Projects

 

PC Without Windows

New paradigms always throw new questions, so new technologies did. With the emergence of newer patterns of interaction in the field of computer or mobile devices there may be a better way to interact. The project is an exploration to think for such alternatives to overlapping windows and that mouse based system for accessing the whole lot of world of computing in front of us.

Design a new interaction system of managing and accessing various applications and data of the personal computer where you are not using overlapping rectangular windows. You could use a specific context or target some specific users - for example:

  • A shared PC installed in a cybercafe
  • A pocket PC
  • A PC for kids in a primary school
  • A public computer (PuC) installed in public places by the department of posts to send and receive mails, money orders etc. (high-tech red box)

One can use new input devices, explaining the feasibility and appropriateness in the situation. For the new design one can take some assumptions about technologies they want to use considering that it will be hackneyed in a year. For the project output one needs to make a working prototype (simulation) for the suggested interaction system.

TA: Amisha (amisha[at]iitb.ac.in)

Students (to be divided into four groups):

  • Uttaran Dutta, Digvijay Singh, Arnab Nandi, Kavita Mohan Barapatre
  • Koustubh Vachhani, Madhumita Anjan Chatterjee, Vimal Sharma, Lakshmi Narayanaswamy, Akshat Bal Dikshit
  • Vijaybahu Joshi, Harish Katti, Kautilya Jain, Komminist Sisay, Gautam Solanki
  • Godse Manish Dadasaheb, Madhu Kumar S. D., Shrikant Nivrutti Mulik, Hari Suman, Saurabh Kumar
  • INDUKURI E Y KISHORE VERMA, , , , Kumar , Kumar Gaurav Bijay, ,

 

Digital Lifestyle Product

This is the brief for the student design competition for CHI 05.

Loss of close companions is often a consequence of growing old. Such loss can lead to feelings of isolation, a primary cause of depression among older people. With this in mind, we believe there may be potential value in designing and developing technologies that offer "artificial" companionship.

The challenge for the CHI 2005 Student Design Competition is to design for artificial companionship to support the social well-being of seniors above the age of 65 years. Design possibilities can range from the physical objects and environments, to the virtual, and any combination in between. However, your solution must be emotionally engaging, entertaining, cost effective (less than 3000 USD to buy), and support at least one non-entertainment function for the owner (e.g., remind their owner to take medicine). Consideration of specific user groups' lifestyles, environments, cultures, and gender is strongly recommended.

TA: Abhijeet (abhijeetrokade[at]iitb.ac.in)

Students:

  • Sheetal Gokhale, Shubhankar Hiran, Vijay Agrawal, Zarekar Swapnil Shivaji, Vineet Agrawal
  • Sheetal Alreja, Vashutosh Agrawal, Suddha Kalyan Basu, Sandeep Bapat, Marko Ritter
  • Susheel Kawaley, VALLIESWARAN V, Veerendra Singh, Srikanth Mujjiga, GAUTAM ANIL
  • Vishal Verma, Solanki Gautam Valjibhai, Vaibhav Gupta, 

Complaint Tracking System

In many systems, the tracking of complaints is an important part. Examples include complaint tracking by

  1. Computer vendors for various complaints they receive about the personal computers they have sold,

  2. LPG supplying agency where the complaints can range from very casual to very urgent e.g. leakage of gas.

  3. Telephone complaints

  4. Complaints about the general welfare of the society (e.g. encroachments, broken public property, bad behaviour by bus conductor etc.)

The aim is to design a complaint tracking system for one of the above mentioned services or for any similar system.

The complaint tracking system can provide interface for both the customer to register and track the status of the complaint and the service provider to see the complaints. Here complaints may be automatically classified and routed to the proper person who is an expert for handling a particular type of problems. Complaints may be given priorities. Various such features can be provided. You can choose any combination of media for communication as you may find suitable (web, SMS, IVR, paper etc.)

TA: Prajakta (prajakta[at]it.iitb.ac.in)

Students (to be divided into four groups):

  • Shishir Kumar Agarwal, Sharad Maloo, Sachin Patil, Rajesh Meena, Saikat Mandal
  • Rajat Jain, Shishir Kumar Agrawal, Ritesh Sinha, Shruti Mahambre, Pushpamkumar Malviya
  • Shahid Shaikh, S SUMAN, Rath Thavymony Annanda, Rami-Habib Mary, Sheetal Sonare
  • Rishi Gupta, Ram Krishna Garg, Raja Agrawal, Prasad Bokil, Nishant Misra

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Disaster Warning System

Hazards like fire etc cause a lot of damage of life and property. Can people be warned after the very first signs of a fire? A warning system can help in:

  • Sending warnings, rescue operations, providing medical aid.
  • Identifying places where aid is needed and connecting them to people who are interested in providing help
  • Locating your relatives and friends affected

Such systems can be placed in factories, public places like theaters, shopping malls. Such systems can piggyback on existing devices such as ATMs, railway indicators or be independent systems. They could be used for one-way communication or two-way. These systems can be connected to fire stations, police stations, hospitals etc. Others areas where a disaster warning system can help are tsunami prone areas - areas near the sea, floods, earthquakes, war, bomb blast, riots, gas leakage - (e.g Bhopal gas), accidents etc.

Design a disaster warning system that will be suitable for the city of Mumbai.

TA: Priti (pritithankar[at]iitb.ac.in)

Students:

  • Chitra Venkatramani, Ankur Jain, Arpit Jain, Bahadur Abhinav Atul
  • Harikrishnan Panicker, AMRISHETTY ANJAN KUMAR, Garodia Rhushabh J., Anand Vijay Yeolekar, Arun Kumar Rathi
  • John Abraham, Akshi Mahajan, Gaurav Kumar, Anil Kumar S. R., Ankur Badola
  • Ankur Khator, Arpit Mathur, Chitte Sachin Shriram, Gaurav Agarwal

 

Personal Navigation System for Tourist

If a person wants to go from one place to other place in a city, he has to know the information about transportation media available, path to take, etc. If the person is new to the city or he doesn't know many places in the city then it becomes difficult for him to reach the destination in an optimal manner.

Develop a system that provides the information for tourist, how to go from one place to other. You can embed this in the cell phones or we can build a new palm device.

TA: K Timma Reddy (kunduru[at]it.iitb.ac.in)

Students (to be divided into four groups):

  • Prashant Baronia, Prachi Malandkar, NARASIHMHA RAO KARUMANCH, Mrigen Negi, Piyush Prahladka
  • Mooshir Vahanvati, Nikhil Chandru Rao, Palwencha Nagraj Krishna, Parag Agrawal
  • Paidimarri Kashyap, Nitin Sagar, POLLAKATTU SARAT CHANDRA, Nirmal Biswas, Puneet Maheshwari

 

 
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