Publications & Talks

2024

Sorathia, K., Baheti, K., & Kumar, N. (2024). Design and Evaluation of Gravity’s Grip: A VR-based Educational Tool Designed for Novice Users. In Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (pp. 147–154). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681718

Pandey, R., & Sorathia, K. (2024). A Pilot Study on Hand-Referenced Menu User Interfaces for Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (pp. 260–263). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3689445

2023

Bhowmick, S., Biswas, N., Kalita, P. C., & Sorathia, K. (2023). Design and evaluation of AMAZE: A multi-finger approach to select small and distant objects in dense virtual environments. Displays, 102539.

Ganapathi, P., & Sorathia, K. User Elicited Gesture-Based Locomotion Techniques for Immersive VEs in a Seated Position: A Comparative Evaluation. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 4, 1169654.

Bhowmick, S., Biswas, N., Kalita, P. C., & Sorathia, K. (2023). Wow! I Have Tiny Hands: Design And Evaluation Of Adaptive Virtual Hands For Small Object Selection Within Arms Length In Dense Virtual Environment. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585686

Borah, P. P., & Sorathia, K. B. (2023). Investigating user performance and preference for two magnitude levels of size and angle of bend on a smartphone-sized flexible device. Behaviour and Information Technology, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2023.2245062

2022

Ganapathi, P., & Sorathia, K. (2022). Analysis of Body-Gestures Elucidated Through Elicitation Study for Natural Locomotion in Virtual Reality. In International Conference of the Indian Society of Ergonomics (pp. 1313-1326). Springer, Cham.

Borah, P. P., Pal, S., Bhowmick, S., & Sorathia, K. (2022). Participatory Design of a Computer Mouse. In International Conference of the Indian Society of Ergonomics (pp. 847-858). Springer, Cham.

Borah, P. P., & Sorathia, K. B. (2022). Fabrication of N?mya: A Bend and Touch-Sensitive Flexible Smartphone-Sized Prototype. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2022.

2021

Bhowmick, S., Singh, A., Protim Borah, P., Goswami, V., & Sorathia, K. (2021). Novel Input Interactions for a Möbius Shaped Flexible Handheld Device. In India HCI 2021 (pp. 117-122).

Borah, P. P., Sorathia, K., & Sarcar, S. (2021, August). User-defined Bend Gesture Completion Strategies for Discrete and Continuous Inputs. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 192-202). Springer, Cham.

Borah, P. P., Seth, J., & Sorathia, K. (2021). Gesture Action Mapping for Deformation-based One-handed Landscape Mode Interaction with Flexible Smartphone-sized Devices. In India HCI 2021 (pp. 1-10).

Borah, P. P., & Sorathia, K. (2021). Learning and Creating Mathematical Diagrams: Findings of a Retrospective Study Conducted with Users with Blindness or Low Vision. In India HCI 2021 (pp. 105-109).

Bhowmick, S., Sorathia, K., & Chandra Kalita, P. (2021). Understanding Gesture Performance for Object Selection in VR: Classification and Taxonomy of Gestures in HCI. In India HCI 2021 (pp. 90-93).

Invited talk titled "Virtual Reality Interfaces: Introduction, Advantages and Challenges" by Keyur Sorathia at the event "Thursday Talk: The Next Great Story is yours" at Wipro Digital

Invited talk titled “Fueling Future Innovators: Delving into the Creative Cognitive Process" by Shakuntala Acharya at ‘International Symposium on Intelligent Design’ hosted by Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan

Bhowmick, S. (2021, March). Exploring Body Gestures for Small Object Selection in Dense Environment in HMD VR for Data Visualization Applications. In 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 713-714). IEEE.

Bhatt, A.N., Acharya, S. and Chakrabarti, A. (2021). Extended Taxonomy of Design and Innovation Games to Identify Perspectives of Development and Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design. Cambridge University Press

Acharya, S., Bhatt, A.N., Chakrabarti, A., Delhi, V.S.K., Diehl, J.C., Mota, N.J., Jurelionis, A., and Subra, R. (2021). Design Thinking as a strategy to inculcate Problem-based Learning (PBL) in undergraduate education across South Asian Universities. Proceedings of International Conference on Research into Design. Springer, Singapore

Acharya, S., Bhatt, A.N., Chakrabarti, A., Delhi, V.S.K., Diehl, J.C., van Andel, E., Jurelionis, A., Stasiuliene, L., De Jussilainen Costa, L., and Subra, R. (2021). Problem-based Learning (PBL) in undergraduate education : Design Thinking to Re-design Courses. In Proceedings of International Conference on Research into Design. Springer, Singapore

2020

Invited talk titled "Industrial Applications of Virtual Reality" by Keyur Sorathia at the TEQIP program Ergonomics in Design and Engineering Education at the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati

Invited talk titled "Virtual Reality Interfaces: Usecases, advantages and challenges" by Keyur Sorathia at the ATAL Innovation Course on Product Design at MNIT, Prayagraj

Bhowmick, S., Panigrahi, A., Borah, P., Kalita, P., & Sorathia, K. (2020, October). Investigating the Effectiveness of Locked Dwell Time-based Point and Tap Gesture for Selection of Nail-sized Objects in Dense Virtual Environment. In Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

Bhowmick, S., Kaushik, A., Bhatia, R., & Sorathia, K. (2020, November). ATOM: HMD-VR Interface to Learn Atomic Structure, Bonding and Historical Research Experiments. In 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (pp. 1-2)

Bhowmick, S., Kalita, P., & Sorathia, K. (2020, November). A Gesture Elicitation Study for Selection of Nail Size Objects in a Dense and Occluded Dense HMD-VR. In IndiaHCI'20: Proceedings of the 11th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 12-23)

Acharya, S., Ghadge, K., Ranjan, B., Devadula, S., & Chakrabarti, A. (2020). Evaluating the effectiveness of InDeaTe tool in supporting design for sustainability. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 34(1), 45-54. doi:10.1017/S0890060419000337

Acharya, S., & Chakrabarti, A. (2020). A conceptual tool for environmentally benign design: Development and evaluation of a “proof of concept”. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 34(1), 30-44. doi:10.1017/S0890060419000313

2019

Invited talk titled "The importance of a problem: Contextualizing Learning for South Asia" by Shakuntala Acharya at ‘PBL SA: Dissemination Workshop’, hosted by NEC, SEC, AITM and KU, Nepal

Acharya, S., & Chakrabarti, A. (2019). ‘ConcepTe’: Supporting Environmentally Benign Design Decision-Making at Conceptual Stage. In International Conference on Research into Design : Research into Design for a Connected World (pp. 335-344). Springer, Singapore

Acharya, S., Bhatt, A. N., Chakrabarti, A., & Nagai, Y. (2019). Fostering creativity in design-An empirical study on improvement of requirement-satisfaction with introduction of InDeaTe tool. In Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design (Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3631-3640). Cambridge University Press

Borah, P. P., & Sorathia, K. (2019, November). Direct observation of tactile geometric drawing by visually impaired and blind students. In Proceedings of the 10th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. ACM.

Ganapathi, P., & Sorathia, K. (2019, October). Elicitation Study of Body Gestures for Locomotion in HMD-VR Interfaces in a Sitting-Position. In Motion, Interaction and Games. ACM.

Borah, P. P., & Sorathia, K. (2019, March). Natural and Intuitive Deformation Gestures for One-handed Landscape Mode Interaction. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 229-236). ACM.

Mathur, A., Bhowmick, S., & Sorathia, K. (2019, September). A Study of Outbound Automated Call Preferences for DOTS Adherence in Rural India. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 24-33). Springer, Cham.

Bhowmick, S., & Sorathia, K. (2019, January). Findings of the user study conducted to understand the training of rural ASHAs in India. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development. ACM.

Pranjal Protim Borah and Keyur Sorathia.Natural and Intuitive Deformation Gestures for One-handed Landscape Mode Interaction. TEI, March 2019.

A Study of Outbound Automated Call Preferences for DOTS Adherence in Rural India - accepted for 13th IFIP Conference on HCI - Interact 2019.

2018

Acharya, S., Chatty, T., Ranjan, B. S. C., Ghadge, K., Bharath, P. A., & Chakrabarti, A. (2018). InDeaTe 3.0: An Ontology based, generic design process guidance web-tool. In DS 92: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference (pp. 137-148)

Ganapathi, P., & Sorathia, K. (2018, September). Investigating controller less input methods for smartphone based virtual reality platforms. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (pp. 166-173). ACM.

Bhowmick, S., Darbar, R., & Sorathia, K. (2018, September). Pragati: design and evaluation of a mobile phone-based head mounted virtual reality interface to train community health workers in rural India. In Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 299-310). ACM.

2017

Uchil, P., Ghadge, K., Acharya, S., Bhinge, R., Robinson, S., Dornfeld, D., ... & Chakrabarti, A. (2017). Supporting manufacturing system design: a case study on application of InDeaTe design tool for a smart manufacturing system design. In International Conference on Research into Design (pp. 325-335). Springer, Singapore

Chakrabarti, A., Acharya, S., Ranjan, B. S. C., Devadula, S., Ghadge, K., Madhusudanan, N., ... & Rachuri, S. (2017). InDeaTe—A Computer-Based Platform with a Systematic Design Template and a Database of Methods and Tools. In International Conference on Research into Design (pp. 277-289). Springer, Singapore

Acharya, S., Ghadge, K., Uchil, P., Flynn, C. D., Johnson, A. J., Squier, M. N., ... & Rachuri, S. (2017). Supporting sustainable service-system design: a case study on green-roof design with InDeaTe template and tool at syracuse, New York. In International Conference on Research into Design (pp. 19-33). Springer, Singapore

Acharya, S., Ghadge, K., Langfitt, Q. M., Pezeshki, C., Ameta, G., Rachuri, S., & Chakrabarti, A. (2017). Supporting sustainable product design: a case study with InDeaTe tool and template at Washington State University, Pullman, WA. In International Conference on Research into Design (pp. 209-224). Springer, Singapore

Acharya, S., & Chakrabarti, A. (2017). Supporting environmentally-benign design: environmental impact estimation and uncertainty categories with respect to life cycle assessment in conceptual design. In International Conference on Research into Design (pp. 3-18). Springer, Singapore

Sorathia, K., Sharma, K., Bhowmick, S., & Kamidi, P. (2017, September). Pragati-A Mobile Based Virtual Reality (VR) Platform to Train and Educate Community Health Workers. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 459-463). Springer, Cham.

Sorathia, K., Singh, A., & Chhabra, M. (2017, September). BendSwipe: One Handed Target Zooming for Flexible Handheld Display. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 431-435). Springer, Cham.

Invited talk - "Potential of Flexible and Deformable Devices – Input Interaction Perspective" at Design Degree Show (DDS), Industrial Design Center (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

Invited Panelist - "A Research to Praxis Framework: Inspiring Artful UX Design" at Grace Hopper Celebration India (GHCI) 17, India

Invited Panelist - "Co-design v/s participatory design v/s user centered design" at 16th edition of Interact, Interact 2017

Invited talk: "ICTD in Healthcare: Interventions of Pragati and Swasthyaa". A joint workshop by Microsoft Research India and University of Southern California (USC) on "AI for Social Good"

Invited talk - "Educational Interfaces beyond Traditional User Interfaces" at Tampere University of Computer Human Interaction (TAUCHI), University of Tampere

Keyur Sorathia. 2017. Embedded interaction lab (EILab). interactions 25, 1 (December 2017), 16-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3155044

2016

Invited presentation titled "Supporting Decision-making - Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessment during conceptual design" by Shakuntala Acharya at the ‘Indo-Swedish Workshop’ hosted by CPDM, IISc, Bangalore

2015

Varma, S., Sorathia, K., & Ashraf, A. S. (2015). Extraction of Gestures for Presentation: A Human Centered Approach. In ICoRD’15–Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 2 (pp. 421-431). Springer India.

Bajaj, J., Harlalka, A., Kumar, A., Punekar, R. M., Sorathia, K., Deshmukh, O., & Yadav, K. (2015). Audio Cues: Can Sound Be Worth a Hundred Words?. In Learning and Collaboration Technologies (pp. 14-23). Springer International Publishing

Goel, V., Mishra, U., Tiwari, S., Punekar, R. M., Sorathia, K., Deshmukh, O., & Yadav, K. (2015). CATALYST: Technology-assisted Collaborative and Experiential Learning for School Students (pp. 482-491). Springer International Publishing

Sorathia, K., Jain, M., Amrit, M., Punekar, R., Srivastava, S., Rajput, N. (2015). Gesture Selection Study for a Maternal Healthcare Information System in Rural Assam, India. Journal of Usability Studies, 11(1).

Verma, S., Bansal, H., & Sorathia, K. (2015, December). A Study for Investigating Suitable Gesture Based Selection for Gestural User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on HCI, IndiaHCI 2015 (pp. 47-55). ACM.

Invited talk: "Beyond Touch: Re-Imagining Novel Interactions In & For Smart Devices" at Samsung Research Institute Bangalore (SRIB)

2014

Agrawal, M., Jain, M., Luthra, V., Thariyan, A., & Sorathia, K. (2013, September). ChemicAble: Tangible Interaction Approach for learning Chemical Bonding. In Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (pp. 416-421). ACM.

Amrit, M., Pherwani, J., Yadav, M., & Sorathia, K. (2013, September). Dropbox: drop physical data into your digital world. In Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (pp. 204-209). ACM.

Gupta, A., Padhi, A., Sorathia, K., Varma, S., & Sharma, B. (2014). MuBiks: Tangible Music Player for Visually Challenged. In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design and Development Methods for Universal Access(pp. 346-356). Springer International Publishing.

Tiwari, P., & Sorathia, K. (2014, August). Visualising and systematizing a per-poor ICT intervention for Rural and Semi-urban Mothers in India. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (p. 129). ACM.

Kumar, V., Dargan, T., Kumar, A., Jaglan, A., Nayak, A., & Sorathia, K. (2014, December). Restorama: Panoramas In Restaurants, Tangible Interfaces for Cameras. In Proceedings of the India HCI 2014 Conference on Human Computer Interaction (p. 108). ACM.

Arora, S. (2014, December). Designing a Smart Bus Stop for Metropolitans and Tier-1 Cities of India. In Proceedings of the India HCI 2014 Conference on Human Computer Interaction (p. 122). ACM.

Harlalka, A., Sinha, K., & Singh, N. (2014, December). Tangemon: A New TUI To Capture Precious Moments. In Proceedings of the India HCI 2014 Conference on Human Computer Interaction (p. 126). ACM.

Agarwal, B., Goel, V., Ali, S., Talukdar, N., & Sorathia, K. (2014, December). CaptuRing: A Tangible Imaging Tool for Brainstorming. In Proceedings of the India HCI 2014 Conference on Human Computer Interaction (p. 132). ACM.

Jain, A., Maguluri, S., Shukla, P., Vijay, P., & Sorathia, K. (2014, December). Exploring Tangible Interactions for Capturing Self Photographs. In Proceedings of the India HCI 2014 Conference on Human Computer Interaction (p. 116). ACM.

Sharma, S., Srivastava, S., Sorathia, K., Hakulinen, J., Heimonen, T., Turunen, M., & Rajput, N. (2014, November). Body-touching: an embodied interaction technique for health information systems in developing regions. InProceedings of the 18th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Media Business, Management, Content & Services (pp. 49-56). ACM

2013

Mannu Amrit, Minal Jain, Anway Meshram, Ranju Ravindran and Keyur Sorathia, Design Intervention for Sex Education for University Students in India, Journal of Design for All Institute of India

Jain, K. S. M., Kumar, M. A. D. G. J., & Ranjan, A. Research Findings, Analysis and Design Opportunities for Empowerment of Maternal Health in Assam, India.

Himanshu Bansal, Mehul Agarwal and Keyur Sorathia, Incorporating Collaboration to Foster Voluntary Teaching, In workshop on Intelligent User interfaces for Developing Regions (IUIDR), International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, CA, USA (19-22nd March)

Himanshu Seth and Keyur Sorathia, Findings and analysis of qualitative user study of tuberculosis patients in rural Assam, India. In workshop on Intelligent User interfaces for Developing Regions (IUIDR), International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, CA, USA (19-22nd March)

Keyur Sorathia, Minal Jain, Mannu Amrit, Denny George, Jagriti Kumar and Amit Ranjan, Research Findings, Analysis and Design Opportunities for Empowerment of Maternal Health in Assam, India, In workshop on Intelligent User interfaces for Developing Regions (IUIDR), International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, CA, USA (19-22nd March)

Harshvardhan Upadhyay and Denny George, An Interactive installation on typography for TYPO DAY 2013. In proceedings of 5th International Conference on Computer Human Interaction, IndiaHCI '13, Bangalore, India

Agrawal, H., Maini, A. B., Krishna, A. A., Chhabra, T., & Sorathia, K. (2013, September). REALCAM: a PedagogicalTool for learning basic videography. InProceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (pp. 210-214). ACM.

Seth, H., & Sorathia, K. (2013, September). Parichaya-a low-cost device to increase adherence among Tuberculosis patients in rural Assam. InProceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (pp. 55-62). ACM.

Agrawal, H., & Sorathia, K. (2013, September). AstroGrasp: a tangible user interface for teaching basic astronomy concepts. In Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (pp. 123-128). ACM.

2012

Dharohar...Unearthing Traditions of Jaipur by Kanika Gupta, presented at International Conference of IndiaHCI 2012 Details

Tutorial on Tangible User Interface by Keyur Sorathia at International Conference of IndiaHCI 2012 Details

Keyur Sorathia, panelist of Design Education in India at International Conference of IndiaHCI 2012

Sorathia, K., & Servidio, R. (2012). Learning and experience: teaching tangible interaction & edutainment. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 64, 265-274.

George, D., Desai, B., & Sorathia, K. Dhvani: An Open Source Multi-touch Modular Synthesizer.

Seth, H., & Sorathia, K. (2012, December). ZOR SE BOLO: Interactive installations for Airport, providing a linguistic tour of New Delhi. In Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI), 2012 4th International Conference on (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

2011

Invited speaker: Addressing Maternal Mortality in Assam" at the The XXXIV Indian Social Science Congress (Gauhati University)

Energy Conservation and Interaction Design. Keyur Sorathia - TEI’11, Work-in-Progress Workshop Jan 23, 2011, Madeira, Portugal Details

IWILL – An interactive installation to create awareness about energy conservation. Keyur Sorathia, Harshal Verma, Jasmeet Sethi, Rohit Sharma, Shamik Ray - IndiaHCI'11, Design Case Study April 7-10th, Bangalore, India Details