"More Than Meets The Eye" Animated VR Experience

 Agreed with supervisors: Master Document with thesis structure, using the navigation pane in word, to be stored in Teams folder and updated each Friday. Written draft extracts to be sent to supervisors (approx 1000 words) in the body of an email (for simple review). Plus a word.doc version to be uploaded into Teams, for tracked changes and comments from supervisors. Revision log to be stored in Teams folder and updated each Friday. Log to show colour coding writing in progress, sent for review, supervisor comments and updated section. Andrea McSwan - THESIS MASTER DOCUMENT   - Revisions Records In progress Sent for supervisor review Supervisor comments incorporated into Master Doc Date Rev Section/Chapter Detail Notes 15 Jan 2021 A Abstract. Field of practice In progress notes   20 Jan 2021 B Audio Description In progress ...

 sections for VR in my thesis Scientific romance Science fiction and technology The Invention of Morel - H G Wells, Davidson's Eyes The Invention of Morel and parallels to VR The history of VR VR as an empathetic medium Presence in VR

My Thesis in 10 Steps 80,000 words for Arts & Humanities, plus a practice-based output Size of a small paperback. Problematic, in that it is small and yet has a lot of requirements. A thesis is....an exam paper Viva is about the candidate 2 examiners (1 internal, 1 external) Review university rules about who can choose the external examiner Send the university rules to the external examiner The candidate can play an active role in selecting the external examiner Include the external examiner in the reference list The thesis is a written document to satisfy one person's needs (the external examiner) 18 months into the PhD, make a list of dialogue partners (externals). Meet at conferences and watch them. See their posters. Who would I like to work for? Ask people who've done a viva and thesis, what their experience was like. Research what is required in terms of presentation Papers are a condensed version of a thesis. Any papers written or published, outl...

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.