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Comfort Quest: Designing a Game to Help People with Anxiety Disorder Through Wellness Strategies and Comfort
DownloadFall 2024
Comfort Quest is a game to help people ridden with anxiety disorders take back control of their lives and minds by providing a safe and comfortable world and teaching wellness strategies. By deciding what elements of design are shown to decrease stress in reality and how one can design a video...
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Technologized Representations of Labour and Class from the Man in the Machine to the Machine (Wo)man in Science Fiction Film and Television
DownloadSpring 2019
This dissertation is about the implications, and iterations, of “the machine” as a tool and metaphor in science fiction (sf) — particularly within the media of film and television. Beginning with Karl Marx’s depiction of an anthropomorphized, metaphorical, and, expressly, capitalist machine in...