FAQs:

• What is HCI? HCI is about building technology that is useful, usable, learnable and not damaging to people. This involves understanding people, building stuff and evaluating them. It compasses user research, user interface design, user experience design.
• What do HCI folks typically do? A combination of two things: work with people (surveys, interviews, observations) and work with tech (design, build, use tech). The people and tech could be very diverse.
• What kinds of jobs? Often, HCI folks are product managers, startup founders, UI/UX designers, user researchers, and even sometimes electronic product designers. Occasionally, some are academics. There is a huge job market, and fundamentally can't be made redundant by GenAI.

For students:

Hiring M.Tech., M.Des., M.S., Ph.D. and undergrad students.
See the list below and see if anything catches your attention. Send me an email! If you are an undergrad, please take a look at open positions below; several parts are suited for undergraduates.

Open positions

• Full-stack developer to help research and build next-gen Indic text digital readers. This will involve building web-apps end-to-end, and the ideal person preferably also has a working knowledge of Sanskrit. Also a great project for M.S. (project funded) / M.Tech. / Ph.D. students.
• ML engineer to build and deploy ML models to production (with visualization, to a website, etc.) Also suited for MTech / PhD students .
• Front-end developer to build educational visual programming languages. Mostly involves HTML, CSS, Javascript, and the ideal candidate is passionate about making changes to education in India. This is a great project for people interested in building cool, fun stuff. Also ideal for undergrads wanting to go to grad school. Particularly suited for students from CS, Design, CGS, and undergrads wanting to apply to grad school/enter UI/UX jobs .
• Full-stack developer to build cognitively inspired tool. Involves programming and building cognitive models (requires skills in data structures, building algorithms, scraping web, etc). This is a great project for people interested in building cool, fun automation stuff. Ideal for M.Tech students in CS/CGS .
• User / UI / UX research for a variety of projects (Human-AI interaction, education). The ideal candidate is good with working with people (user studies, interviews, survey design, etc.) Ideal for undergrads wanting to go to grad school, or product management. Also great for MTechs in CS/CGS .

Consulting

I do a small number of UI/UX training or consultation with government/industry/startups.
Please write me an email with what you are looking for.

Assistant Professor, Department of CSE
Adjunct Professor, Department of Cognitive Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Research Interests:
Human Computer Interaction
Software Engineering
Computing Education

Contact:
KD 220 Kadim Diwan Building, IIT Kanpur 208016.
srutis at cse dot iitk dot ac dot in
+91 (512) 259 2231 / +91 (512) 679 2231