1. Jaison A Manjaly Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

2. 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

3. IIT Gandhinagar 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

4. IIT Gandhinagar 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

5. IIT Gandhinagar 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

6. IIT Gandhinagar 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

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

8. IIT Gandhinagar 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

9. IIT Gandhinagar 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

10. IIT Gandhinagar RecurringNon-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 Lab Lab 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/-

11. IIT Gandhinagar 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)