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Biography
Delvin Varghese is a Research Fellow within the Department of Human-Centred Computing at Monash University. His research focusses on the design of technologies for nonprofits and community groups in rural and International Development contexts.
Some examples of his previous research include:
Participatory Video: collaborating with IFRC's Monitoring and Evaluation team, Tom Bartindale and Delvin looked at how collaborative video practices could be used to support the inclusion of low literacy communities in Red Cross/Red Crescent projects.
As part of this, Delvin conducted Participatory Video deployments with communities in Indonesia, Namibia, Egypt, Honduras, and Colombia.
Additional projects using this approach were conducted in Bangladesh, Gambia and Kenya.
Peer-Volunteer Training: working with a small NGO in South India, Delvin explored the role of audio technologies such as mobile-phone enabled community radio to support peer-training of volunteers spread across large rural areas in Tamil Nadu.
Community Radio to support Health workers' training: collaborating with IIIT Delhi and rural health nonprofits, community radio was used to explore the training of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in their work providing nutrition and healthcare information in rural contexts.
Research interests
Broadly speaking, I am interested in researching the design of technologies that address one or more of the following:
- community organisations and nonprofits serving marginalised populations in Australia and in International Develoment contexts
- Design Thinking and Participatory Approaches to addressing challenges in community engagement
- Informal learning and Organisational Training within nonprofits with limited resources
Monash teaching commitment
FIT5125 - Research Methods in Information Technology
Consulting
Delvin carries out consulting and pro-bono work for nonprofits in Australia and overseas. If you are part of an NGO that is interested in engaging local communities (especially marginalised communities) through digital technologies, then get in touch at delv.in/consulting.
Research area keywords
- International Development
- participatory media
- Media Studies
- Third Sector
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Projects
- 1 Finished
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Co-designing and scaling effective COVID-19 communication strategies for young people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Victoria
Wickes, R., Olivier, P., Skouteris, H., Forbes-Mewett, H., Ratnam, C., Powell, R., Bartindale, T., Varghese, D. & Smith, L.
16/11/20 → 16/05/21
Project: Research
Research output
- 7 Conference Paper
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A hybrid multi-modal system for conducting virtual workshops using interactive voice response and the WhatsApp business API
Prasad, V., Shallam, R., Sharma, A., Varghese, D. & Mehta, D., 2021, CHI 2021 - Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Kitamura, Y., Quigley, A., Isbister, K. & Igarashi, T. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
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Towards participatory video 2.0
Varghese, D., Olivier, P. & Bartindale, T., Apr 2020, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. McGrenere, J. & Cockburn, A. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 13 p. 565Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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Utilizing participant voice in volunteer training
Varghese, D., Rainey, J., Montague, K., Bartindale, T. & Olivier, P., Apr 2020, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. McGrenere, J. & Cockburn, A. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 14 p. 81Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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Our story: addressing challenges in development contexts for sustainable Participatory Video
Bartindale, T., Varghese, D., Schofeld, G. & Tsukamoto, M., 2019, Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Cox, A. & Kostakos, V. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 12 p. 437Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Citizen Tagger: exploring social tagging of conversational audio
Varghese, D., Olivier, P. & Balaam, M., 21 Sep 2017, Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017 : 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference Mumbai, India, September 25–29, 2017 Proceedings, Part IV. Bernhaupt, R., Dalvi, G., Joshi, A., Balkrishan, D. K., O'Neill, J. & Winckler, M. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 116-125 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; vol. 10516 ).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)