Dr. Pankaj Upadhyay
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Research Focus

My primary research is in using Product Design for Social Innovation. I'm interested in creating tools and methods for developing technically complex, socially relevant, and commercially viable products. Within this broad umbrella, I focus more specifically on Frugal Design, Inclusive Design, Design for Sustainable Development and Design for Children. The following are a list of publications in these areas. Please contact me for getting the full text if you are interested.
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Publications

Samanta, S., Banerjee, S., Upadhyay, P. (2023). 'A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in VR and Haptics'. In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V. (eds) Design in the Era of Industry 4.0, Volume 1. ICORD 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 343. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0293-4_77

Samanta, S., Upadhyay, P. (2023). 'Role of Human-Centered Design in Haptic-Enabled Virtual Reality Environments’ Research and Development'. In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V. (eds) Design in the Era of Industry 4.0, Volume 1. ICORD 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 343. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0293-4_84

Upadhyay, P., & Punekar, R. M. (2023). 'A framework for designing frugal innovations in marginalised contexts'. Journal of Cleaner Production, 410, 137170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137170

Banerjee, Sharmistha, Pankaj Upadhyay, and Ravi Mokashi Punekar. "‘Designerly Ways’ for Sustainable Livelihoods." Designing Social Innovation for Sustainable Livelihoods. Springer, Singapore, 2022. 59-84.

Upadhyay, Pankaj, and Ravi Mokashi Punekar. "What Can Designers Learn from Failed Solutions in BOP Contexts?." Design for Tomorrow—Volume 3. Springer, Singapore, 2021. 309-324. *Awarded a distinguished paper at the 8th International Conference on Research in Design (ICoRD 2021), 7-10 January 2021*

Vezzoli, C., Petrulaityte, A., Banerjee, S., Upadhyay, P., & Punekar, R. M. (2021). Designing S.PSS and DE: New Horizons for Design. In C. Vezzoli, B. Garcia Parra, & C. Kohtala (Eds.), Designing Sustainability for All: The Design of Sustainable Product-Service Systems Applied to Distributed Economies (pp. 85-121). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

dos Santos, A., Vezzoli, C., Garcia Parra, B., Molina Mata, S., Banerjee, S., Kohtala, C., . . . Xia, N. (2021). Distributed Economies. In C. Vezzoli, B. Garcia Parra, & C. Kohtala (Eds.), Designing Sustainability for All: The Design of Sustainable Product-Service Systems Applied to Distributed Economies (pp. 23-50). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Parra BG, Kohtala C, Marttila T, dos Santos A, Mata SM, Zhong F, Xia N, Liu X, Zhang J, Banerjee S, Upadhyay P. "S. PSS and DE in Practice". Designing Sustainability for All. 2021 Apr 21:123.

Priya, Khyati, and Pankaj Upadhyay. "Assistive Devices for One-Handed People Using Desktop Manufacturing Methods." Design for Tomorrow—Volume 3. Springer, Singapore, 2021. 439-448.

Gupta, Anupriya, Lokesh Fulfagar, and Pankaj Upadhyay. "Co-designing with Visually Impaired Children." Design for Tomorrow—Volume 2. Springer, Singapore, 2021. 429-439.

Punekar, Ravi Mokashi, Sharmistha Banerjee, and Pankaj Upadhyay. "Design for Sustainability—Collaborative Learning and Dissemination at IIT Guwahati, Assam." Sustainability Awareness and Green Information Technologies. Springer, Cham, 2020. 479-494.

Banerjee, Sharmistha, Pankaj Upadhyay, and Ravi Mokashi Punekar. "Contextualising Sustainable Product-Service Design Methods for Distributed Economies of India." Designing Sustainability for All - 3rd Lens World Distributed Conference. Eds. Ambrosio, Marcelo and Carlo Vezzoli. 1 ed. Vol. 1. Milano, Italy: Edizioni POLI.design, 2019. 270-75. Print.

Banerjee, Sharmistha, Pankaj Upadhyay, and Ravi Mokashi Punekar. "Teaching Design for Sustainability for Socioeconomic Ecosystems—Three Case Studies." In Research into Design for a Connected World, pp. 935-946. Springer, Singapore, 2019.

Upadhyay, Pankaj, and Ravi Mokashi Punekar. "A Framework for Understanding the Context and Evaluating Solutions in Design for Base of the Economic Pyramid." In Research into Design for a Connected World, pp. 769-779. Springer, Singapore, 2019.

Gupta, Shubhangi, and Pankaj Upadhyay. "Social Sustainability of Online Instant Messaging Platform—WhatsApp." In Research into Design for a Connected World, pp. 473-482. Springer, Singapore, 2019.

Choudhuri, Ayushman, Pankaj Upadhyay, and Abhishek Yevalkar. "A Comparison of Practical and Computational Approaches to Design Modular Product Architecture for Products with Medium Complexity: A Case Study on Computer Numerical Control Machine." In Research into Design for a Connected World, pp. 735-744. Springer, Singapore, 2019.

Patents

PORTABLE AND MODULAR POCT DEVICE FOR RAPID MULTIPLE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, Patent No: 507439, Granted: 06/02/2024

​PORTABLE MODULAR COLORIMETRIC DEVICE, Application  No: 202031042765, Published: 08/04/2022

AN APPARATUS TO ALLEVIATE POSTURE FATIGUE, Application No: 201931008730, Published: 20/09/2019


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