GHTC 2024 features 80 papers in 16 Tracks (not all may be presented)
1A – AI in Education
1B – Climate Change Data
2A – Productivity Solutions in Agriculture
2B – Information for Entrepreneurship
3A – Power Grid Solutions
3B – Technology for Education
4A – Diet, Nutrition and Oral Health
4B – Human-Machine Interface
5A – AI in Agriculture
5B – Entrepreneurship for All
6A – Technology for Community Well Being
6B – The Economics of Sustainability
7A – Technology Development
7B – Emergency Response Technologies
8A – Technology for Well Being
8B – Aid, Assistance and The Digital Divide
| EDAS# | Title | Author |
| 1A | AI in Education | |
| 1571031596 | A Review on the Feasibility of AI-supported Education Platforms in Afghanistan: Addressing Barriers to Women and Girls’ Education | Aziz Ullah Karimy; Juma Rasuli; P Chandrasekhar Reddy; Musa Joya; Ali Juma Hamdard; Hassan Rahnaward Ghulami |
| 1571034518 | Implementation and Evaluation of LLM-Based Conversational Systems on a Low-Cost Device | Koga Sakai; Yuji Uehara; Shigeru Kashihara |
| 1571034757 | Mobile Virtual Reality Design for Healthcare Training in Low Resource Settings | Matthew Cook; Rachel Umoren; Sara Berkelhamer; Chinyere Ezeaka; Joseph Fisher; Malik Raji; Cyril Engmann; Ime Asangansi |
| 1571035364 | Next-Gen Safety Training: ICT Solutions for Informal Workers in Colombia | Gregorio E Puello-Socarrás |
| 1571035471 | Use of AI to augment multilingual content in cyberspace for development – An Indian case study | Vijayalakshmi B; Kondapur Aneesh Deshpande; Nishkarsh Krishan |
| 1B | Climate Change Data | |
| 1571022591 | Potential geographical distribution of the Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus and its impact on food security: prediction based on modelling using climatic factors | Emmanuel Der Tambile; Vilayannur Subramanian Ramachandran; Raji Pushpalatha |
| 1571031781 | Reducing Emissions from Taxis in the Galapagos Islands using a Mobile Phone Application | Pritpal Singh; Ryan Barnwell; William Purcell; Jenny Smith; Catherine Dudrear |
| 1571031792 | A Low-Cost Datalogging and Telemetry IoT Platform for Remote Water Monitoring and Control | James C Peyton Jones |
| 1571034695 | Co-Designing the Foundations of a Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease Community of Practice | Madeline De Figueiredo; Rayya El Zein; Angela Okune; Miliaku Nwabueze |
| 1571034736 | Characterize human mobility in Nigeria during flooding season and its impact in shaping the spread of Covid-19 | kailun Liu; Xin Wu; Lele Zhang; chenfeng xiong |
| 2A | Productivity Solutions in Agriculture | |
| 1571029509 | Influence of the Red-Billed Quelea Bird on Rice Farming in the Kisumu, Kenya Region | John Gershenson; Alexander Aumen; Gianna Gagliardi; Colleen Kinkead; Van Nguyen; Kaylee Smith |
| 1571031376 | Rainwater Harvesting and Automated Off-grid Irrigation for Food and Water Security in Guatemala | Arav Sharma; Lisa Shay |
| 1571031760 | Design and Fabrication of a Semi-autonomous Tilling Machine | Jadis A Aganda; Kofi Sannie Amosah; Stephen Kofi Armah |
| 1571035236 | An Indoor Low-Power Hydroponics System for Urban Spaces | Xiahro Joan Tabios; Hannah Chzarmayne Natividad; John Richard Hizon; Marc Rosales; Jessica Rey; Paul Jason Co |
| 1571041367 | Sustainable Solutions for Livelihood Enhancement in Sadivayal Village: Integrating Agriculture and Clean Energy | Tangudu Harsha Vardhan; Tejaswi Potu; B Sri Ganesh; Suneelvijay M; Rithika Nallaparaju; Ilango Karuppasamy; Renjith Mohan |
| 2B | Information for Entrepreneurship | |
| 1571031489 | An interactive framework: Understanding community desires through Participatory Video | Nina Trauernicht; Nikola Nizamis |
| 1571034202 | Measuring the Efficacy of a Locally Manufactured Face Shield | Frederick Kojo Chaway Acquah; Gabriel Owusu; Jeremiah Takyi; Danyuo Yiporo; Heather R Beem |
| 1571034949 | Empowering Village Women through CVET: Identifying Challenges, Solutions, and Motivating Factors in Tamil Nadu’s Coastal Seaweed Farming | Soundariya S; Jisha Mary LG; Srividya Sheshadri; Marcia L. Mclain; Amritha N; Rao R. Bhavani |
| 1571035324 | Network of Village Universities for Development of India’s Rural Sector | Ranjan Sen; Bulbul Sen |
| 1571035339 | Open Know-How and An Open Source Hardware Registry As a Unifying Discoverability Mechanism for Open Source Hardware Humanitarian Engineering Projects | Robert L Read; Christina A. Cole; Victoria Jaqua; Andrew Lamb |
| 3A | Power Grid Solutions | |
| 1571029286 | Natural Language Processing Reveals Core Issues in Uganda’s Power Grid: A Study of Outages from 2015-2022 | Joel Mugyenyi; Isaac V. Kinhonhi; Vijay Modi |
| 1571031255 | Applying social practice theory to understand user demand in rural microgrids | Reesha Arshad; Hassan Abbas Khan; Rosanna De Rosa; Dario Minervini; Ivano Scotti |
| 1571031615 | Electricity Systems Design for Standalone, Minigrid, Grid-Connected Configurations with Domestic and Flexible Irrigation Loads: A Case Study in Tigray, Ethiopia | Yuezi Wu; Terence Conlon; Vijay Modi |
| 1571032093 | Hybrid Renewable Energy in the Argentine Chaco | Alan Mickelson; Guillermo Catuogno; Juan Chalbaud |
| 1571032694 | Design, Economic, and Environmental Analysis of a Stand-alone Solar Photovoltaic System for a Tailoring Business in Burundi | Pritpal Singh; Aniekanabasi Ekanem |
| 3B | Technology for Education | |
| 1571029510 | Empowering Collaboration: Insights into Teacher Collaboration in West Kenya | Nimisha Rachel Rackow; Ashley Shea; Ji Zhang; John Gershenson |
| 1571029512 | Characterizing Teacher Struggles and Problem Solving Across Kenyan School Categories | Aayod Kaul; Arushi Singh; George Bodenschatz; John Gershenson |
| 1571031808 | Health Science, Engineering and the Arts to Address Maternal Health Disparities: Mothers of Sierra Leone | MJ Le Vu; Olivia Hauck; Sophie Ritzler; Ellen Murray; Constance Mulligan; Sofia Rousseau |
| 1571032054 | Ten Years Working with Haitian Educators | Alan Mickelson; Morisset St. Preux |
| 1571035091 | Science on Wheels: Transforming Education with Agastya’s Mobile Science Labs | Angelina A Patel; Faatiha Kalam; Natesh Appaya; Shrishail Dhanawade; Asha Marwaha; Jahid O Hossain; Angelina Penza; Eric R Obeysekare; Khanjan Mehta |
| 4A | Diet, Nutrition and Oral Health | |
| 1571019809 | Advancing Oral Health Equity Through Cross-Cultural Virtual Oral Health Book Clubs: A Participatory Approach with Underserved Children in Ekiti State Nigeria and Del Carmen, Philipines | Adekemi Adeniyan; Alfredo Coro Jr |
| 1571030771 | A Novel, Voice-Activated Smart Home Assistant Using a Large Language Model for Nutrition Assistance | Jay Bhardwaj; Hugo Carducci; Kenneth Clark; Nicholas Kennedy; Dylan Smith; Tim Thai; Emily Francis; Ramana Reddy |
| 1571034923 | Towards Low-Sodium Diets: Low-Cost, Small-Scale Approaches to Food Reformulation and Salt Substitution | Daniel B Weir; Shane Haycock; Joseph A Menicucci, Jr.; Khanjan Mehta |
| 1571034952 | Towards Low-Sodium Diets: Educational and Policy Approaches | Ella Sokich; Asher Mendelson; Daniel B Weir; Umid Abdullayev; Joseph A Menicucci, Jr.; Khanjan Mehta |
| 1571035378 | EasyEat: Personalized Healthy Eating Coach | Cristina Mayr; Renzo DAmbrosio; Josefina Gallinal; Santiago Souto |
| 4B | Human-Machine Interface | |
| 1571031533 | Strengthening Last Mile Health Education Using Amazon Alexa-Enabled Devices: A Preliminary Case Study | Sofia A Espinoza-Hernandez; Jahid O Hossain; Zavier R Urbaez; Eric Yang; Elif Ozturk; Aabiskar Thapa Kshetri; Rachel Platt; Eric R Obeysekare; Khanjan Mehta |
| 1571033772 | Leveraging AI Face-Tracking and Gesture Recognition for Hands-Free Computing: Bridging the Gap for Users with Physical Disabilities | Michael Ruocco; Jack Duggan; Chetan Jaiswal; Brian O’Neill; Karen Majeski |
| 1571035062 | Enhancing Child Safety and Security through Integrated Technology for Urban Areas | Aditya Narayan; Sarang KP; Viswajith K; Kowshik Marimuthu; Nagarajan P M; Sundara Raman Gopalan |
| 1571035398 | Enhancing Type 1 Diabetes Management through Machine Learning | Anav Bordia |
| 1571056331 | Human Rights and Ethics Guiding Human-Machine Teaming | Lubna Dajani; Angelo Ferraro; Fumihiro Maruyama; Yuchang Cheng |
| 5A | AI in Agriculture | |
| 1571031043 | Robust Estimation of Plucking Points across Seasonal Flushes in Tea with UAV Imaging | Sanket Junagade; Sanat Sarangi; Swagatam Bose Choudhury; Ruturaj Nivas Patil; Dineshkumar Singh; Srinivasu Pappula |
| 1571034386 | On Digital Twin for a High Yielding Soybean Variety towards Optimal Field Recommendations | Swagatam Bose Choudhury; Rushikesh Dattatraya Kulat; Ruturaj Nivas Patil; Abhishek Kumar; Sanat Sarangi; Nandan Rajpoot; Ajay Mittal; Dinesh Singh; Srinivasu Pappula |
| 1571035092 | Effective Regional Prediction for Potato Stress Conditions Across Rabi Seasons | Rushikesh Dattatraya Kulat; Swagatam Bose Choudhury; Vidit Patil; Sanat Sarangi; Dinesh Singh; Srinivasu Pappula |
| 1571035336 | Monitoring the impacts of disruption events on agriculture through irrigation detection with remote sensing | Hasan S Siddiqui; Vijay Modi |
| 1571035390 | Non-human primate monitoring system: early alert system against crop raids for farms in Nepal | Daniil Slutskiy; Zach Jacques; Nuno Bazarian; Saurav Basnet; Amir Poudel; Prakash Mandhart |
| 5B | Entrepreneurship for All | |
| 1571030685 | Challenges in Rural Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Lens through Effectuation Theory | Jayshree Patnaik; Ahla Hashir |
| 1571031457 | Making on the Move: Bringing Mobile Makerspaces to Under-resourced Communities | Jahid O Hossain; Angelina Penza; Asha Marwaha; Angelina A Patel; Faatiha Kalam; Eric R Obeysekare; Khanjan Mehta |
| 1571031834 | Investigating Community Engagement Practices in Short-Term Humanitarian Engineering Projects | Arooj Masood; Grace Burleson |
| 1571033950 | Digital Technology and the Empowerment of Indian Women Micro-Entrepreneurs | Rimpa Pal; Bhaskar Bhowmick |
| 1571035432 | User-Centered Design of a Seasonal Calendar App for Women: Insights from a Case Study in India | Balu M Menon; Aiswarya K Nampoothiri; Festa Lovin k f; Gokul Dev B; Rao R. Bhavani |
| 6A | Technology for Community Well Being | |
| 1571033752 | Training of Rural Women to Monitor the Water Quality at the Point of Use to Increase WASH Empowerment in Rural India | Reshma Ramesh; Sithara GS; Geethu S Gireesh; Reshma R Nair; Athul Ajay; J. Sophie von Lieres; Bhavani R Rao |
| 1571034244 | Viability of Applying Large Language Models to Indoor Climate Sensor and Health Data for Scientific Discovery | Aidan Chen; Jonathan Du; Aaron Rodriguez; Ryan Rodriguez; Jack Higgins; Robin Podmore; Ryan Liu; Emin Ilao; Sam Daniel C Degilla; James Brian Bibiano; Candice Chan; Annalicia Pickering; Mary Showstark; Jarone Lee; Milton Chen |
| 1571035056 | Enabling socio-ecological linkages for Rural River Restoration through Human-Nature Connection | Rondine C Twist, Esq.; J. Sophie von Lieres; Sneha Anil; Arya M V; Krishna G S; Bhavani R Rao |
| 1571035292 | Does a Standards-First Infrastructure Design Neglect Community Context | Emily Lawson-Bulten; Ann-Perry Witmer |
| 1571035408 | Enablers and Barriers to Improved Drinking Water Sources and Safe Water Practices in Rural India | Reshma Ramesh; Sithara GS; Reshma R Nair; Geethu S Gireesh; Athul Ajay; J. Sophie von Lieres |
| 6B | The Economics of Sustainability | |
| 1571029506 | Operational and Financial Analysis of Smallholder Rice Farming in Kisumu, Kenya | Alexander Aumen; Gianna Gagliardi; Colleen Kinkead; Van Nguyen; Kaylee Smith; John Gershenson |
| 1571029507 | Examining Income and Cost Dynamics of Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Western Kenya | Purva Gupta; Lauren Wagner; Dorcas Owinoh; John Gershenson |
| 1571031439 | Single-Use Plastics: The Life and Afterlife of Sachets in the Philippines | Evan J Woodward; Fernanda Sena; Jackson Kramp; Sophia Lin; Avery Nudell-Cook; Eric R Obeysekare; Khanjan Mehta |
| 1571031592 | Bridging the Digital Divide with Sustainability: Reuse of Landfill-bound Computers in Education | Yong Lin; Jake Mastrofski; Dylan Fall; Astin Lin; Chengyao Wu; Tariq Zaman; Charles Noah Lin; Ming Chen |
| 1571031784 | Reimagining Wearables to Bolster Sustainable Development in Low-Resource Settings | Lauren K Hamamoto; Olivia M Meyer; Priya M Natarajan; Meghan G Young; Annly John; Khanjan Mehta |
| 7A | Technology Development | |
| 1571030273 | Generator Efficiency Testing: Gasoline vs. Propane in the Haitian Context | Brian Thomas; Daniel Chang; Ashton McCutcheon; Claudia Oggs; Jacob Webb |
| 1571033998 | Exploring Internet Use for Development in Mozambique | Nkeshimana Henry Cedrick; Nepeti Nicanor |
| 1571034808 | Implementation of an Open Hardware and Web Platform for Citizen Science Air Quality Monitoring | Joize Barbie E dela Cruz; Ryan Jonathan Blanco; Ira Nicole J Santos; Jaybie A de Guzman; Marc Rosales; Paul Jason Co; John Richard Hizon; John Jairus D.P. Eslit; Percival Magpantay |
| 1571035117 | Real Time Air Quality Sensor System for E-Trikes | Martina Meg Bayani; Erin Julianne Mariano; Sanroe Estabillo; Rylee Abiño; Anna Margarita Chua; Aaron Tolentino; Miguel Carlos M Menguito; Paul Jason Co; Jaybie A de Guzman; Marc Rosales; John Richard Hizon |
| 1571035396 | Assessing Household Cooking Energy and Potential for Transition to E-Cooking in Informal Urban Settlements | Vongaishe Mutatu; Vijay Modi; June Lukuyu |
| 7B | Emergency Response Technologies | |
| 1571013222 | The development of a drone capable of transporting humanitarian aid during an emergency | Mohamed zied Chaari; Gilroy Philbert Pereira; Fawwad Daroge; Mohamed Abdelfatah; Otman Aghzout |
| 1571031337 | Chemonics support to Pakistan during the Covid-19 and 2022 flood response led to optimized health systems | Wayne Lifshitz; M Tariq |
| 1571031740 | Evaluating the spatial-temporal impact of urban flooding on mobility patterns and point of interest | Lele Zhang; Xin Wu; kailun Liu; chenfeng xiong |
| 1571035387 | Geospatial Analysis to Target Vulnerable Population for Direct Cash Transfer Programs | Tanvir S Mangat |
| 1571035467 | On the Feasibility of Digital VHF Communications in Crisis Scenarios | Michi Hermann; Bastian Bloessl |
| 8A | Technology for Well Being | |
| 1571020797 | Leveraging Technology for Equitable Access to Social Benefits: A Case Study of Civil Society Organization Interventions among Internal Seasonal Migrant Workers in India | Alyssia Sanchez; Sami El Sabri; Noah Khan; Alazne Qaisar; Joseph Wong |
| 1571029791 | Online Guided Integrated Amrita Meditation (IAM®) to Improve Mental Well-Being and Reduce Perceived Stress During COVID-19 in India | Bavani Mohan; J. Sophie von Lieres; Sowndaram C S; Rajiv Prasad |
| 1571032023 | Integrated Amrita Meditation (IAM®): Towards Sustainable Rehabilitation in Prisons Using Digital Mental Well-Being Intervention | Bavani Mohan; J. Sophie von Lieres; Sundara Raman Gopalan; Rajiv Prasad |
| 1571032554 | An Intelligent Computer Vision System for Gesture Based Home Automation and Detection of Parkinson’s Tremors | Evelyn Ding; Xiaohu Guo |
| 1571034932 | A User-Centred Interaction design: A holistic Approach | Gibson Kimutai; Anna Förster |
| 8B | Aid, Assistance and The Digital Divide | |
| 1571017076 | Characteristics and Machine Learning Emulation of Heatwaves in Future Climate of New Jersey – Exploring Data From the CMIP6 Archive | Vinay Karthik |
| 1571031518 | Is Humanitarian Aid Funding Fair and Square? Correlating social justice to humanitarian aid utilisation | Zikambiyani Haanyika; Nina Trauernicht; Alberto Martinetti; Eric Lutters |
| 1571031835 | Investigating Professional Volunteering Experiences in Humanitarian Engineering Projects | Sabrina Bradford; Grace Burleson |
| 1571034672 | Digital Information Content Platform for Sustainable Education and Disaster Resilience with Telecommunications Network-Assisted Remote Monitoring And Management | Rannie D. Salvador; Nathaniel Joseph C Libatique; Mark Anthony Melendres; Gregory Tangonan; Joselito Christian Paulus M. Villanueva |
| 1571040687 | Determining Digital Divide in Local-Level ICT Usage for 311 Civic Applications | Kuheli Sai; David Tipper |