Ramadevi Vennelakanti

Senior Researcher- HCI and User Studies
Bangalore

Biography


Rama Vennelakanti is a Senior Research Scientist - HCI and User Studies at HP Labs India. She works on the CrowdCloud – Human Augmented Cloud Computing Project. Her research focus is towards optimum interfaces for complex micro tasks enterprise micro tasking. Prior to this she was a part of the Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction project where her research focus was multimodal interactions and interfaces. She became a part of the Labs regular research staff in June 2009 after being a consultant researcher with the Labs since Dec 2004.

Here more recent work has been in the areas of intuitive multimodal interactions and Pixene - a photo sharing application that enables capture, sharing and visualization in interaction metadata. . At the Labs, she has led technology field trials and user explorations and contributes to technology research discussions. Prior to joining HP Labs she has worked with BPL Innovision Business Group (BPL Mobile) as Senior Manager Market Research, with Probe Qualitative Research - Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB) as an Associate Project Director and held research positions at other organizations. She has a Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology from the Andhra University

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Research interests

Her research interests are in the area of HCI and user studeis that contribute to specific solutions and products.

Publications

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  1. Vennelakanti, R., Subramanian, A., Madhvanath, S. and Dey, P. Factors of Influence in Co-located Multimodal Interactions. Accepted at the Second International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia (Springer IITM 2013). Allahabad, India. 2013
  2. Freeman. D., Vennelakanti. R. and Madhvanath. S. Freehand Pose-Based Gestural Interaction. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction 2012 (IHCI 2012). IEEE. Kharagpur, India. 2012
  3. Vennelakanti, R., Madhvanath, S., Subramanian, A., Sowndararajan, A., David, A., and Dey. P. Pixene: Creating Memories While Sharing Photos. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction (ICMI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 59-60. Santa Monica, California, USA. 2012
  4. Madhvanath, S., Vennelakanti, R., Subramanian, A., Shekhawat, A., Dey, P. and Rajan. A. Designing Multiuser Multimodal Gestural Interactions for the Living Room. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction (ICMI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 61-62. Santa Monica, California, USA. 2012
  5. Vennelakanti. R. Designing a Shared Media Experience- an Ethnographic Approach. For the chapter ‘Task Analysis’ in the book: Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Third Edition. Julie A. Jacko (Editor). CRC Press. May 4, 2012
  6. Vennelakanti, R., Dey, P., Shekhawat, A. and Pisupati, P. The Picture Says It All!: Multimodal Interactions and Interaction Metadata. In Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces (ICMI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 89-96. Alicante, Spain. 2011
  7. Vennelakanti, R., Subramanian, A., Madhvanath, S. and Subramanian, S. Counting On Your Fingertips: An Exploration and Analysis of Actions in the Rich Touch Space. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (IndiaHCI '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 20-28. Bangalore, India. 2011
  8. Vennelakanti, R., Madhvanath, S. On-Boarding the Next Billion! : Issues, Approaches and Technologies for Expressive and Inclusive Interactions. First International Workshop: Expressive Interactions for Sustainability and Empowerment. London, UK. 2009
  9. Vennelakanti, R. A Longitudinal Technology Trial – TVPrintCast. Workshop: Best Practices in Longitudinal Research, CHI'09. Boston, USA. 2009
  10. Vennelakanti, R., Gupta, A.  Leveraging Existing Television Infrastructure – Enabling Broadcasting and Printing Documents via TVPrintCast. Workshop: Human-Centred Computing in International Development, CHI'09. Boston, USA. 2009
  11. Vennelakanti, R., Joshi, P, H.  Augmenting Distance Learning on the Broadcast Networks with Synchronously Delivered Print Documents. In Proceedings e gov Asia 2006 & Digital Learning Asia 2006. Bangkok, Thailand. 2006