Student Works Second Organ Adorey Shen, Yanru Qian, Ching-Wen (Carina) Lee MDes 2024 Reimagining Sensory Perception in the Age of AI Introduction What does it mean to see, hear, and speak in an age mediated by artificial intelligence? …
Student Works AI educational Reverb – AI in Podcast Shikha Shah MDes 2023 Metamorphosis of One-way Audio into Dynamic and Interactive Conversations through Conversational AI Introduction In the contemporary digital age, optimizing curiosity through conversational elements in audio media consumption has become a pivotal focus, …
MDes2023 News Student Work Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards WINNER: Tomas Garcia’s [Tech]tonic Toolkit Each year, Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards celebrate the most groundbreaking, problem-solving, and creative projects and ideas in business and design. We are thrilled to share that MDes2023 graduate Tomas Garcia received a 2024 Innovation by Design Award in the student thesis category for his outstanding student thesis project, …
Student Works environmental design Internet of things product design [Tech]tonic Toolkit Tomas Garcia MDes 2023 An earthquake communication kit that teaches children how to stay connected when natural disasters take telecommunications networks online. Introduction Strategically deployed Long Range (LoRa) radio networks provide the opportunity to establish an affordable, …
Student Works product design student thesis sustainability Aer Susanne Pierce Maddux MDes Spring 2022 Project Aer, is an innovative material-forward design approach solving for sustainable and affordable home air filtration. Project Aer explores theinherent values, versatility and beauty of the material active charcoal by using it to replace plastic parts and as act as a filtration mechanism. …
Student Works educational XR TeachXR Hannah Bartolomea MDes Fall 2022 How might we enable high school teachers to use XR tools to enhance classroom storytelling? Introduction It is difficult to teach microscopic chemistry topics. Virtual and augmented reality technologies have been shown to improve student thesis learning of 3D science topics by allowing student thesiss to learn about these concepts in 3D space (Johnston et al., …
Student Works educational environmental design sustainability VITALIS VITALIS is a surgical experience for plants that simulates what a renewed relationship with our natural environment might look like. Abstract As the consequences of the Anthropocene unfold, …