Ashis Jalote Parmar

Om

Ashis Jalote Parmar is an Associate Professor in Design for Health and Innovation at NTNU's Department of Design. With 20 years of experience as an academic, designer, and researcher, she specializes in human-centered technology development of digital products and services for public health. Currently she is also busy setting up a design for health research lab at ID. She works on the interplay between business and user value creation, often adopting new technologies such as AR, VR, AI, and embedded systems. As a Marie Curie Fellow, Ashis holds a PhD in industrial design, focusing on augmented reality in surgery from TU Delft, Netherlands. Her research includes developing innovative digital product and services for public health, health literacy, medical education, and decision support tools. She has been a part and led several research projects across domains like maternal health, cancer, digital dementia, and obesity targeting various user groups, such as women, athletes, children, and health workers. Ashis has been involved in numerous pan-European research initiatives and corporate consulting projects, publishing extensively in prestigious journals and her projects receiving international recognition. She has also held academic positions at IIMA, IITB, and Ahmedabad University, where she set up the Institute of Information and Communication Technology. Ashis is an amateur photographer and art enthusiast.
Leader Health Research - Design for Global Health
Leader-Design4HealthLab at The department of Design, NTNU

Project leader:
PATHS: Promoting Access to Health Services through Participatory Approach: E-Health Intervention to Promote Good Health Seeking (PATHS), Nordforsk 2025-2028 , Health Literacy for Migrant Women
Sunn Utøver: AI Powered Tool for REDs(Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport) Prevention and Athlete Health Management. (NTNU Discovery grant)
Invited member:
Hub in Advanced Manufacturing Networks, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU; Klinisk forskningsgruppe for Mental helse, Avhengighet og Nevroutviklingsforstyrrelser (KLIMAN),Helse Fonna

Forskning

2025- Present
Role: Project Leader, Promoting Access to Health Services through Participatory Approach: E-Health Intervention to Promote Good Health Seeking (PATHS) NordForsk Grant, 10 Million NOK

Role: Project leader, AI-Powered Tool for REDs(Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport) Prevention and Athlete Health Management , NTNU discovery Grant: 200,000 NOK

Role: Collaborator, Improving sleep to enhance well-being and participation among adolescents and young adults, NTNU Helse grant , MH Faculty NTNU

2023- Present

Role: Co-Project Leader, Project:Digital decision making tool for evidence based obesity treatment planning and management Funder: NTNU Discovery Grant: 200.000 NOK

2020-2024

Role: Collaborator, Project: Menstruation monitoring & Performance enhancement mobile Application for Elite Athlete - Health & Machine learning, Funder: Discovery, NTNU2022-Present

2022-2023

Role: Collaborator, Project: Cross-sectoral and collaborative video consultations as an addition to the national care pathway for patients with long-term and complex pain conditions. Funder: The Norwegian Research Council (NFR)

2022-2023

Role: Collaborator in WP6, Project: SCAPE Scalable Autonomy for Urban Passenger Ferries, Funder: NFR-IPN

2021

Role: Co-Project Leader, Project: Visualisering og digitalisering av pasientinformasjon til kvinner etter fødsel. Funder: NTNU Helse Grant: 120.000 NOK

2018-2020

Role: Post doc., Project: NorEX- The Norwegian Trial of Physical Exercise Myocardial Infarction, Funder: NFR

2018-2020

Role: Senior Researcher, Project: My Medical Digital Twin, Funder: NTNU

2016

Role: Project Leader, Project: National conference on Accessibility & Universal Design NOK Bridging Smart cities & Digital India. Funder: Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India and IIMA, India, Grant: 130.000 NOK

2011-2014

Role: Project Leader, Extra mural care - Decision support system to reduce maternal mortality, Funder: ZonMw, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Grant: 280,000 Euros, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

2005-2009

Role: Early-stage Researcher, Intraoperative visualization system for minimally invasive surgery-Augmented reality in Surgery ARIS*ER, Funder: FP6 and Marie Curie Training

Publikasjoner

Jalote Parmar, A, Topranin, V, Taylor, M, Parmar, V.S and Sandbakk, O (2024) Development of an Innovative User Centered Design Driven mHealth App for Female Athletes- “The Coral App”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Sarawak, Malaysia 6 - 10 October, pp 5245-5251, doi: 10.1109/SMC54092.2024.10831204

Nava E & Jalote-Parmar A, (2023) Visualization Techniques in Virtual Reality for Vocational Education: Comparison of Realism and Diegesis on Performance, Memory, Perception and Perceived Usability, 5^th International conference on soft computing and its engineering application (Ic SoftComp 2023) Springer, 07-09, 2023, Changa, India.

Jalote-Parmar, A, Hara, D.T, Guldbransoy, I, Woodhouse, A, & Hara, K.W (2023) Multistakeholder Service Design Framework for Design of Patient Care Pathways - A case of joint management of pain patients in the health, labour and welfare services in Norway. ServDes 2023, Linköping University Electronic Press 11-14/July Rio de Janeiro.

Nava E & Jalote-Parmar A (2022), Virtual Reality Revolution: Strategies for treating mental and emotional disorders, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) October 9-12, 2022, Prague, pp 3370-3375

Jalote-Parmar, A, Deshmukh, S and Badjoko, B (2017) Design Thinking in Business Problem Solving: Application in Human Resource and Pricing, In E. Bohemia, C. de Bont, & L. S. Holm (Eds.), Conference Proceedings of the Design Management Academy (Vol. 1, pp. 161–178). London: Design Management Academy. doi: 10.21606/dma.2017

Jalote-Parmar, A and Ghosh, S (2017) Design Thinking to shape Dynamic Capabilities: a micro practice study in a large IT organization, Strategic Management Conference, Houston, USA, 28-31 Oct

Jalote-Parmar, A (2016) A review on Design Attitude by Kamil Michkewski, Design Issues, Vol. 32

Jalote-Parmar, A and Raghuram, G (2016), Rotary Club of Madras: Open Defecation Free Communities Project, Harvard Business Review, A00032 and Teaching note- A00033

Jalote-Parmar A, (2014) Design thinking a critical factor in project-based engineering education. Frontiers in Education FIE-IEEE, pp 357-367, Oct 23-26, Madrid, Spain

Jalote-Parmar A and P Badke-Schaub (2008) “Workflow Integration Matrix: a framework to support the development of surgical information systems”, Design Studies, Vol 29 (4),pp 338-368.

Jalote-Parmar A, Badke-Schaub P, Wajid, A, Samset, E (2010). Cognitive processes as the foundation towards developing an intra-operative visualization system. Journal of Biomedical Informatics; 43(1):60-74.

Jalote-Parmar A. Workflow in design of decision support systems (2010). Annual Symposium of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA 2010). Washington DC, Nov 13-17.

Jalote-Parmar A and P Badke-Schaub (2010) Situation awareness in medical visualization to support surgical decision making, European Conference for Cognitive Engineering, Delft.

Badke-Schaub, PG., Cardoso, C., Daalhuizen, JJ., Lauche, K., Jalote-Parmar, A., Neumann, A., Roozenburg, NFM., Secomandi, F. & da Silva Vieira, S., 2010, Solving an unresolvable puzzle? How to support the designer in context, Design research in the Netherlands 2010 Proceedings of the symposium. Achten, H., Vries, B. & Stappers, PJ. (eds.). Eindhoven: Design Systems, p. 79-90 12 p.

Lambata. P, Jalote-Parmar, Lambata. F and Deckleric. J (2008) ” The Resection Map, a proposal for intraoperative hepatectomy guidance” International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol 3 (3-4), pp 299-306.

Jalote-Parmar A and P Badke-Schaub” Critical Factors Influencing Intra-operative Surgical Decision-making” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2008), Singapore, 12-15 October.

Parmar, V., G. Groeneveld, Jalote-Parmar, A. and D. Keyson (2009), Tangible user interfaces for increasing social interaction among rural woman, Tangible Embedded Interaction 2009, ACM digital library, pp. 139-145.

Jalote-Parmar A and P Badke-Schaub” Surgical decision-making: Insights for developing expert system for minimally invasive surgeries” 27th European Annual Conference on Human Decision-Making and Manual Control, Delft, The Netherlands,2008.

Lambata. P, Jalote-Parmar, Lambata. F and Deckleric. J” The Resection Map, a proposal for intraoperative hepatectomy guidance” Computer Assisted Radiological Imaging, CAR, 2008, Barcelona

Jalote-Parmar A, Van Alfen.M and Hermans,J, Workflow driven user interface for radiological system: a human factors approach for PAC ” Computer Assisted Radiological Imaging, CAR, 2008, Barcelona

Jalote-Parmar A, Pattynama PMT, de Ridder H, Goossens RHM, Freudenthal A, Samset, E (2007) Surgical Workflow Analysis: Identifying User Requirements for Surgical Information Systems, In: Pikaar R, Ernst K, Settels, (eds), Diversity in Ergonomics, Oxford: Elsevier, pp 229-41.

Jalote-Parmar A, Pattynama PMT, Van der Plas AP, Heer P D (2007) Towards Intuitive Surgical Interfaces: Strategies from Video Games, In: Casciaro S, Distante A (eds), New Technology Frontiers in Minimally Invasive Therapies, Italy: Lupiensis Biomedical Publications, National Research Council, pp 101-111.

Jalote-Parmar A, Pattynama PMT, Goossens RHM, Freudenthal A, Samset, E, de Ridder H (2006), Bridging the Gap: A User centered Design Approach Towards Developing Technological Solutions, In: Casciaro S, Distante A, (eds). Minimally Invasive Therapies & Novel Embedded Technology Systems, Lupiensis Biomedical Publications, National Research Council, Italy pp 93-101

Freudenthal A, Pattynama PMT, Samset E, Jalote-Parmar A, B.Gersak and S Casciaro. (2006) Design approach to bridge the gap between surgeons and technologist in minimally invasive surgery. In: Casciaro S, Distante A, (eds). Minimally Invasive Therapies & Novel Embedded Technology Systems, Lupiensis Biomedical Publications, National Research Council, Italy, pp 180-188

Freudenthal, A., Pattynama, PMT., Samset, E., Jalote Parmar, A., Gersak, B. & Casciaro, S., 2006, Technology assessment as guidance in product development for - real time - radiology based information for the surgeon, Minimally Invasive Therapies and Novel Embedded Technology Systems: Casciaro, S. & Distante, A. (eds.). Oslo: Ariser Network / IFC-CNR, p. 197-205 9 p.

Morvan T, Martinsen M, Jalote-Parmar A, Reimers M, Elle.Ole Jakob, Samset. E (2006). A generic monitoring system for surgical robotic manipulators. In: Casciaro S, Distante A, (eds). Minimally Invasive Therapies & Novel Embedded Technology Systems, Lupiensis Biomedical Publications, National Research Council, Italy, pp 158-165

Jalote Parmar Ashis, Kun-Pyo Lee (2004) Viewpoints/ Concerns on empirical methodologies for Socio/cultural studies, Fall Conference of KSDS, Seoul

Book & Thesis

Jalote-Parmar A. 2009 Workflow driven decision support systems -A case of intra-operative visualization system for surgeons, Delft University of Technology. [Thesis link, TU Delft, The Netherlands, Repository]

White paper on Education
Van Erp J, Jalote Parmar, Hekkert P Hultink E and Kandachar ,P (2013). “New perspectives for Indian design education” –Submitted and presented to National Innovation Council. Mr. Sam Pitroda 2013-A Joint Indian Dutch Proposal

Jalote-Parmar (2015) Design Thinking a Fad or Reality- Rethinking Design Education Australia Indian Institute, Melbourne University, Australia, Annual research report (Pg 81-99) Funded by Australian government Department of Education and Victorian Government https://aii.unimelb.edu.au/

Media links on Education:

Jalote-Parmar, 2014, Decision support system for improving maternal health MIDP world bank development award GDN [You tube]

Jalote-Parmar, 2011, Discussion with Google CEO Mr Rajan Ananandan “Future of ICT Engineering education in India” [You tube]

Jalote-Parmar, 2011,Discussion with Mr Kiran Karnik Former NASSCOM President “Future of Engineering education in India [You tube]

Jalote-Parmar, 2011,Discussion with Mr Ashank Desai CMD Mastek President “Future of ICT Engineering education in India [You tube]

Jalote-Parmar, 2011,Discussion with Mr Ramesh Mashelkar Former CSIR Director “Innovation in Engineering education in India [You tube]

Jalote-Parmar, A (2016) Design Attitude: A critical Factor in Integrating Design Thinking, Express Computer Vol.27, No.4, April [ CIO magazine]

Jalote-Parmar, A (2015) Redesigning Make in India through design thinking: What the government is missing in formulating Make in India is design thinking / MINT/ printed: 27/7 /2015 [ Newspaper]

Jalote-Parmar, A (2015) IIMA profesor calls for Design Evolution/Ahemdabad Eductaion [Newspaper]

Jalote-Parmar (2015) Design Thinking a Fad or Reality- Australia Indian Institute, Melbourne University, Australia, Annual research report (Pg 81-99) [IIMA repository, Link to paper]

Jalote-Parmar/ Universal Design & Accessibility conclave, [News Media article]

Magazine/Newspaper Articles/Reports

Jalote-Parmar, A (2023) Women get help with pelvic floor exercises [Norwegian Sci-Tech News]

Jalote-Parmar, A (2023) Kvinner får nå lettere hjelp til å trene bekkenbunnen [Forskersonen.no]

Jalote-Parmar, A (2023), Tjenestedesign og formidling mangler når kvinnehelse skal bedres [Dagens medicine]
Jalote-Parmar, A (2023), Kvinner får hjelp til å trene bekkenbunnen [Gemini.no]

Jalote-Parmar, A (2023) Tjenestedesign og formidling mangler når kvinnehelse skal bedres [Fysioterapeuten Article link]

Masters Thesis
Synnøve Antonsen Torp (2024), Innovative E-Learning Platform for Prevention of REDs Among Young Female Athletes( thesis link comming up)

Bjørg Madelén Gamborg-Nielsen (2024) Digital self-management service as a supplement for social anxiety treatment for people with intellectual disability ( thesis link comming up)

Linea Madelaine Breivik (2024) Persona based film for early identification of Binge Eating Disorder (BED) for healthcare professionals. ( thesis link comming up)

Ida Guldbrandsøy (2024) Designing B2B Digital Grocery Services for Oda - A Case Study on Norwegian Kindergartens. ( thesis link comming up)

Porras Elizo, Andrea (2024) Design of educational digital tool to mitigate the impact of technology in mental and physical health of adolescents and teens [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Kvalsvik, Daniel (2024) Digital Transformation in Audit Firms – Investigating barriers and enablers for adoption [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Tronstad Gahre, Greger (2024) Improving Perinatal Simulation Training for Health Care Workers in Tanzania [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Krassa, Anton (2024) User-Centered Design of Human-Machine Interface for Autonomous Ferry [Politecnico di Milano, Italy thesis link ]

Skretting, Juan Francisco Soto (2023) Redesign of automatic baby cradle and services for relief of sleep problems. [NTNU, Norway thesis, Link]

Nava, Elenora (2023) Exploring visualization techniques in Virtual Reality to enhance memory and engagement for the purpose of introducing professions to young job seekers, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. [Politecnico di Milano, Italy thesis]

Fridtjof Agnalt (2023) Redesigning future emergency rooms in hospitals A human centered service design approach to optimize workflows, [NTNU, Norway thesis, Link]

Horn, Ruben Kive(2022) Motion analysis and digital services for osteoarthritis treatment. [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Sommerseth, Petter (2022) Motion analysis and digital services for osteoarthritis treatment. [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Kristiansen, Henrik Martin (2021) Virtual reality for nursing education –[NTNU, Norway thesis link]

2024

Nava, Eleonora; Jalote Parmar, Ashis. (2024) Visualization Techniques in VR for Vocational Education: Comparison of Realism and Diegesis on Performance, Memory, Perception and Perceived Usability. Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) (1)
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

2023

Jalote Parmar, Ashis; Hara, Dag Takuro Walseth; Guldbrandsøy, Ida; Woodhouse, Astrid; Hara, Karen Walseth. (2023) Multistakeholder Service Design Framework for Design of Patient Care Pathways-A case of joint management of pain patients in the health, labour and welfare services in Norway. Linköping University Electronic Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

Bøker

Nava, Eleonora; Jalote Parmar, Ashis. (2024) Visualization Techniques in VR for Vocational Education: Comparison of Realism and Diegesis on Performance, Memory, Perception and Perceived Usability. Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) (1)
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie

Del av bok/rapport

Jalote Parmar, Ashis; Hara, Dag Takuro Walseth; Guldbrandsøy, Ida; Woodhouse, Astrid; Hara, Karen Walseth. (2023) Multistakeholder Service Design Framework for Design of Patient Care Pathways-A case of joint management of pain patients in the health, labour and welfare services in Norway. Linköping University Electronic Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel

Undervisning

Emner

Life long learning programs- I teach PD6009 Service design innovation for Professionals ;for EVU/MTDO from ID, NTNU https://www.ntnu.no/studier/mtdo/strategisk-design-og-tjenesteutvikling . I have taught this course for over 4 years now, and results in teaching over 300 Norwegian public and private sectors organisations

Masters in Industrial Design at ID - TPD4121 Human Centered Design and Innovation
Interactive and project based teaching pedagogy - The pedagogy for my courses is highly interactive, personalized mentoring, encourages peer learning, group working and hands on experience in working with a real life design complex problem solving. I like engaging and interacting with students and provide personal mentoring time.

Interdisciplinary and International teaching experience - As a faculty, I have teaching experience at the University level in following three disciplines-Design, Engineering and Management. As a tenured faculty some of the institutes that I have taught are- NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, Indian Institute of Management, Ahemdabad, IIMA, India, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and Gandhanagar, IITB & IITGn India, SEAS, Ahemdabad University, India, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (KAIST).

Workshops in Innovation-
I lead and deliver custumised bespoke workshops on Innovation. Some of the workshop I have taken in the last few years
- Faculty and researchers of entire Humanities Dept, NTNU, 2022
- Health and Communication Managers of Tonsberg Kommune, Norway, 2022
- Scientists, EIC pathfinder, Horizon Europe 2020, IKOM, MH faculty, NTNU, ,2022
- Innovation Leaders at NTNU, 2021
- PhD and Post Doc, MY Digital Twin Project, NTNU, 2019
- Faculty, Researchers and Staff of ISB Dept, MH faculty, NTNU, 2019

Corporate teaching experience-
I have 10 years of executive teaching experience. Before teaching in the Life Long Learning programs at NTNU EVU, I was aFaculty Chair for Executive Education in Design, Indian Institute of Management, Ahemdabad, India (IIMA) I have selivered at national level Customized Executive programs on Innovation and Design Thinking for Senior leaders in positions such as Innovation heads, Presidents, Vice presidents, CTO, CIO, CFO. Duration: Taught in 6 day extensive programs for batch of 30 students each. I have taken open and cutumised programs for corporates such as: ICICI Bank - Prudential Mutual Fund, Mumbai, L&T InfoTech, National Thermal Power Corporation, NTPC, Plus 800 other professionals from Siemens, PWC, VW, ICICI, Yes Bank, Reliance, Mastek, TCS, L&T, Zenzar, Delloitte, Genpact, VW, TCS-BP0, Lupin, Cadilla.

Veiledning

Masters Thesis (Spring 2025)
Mathilde Bogen and Molly Prescot Gibson (2025) Interactive decision support and planning tool for multi-disciplinary lung cancer surgery team (June 2025)
Bjørn Ravlo-Leira (2025) Patient-centred service design for lung cancer treatment pathway (June 2025)
Emma Hansen (2025) Designing user interface of an artificial intelligence guided point-of-care ultrasound of cardiac care ( AI POCUS AAA project)
Anine Aurora Skote (2024) Digital Service for improving maternal health card (June 2025)
Lisa Skogstad (2025) Enhancing Digital Strategy Through Design Thinking

Masters Thesis-Graduated
Synnøve Antonsen Torp (2024), Innovative E-Learning Platform for Prevention of REDs Among Young Female Athletes [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Bjørg Madelén Gamborg-Nielsen (2024) Digital self-management service as a supplement for social anxiety treatment for people with intellectual disability [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Linea Madelaine Breivik (2024) Persona based film for early identification of Binge Eating Disorder (BED) for healthcare professionals.[NTNU Norway, Thesis link]

Ida Guldbrandsøy (2024) Designing B2B Digital Grocery Services for Oda - A Case Study on Norwegian Kindergartens. [NTNU Norway thesis link]

Porras Elizo, Andrea (2024) Design of educational digital tool to mitigate the impact of technology in mental and physical health of adolescents and teens [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Kvalsvik, Daniel (2024) Digital Transformation in Audit Firms – Investigating barriers and enablers for adoption [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Tronstad Gahre, Greger (2024) Improving Perinatal Simulation Training for Health Care Workers in Tanzania [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Krassa, Anton (2024) User-Centered Design of Human-Machine Interface for Autonomous Ferry [Politecnico di Milano, Italy thesis link]

Skretting, Juan Francisco Soto (2023) Redesign of automatic baby cradle and services for relief of sleep problems. [NTNU, Norway thesis, Link]

Fridtjof Agnalt (2023) Redesigning future emergency rooms in hospitals A human centered service design approach to optimize workflows, [NTNU, Norway thesis, Link]

Horn, Ruben Kive(2022) Motion analysis and digital services for osteoarthritis treatment. [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Sommerseth, Petter (2022) Motion analysis and digital services for osteoarthritis treatment. [NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Kristiansen, Henrik Martin (2021) Virtual reality for nursing education –[NTNU, Norway thesis link]

Formidling

Pelvic floor exercises for post maternal and pregnancy care, 2021

Co project leader-Helse Grant, NTNU Collaborator, Department of Design, Faculty of Health and St Olavs Hospital

Tjenestedesign og formidling mangler når kvinnehelse skal bedres

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