Designing with meaning.

MS Project

PlayFutures: Using Puppets & Generative AI Art for Designing Civic Futures

Design Research, Qualitative Research


‍PlayFutures is a workshop for kids aged 10-12 yrs old on art making & storytelling with puppets with the help of Generative AI

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Demo for

Scent-iment Shopping

Interaction Design, Prototyping

A personalised shopping experience like no other, where guests browse by smell, express their feelings and receive customised real-time-manufactured products in this Al-enabled empathetic store that listens.

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Reach & Teach

Design Research, Qualitative Research

A two-week design challenge exploring the state remote education during COVID in the Indian primary eduation space.

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Become

Internal Product Design

Become is a programme which helps launch the idea and dream of a refugee entrepreneur. It provide tech, strategy & advice, to teach the prospective business owner.

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Biome.ai

Interaction Design, Prototyping

As part of a cross-disciplinary workshop focused on conceptualizing and developing interactive media environments for the Georgia Tech Library, we explore an interactive environment for stairs at the library as a site and the opportunities it provides..

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Thermal Painting

Interaction Design, Tangible Interaction, User Studies, Qualitative Research

Thermal Painting is an interface for painting that provides thermal feedback to the painter while painting. The research study analyses the effect of thermal sensation and creativity with a study done with 20 artists.

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1500+ impressions

Internship: MetroLab Network

UI Design & Research

As a Design Intern, my primary task was to transform a complex policy guide into a user-friendly website while also support MetroLab with with their MetroLab Summit 2023 design requirements.

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Sand Notebook

Interaction Design, Material Studies, Post-human

Sand sketch is a display to capture a representation to human-human collaborative drawing, bringing out the tensions in the collaboration through material.

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Publications

Peer Reviewed

Manoj Deshpande, Jisu Park, Supratim Pait, and Brian Magerko. 2024. Per-ceptions of Interaction Dynamics in Co-Creative AI: A Comparative Studyof Interaction Modalities in Drawcto. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’24)

Position Papers

Supratim Pait, Sosuke Ichihashi, Noura Howell. 2023. An Artist Residency with Thermal Painting for A Multi-Sensorial Exhibition. Position paper at the workshop Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS at DIS 2023.

Supratim Pait, Sumita Sharma, Ashley Frith, Michael Nitsche, and Noura Howell. 2024. PlayFutures: Imagining Civic Futures with AI and Puppets. In CHI 2024 Workshop on Child-centred AI Design, May 11, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages
PlayFutures: Imagining Civic Futures with AI and Puppets (arxiv.org)

Exhibition Piece in Atlanta Downtown

Mixed Media

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Exhibition Piece in Atlanta Downtown

Mixed Media

Bread&Butter:
Extension of Nature

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About me

I'm Supratim, an Experience Designer. I observe and learn from people to design meaningful & human centred products/services. Currently finishing my MS in Digital Media at Georgia Institute of Technology. Approaching HCI with a critical lens. Previous at IBM Winuall.

My research includes investigating Digital Product Design, Interaction Design, Experience Design, Tech as an Expressive Medium, Critical AI Literacy & Futures Thinking.

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