"More Than Meets The Eye" Animated VR Experience

Part 2: My inital thoughts and notes relating to the second chapter and how this could apply to my research: Joanna Choukeir PhD thesis. Youth in Lebanon: Using collaborative and interdisciplinary communication design methods to improve social integration in post-conflict societies   http://joannachoukeir.com/About 2) Delve - insight gathering Clear examples and references of cultural probes Face-to-face feedback and feedforward Disposable cameras - how would this work? How do blind people diarise, make lists, record? Explorations design method. Map of the world. Map of UK. Map of Scotland. Map of Dundee? See table in thesis (Chapter 2, p.113) Blind people's network - participants asked to define their friends in two words. One thing they have in common and one thing that they don't. The probe helps focus on differences Other probes are (1) Opinion cards (2) Portrait cards (3) Journal (4) Disposable camera (5) Voice recorder - consider how these would or wouldn...

In this early formative stage of research I am reviewing a collection of PhD theses, to get a scope of what is required within a comprehensive research project. It was Joanna Choukeir's talk at DJCAD Postgraduate Conference on Transformative Practice in June 2016 that provided my first awareness of the possibilities and scope within a Practice Based, industry facing PhD. http://joannachoukeir.com/About Purely as a design package, including web content, her research and thesis  Youth in Lebanon: Using collaborative and interdisciplinary communication design methods to improve social integration in post-conflict societies   are inspiring. Coupled with the depth of content and creative methodology, it was my first choice when deciding which PhD thesis to review first. My inital thoughts and notes (highlighting and comments onto the pdf document) relating to the first two Chapters: 1) Discover - contextutal review, including literature and practice review 2) Delve -...

In answer to my supervisor's question "Have you read any PhD theses?" My answer was "no!" I've ordered three PhD theses from the DJCAD library archives. Two of which remain in the library and I can review them there. This one is now at home and ready to be read! Fuller, R.A. (1991) Animation and Design. Unpublished PhD thesis. DJCAD, Dundee University. Review: Upon reading I discovered that this is in fact a Masters thesis. Interesting facts about the origins of animation, along-with a new understanding of computer generated imagery and how long it has been in industry. Given that this thesis was written and submitted in 1991, it was very inspiring to see how the predicted trajectory of the benefits and uses of computer aided design and animation and how this has now become a reality. A fairly quick read in a couple of hours and it prompted me to research other PhD theses available from the British Library.