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The Kruger Collection Reimagined: A Case Study In 3d Scanning And Interactive Exhibit Design, Annissa Davis

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

This thesis examines the use of 3D modeling in museum exhibition to create exploratory exhibits that facilitate unique relationships between the visitors and the collection beyond what is provided by the collection’s in person counterparts. Typical use of 3D modeling in museums is currently often representative rather than exploratory. By employing a Digital Humanities lens to approach the development of a digital exhibition utilizing 3D technology and interactive elements created in a video game engine (Unity), this thesis project evaluates these potential new relationships. Using the Eloise Kruger Collection of Miniatures as a case study, the following text details the …

Gen Zers And Millennials Are Still Big Fans Of Books – Even If They Don’T Call Themselves ‘Readers’, Kathi Inman Berens, Rachel Noorda

English Faculty Publications and Presentations

Identifying with an activity is different from actually doing it. For example, 49% of Americans play video games, but only 10% identify as gamers. According to a recent survey we conducted, there’s also a small gap between reading activity and identity for younger readers: 61% of Generation Z and millennials have read a print book, e-book or audiobook in the past 12 months, but only 57% identify as readers.

And yet there was a puzzling aspect of our results: The 43% of Gen Z and millennials who didn’t identify as readers actually said they read more print books per month …

Preserving The Uncrawlable: Serving The Server, Andrew Mcdonnell

Library Presentations

Many of the challenges inherent in archiving dynamic web content revolve around the capture and playback of ever-evolving social media sites. However, older dynamic web content that has ceased to evolve continues to elude the tools and conventions most widely available to web archivists. This presentation will share work conducted to preserve an online digital humanities project that defied preservation via Archive-It and other crawler-based web archiving tools. The presentation will, moreover, offer an exploration of alternative options for web archivists struggling to preserve sites dependent on server-side processes for their essential functionality.

Suda On Line is a collaborative digital …

Addressing Conspiracy Theories Through Media And Data Literacy Education. An Exploratory Case Study, Francesco Fabbro, Elena Gabbi

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Lately conspiracy theories (CT) are increasingly hovering over Education Studies, mostly as problems in search of a solution. This paper problematizes this educational solutionist discourse by reflecting critically on different framing of CT (i.e. epistemological and ethico-political) and some related educational responses, ranging from pre/debunking strategies to democratic discussion. In addition, Media Data Literacy Education (MDLE) is presented as a viable educational approach to address CT circulating onlife. The approach is empirically explored through an online workshop with a small group of social workers attending a course for socio-pedagogical educators at the University of Florence. A qualitative mixed methodology is …

Neo-Noir Investigations: The Art Of Directing And Writing An Interactive Experience, James Phillip Koehler Jr.

Honors Projects

This project intends to explore the process behind writing and directing for an interactive experience; video games, specifically. A team, including artists, programmers, and a musician, was organized to work toward the completion of a playable demo. Included in this project is a video of the playable demo, alongside various other completed materials that were unable to be included.

"'What The Suffering Was Like': Digital Affect In The Act Up Oral History Project, Margaret Sullivan

Remembrance: A Journal of Queer Culture, Information, and Preservation

This article considers The ACT UP Oral History Project as an affective site that renders visible the impact of loss and suffering. Focusing on the archive’s filmic and computer-mediated interviews, and placing both in conversation with memory and queer identity studies, I demonstrate that the Oral History Project, as a discursive space, invites its audience into a felt physical contact with grief, loss, anger, and rage.

Applying Mediated Statement Analysis To Detect Digital Deception And Misinformation Online, Christa L. Arnold Ph.D., Margaret L. Stewart Ph.D., F Dan Richard Ph.D.

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the 2024 DHI showcase

The Usct Pension Records And Cemetery Rehabilitation, James Beasley Ph.D., Kristopher Smith

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the 2024 DHI showcase

2024 Digital Projects Showcase Program, Unf Digital Humanities Institute

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Program for the 2024 Digital Projects Showcase

Keynote speaker Dr. Nashid Madyun, Executive Director of Florida Humanities

Communicating Increased Salinity In The St. Johns River, Kailan Sindelar Ph.D.

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the 2024 DHI showcase.

Water Stories: A River Harvest, Tru Leverette Hall Ph.D., Maureen E. Mccluskey Ph.D.

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the 2024 DHI showcase

Unveiling The Ezpeleta Affair: Using Ai To Explore Cervantes’S World, María Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes Ph.D., Alexis Skidmore

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the 2024 DHI showcase

Who Is Florida Man?: Perceptions Of Identity Through Language And Media In Florida, Jessica Chandras Ph.D., Sarah Shiell, Bailey Gressett, Ann Bordin

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the 2024 DHI Showcase

Digitizing The Eartha M. M. White Collection, Madalyn A. Starratt

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the 2024 DHI showcase

Unveiling Intergenerational Trauma: Colorism, Emotional Intelligence And Domestic Violence In Jamaican Households, Lydia-Rose D. Hanson

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the 2024 DHI showcase

Jacksonville Jazz Festival Economic Impact Study, Andrew Hopkins, The Public Opinion Research Lab

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

Poster presented at the DHI showcase

Building Connection With Community Reads: Opening Up A Learning Community During Isolation And Beyond, Hannah Mendro, Alyssa Berger, Carina Bixby, Joanne Chern, Kat Wyly, Laura Dimmit Smyth

All Things Open

Community Reads at the UW Bothell/Cascadia College Library is a program open to students, staff, and faculty across both our communities with the goal of facilitating conversation around topics of social justice and equity. We use a shared reading (a book, essay, or short story) that aligns with a greater theme as the basis of our programming, but build out from our reading in many different ways. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and more than a year of virtual learning, the team has focused on providing multiple creative entry points into our readings and discussions, prioritizing alternative ways …

The Contributions Of Nuevomexicanas To New Mexico Lowrider Culture, Traditions, And Rituals: The Significance Of Young Chicana Cultural Pachuca And Chola Aesthetics And Identity Expression In The Albuquerque Lowrider Community, Valerie J. Chavez

Chicana and Chicano Studies ETDs

The lowrider community in Albuquerque creates a space for families and individuals to gather and express themselves within Chicana/o/x culture. Nuevomexicanas have played a significant role in the teaching and preservation of the New Mexican traditions and rituals of lowriding. This research project is a visual and plática-based study. It explores how young Nuevomexicanas express their Chicana identity through la pachuca and chola cultural aesthetics and identity while actively participating in lowrider culture. This project utilizes the research methods of la resolana, querencia, and plática to understand, discover, and document the roles of young Nuevomexicanas in the Albuquerque …

Making Absences Present: The Process Of Visualizing Knowledge Production In Museum Records, Caitlin Glosser

Artl@s Bulletin

In this paper, I evaluate the development of data visualizations as an art historical approach. By visualizing data for Senufo-labeled objects in the Musée Africain de Lyon’s collection, I demonstrate how the museum’s knowledge infrastructure privileges European collectors over African makers. I use Tableau visualizations to decenter this narrative by making silences present in a more impactful manner than through text alone. The visualizations also reveal the complex role that one maker, Bèma Coulibaly, played in the life of the collection. The addition of the individual narrative to the data was necessary to bring a human element into view.

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How Do We Craft Autoethnography? A Modest Review, Niroj Dahal

The Qualitative Report

I am writing this review as an essential reading for readers and writers of the book—Crafting Autoethnography: Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture, edited by Jackie Goode, Karen Lumsden, and Jan Bradford, which explores the art of crafting autoethnography (Goode et al., 2023). As a novice autoethnographer, I have grappled with challenges and explored borders while shaping my narrative as a self-narrator of autoethnographic writing. So, in this review, I have attempted to engage readers by offering the invitation, encouraging initial reading as entry to the book, subsequent re-entry, and eventual exit as my evaluation of the …

Teaching Creatives To Be A.I. Provocateurs: Establishing A Digital Humanist Approach For Generative A.I. In The Classroom, Joshua A. Fisher

Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education

This case study examines the implementation of OpenAI's Generative AI (GenAI) in a graduate interactive storytelling course at Ball State University in Spring '23. Adopting a Posthumanist perspective, the course treated GenAI as a synthetic collaborator to bridge technical disparities among the students, enhancing their characters, dialogue, and visual production. Students also used the tool to help understand complex technical documentation. However, while the approach led to overall success, the case study proposes a shift towards Digital Humanism for a more balanced, ethical integration of GenAI in the classroom. This perspective prioritizes human creative agency over computational creativity, encouraging students …

Writ To Work: Habeas Corpus Challenges By Laborers And Socialists In Washington State, 1915-1919, Luke Mcdermott

Digital Legal Research Lab

No abstract provided.

Mastering The Art Of Ai Language: An In-Depth Exploration Of Prompting Techniques And Their Influence On Model Performance, Junaid Yeasir Fahim

IPHS 484: Senior Seminar

AI language models like ChatGPT(GPT-4), Claude, Grok, PI, and Gemini Advanced have revolutionized various domains with their remarkable capabilities. However, their performance varies significantly depending on the prompting techniques and the domain of application. This research investigates the performance of these models across zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting techniques in three domains: HELLASWAG (common-sense reasoning), TRUTHFULQA (popular misconceptions), and Game Theory (textbook problems). By evaluating the models using a qualitative scoring rubric and exploring a novel domain, we aim to identify the most effective prompting strategies, gain insights into their strengths and limitations, and inform future research and development efforts …

Orpheus, Spring 2024: Reincarnate, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

No abstract provided.

Great Lengths: A Review Of Website Preservation Activities At Three American Universities With Digital Humanities Centers, Drew E. Vandecreek

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Sustaining grant funded digital humanities websites has become a major challenge in the field. Three American universities with digital humanities centers kept eight of nine websites funded by the United States National Endowment for the Humanities (1996–2003) online to 2022. Center personnel made website preservation a part of everyday operations without additional funds devoted to the task. Web software developed rapidly in this period, however and center staff members’ efforts often did not succeed in providing necessary updates. Funded materials became increasingly obsolete. The extent of center personnel’s efforts, compared with their results, suggests that their approach itself will in …

From Moral Panic To Legal Injustice: Due Process Failures In Prostitution Cases (1889-1924), Ethan Dunn

Digital Legal Research Lab

No abstract provided.

Artificial Intelligence For The Saas Industry: How Llms And Ai Tools Can Be Utilized To Assess Key Performance Indicators And Internal Alignment Standards For Publicly Traded Saas Companies, Dillon Cleary

IPHS 484: Senior Seminar

This artificial intelligence project presents a comprehensive analysis of four distinct Software as a Service (SaaS) companies—Blend Labs, Riskified, VTEX, and CS Disco—evaluating their internal alignment through strategic focus and execution, customer relationship management, operational efficiency, market adaptability, and leadership stability. By examining key performance indicators (KPIs) and strategic initiatives, this project aims to generate new, universal KPIs that serve all of the companies being analyzed. The project also employs a grading rubric designed for assessing the internal alignment of SaaS companies, crucial for their long-term success in the highly competitive and rapidly evolving tech sector. This study is a …

Integrating Ai Into Equity Research: A Case Study On Lululemon In The Apparel Retail Industry, Drew Robinson

IPHS 484: Senior Seminar

This study explores the development of a generative AI model, "My GPT," tailored to provide equity research for individual investors, with a specific focus on Lululemon Athletica Inc. The project's goal was to create an accessible financial analysis tool that could potentially rival traditional, costly financial services. The research involved iterative model development, beginning with a baseline model and advancing through four subsequent iterations, each refined based on the increasing complexity of prompts and the depth of training data. These iterations incorporated detailed financial reports, market trends, and industry-specific metrics to enhance the model's analytical accuracy and relevance. The final …

A Retrieval-Augmented Film Recommendation System, Richard Anthony Álvarez

IPHS 484: Senior Seminar

This project introduces a Retrieval-Augmented Film Recommendation System, developed as a Command Line Interface (CLI). It leverages advanced semantic search techniques, combined with retrieval-augmented generation, to deliver personalized movie recommendations. The system accesses extensive film metadata from two remote API sources, enriching the quality and accuracy of its suggestions. Tested across various movie preference profiles, the system adeptly adjusts its recommendations to suit individual tastes, showcasing its adaptability and the effectiveness of retrieval-augmented technology in streamlining user interactions with digital entertainment platforms.

Research On The Application Of Part-Of-Speech Tagging Of Ancient Books Under The Domain Large Language Model, Danhao Zhu, Zhao Zhixiao, Die Hu, Wenhua Zhao

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance]The development of the large language model has brought new ideas for ancient text mining, and combining the large language model with the digitisation and intelligence of ancient books is a necessary path for the work of ancient books in the new era. [Methods/process]This paper uses the lexically annotated corpus of Zuozhuan to construct a batch of high-quality lexically annotated instruction data through data cleaning and preprocessing, on the basis of which 500, 1 000, 2 000, and 5 000 pieces of data are used to fine-tune the instructions of the large language model, and the performance test is carried …