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Item Open Access Retreat Of The Diaspora(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2016) Mehta, Ridhhi; Desai, BinitaThis book is intended to preserve and communicate family history which I have collected since 1900's.The Retreat of the Diaspora revolves around the journeys of two sides of my family - The "Mehtas" to Africa and the "Patels" to Burma and their eventual return back. It portrays how the families got adversely affected by changing global social & political conditions.The paternal side (the Mehtas) has a connection with East Africa. My great-grandfather travelled to the island of Zanzibar along with his father in 1907, to establish successful trades and businesses over there. The maternal side (the Patels) had a connection with Burma nowknown as Myanmar. My maternal grandfather went to Burma in 1947 with his uncle, to help him around with his pre-established business inLoilem, Burma.The book is divided into three parts to best convey the parallels histories of different parts of the world. The events described from the recorded history are selectively used to describe the changing environment and the effects they had on the lives of the people. The book looks into the Political, Economic, Social and Cultural aspects ofboth the places the families migrated to and is shaped by studying the history of Zanzibar and the history of Burma and how it individually conditioned the life of the family and their livelihood. Both Zanzibar and Burma have been British colonies in the past and both were subsequently nationalised. This affected the migrated population. The book researches on the various events that occurred in the history of both the places and the way it conditioned the lives of my family and the other communities present.Item Open Access Information design: a concept for bus transit system(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2013) Malavia, Jenil; Desai, BinitaInformation is the key when it comes to the functioning of any transit system. We must understand and properly structure information to build experience. It was important to understand the people for whom we are designing. In the existing scenario people have transformed the bus stop space into something else with giving their own interpretations. And yet the problem of information was not addressed. In absence of the complete set of raised questions on the visibility, readability and accuracy. It was important to identify the important features and information required to make travel easy and comfortable for the user. The focus was also to understand the context in relation to the space and information to be conveyed. Through this understanding the intent was to design a communication model empowers the user by providing all relevant information about the bus transit system efficiently. Access to information could be made available to the users not just at the bus stop, in fact anywhere so they could plan their travel and board the bus from the desired location. Time was a crucial factor when it came to quantifying information. Feasibility of the design was important with considerations to financial aspects that your product address and the use of space to redesign information. The project focused on redesigning information for the existing structures. The project, gave me an understanding of the user domain and it led into designing solutions that reflects the user interests and solution to the problem raised by the people themselves; with the right use of technology, through this journey I arrived to a communication enabled solution through which user interacts with the information in context of space.