Articles by Ravi Mokashi Punekar

Dr. Punekar is Professor at Department of Design, IIT Guwahati. He is former HoD and Dean of student affairs at IIT Guwahati. He is mainly interested in sustainability, product design, and social innovations in rural areas.

Gesture Selection Study for a Maternal Healthcare Information System in Rural Assam, India

Abstract This paper presents a case study aimed at selecting suitable body gestures to represent actions that viewers of a televised maternal health information program will recognize and understand. This program is designed for pregnant women in rural Assam in India. We observed the gestures of 24 pregnant women to determine how to present the […] [Read More]