Workshop: Revolutionizing Design Thinking with AI

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A groundbreaking workshop was recently held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur on March 19, 2024. This event aimed to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can augment innovation processes while minimizing digital distractions. AI Design Thinking Buddy The workshop, facilitated by Samir Dash, Lead Product Designer from Cisco Systems India Pvt. Ltd., showcased a unique AI software interface called the “AI design thinking buddy.” This interface provided a live demonstration for the attending students. Dr. Amar Behera, associate professor in the department of design, coordinated the event with guidance from Prof. Nachiketa Tiwari, department head. The hands-on workshop involved 20 students divided into four groups. They tested the AI interface and participated in a design thinking session. AI as a Team Member Mr. Dash’s software interface takes a novel approach. It integrates AI within a normal working environment, allowing for interaction without relying on digital devices. The AI software acted as a participant in each group, contributing to the design thinking process from user discovery and ideation to prototyping. The AI’s responses were printed on paper labels and added to physical whiteboards alongside participant ideas on sticky notes. ...

समीर दास ने तैयार की कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता डिजाइन - "दुनिया का पहली बार ए.आई. के साथ डिजाइन-थिंकिंग कार्यशाला आईआईटी कानपुर में

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जारां, राउरकेला। प्रतिष्ठित भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान (आईआईटी) कानपुर में एक कार्यशाला का आयोजन के तहत फार्म इंटरफेस डिजाइन थिंकिंग में कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता और डिजाइन विधियों के साथ प्रोजेक्ट्स और उस प्रक्रिया पर गौर किया गया। इस कार्यशाला में समीर दास और अन्य डोमेन विशेषज्ञों जैसे डिजिटल डिजाइन थिंकिंग की नवीनतम तकनीकों को अपनाने और आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस के इनपुट को शामिल करने के तरीकों पर चर्चा की गई। समीर दास ने आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस इंटरफेस डिजाइन विधियों पर अपने अनुभव साझा किए और बताया कि यह विधियाँ किस प्रकार डिजाइन प्रक्रिया को तेजी से सरल बना सकती हैं और अंततः इसे ज्यादा प्रभावी बना सकती हैं। उन्होंने यह भी प्रदर्शित किया कि कैसे आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस आधारित डिज़ाइन विधियों को कार्यान्वित किया जा सकता है। कार्यशाला के दौरान, डिजिटल प्रोटोटाइप बनाने और डिज़ाइन कार्यशाला को लेकर प्रतिभागियों ने विभिन्न तरीकों को समझा। कार्यशाला में आईआईटी कानपुर के डिज़ाइन विभाग में एसोसिएट प्रोफेसर डॉ. अमर बेहरा ने विभाग के भविष्य में होने वाले कार्यक्रमों पर बात की और कहा कि हम डिज़ाइन थिंकिंग में उन्नत तकनीकों को अपनाने के लिए डिजिटल डिजाइन प्रक्रियाओं के विकास पर जोर दे रहे हैं। ....

Auto-generated English Translation: Jarang, Rourkela: A workshop was organized at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, focusing on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and design methods within the framework of UI Interface & Design Thinking. The workshop explored projects and processes related to these areas. During this event, Samir Dash and other domain experts discussed the latest techniques in digital design thinking and ways to integrate inputs from artificial intelligence. Samir Das shared his experiences on artificial intelligence interface design methods and explained how these methods could significantly simplify the design process, making it faster and ultimately more effective. He also demonstrated how AI-based design methods could be implemented. Throughout the workshop, participants gained insights into various techniques for digital prototyping and conducting design workshops. ....

ଆଇଆଇଟି କାନପୁରରେ ସମୀରଙ୍କର ଗରେଷଣା ପ୍ରସଂଶିତ

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ଆଇଆଇଟି କାନପୁରରେ ସମୀରଙ୍କର ଗରେଷଣା ପ୍ରସଂଶିତ ବିଶ୍ରା, ୨୦୨୪ (ନି.ପ୍ର.): କୃତିକ ବୁଦ୍ଧିମତା (AI) ଓ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତିକ ଶିକ୍ଷାରେ ଅଭିନବ ଡିଜାଇନ ପ୍ରକ୍ରିୟା ସମ୍ପର୍କରେ ଏକ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟଶାଳା ଟେକନିକ୍ ପ୍ରତିଷ୍ଠାନ ଆଇଆଇଟି କାନପୁରରେ ଆୟୋଜିତ ହୋଇଥିଲା | ଏହାର ପ୍ରଧାନ ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟ କର୍ତ୍ତବ୍ୟ ପାରମର୍ଶ ନକ୍ଷା ଓ ଡିଜାଇନିଂରେ ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନ ଆଣିବାକୁ ହେଉଥିଲା ଏବଂ ଏହାକୁ ନୂତନ କର୍ମାନ୍ତିକ ନୀତି ଯୋଗୁ ଅଧ୍ୟାନ କରାଯାଇଛି। ସମୀର ଦାସ ତଥା ସୂଚନା ପ୍ରକାଶନ ଇଂଜିନିୟର ଡିଜାଇନର ଭାଗ ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଡିଜାଇନ ପ୍ରକ୍ରିୟାର ସମସ୍ୟା ଶୁକ୍ରବାର ମଧ୍ୟରେ ଉପସ୍ଥାପନ କରିଛନ୍ତି। ନୂତନ ଆଧୁନିକ ଉଦ୍ୟମ ଡିଜାଇନ ଦେଇଥିବା ଏହାର ଡିଜାଇନ ଯୋଗାନ ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟ ଓ ପ୍ରତିକୃତି ବନାନାରେ ଅଧିକ ପୁନର୍ବିକାଶ ଦିଆଯାଇଛି। ସମାରୋହ ସମୟରେ ଆଧୁନିକ ପ୍ରଜ୍ଞାନ ଶିକ୍ଷା ପ୍ରକ୍ରିୟାରେ ଉପଯୋଗ ଥିବା ବିନା ଅଧିକାରିତାର ଡିଜାଇନ ସାମଗ୍ରୀ ବିନିମୟ କରିଥିବା ସାମାଜିକ ଅନୁଭବକୁ ସ୍ୱୀକୃତି ଦିଆଯାଇଛି। ...

Auto-generated English Translation: Bisra, 2024 (Correspondent): A workshop on innovative design processes related to artificial intelligence (AI) and technical education was organized at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. The primary objective of this event was to bring about a complete transformation in task management and design, and to study new working policies. During the session, Samir Das and the design engineering team discussed various challenges faced in the design process. The new modern initiative provided a design supply objective, focusing on redesign and further development. The ceremony also highlighted modern educational processes in design, and emphasized the exchange of social experiences without the use of proprietary design materials. ...

ଆଇଆଇଟି କାନପୁରରେ ଏକାଇ ବଳରେ ଡ଼ିଜାଇନିଂ ସମ୍ପର୍କିତ କର୍ମଶିଳା - ରାଉରକେଲାର ସମୀର ଦାସଙ୍କ ଗରେଷଣା ପ୍ରଶିକ୍ଷିତ

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ରାଉରକେଲା, ୨୪ ମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ (ନି.ପ୍ର.): କୃତିକ ବୁଦ୍ଧିମତା (AI) ଓ ପ୍ରଯୁକ୍ତିକ ଶିକ୍ଷା ଯୋଗୁ ସୃଷ୍ଟିଶୀଳ ପ୍ରକ୍ରିୟାରେ ସମ୍ପର୍କିତ ଏକ ସପ୍ତାହିକ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟଶାଳା IIT କାନପୁରରେ ଆୟୋଜିତ ହୋଇଥିଲା | ଏହାର ପ୍ରଧାନ ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟ କର୍ତ୍ତବ୍ୟ ପାରମର୍ଶ ଓ ଡିଜାଇନ ଗଠନରେ ସମ୍ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନ ଆଣିବାକୁ ଥିଲା | ସମୀର ଦାସଙ୍କ ପ୍ରଦର୍ଶନ ରାଉରକେଲାର ପ୍ରମୁଖ ପ୍ରତିନିଧିରୂପେ ଉପସ୍ଥାପିତ ହୋଇଥିଲା। ଏହି ସପ୍ତାହିକ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟଶାଳାରେ ଡିଜାଇନ ପ୍ରକ୍ରିୟାର ସମସ୍ୟା ସମାଧାନ କରିବା ଉଦ୍ଦେଶ୍ୟରେ ଅନେକ ଚର୍ଚ୍ଚା ହୋଇଥିଲା। ତାଲିକା ତିନିଦିନିଆ କର୍ମଶିଳାରେ ଅନେକ ନୂଆ ନିତିଗତ ପଦ୍ଧତି ଉପାଦାନ ଉପସ୍ଥାପନ ହୋଇଥିଲା | ...

Auto-generated English Translation: Kanpur, March 24 (Correspondent): A weekly workshop focused on creative processes involving artificial intelligence (AI) and technical education was organized at IIT Kanpur. The primary objective of the event was to bring about a complete transformation in task management and design creation. Samir Das from Rourkela represented as the lead delegate. During this week-long workshop, discussions centered on solving challenges in the design process. The three-day workshop presented many new policy materials and methodologies. ... Read Full Story

Smallest handmade Bhagwad Gita

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Smallest handmade Bhagwad Gita The record for making the smallest handmade Bhagwad Gita was set by Samir Kumar Dash (born on July 5, 1982) of Bengaluru, Karnataka. The handmade digitally printed book in Sanskrit (measuring 1.7 cm x 1 cm x 2 cm) contains 433 pages and 18 chapters, as confirmed on December 24, 2021.

The Smallest handmade Bhagwad Gita

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The record for making the smallest handmade Bhagwad Gita was set by Samir Kumar Dash of Bengaluru, Karnataka. The handmade digitally printed book in Sanskrit (measuring 1.7 cm x 1 cm x 2 cm) contains 433 pages and 18 chapters. A UX designer and an entrepreneur, Samir has written several books based on designs. In his last 16 years of career, he journeyed through different roles of an author, a software developer, a UX designer and an entre-preneur. It took Samir almost one and a half days to prepare the first set of 10 Bhagavad Gita books, from start to end. The time is inclusive of the efforts in fine-tuning the latest version, getting it printed, cutting and trimming and including adhesive-based binding. The actual preparation took longer than the duration of the final attempt. Since the day of the initial ideation, it took him more than a month to reach this stage to make his first attempt. Most of his time was consumed in various tasks including, identifying the chal-lenges and coming up with workarounds that contributed to the complete end-to-end process for making the small-est Gita. Starting from the procure-ment of the right equipment within the budget, writ-ing software to produce a print-ready digital version of the Gita has been a time-consuming process. After several initial attempts, Samir perfected the process gradu-ally and tweaked the approach that led to the final record of the smallest Bhagvat Gita. Talking about his inspira-tion, Samir says, "Being a user-experience designer, I was always fascinated to explore ways that can help me connect to our Indian roots. I have been studying Vedic scriptures for years to build a mindset for Design Operation (that I termed as "DesOps" and wrote a book on that) that are not based on western design philosophies but an Indian, rather Vedic view starting from temple architecture and Vedic ways of spreading knowledge about design and art. Because of this, I have been fascinated by Bhagavad Gita. So thought of creating a small version of it that would help raise the curiosity among the current generation of modern tech-savvy youths about this scripture, so this curiosity would lead them to keep a copy and thus connect to our Vedic roots." For Samir, the challenges were everywhere, starting from the printing in super small micro text sizes to cutting till binding the final state. Sharing his experience, he says, "Firstly, the roadblock was the standard digital copy editing & publication tools were not designed for produc-ing a micro book. Secondly, to cut precisely the tiny pages using the regular handmade paper cutters, are not de-signed for cutting such small pages. The next challenge was binding the tiny pages as stitching was not an option." From the inception of the idea, it almost took a month in planning and procure the tools and materials. The cost incurred by him was close to 1.5 lakh, which included a business-grade colour laser printer, a thermal laminator, hand-driven paper cut-ting tools, and 70GSM paper bundles. For his next record, he is planning to make even a smaller version of a human-readable micro-book. "I have a dream to build software that can help and automate the process of making miniature books at a large scale, especially all the Indic languages like Sanskrit. This would open up a window to the possibility that smaller versions of Indian scriptures and Vedas can be produced and can make their ways to the tabletops of modern-day youths, who can connect to their cultural Vedic herit-age through these in today's modern and fast-paced world", says Samir while talking about his aim in life. By Sanjana Bhowmick ...

Travelling made easier with a pocket digital guide

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Travelling made easier with a pocket digital guide MBILLIONTH AWARD Nominee Profile Pocket Travel Assistant BY POOIA CHATURVEDI pooja.c@fivemint.com NEW DELHI Pocket Travel Assistant, or PTA, is a free-of-cost mo-bile phone application that promises to bring the world to the fingertips of travellers. It compiles a range of infor-mation about places of tourist interest globally, including landmarks, history, culture, weather, street addresses and phone numbers. This is beefed up with local news, maps and content such as mobile phone books to serve as a comprehensive digi-tal travel guide. "The initial motivation was to create a proof of concept mobile mash-up application of non-mobile data sources, and to make it available on mo-bile," said Samir Kumar Dash, the entrepreneur who has cre-ated PTA. "The idea was to It compiles details of tourist spots to provide the traveller with a one-stop shop for his needs provide the traveller with a one-stop solution for all his travel needs." Using PTA, travellers can also directly access images or video clips of a particular des-tination available on websites such as Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube. The application uses the lo-cation of the phone to provide users with local emergency numbers, such as police hel-pline or the nearest clinic or hospital. In places where language is a barrier, PTA links to the Google language translator page to help out with simple phrases in the local language. It has its limits. PTA does not provide information about the remote villages of India unless they have a historical or geo-graphical significance. But with the use of the Ine-ternet rising in India, Dash is hopeful. "As the data PTA uses is based on Internet data, in time more and more informa-tion about the remotest places will be available," he said. The application is available for Flash Llite 3x-enabled mobile phones only. Users need a GPRS/Wifi connection that allows data transfer to use it. "(Being) easy to download and free of cost with no hidden charges involved makes the product even more usable by a traveller, along with its addi-tional features," said Dash. PTA was adjudged the best application in mobile content category at Manthan Awards South Asia 2009, and was a semifinalist at the 2009 Adobe Max Awards. Dash is also working on a Hindi version of the applica-tion. For more details on PTA, compatibility information and to download, go to http://wv/w.mobilewish.com ...

Techie creates greeting software

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Techie creates greeting software PRIYA ABRAHAM Bhubaneswar, Aug. 23: What happens when a software professional gets a delayed e-card? He creates a software application to make sure that in the future his greetings get him on time. Samir Dash (25) working as a systems consultant for a city IT firm, was in the countryside when a friend sent him an e-card for his birthday. Caught in an area minus Internet facility, Samir wished he could receive his card on the mobile. So he went ahead to conceptualise Mobilewish, a unique software application that can be used to send and receive animated and customised e-greetings on GPRS-enabled mobile phones with Internet connection. Through this programme, greetings can reach one handset from another along with its interactive content, animation, sound, and visual effects, all intact. “E-greetings using mobile phones is an entirely a new concept,” said the young web-developer from Rourkela. Until now, e-greetings, not a customised card, could only be sent through MMS. Samir built his application using Adobe Flash Lite technology, a mobile version of Adobe’s web technology Flash. This technology delivers rich graphics and supports interactive content to desktop computers. “Currently, more than 30 models of Nokia phones support this application and upcoming models of Sony Ericsson and LG are likely to support it, too,” Samir said. The software can be downloaded from his website www.mobilewish.com. Using the software one can select a card available in the gallery and send it to the recipient’s e-mail and mobile number. The latest version of MobileWish was introduced in July 2007. With already more than 3,000 users from across the world, the software has been quite a hit. “I put in five hours daily for four months to develop it,” said Dash, who won the 2006-Flash Lite Application Contest. Dash is currently working on more products using Flash Lite technology. ...

e-greetings on mobiles!

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e-greetings on mobiles! 21 Aug, 2007 Thanks to a young web developer in Orissa, one can now send and receive animated as well as customised e-greetings on GPRS-enabled mobile phones and PCs with Internet connections. The software application MobileWish, developed by Samir K Dash of Rourkela city, 450 km from here, has proved to be quite a hit, with its latest version launched just last month. ...

Oriya youth develops e-greetings solution (Interview)

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Oriya youth develops e-greetings solution (Interview) Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:48:00 Samir K. Dash, who works as a Systems Consultant at Enterprise System solutions Private limited (ESSPL), a private IT company based at Infocity, Bhubaneswar, is the one who has developed this award winning application By Manoj Dash Samir Bhubaneswar, August 21 (Odisha.in) “Make your wish …mobile!” – this is a catch-line from MobileWish, reported as the world’s first mobile e-greetings solution and the breaking part of the news is it was developed by an Oriya! Samir K. Dash, who works as a Systems Consultant at Enterprise System solutions Private limited (ESSPL), a private IT company based at Infocity, Bhubaneswar, is the one who has developed this award winning application. MobileWish started as a personal pet project by him just a year ago, during August last year. The purpose was centered round the idea about building world’s first complete mobile greetings messenger with Adobe Flash Lite® technology where the users can send, receive and manage their Flash greetings cards on their mobile handsets. The first beta version of MobileWish was released to public on 25th December 2006 which was a Christmas day. Three months later in March, the very first production version was available online with the proposed Desktop version. The current version 2 was available on 25th of last July, which has some added features and the web version of the client, so that even the users can send receive e-cards right from the web site. “With in the first year of its birth, Samir explains “we got near about 2000 plus unique users base and that’s a significant number for a (General Packet Radio Service) GPRS based mobile application. Most of the users of MobileWish are from Europe and United States, he told Odisha.in. The application I am offering for free and any body can download it from the mobilewish website, he said. E-greetings, apart from being a means to let the users free from hurdles of sending and receiving a physical greetings cards via postal or courier service, is also meant to be an opportunity for the people to be free from being bound to any particular physical location. “PCs & Internet did allow some degree of freedom as one can check the account from anywhere using PC but one is still tied to the computer and cannot use it effectively while on go” he said. A user can now send and receive a card on his/her mobile. Apart from this an email link will also be send to the recipient’s email so that so that he can also view it through internet browsers on a PC. In addition to this, there is a Desktop version which is similar to the mobile client, which can be used to get in touch with the mobile wish cards on the desktop. Apart from this the recipient receives an email link in his/her email using which also he can view the card. “The genesis behind the birth of MobileWish client, is a common life experience …” Samir says — “few months back before development of the application, one of my friend sent me a e-card on my birthday” The card I opened a week later, as I was out of town during that time and was in my village home, where there was no internet connection, though near about all major cellular operators were providing their service. This gave me an idea to an existing problem: though we stick to e-cards because it can be reached quickly, and can be accessed from anywhere still the freedom is limited.” He said. Even if, unlike a paper greetings card, an e-card is not bound directly to any physical location, still it is limited to the place where we have a PC with an internet connection. This made me to wonder if “it is possible to send and receive e-cards in any other media, where it would not be mandatory to have a PC connected to internet in order to access the greetings?” Samir says “I realized that mobile handsets can be better alternatives to common PCs for this purpose as there are small and easily carried inside out pockets and day by day these are also getting cheap. So I decided to build a better application which would be world’s complete solution for mobile greetings system.” He choose the latest technology from Adobe -- the Flash Lite technology, as it was one of the most recent mobile technologies that was cross platform and can run over mobiles as well as on desktops consistently. MobileWish is one of today’s best GPRS enabled mobile applications available today. It is also one of the best examples of Rich Internet application which is gaining popularity with the birth of Web2.0 concept. “Looking at the growing popularity of new cross platform technology Flash Lite” Samir says “I thought it would be great to use it as it will allow me to create this application that can run on almost any platform.” WapWish, a sister project based on MobileWish, which was world's first website Samir developed in Adobe Flash Lite 1.1 technology for WAP enabled micro browsers and pushed MobileWish concept to success by winning the international contest in 2006. The contest was Flash Lite Application Contest, sponsored by Adobe, Moket, and Mobile and Devices User Groups of Boston, Brazil, Australia. Later in June 1st this year, Samir was invited by Adobe’s Mobile and Devices User Group India, to present MobileWish on a live e-seminar to the developers and Mobile content and application producers round the globe. Samir believes “We Indians have proved a lot on the front of science, yet we need to move on to prove ourselves.” Remembering how his teachers had encouraged him during his postgraduation days from Ravenshaw College (Now Ravenshaw University) of Cuttack, Samir says “In Ravenshaw, we had the great tradition – there your teacher makes your environment very open and encourage you to ask questions. My teacher Bijay Kumar Das used to say if you don’t have question…you don’t have solution. Now I realized this as true while developing MobileWish. It all started with the common question on possibility and now we know that this is possible” Odisha.in More details about MobileWish can be accessed at www.mobilewish.com ...