Photography Practicum: Learning The Basics Of Managing A Fine Art Photography Studio

The photography practicum provides Art and Design student researchers with the practical experience of managing a fine art photography studio. Students learn how to operate, manage, and maintain industry standard fine art archival inkjet printers as well as a twelve-station traditional black and white darkroom. This project provides essential expertise and knowledge that students, as lab monitors, both share with other students and incorporate into their own fine art practice and professional activities. Student researchers learn how to mix, store, and dispose of photographic chemistry, provide daily assistance to undergraduate and graduate photography students, and generate ideas for improvements to the lab. Additionally, students improve their knowledge of various analog and digital photographic processes through self-directed research with the goal of helping other students learn how to further develop and understand their work. Students also contribute to the ongoing revision of the Photography Lab Manual, which specifies best practices and operating procedures for future photography lab monitors. The practical knowledge gained from this experience is highly valuable to colleges, universities, community colleges, artist co-ops, and professional photography labs that seek to employ individuals to manage and teach both digital and analog photographic practices. This research was funded with an Undergraduate Research Fellowship.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/celebration_posters_2021/1031/thumbnail.jp

The Impact of variable data print on usability in design

In a world where people see, process and remember information differently, the question arises: Is technology being used in a manner that acknowledges and addresses user differences to the fullest extent? Currently, new print technologies like Variable Data Printing (VDP) are only being used to create customized direct mailing pieces and personalized products for the purpose of marketing, sales and promotion. However, VDP introduces the ability to change data and design elements in printed documents on an individual basis, making it possible to address differences in visual and cognitive abilities, language and culture, and situational considerations. Applying this concept of customization to educational or informational documents would allow a small amount of input from a user to influence unique output (different sequences or layouts, typographic decisions and appropriate content choices) that are more relevant, usable and engaging. While using VDP as a means to explore and achieve this customization, the focus of this thesis study is not the technology, but the development of a graphic design strategy that also accommodates this customization goal to make information more accessible and usable on an individual basis

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Looking into the role of craft a vessel for cultural creation. Specifically focus on tattooing and printmaking as methods

Short-Term Program on Three-Dimensional Printed Self-Help Devices for Occupational Therapy Students: A Pre-Post Intervention Study

Despite the increasing importance of digital fabrication, of which three-dimensional printing is an important aspect, educational programs in this area have not been fully developed. To utilize three-dimensional printing optimally, occupational therapists need to be familiar with this new technology, understand its scope of application, and possess certain levels of skills for producing. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a short-term program for occupational therapy students to increase the acceptance of three-dimensional printed devices by acquiring the basic knowledge and skills of making three-dimensional printed self-help devices. The research involved an intervention study with a pre-post design. Participants comprised 112 entry-level occupational therapy students. The program consisted of two 90-minute sessions during 2019 and 2020. It included a three-part lecture series and two types of practice. The conducted pre-post questionnaires were structured into four categories: I. student profile; II. knowledge about digital fabrication technology; III. ideas and attitudes toward three-dimensional printed self-help devices; and IV. impressions and thoughts. After the program, the number of students who acquired basic knowledge of digital fabrication and who felt confident about making three-dimensional printed self-help devices significantly increased (p \u3c 0.05). The study suggested that the program was effective and assisted occupational therapy students to understand the usefulness of this new technology and be comfortable using it

Gestural patterns: a new method of printed textile design using motion capture technology

The aim of this research is to develop a new method, Hybrid Printing System (HPS) to explore digital craft methods to create surface patterns for printed textile design. This novel method of creating ‘handcrafted’ prints is a result of the integration of two technologies such as motion-capture (MOCAP) and digital textile printing (DTP). The research towards such an innovation required a current, historical, contextual and experimental study of use of motion capture in Art &Design. The research contextualises the hand and its relationship to digital crafting methods in printed textile design, the digital medium and the process of audience participation in printed textile design to create a new conceptual framework balanced in practice and theory. The practical research then develops three new methods of motion capture such as, motion tracing, motion sensing and motion tracking to generate gestural motifs and gestural patterns. This thesis and the accompanying set of experimental work demonstrates that HPS culminates in developing new aesthetics through a new mode of creation in a new medium, which will impact the user, the designer and the product as a part of the cyclical process. HPS is an advancement of printed textile design, centred in active participation of its audience at the generative stage of design. This results in a shifting role of a designer and subverts the current model of printed textile design practice. HPS is a democratic design process where the participants design for themselves, have their own voice, which induces a sense of community, togetherness and harmony in the creative process

홀로그래픽 프린터를 이용한 증강현실 디스플레이의 맞춤형 홀로그래픽 광학 소자 제작

학위논문 (박사) -- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 전기·정보공학부, 2020. 8. 이병호.This dissertation presents the studies on the design and fabrication method of a holographic optical element (HOE) for augmented reality (AR) near-eye display (NED) by using a holographic printing technique. The studies enable us to manufacture HOEs based on the digitalized design process and allow more freedom to design HOEs, beyond the conventional HOE manufacturing process. The manufactured HOE can play the role of the image combiner of the AR NED and can be designed precisely according to each users distinctive characteristics. The prototype of the HOE printer is presented and the structure is analyzed. The HOE printer can record a hogel with 1900 × 1900 pixels in 1 mm2 and can give complex wavefront information via using an amplitude SLM and sideband filtering technique. The author adopts an index-matching frame with a passive optical isolator, which consists of quarter waveplates and linear polarizers, to eliminate the internal reflection noise. With the HOE printer, a lens HOE with field of view (FOV) 50° is manufactured, and a holographic AR NED is implemented with the lens HOE. The experimental result shows the lens HOE and the HOE printer work properly as our purpose. Using the prototype HOE printer, the author proposes two types of novel AR NEDs. First, the author suggests a customized HOE for an eye-box extended holographic AR NED. The limitation of the conventional holographic AR NED is that the eye-box becomes very narrow when large FOV is implemented due to the limited spatial bandwidth product. By using the proposed HOE printer, the eye-box can be extended along with both horizontal and vertical directions without any mechanical scanning devices. Also, the position of the extended eye-box can be designed to fit with the movement of the eye pupil. This prevents the vignetting effect due to the eye-box mismatch. Second, the author presents a freeform mirror array (FMA) HOE and implement a retinal projection AR NED with the HOE. By using the FMA HOE, the holographic mirrors no longer block the sight of the observer. Also, the freeform phase function allows the FMA HOE to float the display to the desired location without any additional optics, such as a lens. In this way, a wide depth of field and extended eye-box retinal projection AR NED with a compact form factor is implemented. It is expected that this dissertation can help to develop a customized AR NED based on the customers needs. Furthermore, it is believed that this work can show new possibilities for research on the design and fabrication of HOEs.본 박사학위 논문에서는 근안 증강현실 디스플레이의 홀로그래픽 영상 결합 소자를 홀로그래픽 프린팅 기술을 이용하여 설계 및 제작하는 방법에 대하여 논한다. 이를 통하여 기존의 아날로그 방법에 의존한 홀로그래픽 광학 소자 제작 기법을 디지털화 할 수 있다. 또한 홀로그래픽 광학 소자의 설계 자유도가 증가하여 사용자 특징에 따른 근안 증강현실 디스플레이의 맞춤형 영상 결합 소자를 제작할 수 있다. 이 박사학위 논문에서는 홀로그래픽 광학 소자 프린터의 프로토타입을 제작 및 소개한다. 해당 프로토타입은 1 mm2의 면적 안에 1900 × 1900 복소 광파 정보를 표현 할 수 있다. 광파의 복소 변조를 위하여 진폭 변조 공간광변조를 이용한 sideband filtering 기법이 사용된다. 또한 굴절률이 보상된 프레임에 1/4 파장판 및 선형 편광자를 이용한 수동 광분리소자를 적용하여 홀로그래픽 광학 소자를 기록 할 때 발생하는 내부 반사 노이즈를 효과적으로 제거할 수 있다. 이와 같은 홀로그래픽 프린터의 프로토타입이 의도한 대로 제작되었음을 검증하기 위하여 홀로그래픽 광학 소자 렌즈를 제작 및, 해당 홀로그래픽 광학 소자 렌즈가 근안 홀로그래픽 증강현실 디스플레이의 영상 결합 소자로 사용될 수 있음을 보인다. 제작된 홀로그래픽 광학 소자 프린터를 이용하여 두 가지의 새로운 근안 증강현실 디스플레이를 제안한다. 첫 번째는 시청영역이 증가한 근안 홀로그래픽 증강현실 디스플레이로, 공간대역폭에 의하여 제한된 시청 영역을 수직 및 수평 방향으로 동시에 확장할 수 있다. 또한 확장된 시청 영역은 사용자의 안구 길이 및 회전 각도에 맞춰 설계되어 시청영역 불일치로 인한 비네팅 등의 이미지 왜곡을 최소화한다. 마지막으로 망막투사 형태의 근안 증강현실 디스플레이에 사용될 수 있는 프리폼 거울 어레이 홀로그래픽 광학 소자를 제안한다. 이를 이용하여, 기존 거울 어레이 기반의 망막투사 디스플레이의 문제점 중 하나인 거울이 시야를 가리는 문제를 해결한다. 또한 홀로그래픽 거울 배열에 위상 변조 패턴을 기록하여 추가적인 렌즈 등의 광학계 없이 원하는 깊이에 디스플레이 평면을 띄울 수 있게 된다. 이를 이용하여 작은 폼팩터의 넓은 깊이 표현 범위를 지니는 망막투사형 근안 증강현실 디스플레이를 구현한다. 본 박사학위 논문의 결과는 사용자의 필요에 기반한 맞춤형 근안 증강현실 디스플레이의 개발에 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다. 나아가, 본 연구는 홀로그래픽 광학 소자의 설계와 제작에 관한 연구의 새로운 가능성을 보여줄 것으로 기대된다.1 Introduction 1 1.1 Image combiners of augmented reality near-eye display 1 1.2 Motivation and purpose of this dissertation 8 1.3 Scope and organization 10 2 Holographic optical element printer 12 2.1 Introduction 12 2.2 Overview of the prototype of holographic optical element printer 16 2.3 Analysis of the signal path 21 2.4 Considerations in designing an HOE 27 2.5 Removal of the internal reflection noise using passive optical isolator 32 2.6 Manufacturing customized lens holographic optical element 37 2.7 Discussion 41 2.7.1 HOE printer to modulate both signal and reference beams 41 2.7.2 The term "hogel" used in this dissertation 41 2.8 Summary 44 3 Holographically customized optical combiner for eye-box extended near-eye display 45 3.1 Introduction 45 3.2 Proposed method and its implementation 51 3.3 Implemented prototype 57 3.4 Experiments and results 61 3.5 Discussion 63 3.5.1 Vignetting effect from mismatched pupil position along axial direction 63 3.5.2 Diffraction efficiency simulation according to incident angle 65 3.6 Summary 67 4 Holographically printed freeform mirror array for augmented reality near-eye display 68 4.1 Introduction 68 4.2 Retinal projection NED based on small aperture array 70 4.3 Proposed method 72 4.4 Design method of FMA HOE 75 4.4.1 Depth of field analysis 75 4.4.2 The size of the mirror 77 4.4.3 The distance between the mirrors 79 4.5 Experiments and results 82 4.6 Discussion 86 4.6.1 Eye-box of the system via the angular selectivity of the HOE 86 4.7 Summary 89 5 Conclusion 90 Appendix 104 Abstract (In Korean) 105Docto

Customizing personal objects: a pilot study using a smartphone to "design" a mini vase

This research tests a prototype design application (app) that uses real time sensor data, captured and processed via a smartphone, to generate a series of unique vase forms. Smartphone technology, with the support of embedded sensors, the app, and 3D printing processes, are applied in the design and instantiation of the vases. The users' feedback on the complete process is also examined. The research found that the described design process could be successfully applied to the design, and ultimately manufacture, of unique vase forms. Users stated that the app was easy to use, and allowed them to create intriguing forms they could not otherwise design. While both designers and non-designers found the app usable, they had different expectations from it. This uncovered areas where future iterations of the app could be improved

Design Your Career - Design Your Life

This research investigates the current plague of unemployment and underemployment that nearly half of qualified individuals in the field of Visual Communications are met with after graduation. Students who major in this field dedicate a tremendous amount of time, money, and energy toward developing a broad skillset that resolves critical matters of communication through visual solutions. Research has demonstrated that despite conditions that are subject to ongoing change of economy, industry, and marketplace there are contributing factors that must be addressed to overcome un/underemployment regardless of circumstances. These include an underdeveloped network of professional contacts, deficiency in recognizing or responding to changing conditions, and a limited ability to customize one’s career around their unique specialization. The purpose of this study is to provide students who major in Visual Communications the information and tools needed to incorporate their ability to adapt and problem solve from their skillset into their search for work. To explore this issue, information was gathered through secondary research that involved data from federal databases, case studies, literature review, and secondary research in general. Return on investment for one’s education is measured in consideration of three primary themes: job satisfaction, income, and quality of life, which may provide hopeful opportunity for professionals in Visual Communications to overcome un/underemployment through career customization