Current Projects



Euclide Puppet


Euclide (pronounced eU-clee-day) is a multimodal and affective puppet installed in the Science Museam at Naples, Italy. He tries to engage kids in their visit to the museam and make it interesting.

In this scenerio Euclide plays the Red Light, Green Light (Un, Due, Tre, Stella in Italian) with the kids. The objective of the game is to touch the puppet. He would close his eyes and say "Uno, Due, Tre, Stella" and then open his eyes. You can only move if his eyes are close. IF he sees you moving, you have to go back to the starting position.

Puppet Euclide playing Uno, Due, Tre, Stella for EU project CALLAS from Prayag Narula on Vimeo.


In this scenerio, the puppet persuades the kids to jump. The puppet says that he would change his constume if the kids jump. He also jumps with the kids sometimes. If the kids stop jumping the puppet asks if they wanted to jump more.


Puppet playing the Jumping game in Italian from Prayag Narula on Vimeo.



BeAware

BeAware is a collaborative research project co-funded by the European Union. BeAware studies how ubiquitous information can turn energy consumers into active players.

I help in developing mobile interaction which consists of a web application for iPhone and iPod Touch. The web application boosts of a 3D interface which is both intutive and affective.

Past Projects



Polipo for Symbian OS


As a Research Intern at ITRI, in the city of Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, I ported Polipo, the tiny local caching web proxy from Unix to Symbian using Nokia's Open C Technology. The project was a part of StreeImage Project and aimed at developing offline web browsing capabilities for Symbian 3.0 phones.

Sunoh

Sunoh is an Embedded System for Inclusive education of Hearing and Speech Impaired Students using Speech Processing, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on Microsoft Windows CE 6.0 platform.

The project was selected among top 158 projects in Imagine Cup organized by Microsoft. Among top 3 final year projects from the department. The project was also my the basis of my bachelor's thesis and was placed among the top 3 projects in the batch.

PCard

A Fingerprinting and Smart Card based web security solution. It consists of an Internet Explorer Toolbar which would interact directly with the smart-card and fingerprint reader connected to the computer.

The project was selected among top 20 projects worldwide in SecureTheWeb-2006. Report and Presentation.