A screenshot of the Sistine Chapel tour running in Firefox
Often in my classes at Miami, I’ll discuss virtual heritage and virtual tourism with my students — that is, using 3D and virtual reality technology to digitally preserve a site or make a place more accessible to a wider audience. Aside from the famous Rome Reborn [...]
Visualization Category
Virtual Heritage
Thursday, October 13th, 2011Bio-digital Design Lecture, Sept 22
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011Richard Elaver
Bio-digital Design
7pm, Thursday, Sept 22
Room 100, Art Building
Growing objects
Starting with computation and natural mutation as sources for design development, my work integrates mathematical structures that replicate variance in nature. Each form is built through an unfolding expression of potential, revealing semi-determinant authorship through similarities and deviations, allowing the affordances of unpredictability to be a [...]
This is Your Brain on Google Instant
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010A few weeks ago, you might have noticed that if you went to the Google home page and started typing that you were getting more help finishing your query than before. In fact, just typing the letter W would get you the weather where you are in less time than you can blink your eye. [...]
AIMS Presents to His Holiness, The Dalai Lama
Sunday, October 24th, 2010Thursday, October 21st, AIMS faculty and students were honored to present their work to His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama during his visit to Oxford. In an invitation-only event that morning, in Hall Auditorium, Glenn Platt (Co-Director of AIMS), Eric Hodgson (Director of the Smale Visualization Center), and Noah Bornstein (AIMS student and recent graduate) [...]
uBid
Thursday, April 1st, 2010Conducted rigorous usability and eye-tracking study. Redesigned customer experience.
Miami’s HIVE Gets a Facelift
Thursday, August 27th, 2009This summer, Miami University’s HIVE facility (Huge Immersive Virtual Environment) upgraded its optical position-tracking system. Already the largest facility of its kind in the world, the upgrade from 8 infrared cameras to 12 will allow the HIVE to track users’ positions over an even larger area and with higher accuracy. Users of the HIVE can [...]
Do You Need Another Electronic Reading Device?
Monday, May 18th, 2009Image by Geek Tonic via Flickr
It is reported Amazon is going to release Kindle DX this summer, an electronic reading device with a larger display (9.7”) than its predecessor. The questions for many people are: Do we need to have an electronic reading device? Should we have it now?
I have been dreaming of digitalizing my [...]
Universal Design
Friday, March 13th, 2009Image by Night Owl City via Flickr
According to the Universal Design Alliance web site (www.universaldesign.org), universal design (UD) is defined as: “The design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without adaptation or specialized design. A user-friendly approach to design in the living environment where people of [...]
MDS typographia Project
Friday, May 16th, 2008This studio occurs each spring semester, with a different project concept each year. In the spring of 2008, six interdisciplinary teams, consisting of graphic designers, interior designers and architects, designed comprehensive branding solutions for an arts and architecture bookstore in downtown Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine area. Each team was committed to design the project at every level [...]