Bdes batchbook

2012

B.Des Ishanya: Design Exhibition ‘12

Department of Design Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

2012

B.Des Ishanya: Design Exhibition ‘12

Department of Design Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

ŠAll rights reserved (2012) by Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, 2012

Editor

Dr. D. Udaya Kumar Designers

Abhishek Nandan Kanika Gupta Printing Head

Yogesh Gupta Ishanya ‘12 Logo design

Pritam Paraye

Special Thanks to Prof. Debkumar Chakrabarti M.Des 2010-12, B.Des 2008-12 Contact Details: Department of Design Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Assam, India. PIN - 781039 website: www.iitg.ac.in/design

Acknowledgement We, the final year M.Des and B.Des batch, would like to thank all the Faculty members of Department of Design for their guidance and support, without which the Thesis projects would not have been possible.

We would also like to thank the Staff members of the Department of Design, the workshop staff and the office staff for their support in completion of the projects.

We would also extend our thanks to the juniors and PhD scholars, who have stood along and provided help and suggestions throughout the Thesis project.

In India, a country with many religions and castes, dwells a lot of customs, rituals and sacred practices. Ishanya means North-east corner and is considered to be the holy and sacred part of the house. Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, is situated in the North-eastern part of India, and hence we are glad to take this name Ishanya for our Design Exhibition.

Ishanya is a glimpse of the Master and Bachelor Thesis Projects happening at Department of Design, IITG. This book brings you the variety of projects done in different disciplines by the M.Des and B.Des students.

2012

Ishanya

DoD The Department of Design (DoD), one of the eleven departments at IIT Guwahati, was set up with a vision to enkindle some of the brightest technical minds of the country, a passion for innovation in technology driven by a firm understanding, appreciation and celebration of design.

The department offers an M.Des. degree, a B.Des. degree (the only undergraduate level degree of its kind in an Indian Institute of Technology) and a PhD degree in Design. The focus of the program is on the study, invention, and creative use of technologies to create effective, usable, enjoyable experiences with technology through interdisciplinary research in engineering, design, behavioural and social sciences, and to understand the impact of technology on individuals, groups, and organizations. The department envisions to produce successful graduates who will be capable of leading the changing scenarios of today and tomorrow through thought, innovation and values.

Message from HoD Innovation knows no limit when students explore their ideas to bring into being, for the societal needs. Some of our students work is being collected and compiled in ISHANYA- the design exhibition to showcase the thesis projects of both B.des and M.Des passing out batch of 2012.

On behalf of the department, I cordially invite you to Ishanya: Design Exhibition 2012 at Department of Design, IIT Guwahati.

Looking forward to have your gracious presence in this occasion.

Debkumar Chakrabarti Head of Department DoD, IIT Guwahati

From the Editor Department of Design setup in IIT Guwahati, aspiring to impart and imbibe design thinking, creativity and knowledge in the north eastern region, has been successful in continuing their mission.

True to its objective, the department annually organizes a Design Exhibition of the creative explorations and innovative experiments done by students in their Bachelors and Masters Thesis projects.

This year book is a compilation of the Design Exhibition ISHANYA 2012 that showcases the Thesis projects of the current B.Des and M.Des passing out batch.

The exhibition is aimed at making aware the invitees about our ‘thinking and doing design’. The students have contributed tremendous enthusiasm and effort into corroborating a successful design event, within such short span of time. Organizing the show has been a much pleasurable experience for us.

We hope the exhibition ever remains a memorable experience for all.

Welcoming you to ISHANYA 2012, Sincerely,

D. Udaya Kumar Asst. Professor DoD, IIT Guwahati

B.Des 2010-12 The department confers upon its undergraduate students a B.Des degree upon completion of the programme, which is multidisciplinary in nature, and serves the purpose of exposing the students to various avenues of design while simultaneously developing their capabilities and equipping them for their future careers.

While the students have foundation courses in basic engineering courses as well as design, they enjoy freedom in choosing electives and project to determine their route. The department provides the perfect platform for its undergraduates to excel in disciplines like product design, communication design, interaction design and usability engineering. The knowledge gained by the student over four years is reflected in Thesis Project, conducted over the course of the final year.

The Projects Amigo

Around me.

Around you.

CoSort

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Birdie / Taptile

Dsense

HandsOn

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Social Networking for Children - Jashanjit Kaur Reecha Bharali

Interactive Wall Interactive Tiles - Abhishek Gupta Pramod Kumar

Furniture Design - Vivek Sahi

Mobile App for Health Management - Nitish Meena Paresh Joshi

Card Sorting Tool - Kshitij Pandey Manas Modi

Transaction System - Gaurav Abnesh K. Kanupriya

Khana Rozana

Mobile App for Healthcare - Vishwajit Mishra

Toy for Autistic Children

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Ubiquitous Interactions

Virtual Home Environment

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Inforamation Management on Food Systems - Aman Gupta

Usability in Everyday Activities - Abhiraj Satrate

Navjyoti

A Retail Solution - Kshitij Bhardwaj Yogesh Gupta

A Learning Tool - R Bhardwaj

Jashanjit Kaur

B.Des jashan.kr@gmail.com Area of Interest: User Experience / Human Computer Interaction / Usability Engineering

Reecha Bharali

B.Des reechaiitg@gmail.com Area of Interest: User Experience / Usability Engineering / Design Research

The potential of social networking sites in children’s life is enormous. These encourage collaborative learning, creative thinking, language development and participation in society, to mention a few. However, children start using SNS when they are not fully clear of how information in online environments may be utilized and their concepts of e-safety are abstract.

Amigo is a safe and secure interactive platform designed for school children from the age group 9-14 years that fulfils the need of communication and socialization. It connects children from all over the country so that they can share ideas, information, values and culture with each other. Interschool networks are made and the registered students of a school can use the site. A mentor from the school is present and able to modulate certain activities of a child. The site provides a transparent network of interacting groups along with private communication space of the users.

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Amigo A social networking platform for children Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Vivek Sahi

B.Des vwake.sahi@gmail.com Area of Interest: Design / Media

What happens when you spend a lot of time at a chai ka khokha? You start liking tea more than coffee; the boundaries between indoors and outdoors blur out; you make some new friends.

But why does this particular space fascinates me so much?

How much of it has something to do with design? How much of it has something to do with the chaiwallah? How much of this fascination has something to do with me?

The project is my attempt to understand the above and share it with you through the medium of furniture design.

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Around me.

Around you.

An attempt to share an interpretation of a chai ka khokha through furniture Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Mriganka Madhukaillya

Kshitij Pandey

B.Des xitizrox@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / Usability Engineering

Manas Modi

B.Des manasmodi@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / Tangible Interfaces

Card sorting is a simple technique in user experience design where a group of subject experts or “users�, however inexperienced with design, are guided to generate a category tree or folksonomy. It is a useful approach for designing information architecture, workflows, menu structure, or website navigation paths.

In card sorting, the concepts are first identified and written onto simple index cards or Post-it notes. The user group then arranges these to represent the groups or structures they are familiar with.

Our project looks forward to exploring potential in assisting a designer to perform a collaborative card sorting activity with his user group. This would be done without being physically present with the users and later on analysing the results, which will help designer in designing the information architecture or workflow.

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CoSort An online tool to facilitate collaborative card sorting activity Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Abhishek Gupta

B.Des abhishek12500@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / User Experience Design

Pramod Kumar

B.Des magneto141@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / User Experience Design

Public spaces are interactive by the very fact that they are designed to be looked at, walked around, and used by multitudes of people on a daily basis. Architects design such spaces to create physical scenarios for people to interact with, but this interaction will usually be one sided- the physical space does not usually change or react. By adding interactivity to objects in public spaces we can make such spaces more dynamic and interesting to use. The idea is to arouse the curiosity of the user and to engage him in various fun related interactions with the objects.

To achieve this, we can make full use of technologies available at present and in the near future. Through this project we aim to use some of these technologies tocreate interesting interaction design concepts by which we can enhance the overall experience of public spaces.

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Birdie

Interactive wall based on proximity sensing Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Tap tiles

Touch sensitive tiles with changing colors

Nitish Meena

B.Des nitishq@gmail.com Area of Interest: User Experience Design / Usability Engineering / Design Research

Paresh Joshi

B.Des paresh.iitg08@gmail.com Area of Interest: User Experience Design / Usability Engineering / System Design

Dsense is a mobile-based health management system that helps diabetic to take control of their disease by generating patient specific solutions. It serves as a global platform to store and share medical records, get updates, feedback and information about current happenings/ events.

The system consists of the user (diabetic), Dsense care team who monitors health of all the patients and user‘s or patients personal doctor, if he wants to be a part of this system. This whole system works similar to a social network but with restricted people and selective sharing which enables diabetic to make necessary adjustments leading to healthy life.

Dsense collects and processes data coming from the patients’ and the physicians’ tools. It works as an information exchange bridge between health-care team and patients.

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Dsense A mobile based health management system for diabetic Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Gaurav Abnesh Kulshrestha

B.Des gaurav.kulshrestha1411@gmail.com Area of Interest: User Experience Design / Tangible User Interface / Usability Engineering

Kanupriya

B.Des kanupriyajain333@gmail.com Area of Interest: User Experience Design / Usability Engineering / System Design

Food and grocery sector constitutes 60% of Indian retail pie with majority of goods non-prepackaged. After analysing current transaction cycle for non-prepackaged goods, several opportunities for retailers are identified to develop unique customer service appeals based on the concept of cycle time reduction.

Indian retail requires a different approach as customers behave in a different way. Considering cultural aspects HandsOn, a transaction system model is proposed which empower customers by giving them a handheld device that would perform tasks of scanning items through a tag reader (RFID/NFC/QR), weighing goods, making payments, providing assistance in form of product comparisons, store maps, offers, etc.; thus giving them more control over the interaction. Retailers can track inventory at any point of time discouraging pilferage.

Transaction time is reduced as queues are avoided (list already prepared) thereby increasing customer footfalls.

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HandsOn Enhanced transaction system for non-prepackaged goods Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Aman Gupta

B.Des amaniitg@gmail.com Area of Interest: User Experience Design / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

This project attempts at designing an Information Management system for food catering system at IIT Guwahati to facilitate the food lovers at IIT Guwahati.

The idea was to facilitate the food lovers at IITG to choose - what they want to, when they want to and where they want to. Thus making their experience more enjoyable & less strenuous, right from placing their order to receiving their order.

Main thinking behind this project was to utilize the technology present in the pockets of the students to create a meaningful experience out of it & to create a winwin situation both for food caterers and food lovers.

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Khana Rozana Information management system for food catering system at IIT Guwahati Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Vishwajit Mishra

B.Des vishwajitster@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / Design Research

In the present age, the government is putting significant emphasis on fostering the health of people, especially in the rural areas. In such a scenario, empowering the community health workers becomes an imminent task at hand to bolster the efficacy of the many health schemes promoted by the government.

In this project I have tried to understand the current system as functional in the North Guwahati area in my locality and have tried to propose design interventions for the broader system to plug the prevalent loopholes.

The focus has been on empowering the ASHA members, ANMs and other multi-purpose health workers in their work through the intervention of Information and Communication Technology.

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Navjyoti A mobile phone app to aid multipurpose community healthcare workers Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

R Bhardwaj

M.Des torquebj@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / Visual Communication

Interactive toys are increasingly used as a learning aid in special schools. Autism is the neurological development disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behaviour. This project focused on the process of development of toys as a teaching and learning aid for autistic children. Based on an observational study a prototype was conceptualized and initial tests were done.

The processes involved have been documented as part of the student’s thesis report, apart from the cost-effective working prototype built from scratch at the UE lab.

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Toy for Autistic Children To provide as a learning tool

Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Abhiraj Satrate

B.Des abhirajram@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / Usability Engineering / Tangible Interfaces

Humans have been communicating to their environment through their sensory organ which acts as an interface between the environment and the brain. The touch on the hand is not an experience of the hand but brain, similarly it is not the eye that sees the things but brain which is capable to perceive and interprets the scene. Our ability to communicate and influence our surrounding environment has exponentially increased with the modern technology.

Brain computer interface is the field which has been struggling to create direct communication between the brain and external devices. Some have also regarded BCI as the future of HCI. This project tries to explore some possibilities for the future where communication can happen through direct communication through brain and facial gestures.

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Ubiquitous Interactions

A design potential for usability in everyday activities Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Kshitij Bhardwaj

B.Des kshitij.inbox@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / Usability Engineering / HCI

Yogesh Gupta

B.Des inbox.yogeshgupta@gmail.com Area of Interest: Interaction Design / Usability Engineering / HCI

There are numerous design opportunities existing in the present retail business of consumer electronics that can transform shopping behaviour into a long lasting customer relationship. This project explores such opportunities in high-end electronics stores. We identified critical insights from field study including structured interviews with store managers and online survey.

These insights led us to development of the concept, “Virtual Home Environment�, for better perception of purchased devices in an electronic store.

This concept is particularly dealing with the concern of customers being conscious about product aesthetics, especially women by enabling customers to check relevancy of a product in their home environment by leveraging them with a tool to place a product in their virtual home setting.

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Virtual Home Environment

A retail solution in electronics context Supervisor: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar

Department of Design Faculty Members Abinash Kumar Swain Amarendra Kumar Das Avinash Shende Debkumar Chakrabarti (Head) D. Udaya Kumar Iko Avital (Visiting Faculty) Keyur Sorathia Manoj Majhi Mriganka Madhukaillya Noni Avital (Visiting Faculty) Pradeep Yammiyavar Ravi Mokashi Punekar Shareka Iqbal Sougata Karmakar Utpal Barua

Staff Members Bijoy Deka Bishnu Tamuli Hitesh Sharma Laxman Mondal Manash Jyoti Nath (office) Manash Jyoti Nath Mrinal Chakrabarti Shajumon M. S.