William Thies

ORCID

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2001-2023
Publications (10 Years): 15

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CHI

L@S

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.

ICTD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA (PHD)

Education History

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

PHD

Publications

Nimisha Karnatak, Brooke Loughrin, Tiffany Kuo, Odeline Mateu-Silvernail, Indrani Medhi-Thies, William Thies, Mohit Jain
: How Trust and Relationships Mediate Blood Pressure Management in India. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 30 (6) (2023)
Danielle Bragg, Abraham Glasser, Fyodor Minakov, Naomi Caselli, William Thies
Exploring Collection of Sign Language Videos through Crowdsourcing. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 6 (CSCW2) (2022)
Danielle Bragg, Abraham Glasser, Fyodor Minakov, Naomi Caselli, William Thies
Exploring Collection of Sign Language Videos through Crowdsourcing. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 6 (CSCW2) (2022)
Danielle Bragg, Naomi Caselli, John W. Gallagher, Miriam Goldberg, Courtney J. Oka, William Thies
ASL Sea Battle: Gamifying Sign Language Data Collection. CHI (2021)
Larwan Berke, William Thies, Danielle Bragg
Chat in the Hat: A Portable Interpreter for Sign Language Users. ASSETS (2020)
Devansh Mehta, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Alok Sharma, William Thies, Amit Sharma
Using Mobile Airtime Credits to Incentivize Learning, Sharing and Survey Response: Experiences from the Field. COMPASS (2020)
Devansh Mehta, Alok Sharma, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Chiraag, Anurag Shukla, Vishnu Prasad, William Thies, Venkanna U, Colin Scott, Amit Sharma
Facilitating Media Distribution with Monetary Incentives. CHI Extended Abstracts (2020)
Danielle Bragg, Oscar Koller, Naomi Caselli, William Thies
Exploring Collection of Sign Language Datasets: Privacy, Participation, and Model Performance. ASSETS (2020)
Saiganesh Swaminathan, Indrani Medhi-Thies, Devansh Mehta, Edward Cutrell, Amit Sharma, William Thies
Learn2Earn: Using Mobile Airtime Incentives to Bolster Public Awareness Campaigns. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 3 (CSCW) (2019)
Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Devansh Mehta, Alok Sharma, William Thies, Amit Sharma
Learnings from an Ongoing Deployment of an IVR-based Platform for Voter Awareness. CSCW Companion (2019)
Manu Chopra, Indrani Medhi-Thies, Joyojeet Pal, Colin Scott, William Thies, Vivek Seshadri
Exploring Crowdsourced Work in Low-Resource Settings. CHI (2019)
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
99DOTS: a low-cost approach to monitoring and improving medication adherence. ICTD (2019)
Sudheesh Singanamalla, William Thies, Colin Scott
Avatar: Enabling Immersive Collaboration via Live Mobile Video. AltMM@MM (2018)
M. Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, William Thies
ICT-Enabled Grievance Redressal in Central India: A Comparative Analysis. ICTD (2016)
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
Development Consortium: HCI Across Borders. CHI Extended Abstracts (2016)
Nakull Gupta, Jacki O'Neill, Andrew Cross, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
Source Effects in Online Education. L@S (2015)
Aditya Vashistha, Edward Cutrell, Gaetano Borriello, William Thies
Sangeet Swara: A Community-Moderated Voice Forum in Rural India. CHI (2015)
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Nakull Gupta, Curtis G. Northcutt, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
Deterring Cheating in Online Environments. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 22 (6) (2015)
M. Marathe, Jacki O'Neill, Paromita Pain, William Thies
Revisiting CGNet Swara and its impact in rural India. ICTD (2015)
Aditya Vashistha, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
Increasing the Reach of Snowball Sampling: The Impact of Fixed versus Lottery Incentives. CSCW (2015)
Edward Cutrell, Jacki O'Neill, Srinath Bala, B. Nitish, Andrew Cross, Nakull Gupta, Viraj Kumar, William Thies
Blended Learning in Indian Colleges with Massively Empowered Classroom. L@S (2015)
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Nakull Gupta, Curtis G. Northcutt, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
Measuring and Maximizing the Effectiveness of Honor Codes in Online Courses. L@S (2015)
Aditya Vashistha, Rajan Vaish, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
The Whodunit Challenge: Mobilizing the Crowd in India. INTERACT (2) (2015)
Aditya Vashistha, Erin L. Brady, William Thies, Edward Cutrell
Educational Content Creation and Sharing by Low-Income Visually Impaired People in India. ACM DEV (2014)
Andrew Cross, B. Ashok, Srinath Bala, Edward Cutrell, Naren Datha, Rahul Kumar, Viraj Kumar, Parthasarathy Madhusudan, Siddharth Prakash, Sriram K. Rajamani, Satish Sangameswaran, Deepika Sharma, William Thies
Online learning versus blended learning: an exploratory study. L@S (2014)
Linda Nixon, Jona Roy, Hema Latha, Sachin Rao, Bhagya Rangachar, William Thies
Measuring the Learning Benefits of Electronic Teaching Aids in Low-Resource Classrooms. ACM DEV (2014)
Andrew Cross, Mydhili Bayyapunedi, Dilip Ravindran, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
VidWiki: enabling the crowd to improve the legibility of online educational videos. CSCW (2014)
Krittika D'Silva, M. Marathe, Aditya Vashistha, Gaetano Borriello, William Thies
A Mobile Application for Interactive Voice Forums: Design and Pilot Deployment in Rural India. ACM DEV (2014)
Dipanjan Chakraborty, Indrani Medhi, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
Man versus machine: evaluating IVR versus a live operator for phone surveys in India. ACM DEV (3) (2013)
Niranjan Pai, Pradnya Supe, Shailesh Kore, Y. S. Nandanwar, Aparna Hegde, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
Using automated voice calls to improve adherence to iron supplements during pregnancy: a pilot study. ICTD (1) (2013)
Andrew Cross, Mydhili Bayyapunedi, Edward Cutrell, Anant Agarwal, William Thies
TypeRighting: combining the benefits of handwriting and typeface in online educational videos. CHI (2013)
Pranav Ramkrishnan, Aditya Vashistha, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
DocTalk: extending doctors' visits with personalized voice messages. ACM DEV (3) (2013)
Aditya Vashistha, William Thies
How should users convey their location to an interactive voice response system? ACM DEV (4) (2013)
Rijurekha Sen, Andrew Cross, Aditya Vashistha, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
Accurate speed and density measurement for road traffic in India. ACM DEV (3) (2013)
Nupur Bhatnagar, Abhishek Sinha, Navkar Samdaria, Aakar Gupta, Shelly Batra, Manish Bhardwaj, William Thies
Biometric Monitoring as a Persuasive Technology: Ensuring Patients Visit Health Centers in India's Slums. PERSUASIVE (2012)
Swati Ittan, Gaurav Paruthi, William Thies
Mapping Large Educational Websites to Interactive DVDs. T4E (2012)
Aakar Gupta, William Thies, Edward Cutrell, Ravin Balakrishnan
mClerk: enabling mobile crowdsourcing in developing regions. CHI (2012)
Preeti Mudliar, Jonathan Donner, William Thies
Emergent practices around CGNet Swara, voice forum for citizen journalism in rural India. ICTD (2012)
Andrew Cross, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
Low-cost audience polling using computer vision. UIST (2012)
Arunesh Mathur, Harshal Choudhary, Priyank Vashist, William Thies, P. Santhi Thilagam
An Empirical Study of License Violations in Open Source Projects. SEW (2012)
Aditya Vashistha, William Thies
IVR Junction: Building Scalable and Distributed Voice Forums in the Developing World. NSDR (2012)
Nicola Dell, Vidya Vaidyanathan, Indrani Medhi, Edward Cutrell, William Thies
"Yours is better!": participant response bias in HCI. CHI (2012)
Prasanta Bhattacharya, William Thies
Computer viruses in urban Indian telecenters: characterizing an unsolved problem. NSDR (2011)
Jay Chen, David Hutchful, William Thies, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian
Analyzing and accelerating web access in a school in peri-urban India. WWW (Companion Volume) (2011)
Abhishek Udupa, Kaushik Rajan, William Thies
ALTER: exploiting breakable dependences for parallelization. PLDI (2011)
Indrani Medhi, Somani Patnaik, Emma Brunskill, S. N. Nagasena Gautama, William Thies, Kentaro Toyama
Designing mobile interfaces for novice and low-literacy users. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 18 (1) (2011)
Gaurav Paruthi, William Thies
Utilizing DVD players as low-cost offline internet browsers. CHI (2011)
Rohit Chaudhri, Gaetano Borriello, William Thies
FoneAstra: making mobile phones smarter. NSDR (2010)
Kiran Gaikwad, Gaurav Paruthi, William Thies
Interactive DVDs as a platform for education. ICTD (2010)
William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
An empirical characterization of stream programs and its implications for language and compiler design. PACT (2010)
Michael Paik, Navkar Samdaria, Aakar Gupta, Julie Weber, Nupur Bhatnagar, Shelly Batra, Manish Bhardwaj, William Thies
A biometric attendance terminal and its application to health programs in India. NSDR (2010)
Shashank Khanna, Aishwarya Ratan, James Davis, William Thies
Evaluating and improving the usability of Mechanical Turk for low-income workers in India. ACM DEV (2010)
Nada Amin, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Computer-aided design for microfluidic chips based on multilayer soft lithography. ICCD (2009)
William Thies, Steven Hall, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Manipulating lossless video in the compressed domain. ACM Multimedia (2009)
Somani Patnaik, Emma Brunskill, William Thies
Evaluating the accuracy of data collection on mobile phones: A study of forms, SMS, and voice. ICTD (2009)
William Thies, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Abstraction layers for scalable microfluidic biocomputing. Nat. Comput. 7 (2) (2008)
William Thies, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Saman P. Amarasinghe
A Practical Approach to Exploiting Coarse-Grained Pipeline Parallelism in C Programs. MICRO (2007)
William Thies, Frédéric Vivien, Saman P. Amarasinghe
A step towards unifying schedule and storage optimization. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 29 (6) (2007)
Blaise Gassend, Charles W. O'Donnell, William Thies, Andrew Lee, Marten van Dijk, Srinivas Devadas
Learning biophysically-motivated parameters for alpha helix prediction. BMC Bioinform. 8 (S-5) (2007)
Blaise Gassend, Charles W. O'Donnell, William Thies, Andrew Lee, Marten van Dijk, Srinivas Devadas
Predicting Secondary Structure of All-Helical Proteins Using Hidden Markov Support Vector Machines. PRIB (2006)
William Thies, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Abstraction Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputers. DNA (2006)
Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Exploiting coarse-grained task, data, and pipeline parallelism in stream programs. ASPLOS (2006)
Amy L. Williams, William Thies, Michael D. Ernst
Static Deadlock Detection for Java Libraries. ECOOP (2005)
Sitij Agrawal, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Optimizing stream programs using linear state space analysis. CASES (2005)
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Janis Sermulins, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Teleport messaging for distributed stream programs. PPOPP (2005)
Saman P. Amarasinghe, Michael I. Gordon, Michal Karczmarek, Jasper Lin, David Maze, Rodric M. Rabbah, William Thies
Language and Compiler Design for Streaming Applications. Int. J. Parallel Program. 33 (2-3) (2005)
Janis Sermulins, William Thies, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Cache aware optimization of stream programs. LCTES (2005)
Jiawen Chen, Michael I. Gordon, William Thies, Matthias Zwicker, Kari Pulli, Frédo Durand
A reconfigurable architecture for load-balanced rendering. Graphics Hardware (2005)
Francois Labonte, Peter R. Mattson, William Thies, Ian Buck, Christos Kozyrakis, Mark Horowitz
The Stream Virtual Machine. IEEE PACT (2004)
William Thies, Michael I. Gordon, Michal Karczmarek, Jasper Lin, David Maze, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Language and Compiler Design for Streaming Applications. IPDPS Next Generation Software Program - NSFNGS - PI Workshop (2004)
Andrew A. Lamb, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Linear analysis and optimization of stream programs. PLDI (2003)
Michal Karczmarek, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Phased scheduling of stream programs. LCTES (2003)
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
A stream compiler for communication-exposed architectures. ASPLOS (2002)
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Michael I. Gordon, David Maze, Jeremy Wong, Henry Hoffmann, Matthew Brown, Saman P. Amarasinghe
A common machine language for grid-based architectures. SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News 30 (3) (2002)
Libby Levison, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Providing Web search capability for low-connectivity communities. ISTAS (2002)
William Thies, Michal Karczmarek, Saman P. Amarasinghe
StreamIt: A Language for Streaming Applications. CC (2002)
William Thies, Frédéric Vivien, Jeffrey Sheldon, Saman P. Amarasinghe
A Unified Framework for Schedule and Storage Optimization. PLDI (2001)

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