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Strange Weather We're Having: Save Your Town Together, Today, Ben Mclauchlin
Strange Weather We're Having: Save Your Town Together, Today, Ben Mclauchlin
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We don’t talk about climate change with our friends and family and that’s a problem. The systemic harm of climate change will continue to impact us if we continue to avoid addressing what we can do to help. Strange Weather We’re Having is a semi-cooperative board game designed to cultivate conversation, inspire joy, and spread awareness about what you can do to help against climate change. This game accomplishes this through the use of collectively-supportive game mechanics, vibrant visuals, and dialogue designed to spark hope and delight. Players become residents who are susceptible to different stressors caused by climate change. …
Carppet – An Ar Tour Guide System In Autonomous Car, Ming Hui Lin
Carppet – An Ar Tour Guide System In Autonomous Car, Ming Hui Lin
Theses
Over the last decade, modern transportation systems have evolved to a considerably larger scope and higher complexity, brought by a wave of innovation in technologies and a revolutionary shift in how mobility is perceived and realized – giving rise to a strong orientation towards services. This thesis imagines a time when cars can drive fully autonomous. Drivers no longer need to drive. So, what else can we offer passengers during the time when they are sitting in the car? The purpose of this project is to introduce a concept of mainly using Augmented Reality and AI recognition to create a …
Distance Education: Challenges And Opportunities In A Post-Pandemic World. Case Of Kosovo, Fiona Shahini
Distance Education: Challenges And Opportunities In A Post-Pandemic World. Case Of Kosovo, Fiona Shahini
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The objective of this study is to explore the challenges and opportunities created by the abrupt shift from classroom to distance learning. This study will try to address the question of “What distance learning presents for the future of education in a post-pandemic world?” More specifically, it aims to uncover the opportunities distance education brings and the challenges that can be resolved or mitigated in the future. The study focuses on secondary and primary data to uncover and analyze the experience of professors and students of tertiary education with distance learning. Secondary research shows that distance learning provides flexibility, which …
The Racked System: A Historically Based Interactive Roleplaying Experience, Will Truran
The Racked System: A Historically Based Interactive Roleplaying Experience, Will Truran
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“History repeats itself” is a saying we are all too familiar with, but why is that true? As we look at our modern society we can see that pain persists and hate crimes are on the rise, particularly those of antisemitism and those holding anti-Asian ideologies. The Racked System aims to address this by introducing a new method of learning about our past so that we can apply its lessons to our future. Classroom settings require students to memorize dates and data that often capture hard to comprehend facts, like that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. It …
Pedagogical Evaluation Of Cognitive Accessibility Learning Lab In The Classroom, Saad Khan
Pedagogical Evaluation Of Cognitive Accessibility Learning Lab In The Classroom, Saad Khan
Theses
In a study conducted by Webaim, 98.1% of sites had a detectable accessibility issue. This poses a profound challenge to the 1 billion users across the world who have a disability. This indicates that developers either are not aware of how to make the sites accessible or aware of how critical it is to make the sites usable by all users. This problem is further compounded by the lack of available resources that can educate students and future developers in making their software accessible. To address current limitations/challenges, we have developed an all-in-one immersive learning experience known as the Accessibility …