IIIT Hyderabad Fitness Apps Study Urban India | AcademicJobs
IIIT Hyderabad's CHI 2026 study explores how urban Indians creatively adapt fitness apps using personal judgment, cultural habits, and local contexts, challenging global tech assumptions.
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Nimmi Rangaswamy is a Research Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, affiliated with the Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems. She holds an M.Phil. from the Delhi School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai. Her research focuses on anthropology and human-computer interaction, digital society, and technology and development. She previously served as Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad from 2013 to 2023 and held research roles in industry, including as HCI Area Lead at Xerox Research Centre.
Professor Rangaswamy has contributed to understanding the socio-economic impacts of technology, including mobile internet use in urban slums and the effects of AI and automation. She serves on the Advisory Board of the United Nations University Institute in Macau, the Editorial Board of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies, and as Area Editor of the ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies. In 2025, she was appointed Mentor Professor at Nayanta University. She delivered the closing keynote at India HCI 2022.
IIIT Hyderabad's CHI 2026 study explores how urban Indians creatively adapt fitness apps using personal judgment, cultural habits, and local contexts, challenging global tech assumptions.
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