Industry Experience..................................................................................................................................................
Oracle User Experience Applications Group, Summer 2008
Experience Design Intern
At Oracle User Experience Applications Group located at its Headquarters in Redwood City, I multi-tasked and collaborated on four UX projects encompassing web application design and development.
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Informatics Graduate Assistant,September 08 - June 09
IUB's Digital Library Program
Apart from being a design student, I am also currently employed as a graduate assistant at the Digital Library Program at IUB where I collaborate on the design and development of an open-source AJAX application for METS navigator.
User Experience Consultant, 2006-07
Client: DigitalVibe,India
Worked as a UX consultant with DigitalVibe, Mumbai several DHTML and flash based websites for its national and international clients
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HCI/d Connect 09, January 2009
Client: IUB Informatics Career Services
Proposed a strategic design plan for a career networking event for our HCI/d Program.
Lead Web Designer/developer of the HCI/d Connect 09 Website
Usability testing of IU Webmail, October 2007
Client: User Experience Group, IUB
Conducted qualitative, quantitative analysis as well as heuristic evaluation of the official email system at IU
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Sustaining e-Publishing, February 2008
Client: Team DeS, Australia
Proposed a strategic design plan for improving the financial viability of the online design journal 'Design Philosophy Papers' run by our Australian clients - Anne-Marie Willis and Tony Fry
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Project Repository System Portal, Capgemini, Mumbai, 2006-2007
Undergraduate Internship
Analyzed, designed and tested a project repository system working model for the senior management.
Applied software engineering approaches namely: spiral model, change management, scheduling and UML diagramming.
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Database Analyst, 2007-2008
Client: Center for Innovation in Assessment, Indiana
Designed and implemented database forms in Visual basic and Excel.
Academic work............................................................................................................................................................
An Information Access Solution for Rural Farmers in India, 2008-09
HCI/d Masters Thesis Design Project/Finalist at the CHI Student Research Competition 2009, Microsoft Imagine Cup semi-finalist'09
In this project I researched the information needs of farmers in India through extensive hands-on user research and designed the interactions of an information access solution to mobilize them with contextual and personalized information.
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Adobe Flex Builder Prototyping Workshop, May-June 09
Creating a slideshow
Creating a flex application using xml data
Replicating a layout using CSS styling
Airport Empathy, October 2007
HCID-I Class Project
Designed and tested an interactive information kiosk to assist travelers stranded at an airport during an airport emergency
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iQuiz Application for Apple iPod Touch, September 2007
HCID-I Class Project
Designed and tested interaction flows through paper prototyping and iterated through high fidelity prototyping for a Quiz application enabling learning through fun within the space constraints of iPod Touch
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GroceryMate, November 2007
CHI Student Design Competition 2008 finalist
Designed a grocery-shopping assistance device that strategically solicits affordable donations of nutritional food items requested by charitable organizations running ‘soup kitchens’ to serve the homeless, using persuasive technology
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Sustainable Transportation, 2008-09
Usability Professionals Association Student Design Competition finalist 09
Conducting design exploration and usability studies to enhance the commuter experience of public transportation in the United States
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Experience Prototyping for a Museum Exhibit, Spring 2008
Class Project
We designed a museum installation concept through experience prototyping. Our final deliverable was an 8 minute video on our concept and design process. In order to make this concept universally accessible, we also did some bodystorming and role playing as a handicapped person in order to inform our design.
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Tree visualization design, January 2008
Information Visualization Class Project
The display of hierarchies & trees is one of the most studied topics within information visualization. In this project, we selected a tree dataset, conducted a task analysis for a selected user group of this dataset, designed two visualizations of the dataset that satisfy the information needs of our user group and are easy to read and evaluated the usability of our own and a similar existing visualization.
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Viewing Data from Multiple Perspectives, February 2008
Information Visualization Class Project
In this project, we addressed a predefined information need by visualizing one dataset in different ways using bubble matrix chart, stack graph, line graph using 1D, 2D and geospatial substrate
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MiMo, January 2008
National Science Foundation funded Design Project
Created scenarios and storyboards for testing the proof of concept of an ambient technological device 'Mirror Motive (MiMo)' for home environments of senior citizens with a view to provide health related reminders
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Designing an Online Shopping Experience, October - December 2007
Cryptographic Protocol Analysis and Design, Class Project
Conducted research to determine the level of influence of factors affecting the user experience of online shopping under the guidance of Professor Markus Jakobsson
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Designing a thermostat, August 2007
HCID-I Class project
Designed a thermostat by correcting the user’s mental model with the operational model of a user-friendly thermostat
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Design Framework for Digital Artifacts in Third Wave HCI through Critical theories and Aesthetics, Fall 2008
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff Bardzell
In the Interaction Culture Class, I developed an exploratory experience design framework to inform and enhance the design of digital artifacts in the third wave HCI using critical theory and art theory.
Corporate Communication Technologies, Fall 2008
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Courtenay Honeycutt
In the Computer Mediated Communication Class, I conducted extensive literature review and examined three case studies to come up with a set of design implications for corporate communication technologies
Everyday Computing Research Group, 2008-09
Faculty Advisor: Dr.Shaowen Bardzell
Studying Material Culture and Relationships in Indian Homes to guide the design of domestic technologies in Indian household context; designed wearable prototypes using programmable phidgets