Area of Practice

Design and User Researcher

Education

Master’s in Psychology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara

Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara

Work Experience

• Independent consultant as Researcher in Healthcare Design and Strategy at:
  • https://avegenhealth.com (Mumbai)
  • https://www.saathealth.com (Mumbai)
• Project Manager for Public Health Care Intervention at:
  • Maitra (an IVRS for People Living with HIV/AIDS). This project was administered my MDACS, Mumbai
  • https://mdacs.org.in/archives.html
• Project/Research Associate with IDC, School of Design, Bombay
• Visual Designer/ Art Lead, Adayana Learning Solutions, Hyderabad

Interest Areas

communication design for healthcare; designing for public health interventions

Current Practice at Srishti

User Experience Design, Service Design, Design Research; Understanding User Behaviour; Insights to concepts; Social Communication; Sound as Experience; Shifting Perspectives; Dig Deeper – Regenerative cultures and practices, Sound and Psychology

Creative Practice and Outreach

Working with communities, especially with people living in the slums of Mumbai to develop social communication interventions

Speaker at Tedex Dharavi April2019

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BUzyl7wHzc

Published papers include:

• 2011 Interact
• 2014 CHI
• 2014 ICORD
• 2014 India HCI
• 2015 India HCI
• 2019 Interact

Attended conferences at:

• 2014 CHI ( Toronto)
• India HCI; Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore

Speaker at Research Innovation and Incubation Showcase (RIISE)

• https://www.iiitd.ac.in/riise