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Research at IDC
Faculty research interests include pedagogic experimentation, Indian product tradition, environments for learning, information visualization, perception and cognition, cultural studies, ergonomic investigation, product interfaces, contextual innovation, regional typefaces, story-telling, etc.

IDC faculties have research interests in the following areas.


Athavankar, U A
Professor
Gamification and game Design
Metal Imagery and Visualisation
Affordable Housing
Communication Theory
Design Process and Methods
Design and Culture

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Bapat, V P
Professor
Product Design
Designing for Plastics
Design for materials and Processes
Product detailing and Design for Manufacturability
Applied Ergonomics
Product Interface Design & IOT
Affordable Housing
Bionics
Toy Design
Creativity & Design Innovation
Product Planning
Furniture Design

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Balan Sudesh
Assistant Professor
Digital Film-making
Photography
Cinematography
Lens Optics & Image manipulation
VFX Photography

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Chakravarthy, B K
Professor
New Product Innovation
Product Styling and Perception, Creativity
Design Strategy
Humanising Technology
Collaborative Innovation Methodology
Form & Aesthetics
Creativity & Idea Generation
Innovation Methodology
User Centered Design

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Dalvi, Girish
Assistant Professor

Devanagari Typography
History of Type Design in India
Type Design Methodologies
Type & Culture
Culture sensitive Interaction Design
Indian Language Interfaces
Statistical Methods for Designers
Input Mechanisms for Indic scripts

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Hingorani, Alka
Associate Professor

Film, Photography and Story-telling - adaptations across media
Architecture and design (Research interest in Biomimicry)
Aesthetics
Art Criticism and Appreciation
Visual Narratives

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Joshi, Anirudha
Professor

Visual Design,
Usability Studies,
Human-Computer Interface Design,
Contextual Design,
Interface Evaluation,
Interface Design for Indian languages,
New Media Design

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Joshi, Purba
Assistant Professor
Computer Aided Design
Product form and Aesthetics
Product Prototyping


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Mazhar Kamran
Professor
Animation


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Malhotra, Sugandh
Assistant Professor
Frameworks for future design
Design forecasting
Trend Research and Analysis
Intelligent mobility systems
Design Research methods

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Mohanty, Raja
Professor
Narratives and Imagery
Ceramics
Visual Arts
Aesthetics
Approaches to Education
Artisanal Livelihoods

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Pillai, Jayesh
Assistant Professor
Visual Communication
Video Communication
Virtual Reality

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Poovaiah, Ravi
Professor

Designing for Children - play and learn
Digital Resources for Learning
Collaborative Environments
Design, Technology and Culture
Designing for Interactions in Social Media
Information Visualisation and Structuring
New Media Design and Interaction Design
Visual Language, Type and Communication Design
Wayfinding, Identity and Information Systems

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P. Kumaresan
Assistant Professor
Product Interface Design
Product innovation
Craft
Prototyping

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Ranade, Shilpa
Professor
Animation
Illustration
Graphic  Design
Culture and Story telling

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Rane, Mandar
Associate Professor
Order and hierarchy
Information design
Rationalizing design decisions
Design and culture
Semantics and communication theory

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Rao, Sumant M
Associate Professor
Animation Design
Animation Techniques
Social Design
Design and Culture
The Indian Chakra system
Mythology & Folklore
Visual Storytelling

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Rao, A G
Professor

Form and Product Aesthetics
Repositioning of Bamboo craft
Creativity and Product Innovation
Holistic thinking in Design
Product Design
Creativity and Problem Solving
Bamboo Crafts

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Ray, G G
Professor
Product Ergonomics
Consumer ergonomics
Workstation design
Manual Material Handling
Musculoskeletal Disorders
Automobile Ergonomics
Products for the Physically Handicapped

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Venkatesh Rajamanickam
Associate Professor
Human-Computer Interface Design
Data Visualization
Technology and Learning

Design History
Affordable Housing

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Sadhu, N
Assistant Professor
 Product Ergonomics
 Visual Ergonomics
 Human Computer Interface

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Sabnani, Nina
Professor
Animation Films
Visual Communiaction
Visual Culture Visual Ethnography
Word-Image Relationship
Participatory Film-making
Illustration
Folklore
Animation as Ethnography
Material Culture
Learning Pedagogies amongst traditional artists

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R, Sandesh
Associate Professor
Product Design
Form Studies
Nature and Form
Systems Thinking
Craft Culture Design and Development

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Sreekumar, G V
Professor

Visual Design
Typography
Publication Design
Magazine Design
Information Graphics

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Sharma, Nishant
Associate Professor
Automotive Design
Vehicle Design Process
Product Form and Aesthetics
Participatory Innovation

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Tetali, Phani
Associate Professor

Animation
Gaming
Illustration
Cartooning and Comic Art
New Media in Education

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