2003

Selected Work from the DMI Archive:

Visual Elements Of Motion Capture :: By Montague, Sam

The purpose of this thesis is to gain a better understanding of the visual language and technology used to delineate and understand motion. This study is helping the designer identify and understand the parametric range of possibilities for captured motion...

Interactive Media And The Poetic :: By Wiggins, Mike

I am interested in the capacity of interactive media to communicate the poetic. By poetic I am referring to the ability of language to communicate concepts that live only in the mind like fear, success or jealousy - in...

Digital Soundscape :: By Mitchell, Leila

The thesis proposes the addition of sonic characteristics to describe a place within a digital environment. The investigation looks at architectural design principles, sound theory and applications in actual, virtual, and hybrid environments. Emerging from this contextual framework and fueled...

Body Data / Data Body :: By Blanco, Julio

Illness Narratives have become an important practice employed to help bridge the medical and individual experience of illness. For the benefit of ill persons, this thesis proposes a self-referential exploration of Illness Narratives through dynamic media. The individual experiencing...

Dynamic Visual Formation :: By Meirelles, Isabel

Like the inquiries on visual form carried out by Kandinsky and Klee in the beginning of the 20th century, the thesis searches for the most elemental constituents of "visual formation" in the computer environment....

Journey Through India: An Interactive Documentary :: By Shaw, Heather

This thesis is an experimental documentary about a 3-month journey through India. By giving the viewer unique methods for accessing and experiencing content, choosing their own path within a defined structure, and essentially learn through discovery, therein lies a unique...

Boddhisattva. A Holistic Interactive Experience. :: By Garrido, Geraldine

This thesis explores different theories of systems in the context of communication design. Through interactive environment created by a designer the participant explores complex relationships of multi-sensory perception and interactive experience of information. That process enriches and amplifies the participant’s...

Envisioning The Human Brain :: By Su, Fenya

The goal of this thesis is to provide visualization solutions for scientists to facilitate the brain imaging data. Specifically, this thesis studies the advantages of dynamic representation and enhanced interaction to support exploratory analysis of spatiotemporal data. This thesis...

Light Box: Discovering the Human Moment :: By Karatzas, Evan

The primary goal of this experiment is to observe individual behaviors and over arching patterns related to how individuals pursue and avoid avenues of direct personal interaction within the context and framework of an overtly technical environment. Areas of...

Circumspect: The Finite Life of Cultural Ideas :: By Karatzas, Evan

Can the conceptuality and functionality of a book be structured in such a way that the reader's actions, particularly with respect to the subjective determination of importance and relevance, shape the very content of the book? How can a...

You Are Here: A model for interactive narrative. :: By Pillsbury, Christine

The condition "you are here" speaks to three states of being. "You" represents not only audience - the user - but is also a signifier of the point of view (POV) of that user. "Are" represents a state of...

A New Book: A Model for Interactive Narrative. :: By Pillsbury, Christine

Create an interactive narrative environment where the user's behavior (clicks - quantity and quality) has a direct affect on the delivery, representation, and navigation of the story itself in a manner that reinforces the messages/themes of the plot....

Dream 14 :: By Lunetta, Carlos

Dream 14 is an interactive adaptation of Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams"; one of the chapters describe a place where the time flow depends on the person distance to the center of a city. The project is designed to be...

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Unbelievable Cat Organ :: By Lunetta, Carlos

The Amazing Cat Organ is a project about generating the same kind of response from completely different inputs; how to duplicate the feelings that a location in Boston creates using a multimedia application? Senseless and humorous at first, the...

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All I Know About Baseball :: By Lunetta, Carlos

"All I know about baseball" is a comedy short on the cultural differences and on the experience of having English as a second language. The project aimed on a montage exercise, showing how images and text create meaning by...

OCME Interactive :: By Crawford, Coleen

This thesis is an interactive desktop application, meeting the needs of multiple users within the field of forensic science. The process of design began with an ethnographic approach and the concept of participatory design, enabling the designer to prototype a...

A Journey Through India :: By Shaw, Heather

A Journey Through India approaches interactive documentary from the point of view of the designer as author. This body of work refutes an “all-in-one” formula for approaching interactive documentary, and supports the need for distinct authorship. This work proposes...