From the Daily Californian
Assistant Professor Awarded Grant to Expand Information-Exchange Project
By Amruta Trivedi
A UC Berkeley assistant professor recently awarded a grant of about $500,000 will be able to expand his project allowing farmers in rural India to exchange information on farming techniques through a voice-based discussion board.
Tapan Parikh, an assistant professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, was awarded the five-year grant by the National Science Foundation and, with his team, will use the money to explore ways the voice-based interface can be made more user-friendly for low-literacy users....