Computing for Voice: Advancing Technology to Reduce Marginalization

语音计算：推进技术以减少边缘化

• 批准号: RGPIN-2018-06185
• 负责人: Ahmed, SyedIshtiaque
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=714146
• 关键词: Computing; Voice; Advancing; Technology; Reduce

The benefits of computing are often confined within the populations with certain privilege. Those benefits rarely reach billions of underprivileged lives around the world fighting with extreme poverty, illiteracy, gender discrimination, forced migration, and various other exploitations and marginalization. The services that are available through computing often fail to address their needs and constraints. The lack of knowledge about their lives, and the challenges in addressing the limits of their contexts, result into a paucity of appropriate technologies for them. To this end, the objective of my research is to devise tools and techniques that give voice to the underserved communities around the world, and incorporate their voices in designing novel computational services.

计算的好处通常局限在拥有某种特权的人群中。这些福利很少惠及世界各地与赤贫、文盲、性别歧视、强迫移民和各种其他剥削和边缘化作斗争的数十亿贫困人口。通过计算提供的服务往往不能满足他们的需求和限制。由于缺乏对他们生活的了解，以及在解决他们所处环境的限制方面面临的挑战，导致他们缺乏适当的技术。为此，我的研究目标是设计工具和技术，让世界各地服务不足的社区发出声音，并将他们的声音纳入到设计新的计算服务中。