Research areas
The faculty at IDC besides working on application and project oriented research, also works in depth on various topics mentioned below:
Themes
- Design theory, education pedagogy
- Design tools
- Design management
- Typography, script, calligraphy, lettering, type design
- Interaction design
- Visual language
- Storytelling
- Information design
- Sustainability
- Product semantics
- Mental imagery in design thinking
- Biomimitics
- Manual Material Handling
- Ergonomics at Home
Domains of research
- Design for development
- Education
- Healthcare
- Design for children
- Design for elderly/special people
- Women and occupational health
- Control, display and motion stereotype
- ErgoDesign
Research methods
- Qualitative methods
- Semiotics
- Active people watching,
- visual ethnography Visual narratives, static visual narratives
- Cluster analysis
- Eye movement studies
- Historical methods Philosophical analysis
- Protocol analysis
- Psychophysiological analysis of product
- User centred behavioral analysis