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June- August, 2012
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News and Updates
- The Smart Campus project:
The project "Towards a decentralised architecture for a smart campus using multi-agent systems" with IIIT-B was approved and work has commenced on it.
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Games for training: We also began working with the Institute of Plasma Research on the project titled "VR training system for operation and maintenance of an in-vessel robotic arm".
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We organised a game session of the City Game with people from Arghyam at their campus Indiranagar, Bangalore on 10th of July 2012. Here's a video of the game session.
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We organised a game session of the Indian Energy Game with Transcendix at FoV on the 12th of July 2012.
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Institutional Structure of ICDS: Aditi, Bharath and Niveditha are working with an NGO Maraa to understand the institutional structure of the ICDS program and how the communities can be involved in the management of the Anganwadis.
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Amar is working with the South Zone Health Officer of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (the Bangalore municipal corporation) to design information brochures about Dengue.
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Conferences, Workshops and other Events
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Events/Meetings
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| The "Civic Labs Bangalore" workshop organised by IFTF on the 16th at Jaaga, Bangalore.
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Harsha
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| July
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Game sessions
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facilitated by
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| City Game session with people from Arghyam, on the 10th at their Indiranagar campus.
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Amar, Aditi, Bharath and Onkar
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| Indian Energy Game session with people from Transcendix, Bangalore on the 12th at FoV. We also participated in a game session of one of the games developed by Transcendix.
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Amar, Aditi, Bharath, Harsha, Megha, Onkar
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| "Structuring data from surveys" on the 27th and 28th at the Fifth Elephant.
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Aditi and Onkar
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| Meeting with Dr. Kuriakose and Dr. Praveen from Oncogrid on the 11th at IIIT-B, Bangalore.
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Bharath and Harsha
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| "Contemporary Indian Economy Workshop" on the 17th at IISc, Bangalore.
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Aditi
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| FoV was invited by Prof. Sadagopan and Prof. Rajagopalan to the meeting with Profs. Shai Vyakarnam and Tony Raven on the 20th at IIIT-B, Bangalore.
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Bharath and Harsha
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| Visit to DJ Halli, Bangalore on the 21st with Maraa as part of a field visit with students from Srishti School of Art.
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Niveditha
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| Attended the public lecture "Sustainable Transport, Urban Development ,and its Impact on Climate Change" by Prof. Holger Dalkmann, Director, WRI's EMBARQ programme, on the 24th at NIAS, Bangalore.
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Amar and Murali
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| July
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Presentation/talk
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| An overview of the project "VR training system for operation and maintenance of an in-vessel robotic arm" to the Board of Research in Fusion Science and Technology on the 6th at Gandhinagar.
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Bharath
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| Presentation of our agent based modelling platform "Phoenix" to the students taking the MAS course on the 14th at IIIT-B.
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Harsha
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| Meeting with Eugene Beckles, Shane Rogers, Shane Arnott, Vijaya Kumara and Rajeev Sawhney of Boeing on the 2nd at Boeing's India office in Bangalore to discuss possible areas of collaboration.
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Bharath, Harsha, JP and Onkar
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| Meeting with Mahesh from TARU on the 6th at Gandhinagar to discuss collaboration in the areas of health and disaster management.
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Bharath
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| Meeting with Prof. Chinmay Ghoroi, Prof. Malavika Subramanyam, Prof. Shivakumar Jolad and Keshav GK from IIT Gandhinagar on the 6th at the IIT Gandhinagar campus.
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Bharath
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| Meeting with Indhu Subramaniam from Hengasara Hakkina Sangha on the 9th at their office in Jayanagar, Bangalore to discuss the Violence against Women proposal.
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Niveditha
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| Meeting with Shubha Chacko from Aneka on the 21st, to discuss the Violence against Women proposal.
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Bharath and Niveditha
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| Meeting with Dr. Lokesh, BBMP South Zone Health Officer, on the 22nd to discuss designing information brochures about Dengue.
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Aditi and Amar
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| "UI Prototyping Workshop", on the 23rd at Maraa's office in Bangalore.
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Aditi and Amar
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Proposals and Projects
U- Urban Systems
P- Public Safety and Security
G- Games
S- Simulations
V- Visualisations
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Violence against Women- U, P, S, G, V
We submitted a proposal titled "Women on the streets: Unpacking Women's resilience to violence through Games, Visualisations and Simulations" to the IDRC competition "Safe and Inclusive Cities".
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Smart Campus- U, S
We submitted the proposal "Towards a decentralised architecture for a smart campus using multi-agent systems" to IIIT-B, which was approved in August. The project is divided into two phases, and we are now in the process of data collection (Phase 1).
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Games for training- P, G
The proposal "VR training system for operation and maintenance of an in-vessel robotic arm" submitted to the Institute of Plasma Research was accepted by the Board of Research in Fusion Science and Technology.
The aim of the project is to train scientists and technicians to operate and maintain a robotic arm for the Steady State Superconducting Tokamak. We have started work on the project and are scheduled to visit IPR, Gandhinagar in October.
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Understanding the institutional structure of the ICDS program- U
We are working with Maraa, a Bangalore based NGO, to understand the institutional structure of the ICDS program and how the communities can be involved in the management of the Anganwadis. The effort focuses on
looking into malnutrition in urban poor and understanding its consequences.
Maps and infographics evolving out from this effort will be aimed at helping the
communities in understanding malnutrition and its impact.
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Visualising health guidelines- U, V, S
We are working with the BBMP to develop information brochures for Dengue.
We are also evaluating the use of the tool EventShop to identify epidemic
outbreaks in Bangalore. EventShop
is a tool developed by Prof. Ramesh Jain's group in the University of California, Irvine.
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Namma Cycle Lanes- U, G
Using Unity3D, we are trying to develop a single player awareness game
about the use of cycle lanes (which were very recently introduced
in a few areas in Bangalore) and whether or not the current implementation is sufficient.
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Publications
We submitted three abstracts to the International Conference on Safety at IIT-Gandhinagar.
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Training using checklist based games
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Agent based modelling of emergency situations using Gestalt
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The PIEMAC Game - Testing communication protocols
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Visitors
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In the month of June
- Udhay Shankar
- Lewin Siwamalai, Papireddy Annapureddy and Anish S from IIMB
- Gabriel Harp from the Institute For The Future
- Ram Bhat from Maraa and Zeenat from Malmo University
- Prof. Shrisha Rao from IIIT-B
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In the month of July
- Jacintha, Ranjay and Ranjan from Transcendix
- Namrata Mehta from CKS
- Benson Issac from APU
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In the month of August
- Prof. Simon Niedenthal from Malmo University
- Prof. Srinath Srinivasa from IIIT-B
- Sumandro Chattapadhyay
- Sunil Thulasidasan from Los Alamos National Labs
- Students from Srishti School of Art, Bangalore
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