About Anirudha Joshi (formal)

This is a formal introduction and a client list. If you are looking for an informal intro, it's here.

Contact Information
+91-22-2576 7829
anirudha[at]iitb.ac.in
Anirudha Joshi, IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India

100-Word Introduction
Anirudha Joshi is Associate Professor in the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. He teaches and does research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design. His area of research interest is interaction design for users in developing economies. He also works in the area overlapping between software engineering and HCI. He has authored papers related to HCI in Indian and international conferences and journals. Anirudha conducts workshops on HCI for IT professionals and is also a consultant to several IT companies on HCI projects. He was the co-chair of the program committee of the first India HCI conference held in December, 2004 in Bangalore.

Before joining IIT Bombay, Anirudha worked in the field of interaction design for software, multimedia and the Internet. Anirudha has a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and a Masters in Design in Visual Communication also from IIT Bombay.

300-Word Introduction
Anirudha Joshi is Associate Professor in the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay. He works in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design, education and research in India. He teaches courses related to HCI to students of Design, Computer Science and Information Technology at IIT Bombay. He also conducts HCI related courses in academic institutions all over India. He was one of the first teachers to bring in usability techniques and ethnographic user studies to HCI design education in India.

Anirudha does research in the field of interaction design for users in developing economies. He is in the Interfaces for All group funded by Media Labs Asia. He also works in the area overlapping between software engineering and HCI. He has authored papers related to HCI and given talks in Indian and international conferences. Recently, he was co-chair of the program committee of the India HCI 2004 conference held in December, 2004.

Anirudha interacts with the Indian IT industry regularly. He conducts open workshops on HCI for the professionals and internal training programs for individual companies. He is a consultant to several companies and helps them develop a user-centered design approach to product development. He helps IT companies to integrate their internal software design processes with the usability engineering processes.

Before joining IIT Bombay, Anirudha worked as a designer for six years. He made educational films, computer based training programs, designed interfaces for software products, multimedia CD ROMs and web sites.

Originally a BTech (1989) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, he went ahead to do his Masters in Design (1992), specializing in the field of Visual Communication. This mix of engineering and design background has given him a unique perspective in the multi-disciplinary field of HCI.

Client List
Companies for whom Anirudha Joshi has been consultant:

  • LG Electronics, NCR Corporation, HP Labs India, Tata Consultancy Services, Minds Eye Way, Floor Universe, Datamatics, Learning Byte

Participants from these organizations have attended courses by Anirudha Joshi:

  • IT companies: Aptech, Approva Systems, Baan, British Council, CMC, Cognizant, Communicate2, DE Shaw India, Forbes Marshall, Hewlett Packard, IIC Technologies, Infosys, Jasubhai Digital Media, Kanbay, KPIT, L&T Infotech, Mahindra British Telecom, Mindtree, Mphasis, Paper Plane, Patni Computers, Satyam, SAP, SAS, Sasken, Syntel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Honeywell, Tata Infotech, Times Internet, Young and Rubican, UTS, Vannenberg, Veritas, Western Outdoor Interactive

  • E-learning companies: 360 Training, Azim Premji Foundation, Brainvisa, Cognizant, Hurix, Kesdee,  Learning Byte, Liqvid e-Learning Solutions, Maximize Learning, Tata Interactive, Trina, Zee Learning

  • Educational institutions: Cummins College of Engineering, Pune; GN Khalsa College, Mumbai; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati; Maharashtra Institute of Techonlogy Women's College of Engineering; Mudra Institute of Communication Arts, Ahmedabad; National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad; Sinhagad Institute of Technology, Pune; Vidya Institute of Technology, Baramati.

Some recent / ongoing projects:

  • Integrated process for software development using HCI and SE principles

  • New devices for text input in Indian languages

  • Inverted pyramid approach to accessing large amounts of information for rural users

  • Ethnographic user studies for ATM and banking usage in Mumbai

  • ‘Hardware browser’ for shared rural Internet kiosks

  • Hindi SMS editor for mobile phones.

 
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