Following is a list of lectures / short talks / tutorials / discussions that I have been
invited for (updated from time to time).
For a list of longer courses / workshops, please see here.
For my papers, please see here.
For
review assignments, see here.
| Invited by | Topic | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| India HCI 2020, Virtual | So You Want to Do a PhD in Interaction Design | Short Course | November 2020 |
| India HCI 2020, Virtual | How to Write a Paper for India HCI 2021 | Short Course | November 2020 |
| International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), Sri Lanka | Designing technology for adoption by emergent users | University of Colombo | November 2020 |
| Wipro Digital | Where would you like to go next? | Thursday Talks | October 2020 |
| NID, Bengaluru | Where would you like to go, IxD? | Invited talk | September 2020 |
| UX Indonesia | Technology Adoption by Emergent Users - The User Usage Model | CX Insight and UX Indonesia virtual meetup | July 2020 |
| Indraprashta Institute of Information Technology, Delhi | Digital health for emergent users | Research, Innovation & Incubation Showcase | January 2020 |
| North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh | Technology probes with emergent users | ACM SIGCHI Winter School | November 2019 |
| North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh | Understanding quantitative papers | ACM SIGCHI Winter School | November 2019 |
| India HCI 2019, Hyderabad | So You Want to Do a PhD in Interaction Design | Short Course | November 2019 |
| India HCI 2019, Hyderabad | How to Write a Paper for India HCI 2020 | Short Course | November 2019 |
| INTERACT 2019 | Designing technology for adoption by emergent users | Invited talk, INTERACT 2019 | September 2019 |
| Kochi University, Kochi, Japan | The story of Swarachakra - Cracking the puzzle of text input in Indian languages | Invited talk | June 2019 |
| Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan | An Introduction to Emergent Users of ICTs - Understanding the Context of Developing Countries | Invited talk | June 2019 |
| Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan | The story of Swarachakra - Cracking the puzzle of text input in Indian languages | Invited talk | June 2019 |
| RIEC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan | An Introduction to Emergent Users of ICTs - Understanding the Context of Developing Countries | Invited talk | May 2019 |
| University of Glasgow, UK | Interaction design for emergent users - Leveraging digital technologies to solve problems of developing economies | Invited talk | February 2019 |
| Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK | Interaction design for emergent users - Leveraging digital technologies to solve problems of developing economies | Invited talk | February 2019 |
| Microsoft Research, Cambdridge, UK | Interaction design for emergent users - Leveraging digital technologies to solve problems of developing economies | Invited talk | February 2019 |
| Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea | Interaction design for emergent users | Invited talk at Design Walk 2019 | January 2019 |
| India HCI 2018, Bangalore | How to Write a Paper for India HCI 2019 | Short Course | December 2018 |
| India HCI 2018, Bangalore | So You Want to Do a PhD in Interaction Design | Short Course | December 2018 |
| HWWE 2018, College of Engineering, Trivandrum | Minimising the cognitive load of typing in an Abugida | Lead Lecture in HWWE 2018 | December 2018 |
| University of West London | Interaction design for emergent users - Leveraging digital technologies to solve problems of developing economies | Seminar | December 2018 |
| University of York | Interaction design for emergent users - Leveraging digital technologies to solve problems of developing economies | Seminar | November 2018 |
| University of Swansea | The story of Swarachakra - Cracking the puzzle of text input in Indian languages | Invited talk | November 2018 |
| University of St. Andrews, SACHI | The story of Swarachakra – Cracking the puzzle of text input in Indian languages | School Seminar | October 2018 |
| University of St. Andrews | Interaction design for emergent users - Leveraging digital technologies to solve problems of developing economies | Invited talk | October 2018 |
| IIIT Sri City | Interaction design for emergent users - Leveraging digital technologies to solve problems of developing economies | Invited talk | August 2018 |
| TEDx Dharavi 2018 | Text input in Indian Languages: The Story of Swarachakra | TEDx Dharavi 2018: Shatter | March 2018 |
| NITIE, Mumbai | Interaction Design for Emergent Users | Invited talk | January 2018 |
| NASSCOM | Adopting and building design capabilities: Panel Discussion | NASSCOM Design Summit | January 2018 |
| Yuva Pratishthan, Mumbai | Interaction Design for Emergent Users - Leveraging Digital Technologies to Solve Problems of Developing Economies | Face2Face - Digital India for Last Person First | December 2017 |
| HWWE 2017, Aligarh Muslim University | Human-Computer Interaction - An Invitation | Keynote Lecture at Humanizing Work and Work Environment (HWWE 2017) | December 2017 |
| Siemens Industry Software | Layers of User Experience | Keynote at Annual Technology Concolave 2017 | December 2017 |
| Tohoku University, Japan | Text Input in non-English Languages | RIEC International Symposium on Experience Design and Cognitive Science | November 2017 |
| IIITDM Kancheepuram | Interaction Design for Emergent Users - Leveraging Digital Technologies to Solve Problems of Developing Economies | Invited Lecture | November 2017 |
| Bombay Management Association | Interaction Design for Emergent Users – Leveraging Digital Technologies to Solve Problems of Developing Economies | Digital Leadership Summit 2017 | October 2017 |
| Tohoku University, Japan | Designing for emergent users in India | First ACM SIGCHI Asian Symposium | December 2016 |
| Kochi University of Technology, Japan | Interaction design for emergent users | International Workshop on HCI and Aging Populations (IWHAP 2016, Part 1) | December 2016 |
| BITS, Pilani | Challenges and opportunities in IHCI for text input in Indian languages - an "outsider's" view from the "inside" (An invitation of I-HCI community) | Special Session: Evolving Landscape of Intelligent Interfaces, Intelligent HCI, 2016 | December 2016 |
| Tampere University, Finland | The story of Swarachakra - Text input in Indian languages | ICT4D course | August 2016 |
| HCL, Chennai | An Introduction to Interaction Design Thinking | Invited talk | August 2016 |
| IIIT Delhi | Interaction Design for Emergent Users | Guest Lecture | April 2016 |
| Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Mumbai | Interaction Design for Emergent Users | Guest Lecture | March 2016 |
| Swansea University, UK | Understanding Emergent Users | Guest Lecture | March 2016 |
| College of Engineering, Pune | उदयोन्मुख उपयोक्त्यांकरिता अन्योन्यक्रिया अभिकल्प (Interaction Design for Emergent Users) | मराठी दिन (Marathi Day) | February 2016 |
| Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai | Interaction design for Emergent Users | Guest Lecture | December 2015 |
| 7th IEEE International Conference on Technology for Education |
1) What is there to design in a T4E product? 2) How to support learning of abstract concepts? |
Keynote in the T4E 2015 conference | December 2015 |
| University of Tampere |
Interaction Design for Emergent users Text Input in Indian Languages User Studies - Some Learnings from the Field Understanding Emergent Users |
Seminar on HCI4D: Overcoming the Digital Divide | October 2015 |
| Sustainable Society Network+ | Exploring interaction design for people with less education | Keynote in the Symposium and Hackathon in Social Media and Interaction | March 2015 |
| University of Tampere, Finland | India HCI 2004 to 2014 - looking back and looking forward | IFIP TC13 workshop | March 2015 |
| Syntalk | The Cellphone Named Desire | Online talk-show | July 2014 |
| MOBILESoft 2014 | Interaction design for people with less education | Keynote in the MobileSoft 2014 conference | June 2014 |
| Thakur Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai | Human-Computer Interaction | STTP on Teaching Computer Applications, Recent Trends | April 2014 |
| TRDDC, Pune | Interaction design for people with less education | Guest Lecture | April 2014 |
| IIT Delhi | The story of Swarachakra | India HCI 2014 Curtainraiser | March 2014 |
| PreCog Group, IIIT Delhi | Interaction Design for Those with Less Education | Guest Lecture | March 2014 |
| University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand | Supporting Treatment of People Living with HIV / AIDS | TC13 Symposium on HCI | February 2014 |
| CSI, Pune Chapter | Impact of Human factors on software development | Conseg - 7th International Conference on Software Engineering | November 2013 |
| Honeywell, Hyderabad | Introduction to HCI | Guest Lecture | October 2013 |
| Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai | Introduction to HCI | Guest Lecture | April 2013 |
| Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse | Integrating Human-Computer Interaction with Software Engineering processes | IFIP TC13 workshop | March 2013 |
| PreCog Group, IIIT Delhi | Interaction Design for Those with Less Education | Guest Lecture | October 2012 |
| CUTE Centre, NUS Singapore | Interaction Design for Those with Less Education | Guest Lecture | September 2012 |
| Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai | Introduction to HCI | Guest Lecture | March 2012 |
| CUTE Centre, NUS Singapore | Interaction design for development | Singapore TC13 HCI Symposium | February 2012 |
| Africomm 2011, Supported by the International Federation for Information Processing TC 13 | Tutorial on Interaction Design in Developing Regions | 3rd International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries, Africomm 2011, Zanzibar |
November 2011 |
| Computer Society of India and Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Using Interaction Design for Development | National Conference on the role of IT in National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) | April 2011 |
| India HCI 2011 | Tutorial on Usability Goals Setting Tool | India HCI 2011 conference tutorial | April 2011 |
| Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai | Introduction to HCI | Guest lecture | April 2011 |
| ACM SIGCHI | Technology for Development: Explorations and Experiences from India | China Symposium on Human Computer Interaction 2011 | March 2011 |
| Wipro, Bangalore | Introduction to HCI | Guest lecture | February 2011 |
| Computer Society of India / Usability Matters.Org | Interaction Design for Development in Emerging Economies | UX Fun, Chennai | November 2010 |
| CDAC Chennai | Interaction Design for Mobile Phones and Economic Sustainability | Ubicomp India Workshop 2010, Chennai | January 2010 |
| Comsnets 2010 | Design challenges in ICTs for emerging economies |
Panel on ICT for Emerging Markets: Experiences, Challenges, Insights | January 2010 |
| Nokia | Mobile Phones and Economic Sustainability - Ideas for India | Nokia India University Relations Workshop, Bangalore | December 2009 |
| IIT Delhi | Mobile Phones and Economic Sustainability | Workshop on Interactive Technologies for the End-user | May 2009 |
| HP Labs Bangalore | Interaction Design and Development | UKINIT Winter School on Interactive Technologies | February 2009 |
| Organised in collaboration with Satyam | Tutorial on User Experience Metrics | Tutorials in Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai | January and February 2009 |
| IIT Kharagpur | An Introduction to HCI | IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, IIT Kharagpur | December 2008 |
| Mastek | An Introduction to HCI | Mastek internal event on solutions | December 2008 |
| VIIT, Pune | Measuring User Experience Through Metrics | CAUE 2008 | November 2008 |
| Johnson and Johnson | An Introduction to HCI | Workshop on Project UNITE | November 2008 |
| DirectI | An Introduction to User Experience | Techcamp | October 2008 |
| Hewlett Packard India, Bangalore | An Introduction to HCI | Qualification Summit | December 2007 |
| L&T Infotech, Mumbai | An Introduction to HCI | Chevron Strategy Team Visit | December 2007 |
| Usability Matters Organization, Hyderabad | Being Effective in HCI Work through User Experience Metrics | World Usability Day | November 2007 |
| Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai | HCI Bhel Puri | Guest Lecture | March 2007 |
| Kongu Arts and Science College, Erode | Integrating HCI into SE | National Conference On Human Computer Interaction 2007 - Keynote | February 2007 |
| Nokia | Mobile Applications for Indian Needs - work in IDC | Emerging Market UI - India Summit | November 2006 |
| Satyam Computer Services | Integrating HCI in SE | World Usability Day, Chennai | November 2006 |
| Tech Mahindra | Introduction to HCI | World Usability Day, Mumbai | November 2006 |
| Azim Premji Foundation and Quest Alliance | Learning Needs Assessment through User Studies (++) | National Instructional Design Workshop, Bangalore, 2006 | November 2006 |
| IEEE - Thadomal Shahani Engineering College | An Introduction to HCI | ISAAC 2006 | October 2006 |
| IIT Guwahati | An Introduction to HCI | Techniche 2006 | September 2006 |
| Persistent Systems, Pune | Integrating HCI in Waterfall Model | UX Professionals Meet | June 2006 |
| Azim Premji Foundation | Layers of User Experience of E-learning | APF Learning Hour | March 2006 |
| IISc Bangalore | New Product Development through Active People Watching | Team TECH 2006 | March 2006 |
| TIME 2005 | A Constructivist Approach to Math Education (with Punam Medh) | TIME 2005 | December 2005 |
| Usability Matters Organization, Hyderabad | Problem Wohi Jo Piya Man Bhaye - User Centred or Customer Centred? | World Usability Day | November 2005 |
| Patni Computer Systems | HCI + SE: Some directions | Software Architecture Summit | August 2005 |
| UPA India, Pune Chapter | HCI in India: Challenges and Opportunities | Chapter formation meeting | August 2005 |
| Cummins College of Engineering, Pune | Introduction to HCI | Innovation 2005 | March 2005 |
| Veritas, Pune | Towards a Truly Unified Process | IxDG Meeting | March 2005 |
| Don Bosco Institute of Technology | HCI in IT / CS Education | Guest Lecture | January 2005 |
| Mumbai | Institutionalizing HCI the challenges in India | CSI Annual Convention | December 2004 |
| Veritas, Pune | CHI 04 - an Experience | Guest Lecture | August 2004 |
| Rave Technologies, Mumbai | Introduction to HCI | Guest Lecture | August 2004 |
| SPIN - Pune Chapter | Introduction to HCI | Guest Lecture | August 2004 |
| HFI, Mumbai | CHI 04 - an Experience | Guest Lecture | August 2004 |
| SPIN - Mumbai Chapter | Introduction to HCI | Guest Lecture | July 2004 |
| L&T Infotech, Mumbai | Introduction to HCI | Guest Lecture | March 2004 |
| Visualog, Nagoya | Role of an Interaction Designer | Icograda Congress | October 2003 |
| IESUP | HCI in India | IESUP Seminar | March 2003 |
| Academic Staff College, Hyderabad | Introduction to HCI | Guest lecture | October 2001 |
| MICA, Ahmedabad | Introduction to HCI, Heuristic evaluation | Guest lecture | July 2001 |
| Synapse, Goa | Tutorial on HCI | Tutorial | June 2001 |
| CIT, 2000, Bhuvaneshwar | Tutorial on HCI | Tutorial | December 2000 |