Design and the Elastic Mind. Technology Review India: TR35. Information is at the fingertips of anyone with access to a laptop or smart phone.
But what if the user is one of the 774 million adults worldwide who cannot read? This is the problem that obsesses Indrani Medhi. Based at Microsoft Research India's Bangalore lab, she has conducted field research in India, South Africa, and the Philippines to design text-free interfaces that could help illiterate and semiliterate people find jobs, get medical information, and use cell-phone-based banking services. Technology for Emerging Markets.