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Spring 2022
Using an online survey, this research explores public opinion related to ethical concerns and the portrayal of human-like characteristics by Virtual Assistants (VAs), such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. This research is centered around two research questions: 1) What ethical concerns, if...
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Fall 2024
This thesis takes the form of a hypertext, interactive game designed to be a thought experiment on cultural memory in the Anthropocene. It is a game, a form of research-creation, and a question. The question posed is simply: what cultural memories and memory objects do we make, forget, and...
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Fall 2022
This project studied the practice of information sharing in the context of online communities devoted to the preservation of video game mods. My research investigates how these fan communities share and archive challenging content, and how they react to the potential and actual loss of these...