Selected Papers

> Design Education
> Design, Technology and Culture
> Designing for Children
> Collaborative Environments
> Interaction Design
> Wayfinding and Identity Systems
> Communication Design
> Creativity and Innovation

Design Education:

- Ravi Poovaiah B A, ‘Developing curriculum for undergraduate program at IDC School of Design’, Workshop on Design Education in India and Asian Design Education Conference, NTU, Singapore & IDC, IIT Bombay, 2022

- Ravi Poovaiah B A, "Engaging steps towards an Open Learning of Design – the case of India’s largest digital platform D’Source and its pedagogic accruals," The Asian Education Technology Conference 2016, 2016, Singapore

- Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, “Mapping the design mindset at IDC, IITB - in line with a country finding its foothold in a gradually industrializing market: 1969-present”, MSR Faculty Summit, Redmond, 2006 (pdf)...

- Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, “A blueprint for design education and practice: using emerging technologies and traditional knowledge systems to widen design's constituency in India”, paper at ICSID Educational Conference at Hanover 5-7 Sept. 2003 (pdf)...

Design, Technology and Culture:

- Sen Ajanta, Poovaiah Ravi, "Asia’s Hidden Treasure: Prudence vs. Profligacy as basis for an East-West binary model of Sustainability Education," A Community of Practice for more effective implementation of Higher Education for Sustainability in Asia, 2016, NTU, Singapore

- Ajanta Sen, Ravi Poovaiah, "In the Cycle of Nourishment, the role of ‘Time’ in constructing culture: Is it food from the Supermarket or is it food from Mother Earth? ," Cumulus Milan 2015 Conference - The Virtuous Circle, 2015, Milan, Italy

- Ravi Poovaiah, Ajanta Sen, “Innovation as a matter of ‘cultural losses’ in a globalised world: the need for a framework for preservation – the case of India” - paper at Cumulus Design Research Conference, Paris, France, May 2011 (pdf)...

- Ajanta Sen and Ravi Poovaiah, “New technologies for underserved communities: proposing a cultural framework driven process for constructing interactive social spaces (multicultural)” - paper at ICSID Congress, San Francisco, June 2007 (pdf)...

- Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, “Design by People within Culturally-rooted Idioms – the new ‘cool’ in a globalised world” - paper at ICSID Educational Conference at Copenhagen, Sept. 2005 (pdf)...

Designing for Children:

- Aakash Johry& Ravi Poovaiah, ‘Playfulness through the lens of toy design: a study with Indian preschool children with intellectual disability’, International Journal of Play, Volume 8, 2019 - Issue 3

- Sudha Srinivasan, Siddhi Patel, AvadhutKhade, GaganjotBedi, Jyoti Mohite, Ravi Poovaiah&  Ajanta Sen, ‘Efficacy of a novel, icon-based, child-friendly Augmentative and Alternative Communication tool in promoting requesting skills in school-age children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in India: A pilot study’, submitted to Journal of Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022

- Ravi Poovaiah& Ajanta Sen, ‘Jellow- an AAC Communicator for Children with Speech Disability’, National Convention on Digital Best Practices with emphasis on NE States for States for Persons with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, July, 2021

- Ravi Poovaiah B A & Ajanta Sen, Designing for children with speech disability – a case study of Jellow communicator system’, 4th Asia Oceanian Congress on Neuro Rehabilitation (AOCNR 2021), Aug 2021

- Ajanta Sen & Ravi Poovaiah B A, ‘Design of an Icon-driven Augmentative and Assisted Communication System for Children experiencing Difficulty with Speech and Language’, International Conference on Designing for Children with focus on 'Play and Learn, IDC, IIT Bombay, January 2021

- Aakash Johry& Ravi Poovaiah, ‘Assessing playfulness of a toy play interaction: A research with differently abled children with communication challenges’, International Conference on Designing for Children with focus on 'Play and Learn, IDC, IIT Bombay, January 2021

- Ravi Poovaiah B A, ‘Interface Design of a Communicator for Children with Speech Disability’ The Asian Education Technology Conference 2019, 2019, Singapore

- Ravi Poovaiah B A & Ajanta Sen, ‘Technology options for Persons with Communication Disbaility’, Fourth National Disability Conference, TISS, Mumbai, Nov, 2019

- Ravi Poovaiah B A, "Design of an Icon-driven Augmentative and Assisted Communication System for Children experiencing Difficulty with Speech and Language" The Asian Education Technology Conference 2018, 2018, Singapore

- Srinivasan S., Poovaiah, R., Sen, A. , "Insights from user testing of Jellow: A communication aid for children with developmental disabilities," ICORD17 - 6th International Conference on Research in Design, 2017, IIT Guwahati

- Aakash Johry, Ravi Poovaiah, "Competitive play in children with intellectual disability: Informing design," cord''15 International Conference on Design Research, 2015, IISC Bangalore

- Johry Aakash, Poovaiah Ravi, "'Paradigms of play in a special school setting in India'," 19th IPA World Conference 2014, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, 20-23 May 2014

- Kumar, C.P., Poovaiah, R., Sen, A., Ganadas, P. , "Single access point based indoor localization technique for augmented reality gaming for children," IEEE TechSym conference, 2014, IIT Kharagpur

Johry Aakash, Poovaiah Ravi,, "Competitive play in children with intellectual disability: Informing design," Icord 2015, 2014, IISC, Bangalore

- SachinDatt and Ravi Poovaiah, "Effect of historical narrative based approach in designing secondary school science content on students' memory recall performance in a central school in Mumbai," In ICoRD'13 4th International conference on Research into Design, 2013,  IIT Madras

- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, Into a world of the "really not real": leveraging a child's make-belief abilities for design clues to build a cross-cultural collaborative environment on the Internet - paper at ICSID Educational Conference at Hanover 5-7 Sept. 2003 (pdf)...

- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, "Analysis of Games as a point of reference for building a learning driven environment for children" - as part of KidLearn Project (pdf)...

- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, A technology-non-technology alliance: does it really work towards learning? Invited paper at the 4th National annual conference for academic education covering New Technologies and Methodologies in Arts, Media & Design around the topic "Teaching - learning and research for the creative professions" held at Bangkok, Thailand, 27-29 November, 2001 (pdf)...

Collaborative Environments:

- Aneesha Malhotra, Ravi Poovaiah, "The difference in design problems and its effect on divergent thinking in middle school children," Icord''15 International Conference on Design Research, 2015, IISC Bangalore

- Malhotra, A., Poovaiah R.,  "Developing Young Thinkers: An exploratory experimental study aimed to investigate design thinking and performance in children.," In ICoRD'13 4th International conference on Research into Design, 2013,  IIT Madras

- Aneesha Malhotra, Ravi Poovaiah,, "The difference in design problems and its effect on divergent thinking in middle school children," Icord 2015, 2014, IISC, Bangalore

- Ajanta Sen, Ravi Poovaiah and Robert Pulley, Across the Web: the Colors of India as a cross-cultural collaborative initiative for learning, 2002 (pdf)...

Interaction Design:

- Ravi Poovaiah,  "Designing for the next billion," Keynote Talk at the 11th Asia Pacific on Computer Human Interaction Conference (APCHI 2013), 2013, Bangalore

- Theng, Y.L., Fernando, O.N.N., Deshan, C., Goh, L., Y., Q., Hong, J., Poovaiah, R., Sen, A., & Foo, S. , "CuePbox: An Integrated Physical and Virtual Pillbox for Patient Care," ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts,  2013, Paris, France

- Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, "New technologies for underserved communities: proposing a cultural framework driven process for constructing interactive social spaces (multicultural)" - paper at ICSID Educational Conference at San Francisco, November. 2007 (pdf)...

- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, "New technology's New Home - Internet within India’s cultural paradigm" - Keynote paper as part of the theme Design, Knowledge and Technologies - presented at Fiera De Santana, Bahia, Brazil, as part of the 2nd International Congress of Graphic Engineering in Arts and in Design, and the 13th national Symposium on Descriptive Geometry and Technical Design, 14-18 Sept, 1998 (pdf)...

- Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, A paradigm-shift towards user-centred methodology in interaction design: the case of an icon-driven interface product, Invited paper presented at International Conference on Multi-Media, held at Delhi, January 1998 (pdf)...

- Ravi Poovaiah, Construction of Interface for Interactive Multimedia, Invited paper presented at International Conference on Multi-Media, held at Delhi, 1997

- Ravi Poovaiah, Thoughts on Interface Design, paper presented at 'Design Odyssey', held at IDC, IIT Bombay, 1994

Wayfinding Systems:

- Poovaiah Ravi, Sen Ajanta, , "Two Case Studies to facilitate two kinds of spaces: the Spatial-Community and the Personal-Collective, through the Design of a Symbol System for Public Facilities, and Design of an Icon-driven Communication System for Difficulty with Speech," Signs and Sense Conference, ALBA, Lebonon,Bierut, 2017

- Nath, N. and Poovaiah, R. , "Pragmatic and Syntactic trends in Display Typography on the shop signs of Abdul Rehman Street, Mumba," Web Proc. of International Conference Typography Day, 2013, IIT Guwahati

- Nath, N. and Poovaiah, R. , "Classifying Shop Signs: Open Card Sorting of Bengaluru shop signs (India).," Proceedings of International Conference of Research in Design, Global Product Development, Part 1, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, Springer India, 2013, IIT Madras

- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, “Petroleum retail outlets as the mother of all POP’s– the case study of BPCL”, Sign and PoP Conference, Mumbai, 2004 (pdf)...

- Ravi Poovaiah, Design of Graphic Symbols for Environmental signage, Invited paper at the National seminar on Signage, held at Mumbai, 2000

- Ravi Poovaiah, Graphic Symbols for Environmental Signage: a Design Perspective, paper at the International symposium on 'Public Graphics', held at Lunteren, The Netherlands, 1995

Communication Design:

- Krishna Kumar, Ravi Poovaiah, "Audience, Participant and Agency: Need for role definition in Interactive Visual Narratives," ICORD17 - 6th International Conference on Research in Design,, 2017, IIT Guwahati

- Santosh Kshirsagar, Uday Athavankar, Ravi Poovaiah, "Manual extraction of Devanagari handwriting primitives," THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING, 2016,

- Santosh Kshirsagar, Ravi Poovaiah, "Investigating frequently used stroke sequence, of handwritten Devanagari letters, by observing second script learners.," Icord'15 International Conference on Design Research, 2014

- Santosh Kshirsagar, Ravi Poovaiah, "Investigating frequently used stroke sequence, of handwritten Devanagari letters, by observing second script learners.," Icord'15 International Conference on Design Research, 2015, IISC Bangalore

- Ravi Poovaiah, 'The Kinesthetics of Packaging: its connotative domain' published as Proceedings of the workshop on Bamboo, an IDC publication, 1993

- Ravi Poovaiah, “Semiotics of Visual Language”, Arthaya Conference, IDC, IIT Bombay, 1989

Creativity and Innovation:

- Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, Dr. Ajanta Sen, "Sowing the Seeds Right: The struggle for cultural preservation vs. ‘cultural losses’ in a globalized world – an innovation framework," International Conference on Creativity and Innovations at Grassroots [ICCIG 2015), 2015, IIM Ahmedabad

- Ravi Poovaiah, “Affordable Design – Context, Works and Factors” at Design Meet, NUS, 2012

- Ravi Poovaiah, “Design in India – Opportunities and Challenges”, Business of Design Symposium, Hongkong, 2008

- Ravi Poovaiah, “Design and Innovation in the context of India”, Culture and Design Meet, KAIST, S.Korea, 2007