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Online Communication Settings And The Qualitative Research Process: Acclimating Students And Novice Researchers, Katherine Gregory

Publications and Research

In the last 20 years, qualitative research scholars have begun to interrogate methodological and analytic issues concerning online research settings as both data sources and instruments for digital methods. This article examines the adaptation of parts of a qualitative research curriculum for understanding online communication settings. I propose methodological best practices for researchers and educators that I developed while teaching research methods to undergraduate and graduate students across disciplinary departments and discuss obstacles faced during my own research while gathering data from online sources. This article confronts issues concerning the disembodied aspects of applying what in practice should be rooted …

Showing Your Pride: Image As Interpellation In The Pride Study, Valerie Rubinsky

Iowa Journal of Communication

This personal essay investigates the online presentation of The PRIDE Study: a longitudinal health study for members of the LGBTQ community that aims to improve understanding of LGTBQ health care issues and increase the wellbeing of the group. The study utilizes the rhetorical concepts of interpellation and identification to examine the PRIDE Study Website.

2018-2019 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Design Challenges Upon The Development Of Critical Thinking Skills Within An Undergraduate Image Manipulation Course: A Mixed Method Action Research Study, Charles Treado

Theses and Dissertations

The overarching purpose of this study was to improve upon critical thinking through the use of scenario-based design challenge interventions. The study was conducted within an introductory graphic arts course in higher education that focused upon Adobe Photoshop and image manipulation tools, techniques, and terminology. Twelve introductory level graphic arts students participated in the study. In addition to scenario-based design challenge interventions, a reflective practice framework that used scaffolded questioning was developed to guide students in their use of critical thinking about image manipulations.

Through a mixed-methods action research design, the study explored the concepts of design challenge interventions and …

Design Of Business Intelligence System For Point-Of-Sales Software In Full-Service Restaurants, Lalida Chunhasomboon

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Small and Medium-sized restaurants are faced with increasing competitions due to the rise of food reviews and food delivery mobile applications which increase accessibility and customer demands. In order to thrive in this competition, restaurant owners seek to know their performance beyond sales number as there are other aspects of restaurant management such as operations efficiency, inventory, and quality of service. However, the current offerings by various POS in the market do not provide such performance measures, making it impossible for owners to know and improve other dimensions of restaurant management. As a result, the case-study company identified the gap …

การพัฒนาชุดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้เพื่อส่งเสริมการเห็นคุณค่าศิลปะล้านนา, ณัฐกาญจน์ จันทน์เนื้อไม้

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อพัฒนาชุดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้เพื่อส่งเสริมการเห็นคุณค่าศิลปะล้านนาและศึกษาผลการใช้ชุดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้ที่ส่งเสริมการเห็นคุณค่าศิลปะล้านนา กลุ่มตัวอย่าง ได้แก่ 1) ผู้เชี่ยวชาญ จำนวน 10 คน เป็นศิลปินที่ทำงานศิลปะไทยในท้องถิ่น 4 คน อาจารย์สอนศิลปะสำหรับวัยรุ่น 1 คน อาจารย์ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านศิลปะไทย 4 คน และนักวิชาการที่เชี่ยวชาญในการพัฒนาชุดกิจกรรม 1 คน และวัยรุ่นที่มีอายุ 18-25 ปี จำนวน 70 คน เพื่อใช้เก็บข้อมูลสร้างชุดกิจกรรม 2) วัยรุ่นในจังหวัดเชียงราย อายุ 18-25 ปี จำนวน 14 คน เพื่อใช้ทดลองชุดกิจกรรม เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัย ได้แก่ แบบสัมภาษณ์ แบบสังเกต แบบสอบถามและการสะท้อนคิด วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วยค่าความถี่ ร้อยละ ค่าเฉลี่ย ส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน และการวิเคราะห์เนื้อหาผลการวิจัยพบว่า รูปแบบของชุดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้เพื่อส่งเสริมการเห็นคุณค่าศิลปะล้านนา มีดังนี้ 1) แนวคิดสำคัญของชุดกิจกรรม คือ เป็นกิจกรรมที่บูรณาการทั้งภาคทฤษฎีและปฏิบัติ ให้ผู้เรียนได้เรียนรู้เรื่องราว ความสำคัญของศิลปะล้านนา จากศิลปวัตถุและสถานที่จริง ประกอบกับข้อความรู้จากคู่มือและการทำกิจกรรมการตอบคำถาม ถ่ายภาพ วาดภาพ เล่นเกม และการสร้างสรรค์งานศิลปะที่ได้รับแรงบันดาลใจจากศิลปะล้านนา โดยเป็นกิจกรรมที่มีการเตรียมความพร้อมด้านอุปกรณ์และสื่อต่างๆ มีการใช้บทบาทสมมติและมีรูปแบบกิจกรรมที่เหมาะสมกับธรรมชาติของวัยรุ่น เพื่อให้ผู้เรียนได้เรียนรู้อย่างสนุกสนาน เกิดอารมณ์ร่วมกับบทบาทสมมติและบริบททางประเพณีของกิจกรรม ใช้ระยะเวลาในการทำกิจกรรม 1 วัน 2) วัตถุประสงค์ คือ เพื่อให้ผู้เข้าร่วมกิจกรรมเข้าถึงคุณค่าของศิลปะล้านนา ผ่านการซึมซับผลงานศิลปะและสร้างสรรค์ผลงานศิลปะของตนเอง 3) องค์ประกอบของชุดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้ ได้แก่ คู่มือการใช้ชุดกิจกรรมการเรียนรู้ เนื้อหา สื่อการเรียนรู้ และแบบประเมิน 4) องค์ประกอบด้านลักษณะของผู้เรียนและผู้สอน ใช้ผู้สอน 1 คนต่อผู้เรียน 15 คน ผู้สอนมีหน้าที่อธิบายรายละเอียดดูแลและควบคุมกิจกรรม ส่วนผู้เรียนมีหน้าที่ให้ความร่วมมือในการทำกิจกรรมศิลปะ หลังจากได้นำชุดกิจกรรมไปทดลองใช้กับวัยรุ่นในเชียงรายพบว่า ผู้เรียนเกิดการเห็นคุณค่าศิลปะล้านนาอยู่ในระดับมาก โดยผู้เรียนเห็นคุณค่าศิลปะด้านรูปทรงมากที่สุด มีระดับความรู้เกี่ยวกับศิลปะล้านนาอยู่ในระดับมาก มีพฤติกรรมการเห็นคุณค่าศิลปะถึงระดับการรู้คุณค่าในขั้นชื่นชอบคุณค่าและมีความรู้สึกในเชิงบวกต่อกิจกรรมศิลปะ

Communicating Colorectal Cancer Risk To Average Risk Adults: Examining The Impact On Risk Perceptions And Health Behavior Intentions, Carrie A. Miller

Theses and Dissertations

Background. CRC risk can be reduced though lifestyle modification and regular screenings. Providing CRC risk feedback that promotes preventive behaviors to those at average risk has the potential to significantly reduce CRC morbidity and mortality.

Purpose. The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the impact of CRC risk assessment feedback among adults aged 50-75 with no personal or family history of the disease. The specific aims were to: (1a) test personalized (vs. generic) risk assessment feedback on individuals’ risk perceptions and intentions to engage in three risk-reducing behaviors (e.g., physical activity, diet, and screening); (1b) determine if the provision …

A Stakeholder Examination Of Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines, Melissa Kwitowski

Theses and Dissertations

Obesity is a significant health concern for women of childbearing age. More than 40% of women have a Body Mass Index (BMI) in the overweight or obese ranges at the time they conceive, posing significant health risks for both mother and child. Excessive weight gain during pregnancy is common and associated with numerous deleterious complications. The Institute of Medicine published gestational weight gain (GWG) guidelines based on prepregnancy BMI. However, more than 50% of women gain in excess of these recommendations. Further, many women report receiving minimal guidance from their healthcare providers regarding weight gain, nutrition, and physical activity during …

Ultrasound—Re:Viewing Bodies, Minjee Jeon

Theses and Dissertations

A medical evaluation of physical impairment imposes the additional burden of “labeling” the patient with the condition. The binary nature of the normal versus abnormal label emphasizes difference and can lead to trauma. Understanding differences, however, can lead to the generation of new forms and thus, more sensitive differentiation and representation. Tension is created by exploring different bodily forms—a dialectic between form and essence. I am designing a space that visualizes and illuminates difference as a source of trauma and amplifying the tension by comparing figures that represent varying degrees of normalcy. This forms a critique of idealized form and …

Consuming Digital Debris In The Plasticene, Stephen R. Parks

Theses and Dissertations

Claims of customization and control by socio-technical industries are altering the role of consumer and producer. These narratives are often misleading attempts to engage consumers with new forms of technology. By addressing capitalist intent, material, and the reproduction limits of 3-D printed objects’, I observe the aspirational promise of becoming a producer of my own belongings through new networks of production. I am interested in gaining a better understanding of the data consumed that perpetuates hyper-consumptive tendencies for new technological apparatuses. My role as a designer focuses on the resolution of not only the surface of the object through 3-D …

Escapism: Indulging In Daydreams, Tanruk Pairoj-Boriboon

Theses and Dissertations

A fantasy world, that exists only in our minds, provides us a place where we can mentally escape from everyday reality. Escapism, such as indulging in daydreams, allows us to experience comfort and makes us feel safe, eliminating feelings of insecurity and vulnerability.

This study aims to use playfulness and reverie as a tool to access and confront mental discomforts. Transforming disturbing situations into an experience of reverie; a correction of unsatisfying reality, by converting a solid component of the real world into a desirable infinite form will provide alternative viewpoints.

Throughout my work, this method has been employed to …

Performative Design, Lenita Ann Eldhose

Theses and Dissertations

The field of design is one that holds the power to empower, bridge gaps, inform, evolve and revolutionize human thoughts. To gain a higher understanding of the correlation of anthropometrics and ergonomics in an embodied space relative to the discipline of dance connecting one’s mind and body. The need for a space that instills a sense of freedom for artists to experience and execute their art and to reside alongside their mentors and traveling artists. The need for a space that can bring the diverse cultures that live in and around Richmond together through an expressive form of art. Providing …

The Performance Of 2d And 3d Tsunami Evacuation Maps: A Case Study For Seaside, Oregon, Aaron M. Taveras

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Tsunami evacuation maps are intended to inform the public about the geographic extent of the hazard and where to evacuate, but these maps can be difficult to interpret for people unfamiliar with cartographic semiology. This study focuses on the performance of tsunami evacuation maps and how the tsunami hazard is represented cartographically, as at-risk communities must be able to act quickly, and effectively understand tsunami maps to remain aware of the hazard and adequately evacuate. This study investigated the use of static three-dimensional (3D) perspective maps and travel time to safety representation (shown using point markers and choropleth symbology), as …

Visual Rulemaking, Elizabeth G. Porter, Kathryn A. Watts

Articles

Visual politics are seeping into the technocracy. Rulemaking stakeholders—including agencies, the President, and members of the public—are deploying politically tinged visuals to push their agendas at every stage of high-stakes, often virulently controversial, rulemakings. These images, GIFs, and videos usually do not make it into the official rulemaking record, so this new “visual rulemaking” world has not been discussed much by scholars or others.

In this article, we explore the new visual rulemaking culture that emerged in Obama’s presidency, providing examples and discussing relevant policy implications. Although we recognize some risks, we argue that, on balance, visual rulemaking is a …

Dogs Aren’T Jealous – They Are Just Asking For Accurate Information, Karen L. Overall

Animal Sentience

Awake fMRI offers us a unique opportunity to view and understand how dogs see the world and use the information in it. Given the limitations of behavioral assays and the small sample sizes inherent in these studies, labeling of patterns of canine behaviors using pop psychology terms may actually interfere with our understanding of canine brains and obscure for us a more parsimonious but exciting interpretation of canine behavior. We should use this window into how dogs think wisely.

“Disability Is An Art…”: Disability As Discourse/Counter-Discourse, David Adelman

Theses and Dissertations

This is a multipart thesis focused on the intersection between disability and art. What does it mean as an artist to engage the topic of disability? Relatedly, how do artists, art objects, and various aspects of culture contend with or confront disability? It is my contention that many disability artworks work to produce mediations of embodied, lived experience for their audiences. In other words, this kind of art takes the concept of disability, which we might otherwise experience only intellectually, or at a remove, and make that concept material, corporeal, and sensuous – creating an object which makes power relations …

Ms. An (Meeting Students’ Academic Needs): A Socially Adaptive Robot Tutor For Student Engagement In Math Education, Karina Liles

Theses and Dissertations

This research presents a new, socially adaptive robot tutor, Ms. An (Meeting Students’ Academic Needs). The goal of this research was to use a decision tree model to develop a socially adaptive robot tutor that predicted and responded to student emotion and performance to actively engage students in mathematics education. The novelty of this multi-disciplinary project is the combination of the fields of HRI, AI, and education. In this study we 1) implemented a decision tree model to classify student emotion and performance for use in adaptive robot tutoring-an approach not applied to educational robotics; 2) presented an intuitive interface …

A Case Study Of Teachers’ Experiences Integrating Visual Literacy To Improve Middle School Struggling Readers’ Comprehension, Dianne Tetreault

Theses and Dissertations

Because the meaning of literacy is changing, teachers lack understanding of how to teach older students the skills they need to read and be proficient in an ever-changing digital world. Moreover, only 34% of U.S. 8th graders read at the proficient level, according to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Therefore, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the process of how middle school teachers in a large urban district in Florida understand and integrate visual literacy for teaching comprehension in their lesson plans and class instruction after completing professional development and subsequent curricular support on …

Landscape Visualization: Influence On Engagement For Climate Resilience, Christa Daniels

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Research suggests an “Adaptation Deficit” exists in the realm of climate change mitigation and adaptation. There is a lack of climate adaptation goals, policies and projects implemented at the local level. Climate resilience relies on effective public engagement to ensure implementation. This type of engagement includes: (1) being aware of the issue and solutions; (2) feeling concerned about the problem; and (3) taking action. This research explores the impact of in situ 3D landscape visualization coupled with meaningful dialogue, on public engagement for climate change resilience. A mixed methods approach was used to undertake this research study using landscape visualization …

“How Interactivity Can Build Transparency: What Tech Can Teach Us About Rebuilding Media Trust, Nik Usher

Communication: Faculty Scholarship

edited volume abstract:

The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media.

Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise—to many analysts, journalists, and voters. The New York Times's The Upshot gave Hillary Clinton an 85 percent chance of winning the White House even as the returns began to come in. What happened? And what role did the news and social media play in the election? In Trump and the Media, journalism and technology experts grapple with these questions in a series of …

Suffolk University Undergraduate Academic Catalog, College Of Arts And Sciences And Sawyer Business School, 2018-2019, Suffolk University

College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School Academic Catalogs

This catalog contains information for the undergraduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Sawyer Business School. The catalog is a PDF version of the Suffolk website, so many pages have repeated information and links in the document will not work.

The catalog is keyword searchable by clicking ctrl+f. A-Z course descriptions are also included here as separate PDF files with lists of CAS and SBS courses. Please contact the Archives if you need assistance navigating this catalog or finding information on degree requirements or course descriptions.

Exploring The Meaning Of Sustainability Within Three Selected Institutions Of The Graphic Design Field: A Phenomenological Study, Szilvia Kadas

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Feasibility Of Applying Mixed Reality In Enhancing Construction Site Safety Communication, Abiodun Olorunfemi

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

No abstract provided.

In Search Of Communication, Usman O. Oladeinde

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the work included in Usman Oladeinde’s MFA thesis exhibition. The goal of this thesis paper is to explore major themes such as communication, identity, change, centeredness, landscapes, and language. These paintings present Arabic letter forms transformed into illegible shapes which are painted on landscape backgrounds, often depicting an aesthetic of textual elements receding into space. All these works are inspired by the Qibla, which is represented in the abstract and painted using acrylic media. Occasionally image transfers are mounted on the painted surface.

Visual representations like mine are communicative without forcing the viewer to one specific idea. …

Exploring The Discourses Of Compulsive Hair-Pulling: A Body-Mapping Study, Julia Mason

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Compulsive hair-pulling (which is sometimes diagnosed as the OCD-Related Disorder, Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviour, "Trichotillomania)" is an understudied experience that has significant social and emotional impacts on the women that it affects. This study focused on the meanings that are derived from the interactions that women with compulsive hair-pulling experience with social discourses surrounding mental illness, physical appearance, and behaviour. Guided by relativist ontology and the co-creation of understanding between researcher and participants, this qualitative exploration was guided by anti-oppressive practice and used an arts-based research method called Body-Map Storytelling. In group format, four women were invited to describe their knowledge, …

The Design, Development, And Implementation Of Student-Facing Learning Analytics Dashboards, Robert Bodily, Tarah K. Ikahihfo, Benjamin Mackley, Charles R. Graham

Faculty Publications

We have designed, developed, and implemented a student-facing learning analytics dashboard in order to support students as they learn in online environments. There are two separate dashboards in our system: a content recommender dashboard and a skills recommender dashboard. The content recommender helps students identify gaps in their content knowledge; the skills recommender helps students improve their metacognitive strategies. We discuss the technical requirements needed to develop a real-time student dashboard as well as report our inquiry into the functionality students want in a dashboard. The dashboards were evaluated with focus groups and a perceptions survey. Students were positive in …

Reconsidering Design And Evaluation, Andrew S. Gibbons Iii, David D. Williams

Faculty Publications

In this paper we have put design and evaluation as it were under a microscope with multiple lenses. We use four different snapshots of design, each at a different level of resolution, to reveal new perspectives on the design-evaluation relationship. We believe that the disparate views of designers and evaluators can be resolved by resorting to the middle ground described by Klir. We believe also that the disparate views of educational technologists and learning scientists can be similarly resolved by appealing to the similar principle of Edelson.

Data Browser 06: Executing Practices, Geoff Cox, Olle Essvik, Jennifer Gabrys, Francisco Gallardo, David Gauthier, Linda Hilfling Ritasdatter, Brian House, Yuk Hui, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Peggy Pierrot, Andrew Prior, Helen Pritchard, Roel Roscam Abbing, Audrey Samson, Kasper Hedegård Schiølin, Susan Schuppli, Femke Snelting, Eric Snodgrass, Winnie Soon, Magdalena Tyzlik-Carver

School of Art, Design and Architecture

This book is a result of collective energy that brought together a group of artists, researchers and practitioners. Their different practices and approaches to the question of execution sparked a desire to carry out a project where thinking about software is entangled with various practices of computationally-informed executions.

Athraitheach: Who Do You Think You Are?, Declan Behan, Clare Bell

Books

Athraitheach: Who do you think you are?

Athraitheach: changeable; changing; fluctuating; shifting; varying.[1]

Conceptually informed by, and materially embedded in, the latest technological developments and innovation in typeface design, this project, ‘Athraitheach: Who do you think you are?’, takes the form of a ‘variable font’[2] that, via the visual representation of language, aims to capture and engage with current public discourses around linguistic diversity and national, cultural and social identities active in the jurisdiction of Northern Ireland.

It also aims to demonstrate how language and identity can, within particular contexts, become inextricably bound together, often being absorbed into, …

Sensory Seduction And Narrative Pull, Nina Lyons, Matt Smith, Hugh Mccabe

Conference papers

User experience design is a process that has been defined, developed and refined over the last few decades. It is a process of shaping a user's movements through a website or mobile application. It is user-focussed, prioritising utility, ease-of-use and efficiency. It is widely used and has helped advance the way in which users interact with websites and mobile applications, making it far less frustrating. User experience design is a key element in how the internet and mobile technology have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. Given this success, it would seem that continuing to use this process for new …