Projects

Areas of study and research:

- Designing for Children - play and learn, 
- Digital Resources for Learning, 
- Collaborative Environments, 
- Design, Technology and Culture,
- Designing for Interactions in Social Media, 
- Information Visualisation and Structuring, 
- New Media Design and Interaction Design, 
- Visual Language and Communication Design 
- Wayfinding, Identity and Information Systems

Research Projects –select list (self-initiated):

• Building open digital resources related to ‘Design Archives’ for Design in India and Design at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay
• 'Collaborative Social Media-Tools' as a play and learn environment for children
• 'Interfaces for All' such as 'Jellow' a communication device for those effected by Cerebral Palsy, based on an interface using emotional language protocol
• 'Organisation and Structuring of Information' - in various media to facilitate construction and visualisation of information
• 'Design, Technology and Culture' - exploring triadic relationship between Design, Culture and Technology in the context of India.
• 'Graphic Symbols for Hospitals, Railways, Buildings' as a wayfinding navigational aid for public facilities in India

Research Projects –select list (sponsored):

• e-kapla III project on developing online Digital Tools for learning of for Design in India sponsored by Ministry of Education, India
• Collaborative project on Interactions in Public Environments (Hospitals, Educational Institutions and Airports) with Honeywell India.
• Design Technology Interactive Experience, sponsored by DST
• COSMIC - Centre of Social Media Innovations for Communities a project sponsored by the Media Development authority, Singapore with partner institutions IIT Bombay with NUS and NTU in Singapore
• Project Umberta– exploring threshold of inner and outer living spaces in Mumbai households/homes sponsored by Herman Miller, USA
• e-kaplaI & II projects on designing a digital learning environment for Design in India sponsored by MHRD, India
• 'Communication Environment in Remote Locations' sponsored by Motorola Research Labs
• 'Interactive Group Learning through Play' sponsored by Microsoft India
• 'Collaborative Learning Environments', sponsored by Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
• 'Experience driven Public Spaces' by Ministry of Human Resources (MHRD), N Delhi
• Virtual Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning' (VCTEL)
between the 5 IITs, 4 IIMs in India and CMU, USA (to focus on distance learning, digital libraries and collaborative research programs)
• 'Design Expo programme on Interaction Design', sponsored by Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA and Yahoo, USA
• 'University workshop programme on Interaction Design’, sponsored by Interval Research Corp,.Palo Alto, USA
• 'Applications of Hypermedia' sponsored by AICTE, N Delhi
• 'Educational Technology' sponsored by MHRD/AICTE, N Delhi
• 'Audio-visual Research and Training Cell' sponsored by MHRD, N Delhi

Professional Projects – select list:

• 'Corporate Vision and Retail Design' for Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
• 'Vision Project' for Microsoft Research, Hyderabad
• 'Kid-Learn Project' for Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
• 'Communication Device in Remote Locations' sponsored by Motorola Research Labs
• 'Corporate Identity and Retail Design for KhaZanA shops' for Khadims Group, Kolkatta
• 'Corporate Vision and Retail Design – Vision 2000' for Indian Oil Corporation
• 'Siddham Calligraphy' an AV-Video Programme for Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), N Delhi
• 'Electronic Voting Machine' (EVM) for Election Commission
• 'Sign Systems and Wayfinding Design' National Institute of Bank Management, Pune
• 'Software System Manuals' for Larsen and Toubro
• 'Electrical Main Distribution Panels' for Siemens

   

Open Design - Open Access Initiatives: