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Dr. Devanuj Kanta Balkrishan

Professor

Interaction Design

Institute of Design

Biography

Devanuj is a designer with qualifications in three different domains of design namely, Architecture, Product Design and Human-Computer Interaction. In his PhD, he worked on understanding and predicting digital technology usage in rural and low-literate contexts in India from a design-oriented approach. During his stint with the IT industry, he developed algorithms for human handwriting recognition and synthesis. He was also involved in developing a speech database (needed for training speech recognition engines).

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2019

    Ph.D.

    Focus: Technology Adoption by 'Emergent' Users: The User-Usage Model

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2000

    MDes

    Major: Industrial Design

  • University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee), 1998

    BArch

    Major: Architecure

  • Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D)

  • Bernhaupt, R., Dalvi, G., Joshi, A., Balkrishan, D. K., O'Neill, J., & Winckler, M. (Eds.). (2017). Human-Computer Interaction-INTERACT 2017: 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Mumbai, India, September 25-29, 2017, Proceedings. Springer.

  • Balkrishan, D., Joshi, A., Rajendran, C., Nizam, N., Parab, C., & Devkar, S. (2016, December). Making and breaking the user-usage model: Whatsapp adoption amongst emergent users in India. In Proceedings of the 8th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 52-63).
  • Devanuj, & Joshi, A. (2013, September). Technology adoption by 'emergent' users: the user-usage model. In Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific conference on computer human interaction (pp. 28-38).
  • Chandel, P., Devanuj, & Doke, P. (2013, January). A comparative study of voice and graphical user interfaces with respect to literacy levels. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (pp. 1-2).
  • Gokarn, P., Gore, K., Devanuj, Doke, P., Lobo, S., & Kimbahune, S. (2011, April). KLM operator values for rural mobile phone user. In Proceedings of the 3rd Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 93-96).

  • User-Research
  • Usability Analysis
  • Systems-Design
  • Programming

  • Decolonizing Design
  • Design for Artificial Intelligence driven artefacts

  • JK Lakshmipat University. (Sep 2010 - present).
  • Visiting Faculty-member, NIFT Mumbai. (Aug 2018 – May 2019).
  • Visiting Faculty-member, Srishti (now Srishti Manipal) Institute of Art, Design and Technology. (Jul 2017 – Sep 2017).
  • Researcher, Tata Consultancy Services/Tata Infotech Ltd. (Aug 2002 – Jun 2009).

  • Dean, Institute of Design, JK Lakshmipat University. (Oct 2022 – Dec 2023).

  • India HCI (The Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction)
  • CHI (The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

  • Proceedings Chair, India HCI (2021, 2018, 2015)
  • Publication Co-chair, INTERACT (2017)
  • E-Publications Co-Chair, APCI (2013)

  • Human-Computer Interaction, IIT Bombay
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  • Bachelor of Technology B.Tech

  • Bachelor of Design B.Des

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA (Fintech)

  • Bachelor of Business Administration BBA (Honours)

  • Master of Design M.Des

  • Master of Technology M.Tech

  • Master of Business Administration MBA

  • Doctor of Philosophy PhD

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