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Engaging in Aging: Sustaining Participation in Design
Engaging in Aging investigated longitudinal aspects of participatory design while engaging older adults at a local senior center. Participants worked alongside students to design and test three interventions to address ... -
Navigating 3d Scatter Plots in Immersive Virtual Reality
Virtual reality reveals spatially complex structures behind 3d data in an easily explorable way. The difficulty is in navigating this space while wearing a head- mounted display (HMD). One viable option for view control ... -
Common Ground: Building A Better Seattle Through an Improved Democratization of The City’s Design Review Process
The city of Seattle has been one of the fastest growing cities in the US for many years. This growth has led to a need for increased urban density. Demolition and construction has been a way to accommodate the population ... -
social me: social media literacy for middle school classrooms
Middle school is a time of drastic physical, cognitive, and social change for students. Many kids post their first messages on social media at this age, and their developmental changes are magnified and affected by their ... -
Music Notes: Exploring Music Listening Data as a Visual Representation of Self
Shelves of vinyl records and cassette tapes spark thoughts and memories at a quick glance. In the shift to digital formats, we lost physical artifacts but gained data as a rich, but often hidden artifact of our music ... -
Should I share this? : support awareness of social sharing practice that might compromise online privacy and reputation
People on social media share information about themselves or others to maintain and expand their relationships. In doing so, they can put at risk their privacy and the privacy of people they know. The intentional or ... -
Please remain seated: Reshaping the sedentary inflight experience
Previous research has shown that prolonged sitting can cause irreversible damage to the human body. Standing up to walk around and take breaks during long hours of sitting is one way to mitigate these health problems. ... -
The Current Project: Connecting college students to the world through increased engagement with international news.
The rituals created around traditional news outlets, such as newspapers and broadcast are no longer relevant to American college students. Today, students find themselves snacking on the news when it is convenient to their ... -
MakeReady Initiative: A Service Dedicated to Designers and Their Creative Potential
Designers are found all over the United States: From large, urban settings (such as Seattle) to smaller, more isolated settings, such as my hometown back in Indiana. Through my research I discovered that professional ... -
Sunflower: A Tactile Navigation System for Low-Vision Environments
In navigating 3D space, we typically use vision more than any other sense. To see a space is usually the quickest way to orient ourselves and reach our destination. However, there are times in which our vision is too ... -
I Wish for an Animal: a multiplayer mixed-reality game about wildlife conservation
-Last night the Sheikh went all around the city, lamp in hand, crying, “I am weary of beast and devil, I wish for a man.”- This verse is part of a long poem by Rumi, the Persian Sufi poet of 13th century. As a name for ... -
Supporting environmental conservation with information visualization
Since the advent of conservation practices, society has become increasingly separated from nature, which has led to a concealment of production from consumers known as the "black box." As a result, consumers rely on ... -
Makzin: Identifying Design Practices In Tablet Magazines
The practice of editorial design has been continually refining itself as an effective communication method of visual story telling for the last 200 years. In print, magazines are designed in a way that gives readers a ... -
Memex and Beyond: A Design Trajectory from Vannevar Bush's Memex
This project revisits memex, a hypothetical knowledge-storage device that Vannevar Bush proposed in 1945 and traces its trajectory in the perspective of interaction design. While the pursuit of memex from a technological ... -
Chronologic: Tracking Stories of Illness in Chronic Care
New consumer technologies give patients access to a wide range of health data outside the needed expertise of doctors. Self-tracking can help chronic illness patients take more control over their health, but the participation ... -
Designing Loved Product Experiences: How we connect with our significant objects, and how we design these connections.
We all own objects we love, objects we connect to and find value in over and above the simple reality of the object in front of us. A favourite kitchen knife, a child's artwork, a designer pair of sunglasses: all of these ... -
Supporting environmental conservation with information visualization
Since the advent of conservation practices, society has become increasingly separated from nature, which has led to a concealment of production from consumers known as the "black box." As a result, consumers rely on ... -
Design for Us: A Toolkit for Community-Driven Graphic Design
(2013-07-25)Design for Us is a toolkit that offers strategies and methods to graphic designers interested in community advocacy. Using a workshop model, graphic designers and community members work together through a series of activities ... -
Learning by Making
(2013-07-25)Abstract Industrial Design education must always endeavor to close the gap between academic experience and vocational relevance. To this end, students are trained how to use the latest tools available to the design community, ... -
Patient-centered design concepts for cancer care interactions and experiences during chemotherapy
(2013-07-25)Chemotherapy is one epicenter of cancer care that brings people and technology together in and around the infusion center. Within this space patients interact with providers and medical devices and these interactions shape ...
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