Department of Design Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati 

Disciplines ✤ Interaction Design! ✤ Visual Communication! ✤ Product Design! ✤ Film and Animation 

Courses ✤ Bachelors in Design (B.Des)! ✤ Masters in Design (M.Des)! ✤ Doctorate (PhD)! ✤ Research scholars 
 
 
 

Laboratories at DoD ✤ Embedded Interactions Lab! ✤ E-Kalpa studio! ✤ Media Lab! ✤ Ergonomics Lab! ✤ Animation Studio! ✤ Usability Lab 

Student projects at DoD ✤ Department project I & II 
 (4 months)! ✤ Bachelors’ Thesis Project (BTP)
 (1 year)! ✤ Masters’ Thesis Project (MTP)
 (1 year)! ✤ Research projects in collaboration with industry 

01 Maternal healthcare ICT Intervention for empowerment of maternal healthcare in Assam. To improve the maternal mortality rate in Assam through intervention in information and communication technology.! ! ! (in collaboration with IBM research) 

01 India Identity Program Indian Identity Program is a plan to provide an Indian identity to every citizen of India. The primary goal of the project is to connect the diverse people of Indian and develop a sense of unity among them through a system design.! ! Recipient of the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award 2013 

01 Parichay A low cost device to increase adherence among Tuberculosis patients in rural Assam. The device aims to motivate the patients to adhere to DOTS therapy and to make informed health decisions.! ! ! Project published in APCHI 2013 conference 

01 Chemicable ChemicAble: A Table-Top Interaction for Learning Chemistry. ChemicAble is a Tangible User Interface (TUI) for students of grade 8 to 10 to help them learn chemical bonding. Learning that thus happens is exploratory in nature and promotes collaborative learning with fun.! ! Project selected for APCHI 2013 conference 

01 Sansara (automobile design concept) This project aims to bring back the nostalgia of the 50s, the time of ‘Rock n Roll’ and the vision of the BMW Company by the means of a concept, which is capable to solve the mobility problems of the future and is an ultra modern reincarnation of the BMW Isetta. 

01 Clearn (Augmented Reality based E Learning) A project that uses Interactive learning and Augmented Reality to make concepts of Solid State in Chemistry easy to understand. The project aims at using interactive elements to make learning enjoyable. 

01 Jig is up (Game design) A game that was developed to explore the area of NUI (Natural User Interfaces) in game design. With a special focus on segmental speech recognition, the game was a top down shooter where players used voice to turn around the protagonist and shoot. 

Achievements & Awards ✤ Bookpad - a startup by DoD students based in Bangalore acquired by Yahoo.! ✤ Chetna - an exploration of gesture based interaction to empower pregnant women of rural Assam awarded with top 30 Innovations by India Innovation Growth Program (IIGP)! ✤ Harshvardhan Upadhyay (Masters in Design) awarded Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award for his Masters Thesis Project based on National Unity & Integration! ✤ DoD students grab 1 finalist, 1 runner-up and 1 shortlisted entry at OzCHI 2013! ✤ DoD students present 2 full papers, 2 short papers and 2 posters at International Conference of APCHI/ IndiaHCI 2013! ✤ DoD students awarded 2nd prize at Samsung USID Design Competition! ✤ Keyur Sorathia, Assistant Professor, Amit Ranjan and Jagriti Kumar, Alumni of DoD awarded Gandhian Young Technological Innovation award! ✤ D. Udaya Kumar awarded Ratna Rajiv Gandhi Yuva Shakti National Award 

Industry relations ✤ IBM Research India! ✤ Samsung Research and Development! ✤ Microsoft Research (MSR)! ✤ Nokia Research and Development! ✤ Xeror Research Centre India (XRCI)! ✤ Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) 

“Design is about how it works” Deeply nestled inside a technical institute (IIT), the Department of Design is highly influenced by technology interventions. We, at DoD strongly emphasise on prototyping and actually building products based on design concepts. 

End Safinah Ali! Final year, B.Des
 Department of Design, IIT Guwahati