Kalpana

Publications: CHI 2013, Paris & ICORD 2013, Chennai

Project brief: Bring the experience of Science Centers to Schools.
Outcome: Kalpana- Dome based Low cost Learning Installation for Indian Schools.
At: IDC, IIT Bombay
With the idea to bring the experience of science centers to school, I designed and developed a low cost dome based learning installation for Indian schools, ‘Kalpana’. It teaches students a geographic concept, “Sun changes its path in the sky with change in geodesic location and time of the year”. This concept is very difficult to understand with help of school text books.

Students interact with physical setup to see sun’s trajectory visual with supporting audio response. A high fidelity prototype was developed and tested with students.

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Maplator

Project brief: Improve the process of Mapping for BizTalk Server.
Outcome: Maplator-Empowers business user to perform mapping operations

At: Microsoft,IDC
Business Integration is a process of making systems communicate across standards. Mapping schemas is the most important requirement of the complete integration process. During user studies it was found that the current workflow process of the mapping is linear with a lot of redundant tasks being performed by users due to lack of standards and platforms. Business users have all the knowledge but implementation is done by software developers.
To enhance the workflow process a new method is proposed where business user can perform the mapping operations instead of just documenting. The application is designed such that it integrates in users current workflow and tools used by him. Hi-fidelity prototype was developed using Expressions Blend with retail, digital receipts as mapping content.

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Splasche

Project brief: An Insight and Exploration platform for Business Decision Makers.
Outcome: In-progress

At: Insieve, Startup
In past one year I seeded Splasche with a 3 member team. We came along a productive path while positioning it from a collective knowledge sharing platform to a much useful decision making tool for marketers. Splasche understands the users business and then empowers them to explore themes created around their product and find the next story.

Played a key role in defining product strategy and positioning. Responsible for complete design of product from user research to user interface design, data visualizations and collaborate with developers for implementation while sometimes working on html, ccs for fit finish.

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Pugmarks

Project brief: An Insight and Exploration platform for Business Decision Makers.
Outcome: In-progress

At: Insieve, Startup
In past one year I seeded Splasche with a 3 member team. We came along a productive path while positioning it from a collective knowledge sharing platform to a much useful decision making tool for marketers. Splasche understands the users business and then empowers them to explore themes created around their product and find the next story.

Played a key role in defining product strategy and positioning. Responsible for complete design of product from user research to user interface design, data visualizations and collaborate with developers for implementation while sometimes working on html, ccs for fit finish.

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ProArch

Project brief: Design an application for board executives that can be used for internal communication.
Outcome: In-progress

At: YnI Design Studio
‘ProArch’ is an app designed for board executives. It assists board members for internal communications, meetings, official travels, announcements, voting and resolutions.
Analog calendar with contextual notifications allows user to plan the day and navigation map takes care of traveling to the location of meeting. Users can take meeting notes and post meeting, all the notes are collated by the moderator & published as a report.

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E Gestalts Secure GRC

Project brief: DIT Security & Compliance Management Solution.
Outcome:Confidential

At: Clarice Technologies
While working as User Experience Consultant with Clarice, eGestalts was one of the major project. Following the detailed UX process, I delivered interactive workflows with more than 300 wireframes followed by coordinating Visual Design and UI development effort with team.



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3D in 2D Displays

Project brief:Design solution to handle rich information for Airspace Management
Outcome:

At: Prof William Wong @ Middlesex University, London
The intention of the project was to design devices to handle rich information in futuristic interfaces for Air Space Management System. 3-D in 2-D display techniques for management of air traffic were studied with focus on Approach Control and the Tower Control. I implemented the prototypes developed using Augmented Reality to understand the relative positions of the aircraft and the usability issues. Seven interactive information visualizations concepts evolved out of which two concepts based on ‘Cheoptic Holograms’ and ‘Rubik Cube representation’ were detailed. ARTtoolkit was used to prototype the concepts.

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Invisque

Project brief: Interaction and Visualization techniques for creating Themes and Boolean Search.
Outcome: A prototype that demonstartes visualization techniques that can be used in search queries.

At: Prof William Wong @ Middlesex University, London
The aim of the INVISQUE project was to come up with new ways to perform and visulize search that would overcome problems identified during the UBiRD user study. Invisque provides infinite search space and investigates how design principles like “Focus+Context” and Gestalts pattern perception can be applied to create novel interactive visualizations. Evaluation of existing Resource Discovery system and user studies with researchers and practitioners was done to understand the requirements.

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FeeBee

Project brief: Sharing Device for Family.
Theme: Emotional + technology

At: IDC, IIT Bombay
A concept of future of mobile phone for the Indian context, a sharing device for the family was explored to bring in the feeling of being together (’fee’ + ‘be’) which the existing phone technology doesn’t seem to look into. This would ideally fit in conditions where children are staying away due educational or work reasons, but need a humanized portal to connect with their family.

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Chazo

Project brief: Indoor Physical Game for kids
Outcome:

At: IDC, IIT Bombay
Designed an interactive game for kids to experience “Outside world Inside”.
The game play is built around chasing. In single player game, Chazo itself teases the Player to chaze it.In two player game mode, one kid is teaser while another is chaser. The game play is built around chasing. In single player game, Chazo itself teases the Player to chaze it.In two player game mode, one kid is teaser while another is chaser.

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TagIt

Project brief: Augmented Glasses for Teenagers.
Outcome:

At: IDC, IIT Bombay
Tag-it is a cognition based interactive device designed for teenagers. The idea was to let teenagers enjoy randomness. Sun glass was taken as an artifact which can also be replaced by other daily products used by teenagers. The concept can be implemented using ‘Augmented Reality’ which will enable us to impose cognitive information on the real world. During this one week project, the idea was presented with Soft Prototype and Video.

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Eco Thrash

Project brief: Mobile game to promote waste sorting.
Outcome:

At: IDC, IIT Bombay
Eco-Thrash is a mobile based game designed for everyone. It promotes waste management.
The player has to compress the spring and tilt the phone to target the garbage to into dry, wet and aluminum garbage bin. Every time the target is successful a new leaf sprouts or else a worm is generated. The player wins if he could grow a tree and loses if worms take over the spring.


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Visual Mapping

Project brief:Devnagiri with Onion Family.
Outcome:

At: IDC, IIT Bombay
Challenge in project was to create a visual identity of an object as a part of a family of 9 related characters with visual similarities. I took ‘Egyptian Onions’ as object and mapped its visual characteristics to ‘Devanagari letter forms’. I worked with stencils and represented the final product as a lamp installation.

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Robotic Antz

Project brief:Devnagiri with Onion Family.
Outcome:

At: IDC, IIT Bombay
Designed and Developed two bots for A.N.T.Z, an International robotic competition at IIT Bombay Techfest.
The challenge was to build two autonomous bots which will collect boxes kept randomly on a white grid and place them on predefined destinations in the shortest time. Together in a group of four we developed the bots to communicate wireless and perform the given task in the arena of the competition.

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www.iitb.ac.org

Project brief:Devnagiri with Onion Family.
Outcome:

At: IDC, IIT Bombay
During IIT Bombay web site evaluation, redefined the information architecture of the website.

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Home Computing

Project brief:Devnagiri with Onion Family.
Outcome:

At: IDC, IIT Bombay
Performed user studies for “HOME COMPUTING’ in mumbai and Bordi, a small town in Maharashtra. Taking home makers as a user group we covered in all 10 users to understand the expectations and its requirements at home. We realized the importance of computer for home makers in the managing business from home and personal issue. All the groups with varied user groups together performed affinity mapping

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