Description: visualization of statistical knowledge. The image has two information levels: one uses technical concepts and the other is for dummies because uses simple questions/answers.
Responsibilities: conceptualization, visualization. Advisors: Shuyan Sun and Mike Zender.
Company: as master of design student
Date: 2010.
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Paper accepted at 1st International Congress of Design and Innovation of Catalonia
Escola Superior de Disenny. Universitat Ramón Lull
Barcelona, Spain, 18-19 March, 2010
Coauthored with Mike Zender
Date: 2010.
Book chapter approved for Metalpasticity of Virtual Worlds
Book edited by Dr. Gianluca Mura
Coauthored with Felipe Cesar Londoño and Paula Andrea Escandón
Date: In press.
Paper presented at IASDR 2009 Conference
International Association of Societies of Design Research 2009
Seoul, South Korea, 18-22 October, 2009
Coauthored with Mike Zender
Date: 2009.
Project supported by a Colciencias grant (Colombian National Institute of Science and Technology) and Universidad de Caldas’ funds.
Abstract: this applied research project designed a serious game for citizenship values learning in children and plans to evaluate its learning efficiency in Colombian context. This project was an interdisciplinary process conducted by the designers, educators and developers focusing on conceptual strategies. The team prioritized game immersion in order to achieve children attention in a non-common game topic for children. Indeed, the popular concept of individual competence, often used as a challenger in game design, was replaced by collective cooperation in a multiuser game where all players have a common goal. In order to keep motivation, it is used the metaphor of survival and social interaction.
Responsibilities: co-researcher, lead conceptual game designer, principal investigator(2007-2008).
Co-investigators: Felipe C. Londoño (current PI), Liliana Villescas, and Carlos A. Cuesta.
Advisors: Diego Villada, Fany Osorio, Mauricio Vega, Armando Silva, Aki Järvinen.
Company: Universidad de Caldas
Date: 2007-2009.
Link: Click here for project descriptions in Spanish
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Graduate Student Summer Fellowship from University of Cincinnati
Abstract: when people interact with objects and spaces, environmental, object, and human variables affect the information and energy exchange. To improve design results, designers need to be aware of these variables to improve objects and spaces for perception and interaction. This exploratory research will study the variables of visual hierarchy and levels of abstraction in visual information that affect performance of objects and spaces when they interact with different human beings. Within the scope of this study, the criteria to identify these individual differences are visual intelligence and mood. It will be selected a sample from two groups of visual intelligence profiles (Business and Art and Design students). The resulting knowledge will address the relationship between human complexity and information to make objects and spaces more versatile and universal. This thinking is not new in design. The awareness of differences among individuals and contexts has become essential in design practice. Universal design, for example, has addressed the problem of design for a broader range of humans; however, it has been primarily focused on aging and inclusion of humans with disabilities. The outcomes will empower designers with general principles for inclusion not only of physical disabilities but also simple and everyday individual differences.
Responsibilities: principal investigator. Advisor: Mike Zender.
Company: as master of design student
Date: 2009.
Description: design of initial icon system with reusable graphic elements for epilepsy. The users will be physicians especialized in epilepsy.
Responsibilities: visual designer
Company: as a research assistant. Prof. Mike Zender.
Date: 2009.
pending authorization to exhibit
Description: design of a system that creates visual results from a set of parameters. The resulting images depend on the flickr.com tag matching with the search criteria.
Responsibilities: conceptualization, interface, scripting. Advisor: Mike Zender.
Company: as master of design student
Date: 2009.
Link: click here to visit the project
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Description: timeline of information design and contributing disciplines.
Responsibilities: visual designer. Advisor: J.A. Chewning.
Company: as master of design student
Date: 2009.
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