Jaison A Manjaly

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

IIT Gandhinagar

NKN experience in IIT Gandhinagar Lack of consensus and clarity on the design of a virtual

class room, pedagogy, virtual knowledge dissemination, collaboration etc.

Opinion of faculty and students who have been using the

NKN facility

Urgency for an Indian specific model

NME-ICT vision document

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The way humans relate to the world around them with the aim of improving operational performance and system utility

Human Factors discovers and applies information about human behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design of technology, tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective human use

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Psycho-social-cultural-behavioral-cognitive aspects in transmission and reception of knowledge

Organizational dimensions of beneficiaries

Pedagogical issues in education through communication

and information technologies

Design of virtual learning and communication system

Indian context specific issues

Human-technology and human-computer interaction

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End user variables Indirect: Aptitudes, Attitudes, Decision style Direct: Training, Device experience, Level of end-user involvement Decision setting: Management level supported, Uncertainty,

Timeliness, Structuredness, Environmental considerations

 Interface characteristics Content, Form, Presentation, Media, Context, Performance aspects

 Performance aspects Decision effectiveness: Accuracy, Timeliness, Quality, Perceived

confidence Satisfaction Learning: Ease, Time System responsiveness Speed of usage Number of errors made

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To advance the state of the art and develop standards for human factors variables

To develop principled and robust user interfaces To develop a generalized framework and methodology for human

factor evaluation To develop a new pedagogical framework which is sensitive to

human factors To devise strategies to address the psychological, social, cultural,

behavioral and cognitive facts of end users

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Cognitive walk through Field observation Focus groups Interviews Logging actual user Proactive field study Feature inspection Heuristic evaluation

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For effective human-technology and human-machine

interaction

To improve the quality of virtual class rooms and virtual

teaching styles To effectively design the environment for virtual learning

and communication

Facilitate human-centered design

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2010: Developing prototype of a virtual class room and learning environment

2011: Developing structure of e-content suitable for virtual knowledge transfer

2012: Developing model for Virtual Pedagogy and

interaction 2013: Developing prototype of various user interface

designs

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Recurring Non-recurring

Man power (48 Months)Project Fellow (one) 1 x 48@16000 = 768000/-Project Assistant (one) 1 x 48@6000 = 288000/-Contingency: 200000/-Consumables: 200000/-Travel: 600000/-Miscellaneous (conferences/workshops): 400000/-

Total: Rs. 2456000/-

Human Factor and Cognition LabLab Infrastructure: 500000/-PC, workstation and laptops: 500000/-Software: 300000/-Reference materials: 200000/-Virtual reality system: 2500000/- Eye tracker: 2500000/-Institute overhead (20%): 1791200/-

Total: Rs. 8291200/-

Grant Total: Rs. 10747200/-

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Bipin Indurkia (Cognitive Science Lab, IIIT Hyderabad) Sanjay Chandrashekaran (Cognitive and Motor Neuroscience

Laboratory, University of Calgary) Koshy Tharakan (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT

Gandhinagar) Deepthi Shankar (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT

Gandhinagar)

Meera Mary Sunny (Dept of Psychology, University of Warwick)