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Refereed Conference Publications

14. Chetty, M., Banks, R., Bernheim Brush, A.J., Donner, J. and Grinter, R.E. (2012) "You're Capped" Understanding the Effects of Broadband Caps on Broadband Use in the Home. To appear at CHI 2012, Austin, TX, USA. [pdf]
13. Chetty, M., Haslem, D., Baird, A., Ofoha, U., Sumner, B. and Grinter, R.E. (2011) Why Is My Internet Slow?: Making Network Speeds Visible. CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada. [pdf] Best Paper Award.
12. Chetty, M., Banks, R., Harper, R., Regan, T., Sellen, A., Gkantsidis, C., Karagiannis, T. and Key, P. (2010) Who's Hogging the Bandwidth?: The Consequences of Revealing the Invisible in the Home. CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA. [pdf]
11. Wyche, S.P, Smyth, T.N., Chetty, M., Aoki, P.M., and Grinter, R.E. (2010) Deliberate Interactions: Characterizing Technology Use In Nairobi, Kenya. CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA USA. [pdf]
10. Chetty, M., Brush, A.J.B., Meyers, B.J. and Johns, P. (2009) It's Not Easy Being Green: Understanding Home Computer Power Management. CHI 2009, Boston, USA. [pdf]
9. Shehan-Poole, E., Chetty, M., Morgan, T., Grinter, R.E. and Edwards, W.K. (2009) Computer Help At Home: Methods and Motivations for Informal Technical Support. CHI 2009, Boston, USA. [pdf]
8. Chetty, M., Tran, D. and Grinter, R.E. (2008) Getting to Green: Understanding Resource Consumption in the Home. Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, Korea. [pdf]
7. Shehan-Poole, E., Chetty, M., Grinter, R.E. and Edwards, W.K. (2008) More than Meets the Eye: Transforming the User Experience of Home Network Management. Designing Interactive Systems, Cape Town, South Africa. [pdf]
6. Chetty, M., Sung, J. and Grinter, R.E. (2007) How Smart Homes Learn: The Evolution of the Networked Home and Household. Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. [pdf]
5. Kientz, J., Arriaga, R.I., Chetty, M., Hayes, G.R., Richardson, J., Patel, S. and Abowd, G. (2007) Grow and Know: Understanding Record-Keeping Needs for the Development of Young Children. CHI 2007, San Jose, California, USA. [pdf]
4. Chetty, M., Tucker, W. and Blake, E. (2004) Developing Locally Relevant Software Applications For Rural Areas: A South African Example Proceedings of SAICSIT 2004, 4-6 October, Cape Town. [pdf]
3. Chetty, M., Tucker, B. and Blake, E. (2004) Telemedicine in the Eastern Cape using VoIP combined with a Store and Forward Approach In Proceedings Southern African Telecommunication Networks Applications Conference, Cape Town, South Africa. [pdf]
2. Chetty, M., Tucker, B. and Blake, E. (2003) Using Voice over IP to Bridge the Digital Divide - A Critical Action Research Approach. In Proceedings Southern African Telecommunication Networks Applications Conference, George, South Africa. [pdf]
1. Kritzinger, P., Chetty, M., Landman, J., Marconi, M. and Ryndina, O. (2003) ChattaBox: A Case Study in Using UML and SDL for Engineering Concurrent Communicating Software Systems. In Proceedings Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference, George, South Africa. [pdf]

Refereed Journal Publications

2. Grinter, R. E., Edwards, W.K., Chetty, M., Shehan-Poole, E., Sung, J., Yang, J., Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., Rodden, T., Greenhalgh, C. and Benford, S. (2009) The Ins and Outs of Home Networking: The Case for Useful and Usable Domestic Networking. ACM Trans. Computer-Human Interaction. Vol 16, Issue 2, Article 8. [pdf]
1. Chetty, M., Blake, E. and McPhie, E. (2006) VoIP Deregulation In South Africa: Implications for Underserviced Areas. Vol 30, Issues 5-6, Pages 332-344, Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier Ltd. [pdf]

Theses

2. Chetty, M. (2011) Making Infrastructure Visible: A Case Study of Home Networking. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.[pdf]
1. Chetty, M. (2005) Developing Locally Relevant Applications for Rural South Africa: A Telemedicine Example. Dept of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. [pdf]

Lightly Reviewed

14. Kim, H., Sundaresan, S., Chetty, M., Feamster, N. and Edwards, W. K. (2011) Communicating with Caps: Managing Usage Caps in Home Networks. SIGCOMM 2011 Demo, ACM.
13. Sundaresan, S., Feamster, N., Teixeira, R., Tang, T., Edwards, W.K., Grinter, R.E., Chetty, M., and de Donato, W. (2011) Helping Users to Shop for ISPs with Nutrition Labels. HomeNets Workshop SIGCOMM 2011, ACM.
12. Chetty, M., Banks, R. Bernheim Brush, A.J., Donner, J. and Grinter, R.E. (2011) While The Meter Is Running: Computing In A Capped World. Interactions Magazine, ACM. [pdf]
11. Wagstom, P., Thomas, J., Martino, J., Jones, L., von Kaenel, J. and Chetty, M. (Forthcoming 2011) A Dive into Online Community Properties. CSCW 2011 Interactive Papers, 19-23 March, Hangzhou, China.
10. Chetty, M. (2010) Serving Up from The Internet Melting Pot. Presented at Transnational Times Workshop at Ubicomp 2010, 26-29 September, Copenhagen, Denmark. [pdf]
9. Chetty, M. (2010) Remaking The Things We've Already Made: A Look At Unused Computing Equipment in the Home. Presented at Examining Appropriation, Re-use and Maintenance for Sustainabilty Workshop at CHI 2010, 10-15 April, Atlanta, GA, USA. [pdf]
8. Chetty, M. (2009) Contemporary Domestic Infrastructure and Technology Design. CHI 2009 Doctoral Colloquium, Boston, USA. [pdf]
7. Chetty, M. (2008) Do Domestic Infrastructures Have Values? Ubicomp 2008 Doctoral Colloquium, Seoul, Korea.
6. Thomas, J. C., Dearden, A., Best, M.L., Dray, S., Light, A., Chetty, M., Kam, M., Maunder, A. and Sambasivan, N. (2008) HCI for Community and International Development. CHI 2008, 5-6 April, Florence, Italy. [pdf]
5. Thomas, J. C., Dearden, A., Best, M.L., Dray, S., Winscheirs. H, Chetty, M., Kam, M., Maunder, A. and Aykin, N. (2008) Building an International Community: Designing Interactive Systems for/with Communities in the Developing World. DIS 2008, Cape Town, South Africa.
4. Chetty, M. and Grinter, R.E. (2007) HCI4D: How Do We Design For The Global South. Presented at User Centered Design and International Development Workshop at CHI 2007, 28 April-3 May, San Jose, Ca, USA. [pdf]
3. Chetty, M. and Grinter, R.E. (2007) HCI4D: HCI Challenges in the Global South. CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts, 28 April-3 May, San Jose, California, USA. (Honorable Mention in People's Choice of WIP awards) [pdf]
2. Brown, B., Chetty, M., Grimes, A. and Harmon, E. (2006) Reflecting on health: A diet and exercise monitoring system for college students. CHI Extended Abstracts, 22-27 April, Montreal, Canada. [pdf]
1. Chetty, M. and Grinter, R.E. (2006) Making Connections: Designing for Home Networking. Presented at IT@Home Workshop at CHI 2006, 22-27 April, Montreal, Canada. [pdf]

Media

1. Chetty, M. (2006) Ten Thousand Villages. Ambidextrous Magazine Issue 3, Suddenly Spring. Stanford's Journal of Design.

Unrefereed Publications

2. Chetty, M., Buckhalter, C., Best, M., Grinter, R.E. and Guzdial, M. (2007) Description of Computer Science Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Initial Explorations. Technical Report GIT-GVU-07-14, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. [pdf]
1. Chetty, M. (2002) A Comparison of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Specification and Description Language (SDL). Technical Report 02-01-00, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town.