is something close to my heart and have spend more than 150 days on the field exploring and validating opportunities in rural and urban parts of india

Conferences

Poster: HealthRadar, IEEE conference on ICT for Humanitarian Challenges, Bangalore

Journal Paper: User Experience of Mobile Internet: Analysis and Recommendations, International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI) 09, July-September 2009, Vol.1, No. 3

Joshi D (2008). Position Paper at Mobile HCI 08: Experimental Interface to improve Mobile Internet UX

Joshi D, Avasthi V, (2007). Mobile Internet UX for Developing Countries, Position paper, workshop on Mobile Internet User Experience, Mobile HCI 07, Singapore.

Joshi D, Sagar A, (2007). Applying Naturalized Interaction to Mobile Devices, Invited paper, Mobility Conference 07, Singapore

Seshagiri S, Sagar A, Joshi D, (2006). Connecting the Bottom of the Pyramid: an Exploratory Case Study of India's Rural Communication Environment presented at WWW07 conference, Banff, Canada

Seshagiri S, Sagar A, Joshi D, (2006). Connecting the Unconnected presented at sFAA conference, Florida US

Publications

HealthRadar: A mobile based disease surveillance system for tracking the spread of diseases in near real time.

Web Mentions:

Print:
Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden
SvD Näringsliv måndag 23 november 2009 "Ska stoppa spridningen av Malaria via mobilen"

Presentations

Lecture Talk at Helsinki Institute of Information Technology (HIIT) on Location Based Services (LBS) concept development in emerging markets - 11 Feb 2009

Invited talk at Sensemaking with Smartphones workshop- CASE 2009, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Patents

Authored / Co-authored 14+ patents

Some of the Published Patent Applications are as follows

  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AGRICULTURAL RESOURCE MAPPING (WO 2011/064445)
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING AND DISSEMINATING HEALTH INFORMATION VIA MOBILE CHANNELS (WO 2011/027028)
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS OF COLLECTING DATA FOR AGRICULTURAL ANALYSIS (WO 2010/125236)METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING LOCAL RESOURCES OFFERINGS USING MOBILE DEVICES (WO 2010/046525)