College of Design (CoD): Recent submissions
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Barriers and Potential Solutions to Gender Diversity in the Construction Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-04)The construction industry faces significant challenges filling vacant jobs to match supply with demand. With 20 percent of the construction workforce not returning after the pandemic within a booming housing market and the ... -
AN ATLANTA-BASED ANALYSIS ON THE FEASIBILITY OF EMPLOYEE COMMUTE OPTIONS PROGRAMS AND SWITCHING FROM DRIVING ALONE TO ALTERNATIVE COMMUTE MODES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-02)Employee commute options programs – also known as employer-based transportation demand management (TDM) programs – are rooted in the philosophy of TDM and trip reduction. There is a long history of TDM policies and efforts ... -
Shape Machine: shape embedding and rewriting in visual design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-27)Shape grammar interpreters have been studied for more than forty years addressing several areas of design research including architectural, engineering, and product design. At the core of all these implementations, the ... -
Addressing Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) Data Needs: A Case Study in a Low Resource Community
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-26)Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) is a method of simulating the energy usage of a grouping of buildings, at the scale of a neighborhood or city, rather than the typical simulation of a single building. This can be a ... -
A FRAMEWORK TO SIMULATE DIVERSE OCCUPANCY AND PRESENCE SENSING TECHNOLOGY TO REGULATE HEATING AND COOLING ENERGY IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)With the rapid progression of human sensing technologies, High Performance Buildings (HPB) are inevitably moving towards the wide scale automation of occupancy detection for energy efficiency purposes. Occupancy patterns ... -
Dataset for "Effect of wheels, casters and forks on vibration attenuation and propulsion cost of manual wheelchairs"
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-08-10)Manual wheelchair users are exposed to whole-body vibrations as a direct result of using their wheelchair. Wheels, tires, and caster forks have been developed to reduce or attenuate the vibration that transmits through the ... -
The Design of a Family of Parametric Anatomically-Based Compliant Buttock Models to Evaluate Wheelchair Cushion Performance - Fabrication Package
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-07)The evaluation of wheelchair cushion performance is of interest to a variety of stakeholders. Over the years, several buttocks models have been used to evaluate wheelchair cushion performance. These vary in design and ... -
High Performance (Sub)urbanism
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022)This studio report documents the redevelopment proposals of six teams of MS urban design and MS high performance building students to advance DeKalb County's 2020 Memorial Drive Revitalization Plan. The report is intended ... -
A Greenspace Ethnography of Southwest Atlanta: A Review and Tool
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)The purpose of this thesis study is to provide a tool and foundation for a community science-based greenspace ethnography of a neighborhood. The research requires an assessment of environmental history, policy, plans, and ... -
Development and evaluation of a design tool for occupational therapists to facilitate co-design of assistive technology with designers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-05)Development of effective assistive technology (AT) for individuals for disabilities necessitates close collaboration between occupational therapists (OTs) and designers. Currently, their successful collaboration is hampered ... -
Impact of Tangible Augmented Reality on Electromyography Output
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)The utilization of augmented reality for guiding user motions and the incorporation of sensors as an assessment tool are areas of growing interest. Potential for future application exists in the viability to produce real-time ... -
Functional Materials: Investigating ways to make traditional prototyping materials sensible and reactive leveraging with computing technologies
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)This thesis presents a fabrication tool-kit developed through material-driven inquiry to make the rigid prototyping materials flexible and augment their sensing capability by combining them with conductive substrate ... -
Enriching printed book reading experience by providing additional digital content through AR technology
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-03)This thesis investigates how to design a new reading experience using the smartphone application with AR technology. This approach combines traditional printed book reading with related digital media available on the web ... -
Re-Think the Streets: An Evaluation of Green Street Practices as a Method to Achieve Combined Sewer Separation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-19)Older cities across the United States have been grappling with how to mitigate stormwater for decades. The ongoing trend of land development coupled with the heightened frequency and intensity of storm events has necessitated ... -
Urban Thermal Diagnostics and Extreme Heat Vulnerability in Underrepresented Communities
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-27)According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the globally averaged surface temperatures of the Earth have increased by 0.6 ± 0.2°C in the 20th century and models have projected that by 2100 (relative ... -
The serious potential of fun games: a new model for public engagement
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-25)This dissertation examines the relationship between game playing and social learning in public participation activities and whether and to what extent participants demonstrate enhanced collaborative decision making (collective ... -
Eye strain caused by excessive eye use, and using design to relieve it
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04)In recent years, extended use of computers has become more and more often. Due to the technology’s immaturity and lack of humanized eyecare design, visual fatigue affects more and more people. The American Optometric ... -
Can You Hear My Heartbeat?: Hearing an Expressive Biosignal Elicits Empathy - Supplementary Data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-07)Interfaces designed to elicit empathy provide an opportunity for HCI with important pro-social outcomes. Recent research has demonstrated that perceiving expressive biosignals can facilitate emotional understanding and ... -
An Application for Urban Analytics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12)The objective of this research was to develop a new, data-based methodology for analyzing urban environments. By combining graph-based street network data with socioeconomic data scraped from open sources such as Google ... -
Using music to modulate emotional memory
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)Music is powerful in both affecting emotion and evoking memory. This thesis explores if music might be able to modulate, or change, aspects of our emotional episodic memories. We present a behavioral, human-subjects ...