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., …
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. …
Events UX@Google The MDes is hosting Katy Strong and Tesh Goyal, two UC Berkeley alums, who will discuss the importance of UX @ Google and how it is an essential part of the company. …
News Cohort Collaboration: MDes Students Receive Recognition for Recent Projects Congratulations to MDes students Kathy Wang, Qianyi Chen, Xinyi Zhu, and NYU collaborator, Ziqing Li for the recognition and awards of two recent projects—Post Covid Healthcare Healer, and Smell Revived. …
News MDes Students Are Honored at SF Design Week Awards! Five Berkeley MDes students and their teams have been honored with a prestigious San Francisco Design Week Award by the nonprofit organization San Francisco Design Week (SFDW). These projects are recognized by these awards for their ground-breaking design and commitment to thought leadership in meeting the needs of a positive future for society. …
People Luisa Caldas Luisa Caldas is Professor in the Department of Architecture and director of the Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory. After initially training as an architect, she received a MSc from the Bartlett Graduate School, …
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