College of Design Theses and Dissertations
Original work in partial fulfillment of a graduate degree in the College of Design (formerly College of Architecture).
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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 ... -
Investigating Travel Behavior in Transit-Oriented Development: Toward Sustainable and Multimodal Mobility
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-14)An extensive literature has shown that transit-oriented development residents (TOD) have lower automobile use and diverse travel modes due to easy access to transit, better walkability, and proximity to various amenities. ... -
Assessing mental wellbeing in urban areas using social media data: understanding when and where urbanites stress and de-stress
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-12-10)Are Americans more stressed out by living in dense, urbanized areas or less dense, car-oriented areas? To answer this question, can we use people's expressions of stress in different environments to understand what kinds ... -
White Spatial Planning Practices: Deconstructing Narratives around Race, Space, and Privilege
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-10-29)Racial inequality in the United States persists across multiple measures of health, wealth, and education despite changes in laws and policies to end de jure segregation. One reason is the way representations of space ... -
Shared E-scooter Adoption and Mode Substitution Patterns
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-08-30)This thesis explores the adoption and mode substitution patterns of e-scooters using survey data from four metropolitan areas in the southern United States, obtained from Fall 2019 to Spring 2020. For adoption patterns, ... -
A FRAMEWORK TO SIMULATE THE NON-VISUAL EFFECTS OF DAYLIGHT ON THE COGNITIVE HEALTH OF ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-10)Human health and well-being concerns have been brought to the forefront of building performance assessment through contemporary practices of sustainability design. Within the bounds of sustainability, daylighting plays a ... -
Building-integrated Biotic Carbon Sequestration Technioques: Overview and Simulation Workflow
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-07)There is enough scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change is a reality of our times. According to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering 2019, “By mid-century, the world needs to be ... -
Investigating the Efficiency of Authoring Interactions for Augmented Reality Experiences for Designers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-03)Recent advances in augmented reality (AR) have provided an opportunity for this technology to be used in the industrial design and development process, especially, for product visualization and representing product concepts ... -
Mitigation of Business Risk Exposure in Public Higher Education Facilities Management Using Key Performance Indicators: Analysis of the University System of Georgia
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-25)The post-secondary education sector has sustained significant student growth, which has led to the expansion of institutional buildings and infrastructure. With increased growth and expansion experienced in previous years, ... -
Measuring Street-Level Walkability through Big Image Data and Its Associations with Walking Behavior
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-26)The built environment characteristics associated with walkability range from neighborhood-level urban form factors to street-level urban design factors. However, many existing walkability measures are primarily based on ... -
A FORMALIZED URBAN PROSUMER MODEL: SUPPORT OF AUTOMATED SIMULATION AND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-07-26)Many global cities have announced ambitious net-zero energy consumption targets or net-zero CO2 emissions plans. It is well recognized that this can only be realized through a mix of measures such as efficiency improvements ... -
The Role of Relational Agents in Regional Economic Evolution and Resilience: The Case of Robotics Systems Integrators
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-04-20)This dissertation addresses the question of how legacy industrial regions—those that have historically relied on manufacturing, resource extraction, or agriculture—can regain or sustain competitiveness in a global, ... -
A Framework and Process Library for Human-Robot Collaboration in Creative Design and Fabrication
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-05-17)In the last two decades, the increasing affordability of industrial robots, along with the growing maturity of computational design software, has led architects to integrate robots into their design process. Robots have ...
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