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Equipoise: An Animated Short Film About Positiveness And Negativity., Gung-Kai Koo

Theses

Equipoise is an animated short about positiveness, negativity and the opposite but complementary relationship between them. The two opposite attitudes of an individual’s personality not only affect but also establish emotions, decisions and behaviors. Positiveness reinforces positive thinking while pessimistic assumptions and hardship are driven by negativity. A person who has an imbalanced mind may live in pain or lead to high risks.

To have a great mental condition, both positiveness and negativity have to be involved to establish the balance. However, the importance of negativity, in one case, pessimism was frequently ignored as a result of education that focuses …

[Code Premonition]™: A 2d Animation Experience Featuring Duik Technology, Jason E. Harris

Theses

WHAT IS CODE PREMONITION?

Code Premonition is a science fiction/suspense short film that is designed with the intent to provide its target audience, adults over the age of 25, with a solid exhibition of imaginative storytelling based on the realization of the following two primary objectives:

1.) Provide the audience with a visually captivating and suspenseful cinematic experience via the effective utilization of voice acting, realistic artwork, fluid animation, real world footage, and special effects.

2.) Provide the audience with a consistent and compelling original story; the treatment of which will provide a well balanced exhibition of both traditional and …

Visualization Of Mind: Visual Exploration Of Brain Activity, Bilegsaikhan Baasanjav

Theses

Since ancient times, philosophical and religious thinkers have made attempts to understand the nature of the mind. Today, new developments in technology enable scientists and researchers to explore the brain’s complex physical activity, revealing a deeper mental reality. Moreover, the emergence of low-cost biometric devices gives nonscientific communities an ability to explore usage of biometric data in variety of ways.

This project explores visualization of human brain activity using electroencephalogram neural interface to create a visually engaging and meaningful user experience. The implementation of the project takes a form of an interactive installation. It projects the visual form, whose visual …

Onemile: An Interactive Journey To Wellness For Those With Chronic Illness, Keli M. Dirisio

Theses

Using interaction design, video, and social media to create an application that will encourage people to maintain or improve their quality of life when dealing with a chronic illness.

There are many tools, both tangible and online, for people with debilitating illnesses. There are websites and apps that focus on symptom management, medication monitoring or general wellness. The majority of these resources are mainly used for rehabilitation. There is technology used to help people, both healthy and those with an illness, to improve their health–featuring exercise, eating healthy, tips and tricks. Most people with a chronic illness are looking for …

Blush: An Exploration Of Empathetic Cultivation Through Technological Devices, Jordan Reading

Theses

Technology has helped us keep in touch. Letters, telegrams, telephones, email, video chatting, social-networking — all ways in which we have communicated throughout the years. Each innovation has allowed us to lead independent lives from our loved ones and friends, while trying not to lose touch with each other. It’s freed us, but at the same time we’ve become chained it to. We’ve lost our ability to converse and empathize with each other directly — we’ve become more comfortable in front of a screen.

Unfortunately for us, digital devices in their current state are terrible forms of communication. It lacks …

Print Media In The Cold War, Madeline Chu

Young Historians Conference

This investigation evaluates the degree to which print media propaganda in America reflected its anti-Communist ideologies during the early years of the Cold War. Specifically, the decade following the end of World War II in 1945 is examined. The messages, mediums, and subjects addressed of four images are analyzed in order to determine the degree to which they embody anti-Communist sentiments. These four pieces include a Time magazine cover from 1950, a comic book cover, a page of a Life magazine fashion article, and an advertisement by Radio Free Europe. Through these images, a conclusion was reached that while anti-Communist …

Hearing What You See: A Case For The Use Of Ancillary Gesture In Individual Percussion Performance, Tyson J. Voigt

Open Access Dissertations

The use of physical gestures as expressive devices in western classical music performance is widely debated. Research conclusions and pedagogical assertions alike are highly subjective. Percussion performance is a special case in which expressive gestures are inseparable from motions necessary for playing the instrument, especially in terms of articulation. Research studies show that while percussion cannot vary note length to the same extent as other instruments, it can alter sound by changing the physical motion used to strike the instrument. Because the motion is nearly always visible to the listener, it is unclear whether the change in sound is more …

Integrating Twitter Into The Classroom, Toria Felton

Master of Education in Instructional Design and Technology Plan II Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to research, create, and implement lesson plans that utilized Twitter in the classroom. This project was also used to gauge how students felt about using social media in the classroom. It showed professors how to effectively and easily use the app in the classroom, which helped them to connect with more students and work on a platform that was of interest to many of the students.

Interpretation And Affect In Found Footage Remakes: Martin Arnold’S Pièce Touchée, Nace Zavrl

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

The found footage remakes of experimental filmmaker Martin Arnold transform intimate domestic scenes from classical Hollywood into a series of neurotically repetitive back-andforward gyrations. Exploring hidden psychological and socio-political subtexts, Arnold’s pièce touchèe (1989) offers a subversion of cinematic representational codes, as well as a sensorily engrossing experience to the spectator. This paper focuses on the graphic, visceral, rhythmic, and musical qualities of pièce touchée, examining the film’s moments of direct kinetic delight and disarming hilarity. Further, the paper interrogates the bodily experience of pièce touchée through an examination of additive rhythm, audio-visual looping, and flickering repetition. Arnold’s basic remaking …

The Invisible Project - Making Visual Stories Of Homelessness, Robert E. Lee Jr

Graduate Academic Symposium

No abstract provided.

Identifying Terrorist Affiliations Through Social Network Analysis Using Data Mining Techniques, Govand A. Ali

Information Technology Master Theses

In a technologically enabled world, local ideologically inspired warfare becomes global all too quickly, specifically terrorist groups like Al Quaeda and ISIS (Daesh) have successfully used modern computing technology and social networking environments to broadcast their message, recruit new members, and plot attacks. This is especially true for such platforms as Twitter and encrypted mobile apps like Telegram or the clandestine Alrawi. As early detection of such activity is crucial to attack prevention data mining techniques have become increasingly important in the fight against the spread of global terrorist activity. This study employs data mining tools to mine Twitter for …

Easterner, Vol. 67, No. 24, April 20, 2016, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about Earth Day celebrations on campus, a restaurant called Copper Hana, the Health Hut's service for sexual assault victims, a charity softball game organized by Phi Delta Theta, a student production of These Shining Lives, an exhibit for Visual Communications Design students, the track team's performance in meets in California, and renovations to Reese Court.

Design Thinking: Expanding The Role Of The Architect, Jeremy Scott Dollar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A place is not made from a building alone; it is made from that which takes place in the building, and the people who inhabit the building. Therefore, architects must begin to apply their creative and analytical thinking skills to all facets that make up a place. Architects can begin interconnecting systems in the world to make it a better place. This type of Design Thinking will lead architects to produce more than buildings. It will open opportunities in other fields that desire creative minds to better their organizations. The use of Design Thinking and Systems Thinking theories, is described …

Lightning Strikes Twice For Faculty In Mass Communication, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2016

• Habib joined the Winthrop faculty last year.
• This is the second time a Winthrop mass comm faculty member has won a fellowship from the Advertising Educational Foundation.

Ucc Minutes, April 12, 2016, University Curriculum Council

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

Garnet & Black Summer 2016, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

Garnet & Black Magazine

No abstract provided.

Winthrop University Undergraduate Scholarship 2016 Book Of Abstracts, Winthrop University, Undergraduate Research Office, Winthrop University

Abstract Books

University College and Winthrop University proudly present Undergraduate Scholarship and Creative Activity 2016. This is the fifth annual university-wide compilation of undergraduate work, christened with a new title that is more representative of the full range of students’ scholarly and creative efforts. This year’s book chronicles the accomplishments of students and faculty mentors from 25 academic departments and programs, spanning all five colleges of the university: College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), College of Business Administration (CBA), College of Education (COE), College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA), and University College (UC).

Wanderer: Spring 2016, Columbia College Chicago

Wanderer

A publication created by Visaul Communication and Reporting and Writing II students. 32 pages. Cover article: Life After Columbia: 14 Stories of Success

Yellow Nancy, A Graphic Narrative, Susan Borchek Smith

2016 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860-1935) was an accomplished American author who suffered from depression and post-partum depression. Her short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written in June 1890, could be considered both a brief autobiography and a call for help. This well-known work tells the story of a woman trapped within her own declining mental health, using subtle, visual language and downward spiraling imagery to illustrate a woman imprisoned in her own mind, succumbing to the loss of control of her own sanity.

Endless News Most Beautiful: Exploring The Visual Landscape Of Journalism And Transforming The Carroll News’ Visual Identity, Thuy Le

Senior Honors Projects

This project aims to explore the practice, value and impact of newspaper design and how its principles can be applied to construct a coherent visual identity for a college newspaper. The first part will examine primary and secondary sources on visual journalism, including both theoretical and visual analysis of renowned newspaper designs around the world. The second part focuses on designing a complete visual overhaul for The Carroll News. This part will include insights from key current and former Carroll News staff members through interviews, and a survey of Communications majors, who are frequently exposed to news media, to gather …

Assembly 2016, Portland State University Art And Social Practice

Assembly

"ASSEMBLY is a free four-day set of presentations, discussions, interventions, and activities that address topics related to art and social practice. Participants shape the collective experience by contributing to dialogue, group projects, and publications."

An Adaptive Visual Learning Approach For Waterborne Disease Prevention In Rural West Africa, Jonathan Le Mar Oglesby

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Depleted water supplies, along with industrial and human waste, are driving a world water crisis that poses a growing risk to food markets, energy production, political stability, and human health (Global Water Security 2012). One obvious example of the this crisis is the more than 1 billion people who obtain their drinking water from contaminated sources (WHO/UNICEF 2006; Clasen et al. 2008). With a projected increase of 1.3 billion people between now and 2050, Africa will add more to the global population than any other world region (Haub and Kaneda 2013). For this research, visual learning design factors were incorporated …

English Composition Ii, Lauren Curtright, Kathryn Crowther, Nancy Gilbert, Barbara Hall, Tracienne Ravita

English Grants Collections

This Grants Collection uses the grant-supported open textbook Successful College Composition from Georgia State University:

http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/english-textbooks/8

This Grants Collection for English Composition II was created under a Round Two ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final …

Categorization Of Food Value Via Crayfish Aggression, Justin Thanh-Tuan Tran

Masters Theses

In numerous species, social interactions play a key role in deciding the allocation of resources. Aggression is a tactic that crayfish utilize to become dominant, which allows them to acquire higher quality resources. Many studies of aggression and agonistic interactions have used crayfish because they are known to be innately aggressive and are quick to become involved in agonistic interactions that may escalate into fighting. The primary objective of this study is to elucidate the relationship between differing food resources and their effect on aggression of crayfish. It is hypothesized that increased desirability for the food resource will induce more …

Spokane Intercollegiate Research Conference 2016, Whitworth University

SIRC Event Programs

No abstract provided.

The Art Of Exile: A Narrative For Social Justice In A Modern World, Dakota D. Homsey

Student Publications

In this paper I will illustrate what exile art is, how it is influenced on a global platform, and the change it engenders. My research reveals a central theme of globalization in the exchange, mix, and clash of cultures and political views that accompany it as well as the spread of art and ideas. In my research I illustrate how political circumstance, and sense of responsibility to share a political narrative, propelled exile art from a personal to a political narrative. My research illustrates how, as displaced people stripped of a homeland, exiled artists have surfaced as a voice of …

Saving Furusato In The City Of Quartz: Japanese American Imaginings Of Community, Culture, And History Through The Little Tokyo Redevelopment Projects, Samuel A. Mori , '16

Senior Theses, Projects, and Awards

No abstract provided.

A Borrowed Language, Yvonne Osei

Graduate School of Art Theses

Art has the potency of mediation: bridging human differences, questioning voids in historical trajectories, negotiating spaces of relevance, and most importantly, being signifiers that embody the absent. I speak in a borrowed language, a multilingual visual tongue, inspired by a culmination of Western and African Art modes of practices to create charged platforms for multicultural communication.

My art presents visual portals that allow for intercultural and interracial mingling as issues of colorism, present-day colonialism, gender inequality and the politics of dress are foregrounded for collective deliberation. The essence of the work is often activated and brought to its full potential …

Paul Rand: Life, Work, Philosophy, And Influence On Modern Design, Benjamin Nicholes

Senior Honors Theses

Paul Rand is one the most influential graphic designers of the 21st Century. This thesis will cover his biography and show how the events of his life shaped him into the famed and prestigious designer we know him to be today. The thesis will then cover the many projects Rand designed and show the influences on his style and how his design philosophy is evident in his work. Finally, the thesis will look at how Rand’s style and philosophy has impacted graphic design in the modern era. This study will show why Paul Rand is considered to be one of …

Building A Better Character Model: The Art And Process Of Character Design, Sarah K. Mitchell

Senior Honors Theses

The art and process of character design flows from understanding the world a character lives in and how that world affects his or her actions, personality, and storyline, and also inspires a character's dress, poses, and accouterments. This thesis was influenced by the overwhelming prevalence of action-oriented female characters who are demeaned through suggestive poses, clothing, and degrading actions that sexualize the characters whether they are weak or strong; this is often done with no logical reason from the perspective of the character. In this thesis, the process of character design will be shown through the author's character Joanna. The …