New Media Master's Thesis presentations / Tue-Wed 1.-2.6.2021

Tuesday and Wednesday 1.-2.6.2021
Place: Zoom Meeting – Registration link:
Event starts at 9:00 on both days
Program:
Tuesday 1.6.
9:00 Rauli Valo: The Dead Are Speaking - Sound Design for a Smart Speaker Story Game
9:50 Matias Harju: Exploring narrative possibilities of audio augmented reality with six degrees of freedom
10:40 Scott McGregor: SoundShade - A creative tool designed to help users reduce the negative effects of unwanted sound in their working environment
11:30 Aida Räihälä: Aistimus, tallennus, toisto – ääniessee itsensä äänittämisestä
13:20 M Wingren: Press Play: Music performance & release with/in multimedia frameworks
14:10 Antton Nuotio: Dissonance - The Role of Interaction in Perceiving Noise
15:00 Laura Meskanen-Kundu: Remote User Study: A reflection on remote user research methods during the COVID-19 pandemic
Wednesday 2.6.
9:00 Adriana Delgado: Designing Original Position, a collaborative civic board game for teaching distributive justice
9:50 Chen Yu: Designing for the User Experience of Halloped.fi through Storytelling
10:40 Punit Hiremath: Breathe in, breathe out : Augmented reality murals as a tool for extended storytelling narratives
11:30 Yuanqi Shan: A procedural character generation system
13:20 Samuli Ristimäki: Expanding Flutter Framework: Generative Art with Alternative Tools
14:10 Eero Tiainen: Transformational Dramaturgy for VR Simulations - The Affordances of Ludo-Narrative Virtual Reality Performances in Player-Self Transformations
15:00 Gurden Batra: Climate Tech: Evaluation of Technology in Climate Action with a lens of Materiality and Data Justice
15:50 Kevan Murtagh: Narrative Interfaces in Time and Space
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