Programme

Keynote
Professor van Biljon Keynote

Programme Schedule:

This can be found here.

Please look for the IDID tracks as the conference is running jointly with India HCI. Professor Judy van Biljon’s Keynote will take place in the Keynote 3 slot on 8th of November at 530pm.

Pre-Conference Proceedings can be downloaded here.

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Guest Talk by Dr. Ganesh Bhuktar

9th of November 12 pm

Bangladesh and HCI:

Bangladesh is a South Asian country and is also one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Islam is its major religion with Bengali as a national language. Democracy and secularism are two vital aspects in its development, but they have been challenged occasionally. Its economic development is contributed by textile, agriculture, ship building and Information Technology (IT) industry. The IT education is promoted by hundreds of universities & institutes in Bangladesh. 

Several user studies have been conducted there, as abundant users are available with less privacy concerns. Hence, usability testing and user interviews have been widely used in HCI-related research projects. The educational infrastructure and qualified work force supporting HCI and user experience design, have improved recently. A need for improvement in industry participation and sponsorships to HCI research is observed. The international HCI community needs to support local researchers in Bangladesh for such improvements in the coming years. 

Short Bio:

Ganesh Bhutkar is a Professor and Assistant Head (Research) in Department of Computer Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune, India. He is also Coordinator of Centre of Excellence in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at VIT Pune. He has PhD in HCI from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India. His research work is mainly focused on HCI, Assistive Technologies, AI and Medical Applications. He is an active member of ACM, IFIP WGs and SIGCHI. He is Vice Chair of IFIP WG 13.8 on HWID. He has co-authored several academic books with Springer, CRC and IGI Global. Currently, he is pursuing research work with dark patterns, LLMs, user wellbeing and animal-computer interaction. He is a sports enthusiast and also, the Founder-Secretary of NGO – Shirwal Gymkhana p sports and fitness activities.