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Sharath Chandra Ramakrishnan's research focuses on designing cognitive media interfaces that enhance perception of information in the world using multimodal cues, particularly auditory and haptic interfaces that augment visual graphic mediums. His doctoral research utilized a socio-technical design approach to overcome limitations of the current industrial-medical model in the innovation of assistive hearing technologies, revealing the challenges imposed by historically oralist views of hearing disability and speech perception. Recognizing the significance of a trans-disciplinary agenda, his research spans human-machine interaction, design of virtual environments, cognitive psychology, auditory cognition, sound studies, and media arts. Previously, he was a Pre-Doctoral Research Associate at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History, engaging in cultural heritage informatics, and has collaborated with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences on projects funded by the Department of Biotechnology in India to study the limits of information processing in multimodal cognition. With a background in cognitive sciences and media arts, he has advanced a technical practice that integrates these fields with design. His work includes community media networks and grassroots technology activism, and he has contributed to technology policy in South Asia and South America.
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