Human Technology Centre - RWTH Aachen

Sukeshini Grandhi Ph.D., M.B.A.

I am a research associate at the Natural Media and Engineering project focusing on gesture use in the design of technology. I am interested in understanding the use of gestures in social and organizational work processes in technology mediated communication and how this understanding can inform the design of communication technology.
I graduated from the Department of Information Systems, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and was a member of the SmartCampus Group headed by my advisor Dr. Quentin Jones. As part of my doctoral thesis I explored ways to support interruption management in mobile phone communication.

Research Interests 

Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW)
Ubiquitous/Pervasive/Social Computing

Education

Ph.D., Information Systems, New Jersey Institute of Technology (May 2010)

Dissertation: Supporting Interruption Management in Technology Mediated Interpersonal Communication: A Relational Perspective. Advisor: Dr. Quentin Jones

MBA, University of Western Australia, Australia. (Jan 1996-Jan 1998)
M.Sc., Mathematics, University of Madras, India. (Jul 1993 - Apr 1995)
B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Madras, India. (Jul 1990 - Apr 1993)

Publications

2013

• Grandhi, S.A., Wacharamanotham, C., Joue, G., Borchers, J., Mittelberg, I. (2013). How We Gesture Towards Machines: An Exploratory Study of User Perceptions of Gestural Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , CHI EA '13, New York, NY, USA, ACM.

2012

• Grandhi, S. A., Joue, G. , Mittelberg, I. (2012). To Move or to Remove? A Human-Centric Approach to Understanding of Gesture Interpretation. Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Newcastle.

• Grandhi, S. A., Joue, G., Mittelberg, I. (2012). Whatʼs in a Gesture: Exploring the potential of gesture-based interaction for low literacy user groups. Position paper, Workshop 'NUIs for the world: New Interaction Forms and Interfaces for Mobile Applications in Developing Countries.' The ACM's 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Austin, Texas.

2011

• Grandhi, S.A., Joue, G., Mittelberg, I.  (2011). Understanding Naturalness and Intuitiveness in Gesture Production: Insights for Touchless Gestural Interfaces. Proceedings of The ACM's 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2011, Vancouver, BC.

• Grandhi, S.A., Schuler, R. and Jones, Q.  (2011). Telling Calls: Facilitating Mobile Phone Conversation Grounding and Management. In Proceedings of The ACM's 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM Press.

2010

• Grandhi, S. A., Joue, G. , Mittelberg, I.  (2010). Human Body as an Input Device: Exploiting metonymic principles for gesture-based interaction design. In the Proceedings of the 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), July 2010, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder.

• Grandhi, S. A., Joue, G., Mittelberg, I. There´s more than what meets the hand: Using semiotic principles to understand the use of communicative hand gestures in interaction design. Proceedings of the Whole Body Interaction, a SIGCHI 2010 Workshop, Atlanta, GA, USA, July 2010

• Grandhi, S. A., Schuler R. & Q. Jones (2010). Telling Calls: Making Informed Call Handling Decisions. Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Aarhus.

• Grandhi, S.A. & Jones, Q.  (2010) Technology-mediated interruption management. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 68.5, 288-306.

• Patel, K., Ismail, M., Motahari, S., Rosenbaum, D., Ricken, S., Grandhi, S.A., Schuler, R. and Jones, Q.  (2010). Markt: Community Play and Computation to Generate Rich Location Descriptions through a Mobile Phone Game. In the Proceedings of the HICSS 2010, 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

• Ricken, S., Schuler, R., Grandhi, S.A. and Jones, Q.  (2010). TellUsWho: Guided Social Network Data Collection. In the Proceedings of the HICSS 2010, 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

2009

• Grandhi, S.A., and Jones, Q. (2009) “Conceptualizing Interpersonal Interruption Management: A Theoretical Framework And Research Program”, HICSS 2009 Proceedings.

2008

• Grandhi, S.A. (2008) “Interpersonal Interruptibility: A Framework and Research Program”. In CHI 2008 Extended Abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (April 5-10).

• Grandhi, S.A., Laws N., Amento, B., and Jones, Q.: (2008) “The importance of who” and “what” in Interruption Management: Empirical Evidence from a Cell Phone Use Study”, AMCIS 2008 Proceedings

2007

• Jones, Q., Grandhi, S.A., Karam, S., Terveen, L., and Whittaker, S. (2007) “Geographic 'Place' and 'Community Information' Preferences,” Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2007.

2004

• Jones, Q., Grandhi, S.A., Karam, S., Terveen, L., and Whittaker, S.: “Geographic 'Place' and 'Community Information' Preferences,” Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2007

2003

• Grandhi, S.A. (2003) “Interpersonal Interruptibility: A Framework and Research Program”. In CHI 2008 Extended Abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (April 5-10)

• Grandhi, S.A., Laws N., Amento, B., and Jones, Q. (2003) “The importance of who” and “what” in Interruption Management: Empirical Evidence from a Cell Phone Use Study”, AMCIS 2008 Proceedings

• Grandhi, S.A., Laws N., Amento, B., and Jones, Q.: “The importance of who” and “what” in Interruption Management: Empirical Evidence from a Cell Phone Use Study”, AMCIS 2008 Proceedings

• Grandhi, S.A.: “Interpersonal Interruptibility: A Framework and Research Program”. In CHI 2008 Extended Abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (April 5-10)

2002

• Grandhi, S.A., and Jones, Q. (2002) “Conceptualizing Interpersonal Interruption Management: A Theoretical Framework And Research Program”, HICSS 2009 Proceedings.

• Grandhi, S.A., and Jones, Q.: “Conceptualizing Interpersonal Interruption Management: A Theoretical Framework And Research Program”, HICSS 2009 Proceedings.