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- research-articleOctober 2024
Refresher Training through Digital and Physical, Card-Based Game for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) in India
CHI PLAY Companion '24: Companion Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in PlayPages 175–180https://doi.org/10.1145/3665463.3678819India’s recent health surveys have highlighted a worrying trend of incomplete child immunization rates across several district clusters in India. Conventional training methods for community healthcare workers (CHWs) in India are inadequate for improving ...
- research-articleSeptember 2024
Mapping Child Malnutrition and Measuring Efficiency of Community Healthcare Workers through Location Based Games in India
GoodIT '24: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information Technology for Social GoodPages 377–385https://doi.org/10.1145/3677525.3678685In India, Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) serve as critical intermediaries between the state and beneficiaries, including pregnant mothers and children. Effective planning and prioritization of care and services necessitate the collection of accurate ...
- research-articleJanuary 2023
Physical and Augmented Reality based Playful Activities for Refresher Training of ASHA Workers in India
Asian HCI '22: Proceedings of the Asian HCI Symposium 2022Pages 16–22https://doi.org/10.1145/3516492.3558788Recent health surveys in India highlight the alarming child malnutrition levels and lower rates of complete child immunization in many parts of India. Previous researches report that the conventional training pedagogy of the CHWs (Community Healthcare ...
- research-articleMay 2021
Illustrating the Gaps and Needs in the Training Support of Community Health Workers in India
CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsArticle No.: 231, Pages 1–16https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445111In India and other developing countries, Community Health Workers (CHWs) provide the first line of care in delivering necessary maternal and child health services. In this work, we assess the training and skill-building needs of CHWs, through a mobile-...
- research-articleSeptember 2018
Pragati: design and evaluation of a mobile phone-based head mounted virtual reality interface to train community health workers in rural India
NordiCHI '18: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer InteractionPages 299–310https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240201Community Health Workers (CHWs), specially Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) play a significant role in improving healthcare services in developing countries like India. Although ASHAs are key-actors influencing rural health care, they are ...