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Our Mission

Facilitating educators with VR interventions

"Our mission is to provide students with an immersive and interactive educational experience that goes beyond the traditional classroom. By leveraging the power of virtual reality and cutting-edge technology, we aim to create a metaverse that engages students' curiosity and creativity, fosters their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and inspires them to collaborate and communicate with peers from diverse backgrounds. We believe that education should be an exciting and rewarding journey, and we are committed to developing a metaverse that empowers students with a dynamic and engaging learning environment, achieve their full potential, and contribute to a better world."

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What is Evam Doing Currently?

At Evam, we are currently developing an educational metaverse, which will be enhanced through virtual reality technology to provide immersive and engaging educational content for students aged 13 to 18. Our focus is on creating an interactive and dynamic learning environment that goes beyond traditional teaching methods, helping students to explore their creativity, develop critical thinking skills, and collaborate with peers from around the world. Our goal is to provide an innovative and effective educational platform that meets the needs of 21st-century learners and prepares them for future success

Our Team.

Our interdisciplinary team brings in combined virtue of evidence-based research, empathy-driven design thinking, and human-centred approach. 

Past Members

Meet the members who have significantly contributed to our vision

Project Supported By

एवं (Evam) is proud to be supported by the Guwahati Planetarium Management Society (GPMS), a society under the Government of Assam, India. The project is being executed at the Embedded Interaction Lab (EI Lab), which is part of the Department of Design (DoD) at IIT Guwahati. Thanks to the generous funding of INR 1,00,00,000 from GPMS, we are able to effectively and efficiently execute our proposed educational metaverse project. The project officially commenced in December 2022, and we are excited to continue our work on this innovative and dynamic educational platform.
 
Leading the project as the head is Dr. Keyur Sorathia, an accomplished educator and researcher who brings extensive experience in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Virtual Reality (VR). Serving as the co-principal investigator is Dr. Debayan Dhar, an expert in HCI and an accomplished researcher in the field of user-centered design.

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