Hi there!
An HCI researcher passionate about leveraging novel technologies to create assistive solutions in health care, mental health, and affective computing.
Who Am I?
- Definitely not Batman 🦇
- Masters: Human-Computer Interaction, May 2024, RIT (United States)
- Bachelors: Information Technology, May 2020, SSNCE (India)
- Interests: Accessibility, Mental Health Analysis, Android Programming, Human Behavior Analysis.
I’m currently researching…
- Understanding the mental and social challenges faced by blind and low-vision people in collaborative exploration and building a prototype using ML to address them.
- Prototype is an Android application that is used for object detection using Yolov5. Currently, the app gives voice feedback on the labels. The code is here.
- Exploring the challenges of social interactions between blind and low-vision and sighted people, and evaluating emotions to improve them. Read the proposal at Proposal .
Academic Venues I’ve been to…
- Human-Computer Interaction Consortium 2023
- Topic: Supporting Online Trust and Safety, Privacy, and Security.
- Location: Delavan, WI
- Presented a boaster poster on prototyping an ML model for collaborative exploration challenges of visually impaired people.
Prior Research
- An Arduino prototype (group project) to measure anxiety levels by leveraging sweat, temperature, heartbeat, and accelerometer sensors to send an SOS alert in case of an emergency. To know more, please read this.
- Code : Click here
- A group project to visualize the growth of electric fuel stations in Washington using Tableau and to predict the shortest route from point A to B in the case of disasters using ArcGIS Pro.
- A qualitative study was done to understand the different problems faced by international people when exposed to banking in the United States. A survey was conducted to gather the different types of problems and a high-level prototype was designed using Figma.
- A literature review to gather the alternative channels of communication in therapeutic sessions to increase participation from people with cognitive impairments.
- Usability testing for EagleView's application. The group conducted a heuristic evaluation of the web application and provided design recommendations based on Donald Norman's design principles and general UX heuristics.
Fun Stuff
- A fun research proposal was made to design a productivity speaker to monitor students who tend to procrastinate and encourage them to focus on the task at hand.
- An independent and group study to assess the usability of Spotify.
- A group study involving a methodological approach to understand the usability of two shopping websites used by Indian students in Rochester, NY. The study involved inquiring about the problems faced and proposing a possible solution prototype on Figma. Click Here
- An annotated bibliography focused on people with visual impairments: Click Here
- A group study recreating the working of an electric car using sensors and IoT devices.
- Fun projects in Grove that explore liaising with Python, IoT Messaging using MQTT and IFTTT.
- Arduino C codes: Click Here
- Python codes: Click Here