Out of India Track

Out-of-India is a curated track at India HCI 2025. Through this track, we aim to showcase some of the best HCI research done in India, which has been presented at premier international venues in the last one or two years.

The following is the list of papers that will be presented at the Out of India Track (authors mentioned in bold will be presenting the work at IndiaHCI 2025)

1. The Rhetoric of Smartness

INTERACT 2025

Girish Dalvi, Malay Dhamelia

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2. "I did not know what they are": Understanding Support Needs of Women around Family Planning in Rural India

CSCW 2025

Jasmeet Kaur, Riya Singh, and Pushpendra Singh

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3. Analyzing LLM Usage in an Advanced Computing Class in India

Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE '25)

Utkarsh Arora et al.

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4. "But I Won't Say That It Was Bad Seeing a Real Vagina": Understanding Perspectives toward Learning Sensitive-Critical Health Topic.

CHI 2025

Sara Moin, Manshul Belani, Pragya Singh, Nishtha Phutela, and Pushpendra Singh

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5. Kahani: Culturally-Nuanced Visual Storytelling Tool for Non-Western Cultures.

COMPASS 

Hamna, Deepthi Sudharsan, et al.

[Link]

6. Translating Emotions to Annotations: A Participant's Perspective of Physiological Emotion Data Collection

CSCW 2025

Pragya Singh, Ritvik Budhiraja, Pankaj Jalote, Mohan Kumar, and Pushpendra Singh

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7. Design and Evaluation of Gravity's Grip: A VR-based Educational Tool Designed for Novice Users.

ACM Mindtrek '24

Keyur Sorathia, Kaushiki Baheti, and Nikhil Kumar

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8. Is a Sunny Day Bright and Cheerful or Hot and Uncomfortable? Young Children's Exploration of ChatGPT.

Nordic CHI 2025

Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Sumita Sharma, Dipanjan Chakraborty, and Marianne Kinnula

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9. Is 'quick and dirty' good enough? An analysis of the usability evaluation practices for learning environment design.

ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX '25)

Sunny Prakash Prajapati and Syaamantak Das

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10. I know I have this till my Last Breath”: Unmasking the Gaps inChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Care in India

CHI 2025

Gautami Tripathi, Medhavi Sabherwal, Pushpendra Singh

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11. Gesture-Based Drone Swarm Control in Virtual Reality: A User-Defined Gesture Library and Prototype

INTERACT 2025

Abhiram and Jayesh Pillai

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12. Into The Manhole: An Unguided 6DoF VR Experience

INTERACT 2025

Abhishek Verma, Jayesh Pillai, Banda Shiva Teja

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13. Navigating Narratives: A Typology of Way-Finding Strategies for VR Storytelling

EuroXR 2025

Soumya Agarwal & Jayesh S. Pillai

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For any queries, please get in touch with Out of India Track Chair - Pallavi Rao (pallavisudhi@gmail.com)