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Advancing Omnimodality: Expanding Human Creativity Through Adaptable And Accessible Multimodal Computing Systems, Joshua Urban Davis
Advancing Omnimodality: Expanding Human Creativity Through Adaptable And Accessible Multimodal Computing Systems, Joshua Urban Davis
Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations
Emerging technologies have given us a whole host of new ways for people to be
creative. From the immersive worlds of AR/VR to the synthesis powers of largelanguage
models and generative AI, these new tools hold the potential to reshape
human expression and creativity. But how can we ensure that these new modalities
are accessible to everyone, even those who aren’t able bodied? This thesis advocates
for a human-centered approach to the development of many-modal systems. I will
probe how our machines support, direct, or inhibit creativity as a mode of problem
solving through 6 novel multimodal prototype interfaces and …