Hi, you might already know me from my previous rants here, but if this is your first time on my page, I’m Avyay Kashyap, a health tech and F1 enthusiast, who occasionally chooses to be vulnerable and pens down his thoughts. Some context to this post: I recently joined a…

“Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have — but I Have It” - Lana Del Rey While Lana Del Rey has this hope, she does warn us that it is a dangerous thing for her to have. And why just her? It is a dangerous…

Hold up! This is the third part in a three part series, detailing out the final design concept. You can read the background to this design here and the process of identification of the key intervention areas here. The problem areas identified led to the derivation of the key insights…

Hold up! Before you go any further, I am obliged to inform you that this is the second part in a three part series. You can find the background (first part) to this text here. The longitudinal study of the world of musculoskeletal physiotherapy threw up a lot of interesting…

This study was done as a part of the Interaction Gestaltung 4 module at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany under the guidance of Prof. Jonathan Bölz and Paul Käppler, with inputs from my guide in India, Prof. Jayesh Pillai, IDC IIT Bombay. Introduction Internet Technologies have a come a…

The problem with public data: 1. Data resides in silos. 2. Access to this data is expensive and not directly usable. 3. Legality with regards to use of data is unclear. For example, Bloomberg makes tons of money just by maintaining a data repo that contributes to their revenue. The…

Our most important task is to get off our present collision course. And who is there to tackle such a task? I think every one of us, whether old or young, powerful or powerless, rich or poor, influential or uninfluential. To talk about the future is useful only if it…

The concept of multitasking is not new to us, especially in this fast paced world. In fact, this is something that is so innate to us, that we just naturally keep switching between tasks, involved in both the physical and virtual world. Viewing Instagram or doodling while a lecture is…

Abstract In this world of connected devices, where each and every movement of ours can be monitored, analyzed and visualised in a matter of seconds, data creation and analysis is supreme. We are creating terabytes of data each and everyday driving on the roads. This data could be used for multiple…