Joyojeet Pal
City and
Regional Planning & iSchool, University of California at Berkeley
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Joyojeet
Pal
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I am a researcher in the use of technology in development projects. Listed in this website are some of my past projects and active work.
I am currently a doctoral candidate in the department of City and Regional
Planning, with an outside field emphasis in Information
Management and Systems. My academic advisor is
Prof. Annalee Saxenian,
dean of the Information School.
My research home is TIER, under Prof. Eric Brewer at the Department of Computer Science in Berkeley.
In addition, my dissertation research is supervised by
Prof. Karen Christensen, Chair of my department and
Prof. Michael Teitz.
My most recent research is in the use Computer Aided Learning (CAL) in India - on
which I
am involved in both program evaluation and
design. I have been involved with the
multimouse
project since 2005, it is a project of interest to people working on shared
computer use among children. As part of the design and pedagogical work, we have
been recording patterns in which children seat themselves in front of computers
and how that relates to their socio-economic conditions as well as their
confidence with classroom work. This work includes interface designs for shared
use scenarios.
On the side of program evaluation, I have been
interviewing parents of students in rural schools with CAL programs to document
ways in which familial and social aspirations have changed over time in areas
where such projects have been instituted by the Indian government.
Also linked here is some of our policy work on
community telecenters/cybercafes in rural India and Brazil.
I am in the process of beginning
two new evaluation projects. The first evaluation
project looks at the use of a computer installation in a rural residential
school in Touba, Senegal, and the second looks at comparing telecenters in India
with similar projects in Minas Gerais, Brazil. For more details on any of these projects, or ways to get involved, please
mail me.
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