IIT Madras and Tata Consultancy Services organise session on ‘Extended Reality and Empathy: An Interdisciplinary Perspective’

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 It was first of its kind collaboration where the aspects of Extended Reality, Digital Humanities and Literary Studies were brought together on a single platform
by Samiksha 
CHENNAI,March 2019: Indian Institute of Technology Madras in a collaborative initiative with Tata Consultancy Services towards forming a Memory Studies research cluster, with an academia-industry interface organised a session on ‘Extended Reality and Empathy: An Interdisciplinary Perspective’ on 26th March 2019 at IIT Madras campus. The session was delivered by Guest Speakers, Dr. Ashok Maharaj, Head, XR Lab, TCS, and Dr. Jae Grant, XR Consultant, Netherlands.
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality are the emerging mediums that are altering accepted ways of consuming and navigating with knowledge, information, and memory. The complex cognitive experiences generated out of these entanglements attract new avenues for interdisciplinary research. The session was a primer on what comprises Extended Reality and how it shapes society, cognition and culture.
Speaking during the session, Dr. Ashok Maharaj, Head, XR Lab, TCS, said, “This is the first of the many events that we would do together, while also exploring funding possibilities for collaborative research across disciplines in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.”
Speaking during the session, Dr. Jae Grant, XR Consultant, Netherlands, said, “The entire challenge is to arrive at a common reference point which will enable productive dialogue between technology studies and research in humanities.”
The aim of the session was to highlight the possibilities of the academia-industry interface in the emergent field of Memory Studies.  It will lead towards more formalised and institutionalised collaborations with industry as well as academia from different parts of the world. The collaboration will help accentuate the possibilities for internships and placements for students.
Dr. Avishek Parui and Dr. Merin Simi Raj, Event Coordinators and Assistant Professors, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, said, “We are very excited at the collaboration between academia and industry in this emerging field of Memory Studies. We are hopeful to acquire significant research input and funding to facilitate truly interdisciplinary research that will benefit the industry and academia alike. We believe that the research prospects from this academia-industry interface are significant and potentially pathbreaking.”
The objective was to explore the possibilities of Digital Humanities and Extended Reality in engaging with literary studies. Currently, there are Research Scholars in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, working in the area of Memory Studies. Dr. Avishek Parui’s extensive research on Memory Studies in Literary narratives has been attracting academic attention. An advanced level new course meant for research scholars entitled ‘Memory, History and Literature’ will be conducted by Dr. Parui. Besides, Dr. Avishek Parui along with Dr. Merin Simi Raj has also been working towards digitally archiving the remembered history of the Anglo-Indian community in India and the diaspora. 
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) was established in 1959 by the Government of India as an institute of national importance. The activities of the Institute in various fields of Technology and Science are carried out in 16 academic departments and several advanced interdisciplinary Research Academic Centres. The Institute offers undergraduate and post - graduate programmes leading to the B.Tech., M.Sc., M.B.A., M.Tech., M.S., and Ph.D., degrees in a variety of specialisations. IITM is a residential institute with more than 580 faculty and 9,500 students. Students from 18 countries are enrolled here. IITM fosters an active entrepreneurial culture with strong curricular support and through the IITM Incubation Cell (www.incubation.iitm.ac.in).   
IITM has been ranked No.1 among Engineering Institutions in the India Rankings for three consecutive years – 2016, 2017 and 2018. The Institute was also ranked as the No.2 in the category of Overall Institutions in 2017 and 2018 Rankings, released by the National Institutional Ranking Framework, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India- https://www.nirfindia.org

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