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Salutogenic Design: Bringing the ‘Person’ Into Personalization in Healthcare by Designing for Disabilities of the Hand
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Disability affects around 8 million people in Canada and around 1.3 billion people globally. Those who are disabled experience higher rates of obesity, physical and mental health conditions, and higher rates of poverty than those who are not. This thesis explores disabilities of the hand through...
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On creating appropriate visual communication for the Tlicho community, stories, and culture
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In 2022, I began a creative collaboration with the Tlicho community, in the region of the Northwest Territories of Canada. As a visual communicator designer and researcher new to the country, I set out to help create an online tool for the Tlicho that would archive as well as visualize...
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2024-09-20
Language is the means by which we produce and exchange our shared narratives and connections, with writing as its visual notation system and typography as its formalization. Typography is a symphony of form and function that binds us to our environment and defines our cultural identities. This...
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2024-07-01
Oliver, Marilène, Smallwood, Scott
Abstract (from author, in quotation marks): This paper delves into the aesthetics and ethics surrounding the collaborative virtual reality artwork, Your Data Body. Made using medical scan data as a metaphor for our ever-expanding bodies of intimate personal data, Your Data Body seeks to challenge...
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2024-09-01
This thesis investigates the creation of a digital platform designed to improve the accessibility of support resources for international graduate students at the University of Alberta. The influx of international students into Canadian universities presents unique challenges related to cultural...
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2024-09-01
I'm about to sleep, my body feels heavy sinking into the bed, but my mind won’t shut down. A swarm of thoughts floods my anxious mind: untenable commitments, fears of the future, shames of the past, exquisite loneliness, and a deep, deep longing for home. My exhausted mind suggests feverish...
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Digital Self-Tracking Technologies, Disordered Eating Behaviours, and Athlete Populations: Exploratory Research to Inform the Design of Future Technologies
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Background: Clinically diagnosed eating disorders, subclinical disordered eating, and their associated disordered eating behaviours can lead to serious and potentially life-threatening consequences (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2022; Deloitte Access Economics [DAE], 2020). Some...
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2024-06-01
Oliver, Marilène, Smallwood, Scott
Abstract (from author, in quotation marks): "This paper delves into the aesthetics and ethics surrounding the collaborative virtual reality artwork, Your Data Body. Made using medical scan data as a metaphor for our ever-ex-panding bodies of intimate personal data, Your Data Body seeks to...
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