Sumit Pandey http://cargocollective.

com/sumitpandey
+91 9725727281 sumit.p@nid.edu

Education
National Institute of Design, PG Campus, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 2009-2011
PGDPD in New Media Design (expected)
Studies and projects relating to interaction design, human factors, user centered design, user studies, interactive spaces,
physical computing, photography and animation.

DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 2005-2009

B.Tech in Information and Communication Technology
Electives in Algorithms, Security Protocols, Electronics, Distributed Computing, Information Design and Semiotics.

Experience
Research Internship, Calorx Prerna, Ahmedabad, Gujarat May 2010
Guide: Dr. Jignesh Khakhar, Taruna Kriplani, Uzma Aamir - July 2010
(Team of 2) The project involved conducting ethnographic studies with children having dyslexia and the people most
closely associated with them. As final deliverables, learning aids were developed and tested to help the children with
their memory skills and language understanding.

Research Associate, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat Aug 2008

Guide: Dr. Anil Roy - Apr 2009
Worked with the university web committee to design, develop and deploy web applications for students and other
university requirements like hostel maintenence and the upkeep and maintenence and redesign of the university
homepage.

Research Internship, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat May 2008

Guide: Prof. P.M. Jat - July 2008
The aim of this research was propose a model for blogging which incorporates a semi automatic semantic data
publishing framework while retaining the same user friendliness that has made blogging a popular content generation
tool.

Industrial Internship, IME Department, IIT, Kanpur, U.P. May 2007

Guide: Dr. Veena Bansal - July 2007
The project was an industry-university collaboration where ERP implementations at Resinova Chemie (Pvt.) Ltd., Reliance
Power (Pvt.) Ltd. and NTPC Ltd. were studied and analysed for the purposes of understanding and documenting how and
why ERP implementations take place and to understand the basics of working with ERP systems.

Rural Internship, Prayas, Waidhan, M.P. May 2006

Guide: R.P. Gupta, Dr. Ganesh Devy - July 2006
(Team of 4) This internship was aimed at studying the water resources, agricultural patterns and the social setup in rural
areas of M.P. under the NGO 'Prayas'. We resided in the village where the study was conducted. Phenomenological
methods were used for the study. This was done with the aim of exploring ICT applications in rural India.

Publications
Pandey S., Srivastava S.; Spellbound: A learning aid for dyslexic children, Vision Plus 14, 17th
- 19th December 2010, NID, Ahmedabad, India
Pandey S., Srivastava S.; clayMade: Tangible interactive game for preschool children,
Designing for Children, 2nd - 6th February 2010, IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
 Das A., Dubey O., Pandey S., Roy A.; Nidaan: An e-healthcare system for the underprivilaged,
IEEE HTCCON, 27th August 2009, Bangalore, India

Projects
SocK M - Social Klothing for Mobiles Sept 2010
Guide: Dr. Jignesh Khakhar, Jogi Panghal, Mayank Loonker, Ujjval Panchal - Ongoing
SocK|M - Social Klothing for Mobiles, is a conceptual model that is targeted at the privatization of our lives by networked
objects like the cellphone. The project banks on the natural affordances of cloth as compared to plastics and the inherent
social nature of clothes we wear. The larger concept revolves around the idea of developing clothes for mobile phones
instead of fixed and static covers and using these clothes to interface with the phone and its user’s primary usage, like
music, heavy calling etc. These clothes would be interchangeable and could be shared between people, much in the
same way as people share clothes and would provide an alternative way to interface with the phone. Clothes for heavy
calling and music were developed.

Construct/Deconstruct Jun 2010

Guide: Bhaumik Nagar, Ujjval Panchal - Aug 2010
Construct/Deconstruct was an interactive installation that integrated elements of two of the most popular subcultures of
the DIY (Do It Yourself) movement, Handmade Craft & Electronic Craft by using handcrafted interactive furniture modules.
Electronics was used to bring individuality and interactivity to the otherwise similar furniture modules and handmade
furniture modules act as an interface to access the interactive behaviors. The installation lets the viewers become
participants by letting them deconstruct the furniture on display and constructing furniture of their choice; in the process
gaining an insight into the DIY culture.

N900 Shape Jun 2010

Guide: Dr. Jignesh Khakhar, Dr. Rakesh Basant, Nokia Research - Aug 2010
(Team of 2) N900 Shape was an alternative cellular phone design and business model developed around the existing
Nokia N900. The course done in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Nokia Research.
The concept brought in elements of user customization, choice and modularity in terms of mobile hardware and software.
The end user could visit a Nokia certified store or go online and customize and build his/her phone up from the basic
version of the N900 device.

Tiblo & Spellbound May 2010

Guide: Dr. Jignesh Khakhar, Calorx Prerna - July 2010
(Team of 2)This project involved conducting user study with children of standard 2nd and 3rd at Calorx Prerna, for the
purposes of designing learning aids for them. The study was conducted using methods of ethnographic research,
participant observation and long interviews. Two learning aids were developed. SpellBound was intended to help build the
vocabulary of the child using shapes and colors. Tiblo was aimed at helping improve the child’s organizational skills and
memory using sounds and visuals.

Ethnographic Research Mar 2010

Guide: Dr. Anand Sukumaran, Dr. Jignesh Khakhar, IBM Research - Apr 2010
(Team of 4) This was a multidisciplinary research project which was conducted in collaboration with IBM Research for the
purposes of discovering native ways of communication and mobile phone proliferation amongst the service class in tier
2 cities in various parts of India. Teams of 4 were sent to 7 different parts of India for a period of 14 days. Our team was
sent to Bardhoman in West Bengal and our target user group was grocery store owners. 7 long interviews and 100
participant interviews were recorded by our group.

Euphony - India International Jewellery Show 2010 Dec 2009

Guide: Dr. Jignesh Khakhar, Shimul Mehta Vyas, Mayank Loonker - Feb 2010
(Team of 2) Euphony was an interactive generative music installation that was designed for and displayed during the
India International Jewellery Show, Goa 2010. The installation allowed for the audience to indulge in a localised sound
based sensory experience. The installation produced sound based on the movement and density of the people in front
of it. Multiple sculptural sound posts were installed along a jetty on site creating an experience of a walkway of sound.
Proficiencies
Design
Ethnographic Research, Anthropometric Analysis, Visualization, Soft Prototyping, Video Prototyping,
Hardware Prototyping (Arduino), User Studies and Evaluation, Conceptualization

Languages (Programming, Markup, Query)

C, Java, Processing 1.0, HTML, XHTML, XHTML MP, SQL

Web Technologies
JSP, PHP, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Joomla! (CMS), WordPress (CMS)

Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows(9x, 2000, XP, Vista, 7), Mac OS X, Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora)
Tools
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Premiere,
Adobe Soundbooth, Eclipse IDE, Netbeans IDE, Balsamiq Mockup Editor

Accolades
Speaker (Paper Presentation), Vision Plus 14, 2010, Ahmedabad, India
Award, Runners up, OZCHI 24, International Online Student Design Contest, 2010
Award, Finalist (under review), Student design contest, ICSR, 2010, Singapore
Speaker (Poster Presentation), Designing for Children, 2010, Mumbai, India
Speaker (Poster Presentation), IEEE HTCCON, 2010, Bangalore, India
Award, World top ten, IEEE President’s Challenge, 2009
Event Design, Co-ordinator, Re-Kriti, Synapse, 2008, Gandhinagar India

Interests
Tangible User Interfaces, Product Interactions, User Centered Design, Interactive Installations,
Spatial Experiences, DIY Electronics, Designing for children, Human-Object Behaviors, Generative
Sound and Art