Mar 2023 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Arthurs Hill, England, United Kingdom

• Helping Greening Wingrove CIC in a voluntary capacity

Aug 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Working with Prof. John Vines and Prof. Chris Speed in the Department of Design Informatics on the Peoplehood project which explores value exchange in communities.

Mar 2022 – Jun 2022 · 3 mos

Oct 2021 – Jun 2022 · 8 mos

Aug 2020 – Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore, India | Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• A community-first platform enabling indie chefs to become micro-entrepreneurs to monetize their skills and knowledge. We are in the beta-testing stage.

May 2020 – Sep 2020 · 4 mos

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 · 3 mos

Oct 2017 – May 2023 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• My PhD is a transdisciplinary approach to sustainable HCI research and HCI for alternative food systems with Dr Adrian Clear, Dr Rachel Clarke, Dr Nick Dalton and Dr Christina Vasiliou.
• Focusing on practices of “futuring” in grassroots communities and how HCI can facilitate openness, participation, and coordination in constructing visions of the future, and in reconciling these with the everyday practices of the communities. I am supported by Northumbria University RDF studentship.

Feb 2015 – Feb 2015 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Design and UX researcher, working in Next Experiences with Technology (NXT) Group.
• Bixby (Conversational User Interface)
• UX design for conversational AI
• Research and design for multimodal input in CUI
• Research for the adoption of assistive agents in the Indian market
• IoT Devices in home ecosystems
• Social robots
• Understanding social and psychological implications in human-computer trust and computer-mediated communication
• Researching gender-specific roles in IoT ecosystems
• Tizen OS
• Entry level smartphone for Indian market, to define India specific features to be incorporated in the new OS & device
• Wearable device for healthcare and fitness

Mar 2014 – Apr 2014 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Invited as a resident artist for In Context:Food, art and ecology, 3rd Edition
• Outcomes: A series of public art installations created in the context of politics of food
• Public art experiments to critically look at everyday food through the medium of immersive experiences and games
• Narratives were expressed through the mediums of interactive gameplay and new media art
• The created public interventions were to increase local community engagement in a deprived neighbourhood in New Delhi, India
• The intervention was a catalyst to start dialogue between the community members and Khoj to carry forward practices for sustainable behaviour change and consumption of food.

Sep 2013 – Feb 2014 · 5 mos · New Delhi

• Managed and delivered a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation research project called 'Records for Life'.
• The project studied health ecosystems around child immunisation in three different geographies of the world. The research was undertaken in 3 developing nations: Kenya, Indonesia and India. Qualitative and design research methods were applied to collect data. Which included multi-lingual focus groups, ethnography, field testing and a global design challenge. The purpose of the exercise was to understand existing cultural influences on immunisation and how they can be incorporated, into designing digital ecosystems for health records.
• Managed a team of 7 people, sociologists, and designers at CKS
• Managed and co-ordinated location teams in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Bihar, India
• Managed client co-ordination and deliverables accross Indonesia, Kenya, and India
• Managed a global design challenge, open for anyone to participate. with a total of 600 applications, 30 were shortlisted to be tested on the field, and winners in respective categories were chosen.
• Outcomes: This data provided location specific insights which were then used to create high-impact designs for awareness and adoption of immunisation. Provided recommendations for the transition of immunisation records to digital ecosystems through wearables and existing technologies.

Jan 2013 – Sep 2013 · 8 mos · Punjab, India

• The project explores the connection between build heritage and cultural memory at Sirhind, a province in Punjab, located on the historical Grand Trunk Road.
• The place has historical and cultural significance, wherein it has Islamic and Sikh heritage monuments. As a result of partition, population was displaced and new inhabitants were not culturally aware of the build heritage. The project was done to address this cultural amnesia of Sirhind.
• Worked as an ethnographer and interaction designer in the 3 member team to develop immersive narrations of oral histories. Which were manifested as installations and oral signage at the Aam Khas Bhag, a 17th century royal Mughal sarai in Sirhind, Punjab.
• This was in partnership with Cultural Resource Conservation Initiative, to build ground up community based heritage conservation systems. The intention of the project being to nominate the 'Grand Trunk Road' as a UNESCO world heritage site.
• Project funding by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom. It was an assignment based undertaking for the project “A Punjabi Palimpsest: Cultural Memory and Amnesia at the Aam Khas Bhag”. The endeavour was undertaken under the guidance of University of Surrey and British Council.

Mar 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Ahmedabad Area, India

• ‘Story of Urban Food Chain’ – a public art experiment’ explores food concepts beyond the table through a technology driven multi-modal installation interfaces. Bringing out the paradox of choice, the installation, is constructed at the intersection of new media and food politics, where food and technology traverse at a common meeting ground resulting in varied results. Through carefully crafted interactions and an element of humour in the dialogues, people can interpret the story of the ‘Urban Food Chain’. It uses novel interfaces, ubiquitous objects and interactions of everyday life, to interact, explore, engage in reiterating consumer choices in everyday life. With an objective to critically question the existing urban food culture, subconsciously alter perceptions of individuals; and encourage them to make informed decisions as a consumer.
• The project was a self-initiated research and design endeavour
• Thesis required for the successful completion of the master's degree at National Institute of Design
• Outcomes as publications and exhibitions

Jan 2010 – Jun 2010 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Handled in-house brand communications for PriceWaterhouseCoopers India. Print, publications, events, web and intranet were some of the responsibilities of the job profile.

Jun 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Worked in mainstream advertising, for print, web, and television campaigns. Incredible India, NACO, Yamaha were some of the clients handled.