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3D geographic model vs street view panorama a cognitive study on navigation in different Google maps representations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Throughout history, different tools have been invented to help people navigate in space. The different tools use different modes of representation as abstractions of 3-dimensional space. Two of the representations used in ...
Improving mental wellbeing on college campuses through participatory art installation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In recent years, the mental wellbeing of the students and faculty here at MIT has generated a lot of discussion, both on campus and in the press. In response to this, a large number of student-lead and institute-lead mental ...
Modeling urban energy supply schemes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Rapid urbanization places increased pressure on governments and cities to use economical, low-carbon energy supply strategies. This manuscript details efforts to develop an integrated energy supply and demand analysis tool ...
Shape grammar for medical injectors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis explores the applicability of algorithmic design for biomedical device design through the use of the shape grammar formalism. This method is expressed as an algorithm that describes the computational mechanism ...
Spatial Practice : The politics of "activating" public space in the State of Kuwait
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
My thesis examines the socio-spatial dialectics that unfold throughout the development of public spaces in Kuwait. In my thesis, public space is understood as a space of urban dialogue between the state, the city, and the ...
The return of the infrastructure "Muti-Platform City"
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Cities, spaces that always coexist with the old and new, are similar to realms of production. Cities have complex layers of construction over time, including all types of transport infrastructure roads, railways, highways, ...
Anamorphic raytracing for synthetic alcove holographic stereograms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Design and implementation of an electronic special interest magazine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Electronic publishing has been established as a unique means for providing information in an interactive and personalized manner. Although scholarly journals have been published electronically, large circulation magazines ...
The living atrium : design guidelines for quality atriums
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Modern technology has made it ecomically feasible to span large glass-enclosed structures which are socially sufficient and convenient for less mobile groups of the society like handicapped, elders and children to virtually ...
Vieques, Puerto Rico : from devastation to conservation, and back again
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The donning of camouflage gear by military forces is uniformly understood to be an attempt to dissolve into a background matrix in order to deceive an enemy in combat, or in a combat simulation. This thesis examines the ...