Memories of violence: Of emotional geographies and planning in post-Partition Delhi, 1948–62

This article engages with the messy streets of post-Partition Delhi. The author engages with a relatively understudied facet of the Partition: its impact on the everyday life of a city. Through physical sites which carried imprints of former inhabitants, to letters that refugees wrote to express their anxieties, the article constructs identities that were forged in the everyday life of Delhi. Questions of ownership, self-making, and governance help answer how the trauma of riots was negotiated in mundane paper trails. The essay is divided into two parts. The first half describes the emotional topography of the city, with an eye on the aspirations of the refugee. It describes the emotional city the refugee encountered. The second half addresses the way the refugee talks back and creates her own emotional landscape. The first master plan of the city enacted in 1962 provides the context for this conversation

Design and Evaluation of Model-based Optimized Touchscreen Keyboard for Older Adults with Dyslexia

In this work, we focus on developing touchscreen text-entry interfaces, specifically focusing on finding the optimal touchscreen keyboard interface which can capture variation among the older adults with dyslexia. The major contributions of this work are: (1) development of a design space for text-entry interfaces, (2) design and initial evaluation (including model-based simulation) of the keyboard interface suitable for older adults having dyslexia, and (3) observe the effect of the proposed keyboard on able-bodied older adults’ performance compare to the QWERTY layout. In a broader sense, our work serves as an initial attempt to build a psychological foundation that could support the touchscreen text-entry interface design