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Deciphering Design: Exploring Product Aesthetics and Feel

Deciphering Design: Exploring Product Aesthetics and Feel

Jul 28, 2020 | ,

Design is a multidisciplinary field that draws its inspiration from arts and social sciences, and is based on applied knowledge from various branches of study and marketing principles. In present times, the appearance of a product is a crucial factor. The product should be attractive, appealing, and able to respond to cognitive aspects for efficient human interaction. Design plays a very critical role in this entire process. The first factor affecting the product form is its functionality and feasibility. It consists of sub-points such as ergonomics, configuration, cost, materials, and manufacturing. Emotive and cognitive aspects constitute the second factor and it covers aesthetics (beauty and sensory aspects) and product semantics (message and meaning)....

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ACM-W Grad Cohort 2020: Women Conquering Computing Online

ACM-W Grad Cohort 2020: Women Conquering Computing Online

Jul 19, 2020 | , ,

“To create a more diverse and inclusive tech world, we need to inspire and empower the next generation of female role models to develop their careers and become innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs. Together we can make a difference.” — Anna Radulovski, Founder and CEO at Coding Girls and WomenTech Network, and Regional Director at Founder Institute ACM India Grad Cohort 2020, the third pan-India workshop for women in computing, is being jointly organized by ACM-W India and the discipline of Computer Science Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from 24th — 26th July. Recently, I had a conversation with Dr. Heena Timani...

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Fluid, Fluid Everywhere: The Fascinating Tale of Fluid Mechanics

Fluid, Fluid Everywhere: The Fascinating Tale of Fluid Mechanics

Jul 19, 2020 | ,

Since fluids are everywhere, the laws of fluid mechanics control a wide range of critical phenomena happening all around us. Fluid Mechanics is a sub-branch of classical physics with a sporadic history that can be understood by dividing its timeline into eras (there are no clear boundaries separating one from another). It can be thought to have initiated around 500 BC when the earliest developments in this field took place (till 1400AD). After this came the medieval times spread from 1400 AD to 1600 AD, followed by post-medieval times (1600 AD to 1687 AD). Next in line were the...

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Identifying Cosmic Music: Undetected Parts of Gravitational Waves Revealed

Identifying Cosmic Music: Undetected Parts of Gravitational Waves Revealed

Jul 10, 2020 |

“The Universe has spoken and we have understood.” — David Blair, an astrophysicist at the University of Western Australia and LIGO collaboration memberd businessman Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, in collaboration with the Chennai Mathematical Institute, have made a major contribution in deciphering the fainter components of gravitational-wave signals (named as GW190412) that arose from the amalgamation of two asymmetric black-holes. Soumen Roy (a Ph.D. student) who is working with Dr. Anand Sengupta (faculty in Physics at IITGN), developed a novel technique (jointly with Dr. KG Arun from CMI) to pull out the feeble yet beautiful cosmic signals from the gravitational-wave emissions. It led him to...

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Delving Deeper into the World of Literature

Delving Deeper into the World of Literature

Jul 7, 2020 | ,

“There is much more to literature than what initially meets the eye.” If we think about the meanings, reading is the sensory process where we engage with the content through tasks like looking at a text, listening to things, etc. On the other hand, interpretation involves analysis. Reading in the interpretative sense is a reading to form arguments (argumentative reading). Literary interpretation is more of a subjectivist idea of analysis wherein a text can have many meanings. We can say that in this domain, truth is not a matter of discovery; rather, it can be said to be more of an invention! Talking about...

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