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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Immersive experiences"”.
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In Search of Heterotopia: Immersive Experiences in the Museum
… how museums create heterotopic, interactive immersive experiences. I focus on the work of two Seattle-area museums, and a gallery and a museum in Ellensburg. The Entertainment, Music, and Popular Culture museum (EMP), the Nordic Heritage Museum (NHM), and the Museum of Culture and Environment …
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Tourists’ Immersive Experiences at Dark Tourism Destinations: The Role of the Spiritualist Medium
While immersive experience and dark tourism are established fields, little research has examined how spiritualist mediums shape belief-led, emotionally resonant encounters at historically charged sites. This thesis addresses that gap by investigating how mediums influence emotional engagement, …
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Superfuture: How global superminds can use immersive experiences to build a positive future
… adaptability. In this paper, I propose ways that immersive experiences can provide new pathways for change. Through examination of 16 case examples of resilient organizations utilizing immersive experiences, I present insights and suggestions for how other organizations can use some of the same …
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An evaluation of immersive learning at Ball State University : relations between immersive learning and self-determination factors
This evaluation of Immersive Learning at Ball State University was twofold: to examine both the profile of immersive learning students and to explore the relations between immersive learning experiences and self-determination factors during the course of a semester. These selfdetermination factors …
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Immersive experience between neurodivergence and neurotypicality Community Center for and by Autistic adults
… spatial and sensory elements to create an immersive experience where everyone can perceive the world through an autistic person's perspective. By prioritizing sensory inclusivity and participatory design, the center aims to provide a supportive environment for exploration and interaction. …
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Orientation Device
… The work is a series of augmented reality (AR) experiences for mobile device that allow the audience to participate in documentary queer performances in any private or public setting. These immersive experiences challenge our perception of space. The LGBTQIA+ community is often disoriented …
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Music, mind, and mouth : exploring the interaction between music and flavor perception
… the results can be used to design new, powerful, immersive experiences. The goal of the thesis is to address two questions: does music significantly change flavor perception, and can music change the hedonic experience of a meal? Experimentally, I looked at ways to measure changes in sensory …
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Prosthetic Traveling Companions
… embodied way that allows them to take on these experiences as new memories, highlighting the ability of art to engage our senses in a manner that is similar to everyday lived</strong><em> </em><strong>experiences. In contrast with some theories that challenge the “realness” of these mediated …
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"Between Illusion and Reality": Presentations of the Past in Canadian Streetscape Exhibits
… streetscape exhibits provided sensory-based, immersive experiences that promised “historical authenticity” without direct curatorial interpretation. This thesis examines how the 1972 streetscape exhibit at the BC Provincial Museum (now the Royal BC Museum) and the 1989 streetscape at the …
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The Effects of Immersive Virtual Environments on Motivation, Oral Communication, and Instructional Strategy in EFL Classrooms
… educators incredible new opportunities to create immersive experiences for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. This thesis reviewed 12 empirical studies, 3 previous literature reviews, 3 non-empirical journal articles, and 23 additional background sources investigating the impact of …
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Audience engagement and immersion: the expanded narrative from the early works of La Monte Young and Terry Riley to the digital era
… composers as pioneers of what we now consider immersive artistic practice. Through a consideration of multidisciplinary fields, and both composers’ innovative and engaging early works – which borrow much from the experimental, performative, and participative arts of the period – the subversion …
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Sustaining Tourism in Cuba : A Qualitative Examination of Perceived Entrepreneurial Climate Elements among Tourism Industry Professionals
… are demanding increasingly innovative and immersive experiences that benefit local communities and natural environments. However, Cuba is becoming dependent upon low-cost packaged mass tourism, primarily in the destinations of Havana and Varadero, leading to a recent decrease in average …
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A framework for enhancing the sense of presence in virtual and mixed reality
… a four-dimensional framework for creating immersive experiences that blend extrinsic elements, meaning elements related to the user's real world context, and intrinsic elements, i.e., those related to the device, application and content. I present a series of novel methods and techniques, …
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Earth Mission Control: A Virtual Reality Platform for Bridging the Climate Science Communication Gap
… (VR), we can leverage the affordances of the immersive technology to help integrate multiple modalities into a cohesive experience. In this thesis, I will present the design and implementation of the Earth Mission Control (EMC), an immersive multi-user VR data visualization platform designed …
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Development and comparison of augmented and virtual reality interactions for direct ophthalmoscopy
… with the potential to deliver engaging and immersive experiences. While the availability of off-the-shelf immersive technologies is rising due to its recent affordability, there are several challenges associate with developing suitable interactions, particularly in the medical field. This …
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Exploring Student's Perceptions of a Place-Responsive, Sustainability-Focused Expedition to Zanzibar and its Implications for Outdoor Education Practice.
… advocating for longer duration, culturally immersive experiences that integrate Indigenous knowledge and structured reflection. Recommendations include integrating language acquisition, creating time for dwelling, and fostering reciprocal relationship with host communities. The research …
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A study of the notions of immersive experience in museum based exhibitions
The thesis explores the notions of immersive experience in museum exhibitions, and examines whether the communication of the exhibition content can be transmitted more effectively to visitors through the creation of an immersive environment. The study reviews the origins and changing …
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Twilight of virtualities: Imagining and playfulness in an ambiguous virtual reality
… visions of virtual reality and their drive for immersive experiences. Academic literature and popular culture are predominantly interested in how the technology of virtual reality can convince users they are in a different world. This steers contemporary technological design, improving the VR …
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Combining data driven programming with component based software development:with applications in geovisualisation and dynamic data driven application systems
… used to drive a wide variety of interactive and immersive experiences. This thesis describes the Fluid project, which combines component based software development and game development technologies in order to define novel component technologies for the description of data driven component based …
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Measuring the Psychological and Physiological Responses of Humans Experiencing Sacred Architectural Space in XR: a Case Study at the Monastery of Simonos Petra
… method devised to Scan, Visualize, Simulate immersive experiences and Test humans in XR (SvStXR). Moreover, using self-reporting questionnaires, sensory data, debriefing, and eye-tracking data, the research shows that specific forms of enrichment of the XR (virtual) environment – aural and …
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