Others
A wide range of other people are working within IESUP and in many other ways to help build HCI and usability in India.
There are five co-ordinators based in India. Each of these has both a regional and a theme role.
Also in addition to the main partners of the project a growing number of other European contributors are providing seminars and tutorials, and working with their Indian counterparts in collaborative research and development projects.
In India the project is organised by Kaushik Ghosh, Director of programmes and Iqbal Ahmed, Director of Operations.
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Iqbal Ahmed is the Operations Head of IESUP operations in India. He is mainly involved with the promotion, marketing and development of HCI and Usability in India. He has a rich experience of over 17 years in the I.T. industry, having worked in senior managerial positions. Being a senior member of Computer Society of India, he has been actively involved in CSI's activities since the last 13 years, having organized several state level and National level conventions, seminars, workshops, etc. Has vast experience in I.T. Training & People Management.
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Kaushik Gosh is the Program Management Head India, IESUP. He is involved with organizing subject related content and creating project and people resource framework for HCI and Human Centered Computing for promoting HCI & User Centered Design in India through collaborations with the European academic bodies.
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India Co-ordinators
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Apala Lahiri Chavan is the Managing Director of Human Factors International based in Mumbai. Apala's usability experience includes interface design, standards and style guide development, needs analysis, task flow analysis, forms design, documentation, training, and online support. An award winning designer she has led teams spanning design, development, testing, and deployment of software products.
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She has a special interest in the issue of internationalisation of products and has presented several papers on the subject.Apala is overall co-ordinator for IESUP and also has the specific role as the West India co-ordinator (Mumbai, Ahmedabad).
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Anirudha Joshi is Assistant Professor within the Industrial Design Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Aniruda's teaching and research interests include HCI design, design for new media, interaction design for developing countries, information design, and computer graphics. Aniruda co-ordinates the HCI in Curriculum theme within IESUP
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Girish Prabhu returned to India after fifteen years working in the IT Industry in the Unites States. He is currently based at HP India in Bangalore. Girish is also actively involved in orgainsing the IWIPS series of workshops on software internationalsation. Girish is the South India and co-ordinator for IESUP (including Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai) and he also co-ordinates the User Centred Design theme within India.
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Manu Sharma is the founder of MilkYourDotcom which provided eCommerce user experience consultancy. He seeks to provide surprisingly simple solutions to complex problems Manu is the North India co-ordinator for IESUP, and he also co-ordinates the User Interaction Design theme within India.
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Anant Bhaskar Garg is based at the Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS) at the University of Allahabad. Anant is co-ordinator for North East India and contributes to a number of themes.
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Indian VolunteersIn addition IESUP has the support of a range of other volunteers: Professor Pradeep Yammiyavar, Dept of Design, Indian Institue of Technology, Guwahati. We are always looking for others to help. See the page to contact get in touch.
Other European ContributorsElisa del Galdo, is Consultant Director at optimum.web limited. She has over two decades of expertise within usability and localisation. Elisa is also President of IWIPS - the International Workshop for Internationalisation of Products and Systems - which organises the annual IWIPS workshop. IWIPS04 will be held in Vancover,Canada in July 2004. Elisa may be best known for co-editing with Jakob Nielsen, International User Interfaces, one of the key resources in the field. John Rimmer, is a Lecturer in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS) at the University of Sussex in the UK. John has extensive commercial and academic experience in HCI and is particularly interested in how user-centred design techniques are adopted by design teams and how research findings can be communicated into the design process. John took part in the first IESUP tour of India in March 2003. Professor David Benyon, is Head of the HCI Group at Napier University in Scotland. David's research is based in human-computer interaction (HCI), particularly in the application of knowledge-based techniques to HCI. This combination takes us away from the idea of humans interacting with computers towards a view of HCI based on multiple interacting systems - some of these are human, others are artificial agents and others are non-intelligent information artefacts. David will be taking part in the October 2003 series of seminars when he will be focussing on Interaction Design with Liam Bannon. Gerrit van der Veer, is a Reader in Interactive Systems in the Department of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Gerrit is the representative of NGI, the the Dutch Computer Society, in the IFIP Technical Committee on human-computer interaction (TC 13). Gerrit will be taking part in the October 2003 series of seminars when he will be working with Indian colleagues on the HCI in Curriculum theme. Bengt Göransson, heads up the usability design team at the company Enea Redina in Uppsala Sweden. Together with Jan Gulliksen he has recently co-authored a book on User Centred Systems Design (UCSD). In addition to industrial experience in UCSD dating back to 1984 his PhD research is titled Usability Design: A Framework for Designing Usable Interactive Systems in Practice. |
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