Harshit Agrawal

'Interactive Art' Worked on a tactile glove for the blind to experience patterns created for them. Activities involve making user scenarios, storyboarding, developing a GUI for allowing user to set pattern of vibrations and intensity and implementing the pattern on the glove. Development has been done on Processing and Arduino. Sept '12
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The key ideas associated with the GUI- whose final implementation is shown in the next image.

The GUI created on Processing which links it to Arduino to run the vibration motors. The user can set the order of vibration of motors and also the intensity with which they will vibrate.

We were given a 24-hour time period to develop a solution to a given HCI research problem. We had to demonstrate our solution in form of a video prototype or concept video, and document our process via a team blog. Link to Blog- https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/113147230057609271095/113147230057609271095/posts A jury of international experts will select the top entries, which will be invited to present their entries at OzCHI 2012. OzCHI is Australia’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human-Computer Interaction and CHISIG’s (www.chisig.org) annual non-profit conference. The OZCHI conference which will be held during 26 – 30th November 2012 in Melbourne, was preceded by a student design challenge. 62 teams from 10 countries participated.

As part of my Data Structures and Algorithms course- working on a program that can simulate any interesting 3D shape that is possible to be created from a piece of paper by following the steps used in the algorithm. Ongoing. Under the guidance of : Asst. Prof. Saswata Shannigrahi, Department of CSE, IIT Guwahati.

I, along with two department friends, did a summer internship at Experiential Design Lab in the month of May. Experiential Design Lab is an interaction design consultancy based in New Delhi (India), Dubai (U.A.E.) and Rome (Italy). They specialize in turnkey solutions. The company has a combined experience of over 18 years in the world of interactive experiences and has successfully implemented projects in the realms of retail, events, exhibitions, museums, products and services.

The internship involved learning in detail the design methodology and the design development process following the double diamond method of discover, define, develop and deliver. As a result of participating in a project involving designing an experience for an upcoming restaurant with a unique concept, got first hand experience of conducting user research and analysis, desktop research, on site explorations and client interviews. Learnt how to analyze the insights to define the meta project with short term, long term, negotiable, non negotiable goals and constraints. Prepared experience flows, finalised on a solution and arrived at the physical prototyping stage. Apart from this, was exposed to the various practices of physical computing from the ongoing projects and  completed projects of the lab. Above- Mind Map of the restaurant and users- key characteristics.

The Customer Interview that we prepared and circulated to help us find insights.

Analysis of data generated from Customer Interviews.

An Interactive infographic on 100m races in Olympics for a visualization event organized by Visualizing.org for London Olympics made in a day. Involved analyzing data, conceptualization, creating graphics and bringing interactivity through HTML and CSS. Link - http://visualizing.org/visualizations/olympics-infographic-100m-sprint Made on 27th Jul '12 (1 day!)

HTML, CSS and JS experiment to create a portfolio for myself. Link - www.suspendid.com Feb '12