The research program in Design at IITG aims at training researchers in Design not only to consolidate what is known in design but also to build a design knowledge base through original inquiry, experimentation and investigation.

Names of all ongoing projects of IITG:

Title: Design Research on "Accesibility and User Interfaces"
Principle Investigator: Keyur Sorathia, Assistant Professor
Co-Investigator: Prasad Bokil, Assistant Professor
Sponsoring Agency: Samsung R&D, India

Titleesign and Development of Gesture Controlled User Interfaces for Developing Regions
Principle Investigator: Keyur Sorathia, Assistant Professor
Sponsoring Agency: Microsoft Research, India

Title: Creating digital learning environment for design education in India
Principle Investigator: Ravi Mokashi Punekar, Professor
Co-Investigator: Keyur Sorathia and Avinash Shinde, Assistant Professor
Sponsoring Agency: Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India

Title: Visual and Tactile Information Processing in Product Selection Process
Principle Investigator: Sougata Karmakar, Assistant Professor
Sponsoring Agency: Department of Biotechnology, Government of India

Title: Design and Evaluation of Play Ground for Primary School Children in Virtual Environment
Principle Investigator: Sougata Karmakar, Assistant Professor
Sponsoring Agency: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Title: Design and development of an information system to educate pregnant women and family members about prenatal and postnatal care in Assam, India
Principle Investigator: Keyur Sorathia, Assistant Professor
Sponsoring Agency: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Title: Study of social acceptance of gesture based interfaces for low literate, low socio-economic rural users
Principle Investigator: Keyur Sorathia, Assistant Professor
Sponsoring Agency: IBM Research India

Title: Creative Design, Prototyping & Experiential Simulation Lab In Human Computer Interaction
Principle Investigator: Pradeep Yammiyavar
Sponsoring Agency: Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), GOI

Title: Lecture notes preparatory to a text book: Digital Human Modeling and Simulation in Product and workstation Design
Principle Investigator: Sougata Karmakar, Assistant Professor
Sponsoring Agency: QIP CD Cell, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Title: Introduction to ergonomics special reference to industrial design’, course ID 107103004- 40 video lecture series
Principle Investigator: Debkumar Chakrabarti, Professor
Sponsoring Agency: Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India

Title: Fundamental of Design (Web Course)
Principle Investigator: Utpal Barua, Associate Professor
Sponsoring Agency: NPTEL

Address:

Department of Design
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Guwahati 781039
Assam
India