Namrata Primlani

United Kingdom

namratap@proton.me

linkedin.com/in/namrata-primlani

Summary

My work investigates the social, cultural, political and ethical effects of digital technology through qualitative research and participatory design.

Experience

• Marie Curie Research Fellow
  Northumbria University
  Jul 2020 – Jun 2022 (2 yrs)
  OpenDoTT is a PhD programme from Northumbria University and Mozilla to explore how to build a more open, secure, and trustworthy Internet of Things.

• Mozilla Fellow
  Mozilla
  Jul 2019 – Jun 2022 (3 yrs)

• Marie Curie Research Fellow
  University of Dundee
  Jul 2019 – Jul 2020 (1 yr 1 mo)
  Open Design of Trusted Things OpenDoTT is a PhD programme from the University of Dundee and Mozilla to explore how to build a more open, secure, and trustworthy Internet of Things. https://opendott.org/.

• Designer
  Moonraft Innovation Labs
  Sep 2017 – Feb 2019 (1 yr 6 mos)
  Artificial Minds, Machine Learning, AI, Neural Nets, Human Machine Interaction

• Design Intern
  Wipro
  Jun 2016 – Nov 2016 (6 mos)
  - Internet of Things - Social IoT - Conversational interfaces. - Ethnography

• Summer Intern - Gamification of Education
  IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay
  Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 (2 mos)
  'The Gamification of Education' - a project undertaken with the Rajya Shiksha Kendra, Goverment of Madhya Pradesh, to create digital and physical games for students of government schools in Madhya Pradesh.

Education

• Northumbria University
  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Design
  2020 – 2023
  PhD, Open Design of Trusted Things Conducting participatory workshops and qualitative research Prototyping and testing using innovative design methods Identifying the key ethical issues arising from the changing social landscape that is being created by the amplifying effect of IoT. Exploring the interplay between policy, design and technology across private and public connected devices https://opendott.org/

• University of Dundee
  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Open Design of Trusted Things
  2019 – 2020
  OpenDoTT is a PhD programme from the University of Dundee and Mozilla to explore how to build a more open, secure, and trustworthy Internet of Things. A Turstmark for the IoT. How can we develop a set of guidelines and properties that define a “trusted” device? A holistic view on what makes for trusted IoT, exploring the interplay between policy, design and technology. Key to this project is exploring the interplay between policy, design and technology across private and public connected devices, and identifying the key ethical issues arising from the changing social landscape that is being created by the amplifying effect of IoT. https://opendott.org/

• National Institute of Design
  Master of Design, New Media Design
  2014 – 2018
  Masters Thesis in the area of Internet of Things, conversational interfaces, chatbots, gender and domestic technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Turing Chatterboxes Ethnography, User Research, Interaction and Interface Design, Future Technologies, Prototyping, Technology, Society, Culture

• SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering
  2010 – 2014

• Hiranandani Foundation School
  Indian School Certificate (ISC), Computer Science
  2008 – 2010

• Dhirubhai Ambani International School
  ICSE, Computer Science
  2004 – 2008

Licenses & certifications

• Founding Fellow | Practical Utopias: An Exploration of the Possible led by Margaret Atwood - Disco
  Issued Nov 2022

Skills

Qualitative Research, Participatory Design, Speculative Design, Prototyping, Creative Writing, Drawing

Publications

Digital Rituals In Performance: Transitions to Internet of Things Trust and Security

Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference · Oct 8, 2022

Making Everyday Things Talk: Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home

CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · May 21, 2022

Primlani, Namrata, et al. "Regen: collaborative co-production of upcycled products." Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction. ACM, 2017.

Society of Objects: Designing the Social Internet of ThingsSociety of Objects: Designing the Social Internet of Things

Thesis for the Master of Design Degree, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, 2019. Namrata Primlani · Apr 10, 2019

Sex and Magic in Service of Surveillance Capitalism, Small Escapes from Surveillance Capitalism, ThingsCon Report: The State of Responsible Internet of Things 2019 Published by ThingsCon e.V., Berlin 2019

Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work

The Conversation · Aug 18, 2022The Conversation · Aug 18, 2022

Organizations

f<A+ir> r network, A+ Alliance

Member, Global Directory · Jan 2021 - Present

In this challenging moment, the <A+> Alliance supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), has launched a Feminist AI Research network to incubate Feminist AI <From Paper to Prototype to Pilot>. https://aplusalliance.org/en/members/77