Physical Products & Prototypes

Paisa Stick: A tangible cashless payment interface

Elderly members of society find digital payment interfaces difficult. Paisa Stick is a remote-like device that lets them make cashless transactions with ease.

Client
Industrial Design Center, Mumbai
Year
2017
Paisa Stick prototype in use
Video Presentation

Paisa Stick is a remote-like device designed to perform cashless transactions. It transfers value from the device to other types of devices like phones, IVRs, and Android apps.

Elderly members in society find it difficult to use digital payment interfaces. How might we enable them to perform daily transactions with ease?

Case Study

Paper Citation : Gupta, R., Vidyanta, U., & Murali, S. (2017, May). Paisa Stick: Tangible Cur- rency Interface for Cashless Transactions. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 60-66). ACM.

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