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 learning of 3D science topics by allowing students to learn about these concepts in 3D space (Johnston et al., …
Career Events Design Career Conversations: Insights from Industry Leaders The Jacobs Institute’s Fall 2024 Career Conversations series features design career professionals in conversation with Jacobs’ Director of Career Services, Stephanie Bianco. They also feature lunch! All events are in Jacobs 310. …
People Aarya Harkare Bio B2B SaaS Product Designer | Aspiring xr Innovator Hello, I’m Aarya! With over 3 years of experience in designing B2B SaaS products for the robotics and fintech industries, …
People Tian (Iris) Qin Bio I’m 秦天, an xr developer and a creative coder. I graduated from NYU Shanghai with a degree in interactive media art. Most of my creative work involves digital media, …
News From Radioactive Blueberries to Virtual Limbs: Berkeley MDes’s Award-Winning Designs Berkeley Master of Design students have been busy! Recent graduates and current students alike have been winning design competitions with some thoughtful and evocative projects: Gia Kirk of the MDes2024 cohort and her team took second place in the iHackHealth Appathon. …
Student Works AR VR Limino Qianyi Chen (Daisy) MDes Fall 2022 Interactions for Dynamic Blending Virtual and Real Environments in Head-Mounted Displays Introduction Existing works have been studying how can the physical world be integrated into the virtual world in MR systems, …
People Katherine Liu Bio Hi, I’m Katherine (or simply Kat!) I graduated from New York University with a BS in Media, Culture, and Communication and a minor in web programming. One thing that comes out of my undergraduate study is that technology is never neutral. …
News MDes Student Daisy Chen and Jiaxuan Ren’s work featured in MIT Reality Hack 2022 Congratulations to MDes students Daisy Chen and Jiaxuan Ren for getting their projects featured in MIT Reality Hack 2022! Daisy’s team project “Inclusive VR User Testing Tool” is selected as the grand finalist out of 60 teams and won the “xr for inclusion” prize sponsored by Snap AR. …
News Spring Mentors Each semester, MDes students get the opportunity to learn from and interact with various invited guest speakers and mentors. This spring, Design Frameworks and Capstone Studio have a great line-up of guests with backgrounds ranging from critical theory to robotic fabrication to xr technologies to strategic foresight….
News Winter 2021 MDes Showcase Recap INAUGURAL MDES SHOWCASE On Friday, December 10th, 2021, the first and second cohorts of MDes students enjoyed a full-day at Jacobs Hall as part of the inaugural MDes Showcase. …