Enhancing South Asian Folktales through Mixed Reality
Exploring Accessibility, Contextualization, and Discovery
ANANTHA CHICKANAYAKANAHALLI
Project Description
The rich cultural heritage of South Asian folktales has transcended generations through channels like traditional storytelling, books, cartoons, comics, and blogs. With rapid media evolution, adapting these tales to modern formats like Mixed Reality is crucial, ensuring ongoing accessibility, contextualization, and discovery. Using Research Through Design methodology, iterative development and evaluation of prototypes were made to identify critical design choices shaping the final design.
BIO
Anantha is an interaction designer who likes working with data, graphics, and problem-solving. With extensive experience designing web and mobile products and, now, extended reality, he believes interfaces should become invisible. His work lies in the intersection of data visualization, game design, storytelling & user research