Professor, IDC, IIT Bombay

Selected Papers:

> Design Education

> Design, Technology and Culture

> Designing for Children

> Collaborative Environments

> Interaction Design

> Wayfinding and Identity Systems

> Communication Design



Design Education:

- Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, Mapping the design mindset at IDC, IITB - in line with a country finding its foothold in a gradually industrializing market: 1969-present . MSR Faculty Summit, Redmond, 2006
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- Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, A blueprint for design education and practice: using emerging technologies and traditional knowledge systems to widen design's constituency in India - paper at ICSID Educational Conference at Hannover 5-7 Sept. 2003
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Design, Technology and Culture:

-Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, Design by People within Culturally-rooted Idioms – the new ‘cool’ in a globalised world: - paper at ICSID Educational Conference at Copenhagen, Sept. 2005
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Designing for Children:

- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, Into a world of the "really not real": leveraging a child's make-belief abilities for design clues to build a cross-cultural collaborative environment on the Internet - paper at ICSID Educational Conference at Hannover 5-7 Sept. 2003
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- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, A technology-non-technology alliance: does it really work towards learning? Invited paper at the 4th National annual conference for academic education covering New Technologies and Methodologies in Arts, Media & Design around the topic "Teaching - learning and research for the creative professions" held at Bangkok, Thailand, 27-29 November, 2001
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Collaborative Environments:

- Ajanta Sen, Ravi Poovaiah and Robert Pulley, Across the Web: the Colors of India as a cross-cultural collaborative initiative for learning
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Interaction Design:

- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, "New technology's New Home - - Internet within India’s cultural paradigm" - Keynote paper as part of the theme Design, Knowledge and Technologies - presented at Fiera De Santana, Bahia, Brazil, as part of the 2nd International Congress of Graphic Engineering in Arts and in Design, and the 13th national Symposium on Descriptive Geometry and Technical Design, 14-18 Sept, 1998
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-Ravi Poovaiah and Ajanta Sen, A paradigm-shift towards user-centred methodology in interaction design: the case of an icon-driven interface product, Invited paper presented at International Conference on Multi-Media, held at Delhi, January 1998
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- Ravi Poovaiah, Construction of Interface for Interactive Multimedia, Invited paper presented at International Conference on Multi-Media, held at Delhi, 1997
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- Ravi Poovaiah, Thoughts on Interface Design, paper presented at 'Design Odyssey', held at IDC, IIT Bombay, 1994
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Wayfinding Systems:

- Ravi Poovaiah, Design of Graphic Symbols for Environmental signage, Invited paper at the National seminar on Signage, held at Mumbai, 2000

- Ravi Poovaiah, Graphic Symbols for Environmental Signage: a Design Perspective, paper at the International symposium on 'Public Graphics', held at Lunteren, The Netherlands, 1995
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- Ajanta Sen, and Ravi Poovaiah, Petroleum retail outlets as the mother of all POP’s – the case study of BPCL:
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Communication Design:

- Ravi Poovaiah, 'The Kinesthetics of Packaging: its connotative domain' published as Proceedings of the workshop on Bamboo, an IDC publication, 1993
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