Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group

Making research more accessible by collaborating globally to learn and create short talks on influential papers | Collaboratively creating courses to be published on the Stanford Platform.

May, 2016

Stanford Scholar

I was one of the first members to join the initiative and contributed for the first talk to expatiate on the research paper - “VizWiz : Nearly real-time answers to visual questions”. I was also one of the three members of the audio team.

I have also been actively participating in making research more accessible to my community by also translating these short talks to Hindi. Working on the AlphaGo talk was a great experience.

I recently took up the role of a Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for the talk creation process. I was responsible for the creation of the talk on Haptic Waves.


Stanford Crowd Course Initiative

I participated in the Stanford Crowd Course Initiative and collaborated with people from across the globe to create an online course on Bitcoins.

Modules created

  • Introduction to Bitcoins
  • Bitcoin mining
  • Cryptography basics relevant to bitcoins

Some of the slides prepared:

Slides
Slides

Apart from contributing to the creation of slides and content, I was also one of the members of the audio team who oversaw the recording process.

Thoughts

The Stanford Scholar initiative serves twofold benefits: getting conversant with the research that is being done in the field and disseminating this research by creating short talks which further increases one’s understanding of the paper. The initiative further makes the research accessible by converting these talks to different languages like Hindi, Catalan, Spanish, etc.