A Support for Protocol Analysis for Design Research

Prabir Sarkar is Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Materials and Engineering at IIT Ropar. Prior to joining IIT Ropar, he was working as an Associate Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, USA. At NIST, Dr. Sarkar was working on sustainable standards and manufacturing. He completed his PhD from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore on creativity in engineering design. Dr. Sarkar's research interests include product design, sustainability, creativity, and design research.

Amaresh Chakrabarti is Professor at Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He led design synthesis at the EDC, Cambridge University before joining IISc. He founded IDeASLab—the first design research laboratory in India. He has a BE (Mechanical Engineering) from Calcutta, ME (Mechanical Design) from IISc, and a PhD (Engineering Design) from Cambridge. Professor Chakrabarti has been on the Editorial Board of eleven international journals, Advisory Board and Board of Management of Design Society, and a member of India's National Committee on Design. He co-developed DRM—a widely used research methodology. He authored/edited ten books, over 250 papers, and holds six patents.