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Papers by Sumit Pandey
The new age is of Social Media. It's creating a social revolution all around the world. A... more The new age is of Social Media. It's creating a social revolution all around the world. As the world is moving towards digitalization due to the globalization, it creates an impact on society especially for youth. No doubt! With the help of Social Media, many important messages and things are done by the people but despite being useful, it is being misused too. Too much time is being wasted on it especially youth spending much time to use this. Everybody knows that youth are the future of the nation but it seems that future of the nation is wasting much more time using Social Media. This research paper discusses the trend of using social media among the youth. In this research, the researcher tries to know How much times youth spend on social media in a day and for which social networking sites/apps youth uses social media most? & how much times youth spend on various types of social networking sites/Apps? Researcher finds out answers to these important questions through this research paper. This research paper carries out through survey method, in which researcher used questionnaire & picked up 24 youth students (12 from UG & 12 from PG) as a sample through convenience sampling method via a survey.
An autonomous terrain profiling multi-robotic system is developed which uses ultrasonic <br>... more An autonomous terrain profiling multi-robotic system is developed which uses ultrasonic <br> technology to determine terrain profile including environmental pollution level detection. The <br> system is deployed for both airy and aquatic medium. In addition to only terrain profiling under<br> airy medium, the system exploits temperature and turbidity analysis for aquatic environment too.<br> The multi-robot system is further extended to swarm intelligence system and correspondingly <br> simulated results have been provided based on the algorithm so developed. The proposed system <br> has various advantages including bottom survey, environmental pollution check, search and <br> rescue operations, and finally contributing to swarm robotics
ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2019
The fatal diseases and disorders caused by smoking have raised a serious concern for worldwide pu... more The fatal diseases and disorders caused by smoking have raised a serious concern for worldwide public health. So for its prevention, it has become very necessary to develop various types of filter material for the removal of carcinogenic and other toxic elements present in cigarette smoke. Herein, we demonstrate a novel filter for cigarettes, fabricated by the insertion of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) based thin flexible membrane into the conventional cellulose acetate filter. The developed filter has attractive attributes of high filtering efficiency, lightweight, flexible, cost-effective, and scalable production. This flexible MWCNTs membrane has been fabricated using a simple vacuum-assisted filtration technique followed by the synthesis of MWCNTs using a cost-effective spray pyrolysis technique. The filter shows excellent performance for the removal of PM 2.5 , having a removal efficiency of ∼99%. It also shows a significant ability to remove nicotine, tar, and toxic heavy metals such as lead present in cigarette smoke.
Journal of Oilseeds Research, 2009
TAFE NSW - New England Library, Jan 15, 2012
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Background Convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) and remdesivir (REM) have been approved for investig... more Background Convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) and remdesivir (REM) have been approved for investigational use to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Nepal. Methods In this prospective, multicentered study, we evaluated the safety and outcomes of treatment with CPT and/or REM in 1315 hospitalized COVID-19 patients over 18 years in 31 hospitals across Nepal. REM was administered to patients with moderate, severe, or life-threatening infection. CPT was administered to patients with severe to life-threatening infections who were at high risk for progression or clinical worsening despite REM. Clinical findings and outcomes were recorded until discharge or death. Results Patients were classified as having moderate (24.2%), severe (64%), or life-threatening (11.7%) COVID-19 infection. The majority of CPT and CPT + REM recipients had severe to life-threatening infections (CPT 98.3%; CPT + REM 92.1%) and were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU; CPT 91.8%; CPT + REM 94.6%) compa...
SAMVAD
This paper documents online banking trends, behaviors and expectations of Indian consumers and ba... more This paper documents online banking trends, behaviors and expectations of Indian consumers and banks. It is based on excerpts of a large industry case study of users from 4 leading banks. While banks view online banking essentially as a technology solution, it is a relatively new area for Indian consumers and not yet self-supporting. Being a savings based culture still, Indian consumers are cautious about their financial assets. They are also relatively recent entrants to internet based services. Design of these systems must therefore be based on an understanding of these users’ outlook and priorities through task centric, security assured and service oriented solutions minus the technological challenges. Design lessons suggest viewing online banking not just as a convenience alone anymore but beyond it, to provide service, simplicity and security. This will create satisfied online banking customers and therefore profitability for the bank.
In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when... more In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when design teams consist of non-designers. We have conducted a series of workshops to experiment with open-ended, semi-structured and structured tools, using design thinking for libraries as a research case. Our results clearly indicate that semi-structured tools fared best regarding variety of outputs, breadth of ideas and engagement of participants.
2018 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (CICT), 2018
The Terrain Profiling Embedded System (TPES) has been designed by incorporating the requirement f... more The Terrain Profiling Embedded System (TPES) has been designed by incorporating the requirement for both ground environment and underwater environments. Although extensive research has been carried out in the area of terrain profiling in different scenarios, however, limited work has been performed for under water environment. The present system, TPES is fitted with an ultrasonic emitter which scans the terrain. The ultrasonic pulses are reflected back by the surface under TPES and received back by the sensors. The value of the distance is deduced from time interval between the emitted and received pulse. The position on the map is determined by the inertial guidance system continuously and recorded simultaneously with the elevation data. For under water scenarios, the temperature of the water decreases non-linearly with the increase in depth resulting in the variation in velocity of the ultrasonic pulse. This necessitates the inclusion of this new variable in terrain profiling syst...
With service design taking increasingly strategic and transformational roles, effective organizat... more With service design taking increasingly strategic and transformational roles, effective organizational partnership and engagement has become crucial. However, since organizational communities are structured and function differently from social communities, participatory service innovation methods like co-design need to take additional factors and different strategies into account for effective engagement and participation in these settings. We draw from discussions in organizational studies to highlight challenges with regards to engagement in innovation processes within and across communities in organizations. Further, we look at knowledge brokers, a concept that features prominently in discourse in this area and outline it theoretically and through a strategy of application in co-design settings. Hence, we contribute to the current service design discourse by adding insights to both theory and practice. Finally, we describe the application of this strategy in two exploratory case ...
In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when... more In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when design teams consist of non-designers. We have conducted a series of workshops to experiment with open-ended, semi-structured and structured tools, using design thinking for libraries as a research case. Our results clearly indicate that semi-structured tools fare best regarding variety of outputs, breadth of ideas and engagement of participants.
When dealing with languages and words, we might end up classifying texts across thousands of clas... more When dealing with languages and words, we might end up classifying texts across thousands of classes, for use in multiple natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Much research has been undertaken in this field in recent years, and this has resulted in the transformation of words in languages to the format of vectors that can be used in multiple sets of algorithms and processes. This chapter offers an in-depth explanation of word embeddings and their effectiveness. We introduce their origin and compare the different models used to accomplish various NLP tasks.
Networked, computational, and recently, intelligent materials are increasingly meshed within ever... more Networked, computational, and recently, intelligent materials are increasingly meshed within everyday life as smart technology. While the smart label has been applied to a wide variety of everyday artefacts (Staff, 2017; Kiritsis, 2011), an understanding of smart consumer technology itself has largely remained feature centric. For instance, Maass and Janzen (2007) identify smart technology in terms of three different kinds of adaptability: to situational contexts, to actors that interact with them, and to business constraints. Alternatively, Mühlhäuser (2007) defines smart technology as
The changing technology landscape has reshaped the relationship between producers and consumers a... more The changing technology landscape has reshaped the relationship between producers and consumers and has signaled a shift towards more collaborative and social cultural forms. These changing cultural practices are referred to as ‘Participatory Culture’. While the Internet offers an always on and readily accessible mode of engagement and involvement within participatory culture, these platforms need to be complemented with collaborative and creative participation in physical spaces for sustained engagement in real world cultural activities. Recent research on maker cultures and the growth of maker-spaces offers very relevant lessons in this regard. Using this research as a point of departure, we propose a decentralized and semi-organized form of maker-spaces called ‘pop-up’ maker-spaces that could act as triggers to create engagement within communities towards creative and collaborative production and informal knowledge sharing. Further, we describe three workshops that were setup as ...
Product demand and high consumption have been traditionally viewed as traits of successful busine... more Product demand and high consumption have been traditionally viewed as traits of successful business in the mass market. However, the environment is under immense strain to sustain hyper-consumption driven lifestyles fueled by conventional mass market business strategies. Sustainable services have started to emerge to disrupt such business practices and alter consumption driven processes to reduce the harmful impact on the environment. However, the adoption of such services has largely been limited to a niche environmentally conscious audience. Research has argued that for sustainable services to have a noticeable environmental impact, they need to be adopted in the mass market. In this paper, we discuss the challenges and outline the theoretical design considerations needed to frame desirable value propositions for sustainable services intended for the mass market. To do this, we review literature from the fields of strategic design, service design and Human Computer Interaction (HC...
The paper describes experiences with Eco-A, an interactive installation for children and youth. T... more The paper describes experiences with Eco-A, an interactive installation for children and youth. The installation was designed to engage children and youth in active conversation around environmental and climate issues. It was developed using research through design (RtD), i.e., the practice of using design thinking, design processes and artifacts as inquiry methodology. Eco-A was made to help us to explore design spaces for youth and children’s engagement with environmental issues and climate change. The installation was used as part of a larger exhibit City Kids at Sentralen, a culture house in Oslo. The paper summarizes our findings from observing Eco-A in use by children and youth, reflections on how well our design decisions supported the desired engagement, and knowledge gained towards future design.
IxD&A, 2015
The nature of services is becoming complex, indeterminate and often transformational and hence de... more The nature of services is becoming complex, indeterminate and often transformational and hence designed solutions need to allow for continuous and ongoing evolution by building up organizational capacity for sustained innovation. Design thinking practices are known to be effective at generating innovative outcomes in cross-functional, multi-stakeholder and indeterminate scenarios. However, they are also met with resistance to change due to deep rooted and established work practices and culture within organizations. Building on theoretical guidelines from practice theory, organizational studies and HCI literature related to practices, learning and innovation, this paper introduces ‘proto design practice’. Proto design practice is a practice-based approach for organizational settings that allows for the translation of design thinking practices in the context of communities’ work practice and consequently allows proto-practices to emerge. The proposed approach is showcased in a case st...
The new age is of Social Media. It's creating a social revolution all around the world. A... more The new age is of Social Media. It's creating a social revolution all around the world. As the world is moving towards digitalization due to the globalization, it creates an impact on society especially for youth. No doubt! With the help of Social Media, many important messages and things are done by the people but despite being useful, it is being misused too. Too much time is being wasted on it especially youth spending much time to use this. Everybody knows that youth are the future of the nation but it seems that future of the nation is wasting much more time using Social Media. This research paper discusses the trend of using social media among the youth. In this research, the researcher tries to know How much times youth spend on social media in a day and for which social networking sites/apps youth uses social media most? & how much times youth spend on various types of social networking sites/Apps? Researcher finds out answers to these important questions through this research paper. This research paper carries out through survey method, in which researcher used questionnaire & picked up 24 youth students (12 from UG & 12 from PG) as a sample through convenience sampling method via a survey.
An autonomous terrain profiling multi-robotic system is developed which uses ultrasonic <br>... more An autonomous terrain profiling multi-robotic system is developed which uses ultrasonic <br> technology to determine terrain profile including environmental pollution level detection. The <br> system is deployed for both airy and aquatic medium. In addition to only terrain profiling under<br> airy medium, the system exploits temperature and turbidity analysis for aquatic environment too.<br> The multi-robot system is further extended to swarm intelligence system and correspondingly <br> simulated results have been provided based on the algorithm so developed. The proposed system <br> has various advantages including bottom survey, environmental pollution check, search and <br> rescue operations, and finally contributing to swarm robotics
ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2019
The fatal diseases and disorders caused by smoking have raised a serious concern for worldwide pu... more The fatal diseases and disorders caused by smoking have raised a serious concern for worldwide public health. So for its prevention, it has become very necessary to develop various types of filter material for the removal of carcinogenic and other toxic elements present in cigarette smoke. Herein, we demonstrate a novel filter for cigarettes, fabricated by the insertion of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) based thin flexible membrane into the conventional cellulose acetate filter. The developed filter has attractive attributes of high filtering efficiency, lightweight, flexible, cost-effective, and scalable production. This flexible MWCNTs membrane has been fabricated using a simple vacuum-assisted filtration technique followed by the synthesis of MWCNTs using a cost-effective spray pyrolysis technique. The filter shows excellent performance for the removal of PM 2.5 , having a removal efficiency of ∼99%. It also shows a significant ability to remove nicotine, tar, and toxic heavy metals such as lead present in cigarette smoke.
Journal of Oilseeds Research, 2009
TAFE NSW - New England Library, Jan 15, 2012
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Background Convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) and remdesivir (REM) have been approved for investig... more Background Convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) and remdesivir (REM) have been approved for investigational use to treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Nepal. Methods In this prospective, multicentered study, we evaluated the safety and outcomes of treatment with CPT and/or REM in 1315 hospitalized COVID-19 patients over 18 years in 31 hospitals across Nepal. REM was administered to patients with moderate, severe, or life-threatening infection. CPT was administered to patients with severe to life-threatening infections who were at high risk for progression or clinical worsening despite REM. Clinical findings and outcomes were recorded until discharge or death. Results Patients were classified as having moderate (24.2%), severe (64%), or life-threatening (11.7%) COVID-19 infection. The majority of CPT and CPT + REM recipients had severe to life-threatening infections (CPT 98.3%; CPT + REM 92.1%) and were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU; CPT 91.8%; CPT + REM 94.6%) compa...
SAMVAD
This paper documents online banking trends, behaviors and expectations of Indian consumers and ba... more This paper documents online banking trends, behaviors and expectations of Indian consumers and banks. It is based on excerpts of a large industry case study of users from 4 leading banks. While banks view online banking essentially as a technology solution, it is a relatively new area for Indian consumers and not yet self-supporting. Being a savings based culture still, Indian consumers are cautious about their financial assets. They are also relatively recent entrants to internet based services. Design of these systems must therefore be based on an understanding of these users’ outlook and priorities through task centric, security assured and service oriented solutions minus the technological challenges. Design lessons suggest viewing online banking not just as a convenience alone anymore but beyond it, to provide service, simplicity and security. This will create satisfied online banking customers and therefore profitability for the bank.
In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when... more In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when design teams consist of non-designers. We have conducted a series of workshops to experiment with open-ended, semi-structured and structured tools, using design thinking for libraries as a research case. Our results clearly indicate that semi-structured tools fared best regarding variety of outputs, breadth of ideas and engagement of participants.
2018 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Communication Technology (CICT), 2018
The Terrain Profiling Embedded System (TPES) has been designed by incorporating the requirement f... more The Terrain Profiling Embedded System (TPES) has been designed by incorporating the requirement for both ground environment and underwater environments. Although extensive research has been carried out in the area of terrain profiling in different scenarios, however, limited work has been performed for under water environment. The present system, TPES is fitted with an ultrasonic emitter which scans the terrain. The ultrasonic pulses are reflected back by the surface under TPES and received back by the sensors. The value of the distance is deduced from time interval between the emitted and received pulse. The position on the map is determined by the inertial guidance system continuously and recorded simultaneously with the elevation data. For under water scenarios, the temperature of the water decreases non-linearly with the increase in depth resulting in the variation in velocity of the ultrasonic pulse. This necessitates the inclusion of this new variable in terrain profiling syst...
With service design taking increasingly strategic and transformational roles, effective organizat... more With service design taking increasingly strategic and transformational roles, effective organizational partnership and engagement has become crucial. However, since organizational communities are structured and function differently from social communities, participatory service innovation methods like co-design need to take additional factors and different strategies into account for effective engagement and participation in these settings. We draw from discussions in organizational studies to highlight challenges with regards to engagement in innovation processes within and across communities in organizations. Further, we look at knowledge brokers, a concept that features prominently in discourse in this area and outline it theoretically and through a strategy of application in co-design settings. Hence, we contribute to the current service design discourse by adding insights to both theory and practice. Finally, we describe the application of this strategy in two exploratory case ...
In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when... more In this paper, we explore types of toolsets that are suitable for design thinking processes, when design teams consist of non-designers. We have conducted a series of workshops to experiment with open-ended, semi-structured and structured tools, using design thinking for libraries as a research case. Our results clearly indicate that semi-structured tools fare best regarding variety of outputs, breadth of ideas and engagement of participants.
When dealing with languages and words, we might end up classifying texts across thousands of clas... more When dealing with languages and words, we might end up classifying texts across thousands of classes, for use in multiple natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Much research has been undertaken in this field in recent years, and this has resulted in the transformation of words in languages to the format of vectors that can be used in multiple sets of algorithms and processes. This chapter offers an in-depth explanation of word embeddings and their effectiveness. We introduce their origin and compare the different models used to accomplish various NLP tasks.
Networked, computational, and recently, intelligent materials are increasingly meshed within ever... more Networked, computational, and recently, intelligent materials are increasingly meshed within everyday life as smart technology. While the smart label has been applied to a wide variety of everyday artefacts (Staff, 2017; Kiritsis, 2011), an understanding of smart consumer technology itself has largely remained feature centric. For instance, Maass and Janzen (2007) identify smart technology in terms of three different kinds of adaptability: to situational contexts, to actors that interact with them, and to business constraints. Alternatively, Mühlhäuser (2007) defines smart technology as
The changing technology landscape has reshaped the relationship between producers and consumers a... more The changing technology landscape has reshaped the relationship between producers and consumers and has signaled a shift towards more collaborative and social cultural forms. These changing cultural practices are referred to as ‘Participatory Culture’. While the Internet offers an always on and readily accessible mode of engagement and involvement within participatory culture, these platforms need to be complemented with collaborative and creative participation in physical spaces for sustained engagement in real world cultural activities. Recent research on maker cultures and the growth of maker-spaces offers very relevant lessons in this regard. Using this research as a point of departure, we propose a decentralized and semi-organized form of maker-spaces called ‘pop-up’ maker-spaces that could act as triggers to create engagement within communities towards creative and collaborative production and informal knowledge sharing. Further, we describe three workshops that were setup as ...
Product demand and high consumption have been traditionally viewed as traits of successful busine... more Product demand and high consumption have been traditionally viewed as traits of successful business in the mass market. However, the environment is under immense strain to sustain hyper-consumption driven lifestyles fueled by conventional mass market business strategies. Sustainable services have started to emerge to disrupt such business practices and alter consumption driven processes to reduce the harmful impact on the environment. However, the adoption of such services has largely been limited to a niche environmentally conscious audience. Research has argued that for sustainable services to have a noticeable environmental impact, they need to be adopted in the mass market. In this paper, we discuss the challenges and outline the theoretical design considerations needed to frame desirable value propositions for sustainable services intended for the mass market. To do this, we review literature from the fields of strategic design, service design and Human Computer Interaction (HC...
The paper describes experiences with Eco-A, an interactive installation for children and youth. T... more The paper describes experiences with Eco-A, an interactive installation for children and youth. The installation was designed to engage children and youth in active conversation around environmental and climate issues. It was developed using research through design (RtD), i.e., the practice of using design thinking, design processes and artifacts as inquiry methodology. Eco-A was made to help us to explore design spaces for youth and children’s engagement with environmental issues and climate change. The installation was used as part of a larger exhibit City Kids at Sentralen, a culture house in Oslo. The paper summarizes our findings from observing Eco-A in use by children and youth, reflections on how well our design decisions supported the desired engagement, and knowledge gained towards future design.
IxD&A, 2015
The nature of services is becoming complex, indeterminate and often transformational and hence de... more The nature of services is becoming complex, indeterminate and often transformational and hence designed solutions need to allow for continuous and ongoing evolution by building up organizational capacity for sustained innovation. Design thinking practices are known to be effective at generating innovative outcomes in cross-functional, multi-stakeholder and indeterminate scenarios. However, they are also met with resistance to change due to deep rooted and established work practices and culture within organizations. Building on theoretical guidelines from practice theory, organizational studies and HCI literature related to practices, learning and innovation, this paper introduces ‘proto design practice’. Proto design practice is a practice-based approach for organizational settings that allows for the translation of design thinking practices in the context of communities’ work practice and consequently allows proto-practices to emerge. The proposed approach is showcased in a case st...