Media Lab
Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
People / Associated designers & researchers / Gurgenius Kapoor
Industrial design, architecture, affective science
Affective science, biophilic design, digital fabrication, frugal engineering
“Only through understanding the current social and cultural contexts, can we as designers comprehend fully our roles…”
— Gurgenius Kapoor
Gurgenius Kapoor is a Master's student in the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati, researching affective sciences as part of the Media Lab.
Before his master's he practised as an architect in Chandigarh. He draws inspiration from biophilic design, has taken part in green architecture workshops abroad, and is interested in digital fabrication and frugal engineering. He is working to uncover the underlying framework of culture as a construct for understanding personal patterns of expression.
Validation of Emotion AI in Indian Context
Using the emotions and expressions of groups to reveal cultural make-up, with machine learning and AI to quantify deeper layers of personality for accurate affect recognition.
Emotion AI in India — with Mriganka Madhukaillya ↗