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- 6Oliver, Marilène
- 5Smallwood, Scott
- 4McTavish, Lianne
- 2Carpenter, J.R.
- 2Ingram, Katrina
- 2Moore, Stephan
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2016-01-11
Healthcare is an inherently risky sector for innovation. In particular, breakthrough innovations pose an even greater risk for investment and potential consequences for the end user. These factors make the healthcare sector inherently risk averse, resulting in medical devices that become...
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Mindfully Social: Designing in Response to Mental Health Issues Linked to Excessive Social Media Use
Download2022-04-01
Mental health is a significant and widespread health issue that in many societies is still considered taboo and not taken as seriously as it should be. Mental health is vital for the personal and psychological well-being of individuals, their relationships, and their contribution to their...
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2017-01-16
My work is about the exploration of everyday-life, colour and the imagination. Making paintings is my way of understanding the dynamic and ever-changing sociological, cultural, and digital fabric of North American society. My practice involves creating a poetic network of images that utilize a...
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2018-09-01
Modern Indigenous is the title of my thesis and is a brand development project that aims to incorporate Indigenous culture, values, symbols and traditional materials with twenty-first century design thinking and product development. Through this process a number of modernized product designs will...
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2022-07-01
Oliver, Marilène, Carpenter, J.R., Smallwood, Scott, Moore, Stephan
Introduction (from author, in quotation marks): "My Data Body is a virtual reality (VR) artwork created at the University of Alberta as part of the interdisciplinary research creation project Know Thyself as a Virtual Reality. The project which developed from a previous artwork Deep Connection...
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2018-02-21
Not Yet Earth examines the fluid boundaries between self, body and inanimate matter in the context of my own changing relationship with my body following illness. As it started to behave in ways that were damaging to me and that I had no control over, I had a visceral realisation that my body was...
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Nurturing empathy for social cohesion: Participatory, community-based communication design research with gay youth living with HIV in Lebanon
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The marginalization of gay youth living with HIV (GYLWH) in Lebanese society is well documented. The topic of gay youth living with HIV in a deeply conservative and homophobic society has not been studied in any great depth. The story of gay youth in Lebanon is one of the stigmatization...
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2017-02-21
How can we think about the relationship between physical and psychological spaces? Obscura explores the possibility that the intersection of the two can foster deeply contemplative experiences, and enable attentive and empathetic consideration of our relationship with the world. The works in the...