About
Usability Engineering and HCI (UE-HCI) Lab is India's first and pioneering Interdisciplinary Design Research Lab for development of new products and ICT applications established in the year 2003.
UE–HCI Lab has trained India's pioneering batches of Usability professionals as ID- Interaction Designers, UI- User Interface Designers, and Ux- User Experience Designers and Innovation Design Managers. Apart from Cutting edge award winning research and project work in Interaction Design this Lab also incorporates DESIGN MANAGEMENT & INNOVATION Research Facility wherein Design Thinking, Design Methods, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, IPR are focused upon through courses and projects.
Academic activities at the UE-HCI Lab in the Dept. of Design (DoD) are Multi as well as Interdisciplinary involving other departments in IITG such as CSE, EEE, Civil, Mathematics, to name a few. The lab covers both software systems (GUI, IA, OOP, InfD) and hardware systems (Product Design) with User Centered Design focus.
This Lab formulated the Core strategy for restructuring B.Des curriculum in 2003 – 04 with the philosophy of Innovation through Design Research and by introducing Interaction Design stream in the B.Des curriculum for the first time in India.
Department of Design - IITG Brochure of 2003 announcing Innovation Strategy and Interaction Design as one of the new areas of research.
Research Domains of Interest for this Lab are but not limited to
• Usability –Human Computer Interaction
• Design Semantics and Semiotics
• Design Innovation & Creativity
• Design Management
• Environment Design
• Experiential Design
• Instructional Design, Pedagogy, Educational Technology
• Design Science- Cognation, Artificial Intelligence
• Health , Well-being
• Social Innovation
• Product Design
Placement statistics since 2004-05 indicate that nearly 96% of placements at DoD are in the Design areas of UX/UI/UCD/ID making UE-HCI lab as pivotal for shaping the success & careers of DoD's students since the first B.Des batches. Interaction design projects done in this lab have contributed to 100% job placement figures for the B.Des graduates continuously for 14 years between 2003 and 2016. Between 2003 and 2016 over 300 Alumni trained specifically as Interaction and Usability specialist in this laboratory by virtue of their Bachelor Thesis Projects, mini classroom projects and courses have distinguished themselves worldwide as Innovation Leaders in the corporate sectors, Enterprises, Academics and Research Institutions.
The Lab continues to play a central role in the success of DoD at IIT Guwahati.
Research output executed in the UE-HCI Lab has earned:
• Over 15 National and International Awards for projects.
• Over 150 Research publications resulting from Research.
• Over 90 B.Des Bachelors Thesis projects executed.
• Over 200 in house Design Projects in Interaction Design.
• Over 20 M.Des Masters Thesis projects.
• 5 PhDs in HCI completed.
• Mentoring hub for successful Entrepreneur Start-ups.
The UE-HCI Lab has international collaborations with prestigious institutions from all over the world. B.Des, M.Des and PhD scholars trained in Interaction Design at the UE-HCI Lab have pursued higher studies at MIT, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Texas, Stanford, and others in Europe such as Copenhagen Business School, including IIMs in India. PhD scholars working in UE-HCI Lab have been awarded prestigious Fulbright, Erasmus Mundas Heritage, Rajiv Gandhi Scholarship and Grants from Danish Science Council.
This laboratory has contributed towards building a legacy for Indian Designers now recognized worldwide.
We welcome you to explore the innovative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work undertaken in the UE –HCI Lab.
Founding Faculty in Charge: Prof. Pradeep Yammiyavar.
Email: pradeep@iitg.ernet.in
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