Dhaval Joshi
Senior Researcher: Design & User ExperienceBangalore, 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:
- Conversations.nokia.com
- Wired.co.uk 2009
- Index.hu, Hungary 2009
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)