William Thies

According to our database, William Thies authored at least 76 papers between 2001 and 2023.

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2023

<i>"Is it Even Giving the Correct Reading or Not?"</i>: How Trust and Relationships Mediate Blood Pressure Management in India.

Nimisha Karnatak, Brooke Loughrin, Tiffany Kuo, Odeline Mateu-Silvernail, Indrani Medhi-Thies, William Thies, Mohit Jain

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., December, 2023

2022

Exploring Collection of Sign Language Videos through Crowdsourcing.

Danielle Bragg, Abraham Glasser, Fyodor Minakov, Naomi Caselli, William Thies

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2022

2021

ASL Sea Battle: Gamifying Sign Language Data Collection.

Danielle Bragg, Naomi Caselli, John W. Gallagher, Miriam Goldberg, Courtney J. Oka, William Thies

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

2020

Using Mobile Airtime Credits to Incentivize Learning, Sharing and Survey Response: Experiences from the Field.

Devansh Mehta, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Alok Sharma, William Thies, Amit Sharma

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2020

Facilitating Media Distribution with Monetary Incentives.

Devansh Mehta, Alok Sharma, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Chiraag, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, William Thies, Venkanna U, Colin Scott, Amit Sharma

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

Exploring Collection of Sign Language Datasets: Privacy, Participation, and Model Performance.

Danielle Bragg, Oscar Koller, Naomi Caselli, William Thies

Proceedings of the ASSETS '20: The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2020

Chat in the Hat: A Portable Interpreter for Sign Language Users.

Larwan Berke, William Thies, Danielle Bragg

Proceedings of the ASSETS '20: The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2020

2019

Learn2Earn: Using Mobile Airtime Incentives to Bolster Public Awareness Campaigns.

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Indrani Medhi-Thies, Devansh Mehta, Edward Cutrell, Amit Sharma, William Thies

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2019

99DOTS: a low-cost approach to monitoring and improving medication adherence.

Andrew Cross, Nakull Gupta, Brandon Liu, Vineet Nair, Abhishek Kumar, Reena Kuttan, Priyanka Ivatury, Amy Chen, Kshama Lakshman, Rashmi Rodrigues, George D'Souza, Deepti Chittamuru, Raghuram Rao, Kiran Rade, Bhavin Vadera, Daksha Shah, Vinod Choudhary, Vineet Chadha, Amar Shah, Sameer Kumta, Puneet Dewan, Bruce Thomas, William Thies

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2019

Learnings from an Ongoing Deployment of an IVR-based Platform for Voter Awareness.

Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Devansh Mehta, Alok Sharma, William Thies, Amit Sharma

Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2019

Exploring Crowdsourced Work in Low-Resource Settings.

Manu Chopra, Indrani Medhi-Thies, Joyojeet Pal, Colin Scott, William Thies, Vivek Seshadri

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

2018

Avatar: Enabling Immersive Collaboration via Live Mobile Video.

Sudheesh Singanamalla, William Thies, Colin Scott

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Alternate Realities, 2018

2016

ICT-Enabled Grievance Redressal in Central India: A Comparative Analysis.

M. Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, William Thies

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2016

Development Consortium: HCI Across Borders.

Neha Kumar, Susan M. Dray, Andy Dearden, Nicola Dell, Melissa Densmore, Rebecca E. Grinter, Zhengjie Liu, Mario Alberto Moreno Rocha, Anicia N. Peters, Eunice Ratna Sari, William Thies, Indrani Medhi-Thies, William D. Tucker, Elba del Carmen Valderrama Bahamóndez, Susan Wyche

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

2015

Deterring Cheating in Online Environments.

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Nakull Gupta, Curtis G. Northcutt, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2015

Source Effects in Online Education.

Nakull Gupta, Jacki O'Neill, Andrew Cross, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2015

Blended Learning in Indian Colleges with Massively Empowered Classroom.

Edward Cutrell, Jacki O'Neill, Srinath Bala, B. Nitish, Andrew Cross, Nakull Gupta, Viraj Kumar, William Thies

Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2015

Measuring and Maximizing the Effectiveness of Honor Codes in Online Courses.

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Nakull Gupta, Curtis G. Northcutt, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2015

The Whodunit Challenge: Mobilizing the Crowd in India.

Aditya Vashistha, Rajan Vaish, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2015, 2015

Revisiting CGNet Swara and its impact in rural India.

M. Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, William Thies

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2015

Increasing the Reach of Snowball Sampling: The Impact of Fixed versus Lottery Incentives.

Aditya Vashistha, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2015

Sangeet Swara: A Community-Moderated Voice Forum in Rural India.

Aditya Vashistha, Edward Cutrell, Gaetano Borriello, William Thies

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015

2014

Online learning versus blended learning: an exploratory study.

Andrew Cross, Balasubramanyan Ashok, Srinath Bala, Edward Cutrell, Naren Datha, Rahul Kumar, Viraj Kumar, Parthasarathy Madhusudan, Siddharth Prakash, Sriram K. Rajamani, Satish Sangameswaran, Deepika Sharma, William Thies

Proceedings of the First (2014) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, 2014

Educational Content Creation and Sharing by Low-Income Visually Impaired People in India.

Aditya Vashistha, Erin L. Brady, William Thies, Edward Cutrell

Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, 2014

Measuring the Learning Benefits of Electronic Teaching Aids in Low-Resource Classrooms.

Linda Nixon, Jona Roy, Hema Latha, Sachin Rao, Bhagya Rangachar, William Thies

Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, 2014

A Mobile Application for Interactive Voice Forums: Design and Pilot Deployment in Rural India.

Krittika D'Silva, M. Marathe, Aditya Vashistha, Gaetano Borriello, William Thies

Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Symposium on Computing for Development, 2014

VidWiki: enabling the crowd to improve the legibility of online educational videos.

Andrew Cross, Mydhili Bayyapunedi, Dilip Ravindran, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2014

2013

Using automated voice calls to improve adherence to iron supplements during pregnancy: a pilot study.

Niranjan Pai, Pradnya Supe, Shailesh Kore, Y. S. Nandanwar, Aparna Hegde, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the International conference on information and communication technologies and development, 2013

How should users convey their location to an interactive voice response system?

Aditya Vashistha, William Thies

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2013

Accurate speed and density measurement for road traffic in India.

Rijurekha Sen, Andrew Cross, Aditya Vashistha, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2013

DocTalk: extending doctors' visits with personalized voice messages.

Pranav Ramkrishnan, Aditya Vashistha, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2013

Man versus machine: evaluating IVR versus a live operator for phone surveys in India.

Dipanjan Chakraborty, Indrani Medhi, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2013

TypeRighting: combining the benefits of handwriting and typeface in online educational videos.

Andrew Cross, Mydhili Bayyapunedi, Edward Cutrell, Anant Agarwal, William Thies

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

2012

Low-cost audience polling using computer vision.

Andrew Cross, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2012

Mapping Large Educational Websites to Interactive DVDs.

Swati Ittan, Gaurav Paruthi, William Thies

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education, 2012

An Empirical Study of License Violations in Open Source Projects.

Arunesh Mathur, Harshal Choudhary, Priyank Vashist, William Thies, P. Santhi Thilagam

Proceedings of the 35th Annual IEEE Software Engineering Workshop, 2012

Biometric Monitoring as a Persuasive Technology: Ensuring Patients Visit Health Centers in India's Slums.

Nupur Bhatnagar, Abhishek Sinha, Navkar Samdaria, Aakar Gupta, Shelly Batra, Manish Bhardwaj, William Thies

Proceedings of the Persuasive Technology. Design for Health and Safety, 2012

IVR Junction: Building Scalable and Distributed Voice Forums in the Developing World.

Aditya Vashistha, William Thies

Proceedings of the 6th USENIX/ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, 2012

Emergent practices around CGNet Swara, voice forum for citizen journalism in rural India.

Preeti Mudliar, Jonathan Donner, William Thies

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2012

mClerk: enabling mobile crowdsourcing in developing regions.

Aakar Gupta, William Thies, Edward Cutrell, Ravin Balakrishnan

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

"Yours is better!": participant response bias in HCI.

Nicola Dell, Vidya Vaidyanathan, Indrani Medhi, Edward Cutrell, William Thies

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012

2011

Designing mobile interfaces for novice and low-literacy users.

Indrani Medhi, Somani Patnaik, Emma Brunskill, S. N. Nagasena Gautama, William Thies, Kentaro Toyama

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2011

Analyzing and accelerating web access in a school in peri-urban India.

Jay Chen, David Hutchful, William Thies, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2011

ALTER: exploiting breakable dependences for parallelization.

Abhishek Udupa, Kaushik Rajan, William Thies

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2011

Computer viruses in urban Indian telecenters: characterizing an unsolved problem.

Prasanta Bhattacharya, William Thies

Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Networked systems for developing regions, 2011

Utilizing DVD players as low-cost offline internet browsers.

Gaurav Paruthi, William Thies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011

2010

A biometric attendance terminal and its application to health programs in India.

Michael Paik, Navkar Samdaria, Aakar Gupta, Julie Weber, Nupur Bhatnagar, Shelly Batra, Manish Bhardwaj, William Thies

Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, 2010

FoneAstra: making mobile phones smarter.

Rohit Chaudhri, Gaetano Borriello, William Thies

Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, 2010

Interactive DVDs as a platform for education.

Kiran Gaikwad, Gaurav Paruthi, William Thies

Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2010

Evaluating and improving the usability of Mechanical Turk for low-income workers in India.

Shashank Khanna, Aishwarya Ratan, James Davis, William Thies

Proceedings of the First ACM Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, 2010

An empirical characterization of stream programs and its implications for language and compiler design.

William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, 2010

2009

Language and compiler support for stream programs.

William Thies

PhD thesis, 2009

Manipulating lossless video in the compressed domain.

William Thies, Steven Hall, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Multimedia 2009, 2009

Evaluating the accuracy of data collection on mobile phones: A study of forms, SMS, and voice.

Somani Patnaik, Emma Brunskill, William Thies

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2009

Computer-aided design for microfluidic chips based on multilayer soft lithography.

Nada Amin, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computer Design, 2009

2008

Abstraction layers for scalable microfluidic biocomputing.

William Thies, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Nat. Comput., 2008

2007

A step towards unifying schedule and storage optimization.

William Thies, Frédéric Vivien, Saman P. Amarasinghe

ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst., 2007

Learning biophysically-motivated parameters for alpha helix prediction.

Blaise Gassend, Charles W. O'Donnell, William Thies, Andrew Lee, Marten van Dijk, Srinivas Devadas

BMC Bioinform., 2007

A Practical Approach to Exploiting Coarse-Grained Pipeline Parallelism in C Programs.

William Thies, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 40th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-40 2007), 2007

2006

Predicting Secondary Structure of All-Helical Proteins Using Hidden Markov Support Vector Machines.

Blaise Gassend, Charles W. O'Donnell, William Thies, Andrew Lee, Marten van Dijk, Srinivas Devadas

Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, International Workshop, 2006

Abstraction Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputers.

William Thies, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the DNA Computing, 12th International Meeting on DNA Computing, 2006

Exploiting coarse-grained task, data, and pipeline parallelism in stream programs.

Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, 2006

2005

Language and Compiler Design for Streaming Applications.

Saman P. Amarasinghe, Michael I. Gordon, Michal Karczmarek, Jasper Lin, David Maze, Rodric M. Rabbah, William Thies

Int. J. Parallel Program., 2005

Teleport messaging for distributed stream programs.

William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Janis Sermulins, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, 2005

Cache aware optimization of stream programs.

Janis Sermulins, William Thies, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, 2005

A reconfigurable architecture for load-balanced rendering.

Jiawen Chen, Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Matthias Zwicker, Kari Pulli, Frédo Durand

Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Graphics Hardware 2005, 2005

Static Deadlock Detection for Java Libraries.

Amy L. Williams, William Thies, Michael D. Ernst

Proceedings of the ECOOP 2005, 2005

Optimizing stream programs using linear state space analysis.

Sitij Agrawal, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Compilers, 2005

2004

The Stream Virtual Machine.

Francois Labonte, Peter R. Mattson, William Thies, Ian Buck, Christos Kozyrakis, Mark Horowitz

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2004), 29 September, 2004

2003

Linear analysis and optimization of stream programs.

Andrew A. Lamb, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation 2003, 2003

Phased scheduling of stream programs.

Michal Karczmarek, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Languages, 2003

2002

A common machine language for grid-based architectures.

William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Michael I. Gordon, David Maze, Jeremy Wong, Henry Hoffmann, Matthew Brown, Saman P. Amarasinghe

SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, 2002

Providing Web search capability for low-connectivity communities.

Libby Levison, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society, 2002

StreamIt: A Language for Streaming Applications.

William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the Compiler Construction, 11th International Conference, 2002

A stream compiler for communication-exposed architectures.

Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Jasper Lin, Ali S. Meli, Andrew A. Lamb, Chris Leger, Jeremy Wong, Henry Hoffmann, David Maze, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-X), 2002

2001

A Unified Framework for Schedule and Storage Optimization.

William Thies, Frédéric Vivien, Jeffrey Sheldon, Saman P. Amarasinghe

Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2001