INDIAHCI

A number of cognitive processes are involved in the process of information search on the Internet: memory, attention, comprehension, problem solving, executive control and decision making. Several cognitive factors such as aging-related cognitive ...

This survey of 101 working-age professionals in Seoul, South Korea, and Bangalore, India, examines the drivers and impediments in the adoption and use of smartphonesamong visually impaired residents in two urban settings. Using in-depth interviews with ...

Motion gestures can be expressive, fast to access and perform, and facilitated by ubiquitous inertial sensors. However, implementing a gesture recognizer requires substantial programming and pattern recognition expertise. Although several graphical ...

The use ofLearning Analytics (LA) has shown significant improvements in online learning environments. This paper intends to discuss the challenges of applyingLA in the context of elementary schools of India.Out of many challenges, we focus on solving ...

In this paper, we aim to relate the design of WhatsApp with its adoption in developing countries and inform the design of future products. In the last two and a half years, a large number of 'emergent users' in India, have adopted WhatsApp. They have ...

With the objective of designing an accessible date picker, we heuristically evaluated features of 14 date-picking widgets / calendar for accessibility by visually impaired users. We found accessibility problems with most products. We did a comparative ...

Euler diagrams are an important tool in the field of information visualisationand knowledge discovery which are used for visualising set-based information. From the previous papers, Euler diagrams can be effectively used when some of the non ...

The accessibility of information communication and technology (ICT) is increasingly important for responding to the needs of people with disabilities, particularly those with visual impairments. However, especially in Japan, the introduction of ...

Web browsing is the dominant activity among all the online based activities. With more people getting connected to the WWW(World Wide Web), its importance is further enhanced. Web browsing tasks are accomplished using the point-and-click technologies ...

This paper describes the design and development of an embodied conversational agent (ECA) that provides a social interface for older adults. Following a user-centred design approach, we implemented a multimodal agent consisting of a virtual character ...

Fisheries sector is vital for the progress of economic and food security of the country. This sector generates a retail turnover of Rs. 28,511 crore and provides cheap animal protein to 138 million fish eaters. Every week 0.9 Million Indian fishermen ...

White label is a term used to refer to products, goods, or services that are produced by one company (producer) and distributed/ shipped, and sold by another company under their own brand/ tag. The original product is created or customized for a client ...

Swarachakra is a free soft keyboard for Indic scripts on Android devices. This paper presents the design of the Accessible version of Swarachakra keyboard. The layout has been modified in such a way that the alphabets are easily locatable: through ...

In the earlier experiments carried in the lab, it was observed that users pay a cognitive toll to use current prediction mechanisms for Marathi on Smartphones and it slows down the text entry speed of users[3]. Two main hypothesized reasons which ...

In a production line, the maintenance is a crucial aspect to prevent untimely breakdown as it might lead to decrease in productivity and huge financial losses. This paper presents a concept to develop an integrated intelligent maintenance system for the ...

As part of ICH (Intangible Cultural Heritage) the aspect of Hindu culture of admiring matters of significance, as well as craftsmanship and implements we apply in our everyday lives was chosen and a qualitative research was done on how these practices ...

This paper describes a navigation and aid system for the recently visually impaired. This system uses various data sources and a human vision inspired camera systemto provide information and recommendations to the users.The system while being primarily ...

This project aims at exploring ways to enable active ageing. Active ageing is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. Nowadays, there is an increasing number of ...

Innovation in the utilisation of energy from our sun, while addressing a modern problem in maker culture. Creation of an empowering tool considering local energy issues.

This is a classroom project focusing on narration through heavy data sets. The main concept behind this data visualization is to map the significant events that occurred in India with respect to the rise and fall of the Indian Stock Market value for ...

In this paper, we introduce, a bidirectional haptic I/O which varies its tactility depending on the context of the device. The keys in the interface make the user alter their applied fingertip force depending on the criticality, physicality and other ...

The goal of the project was to create a design language based on an understanding of Indian concept of emotions and aesthetics through Rasa Theory. This will bring a fresh Eastern perspective to UI/UX design. For this, natyashastra had to be referred to ...