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    FeelGrove: a concept for a discursive smartphone application for the visualization of affective states positioned against the neoliberal paradigm
    (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of New Media, 2024) Sijacic, Lidija; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Fine Arts; Clark, Christine
    FeelGrove is a concept for a discursive smartphone application with game elements that acts as a response to the neoliberal framework and the values it propagates, such as competition, self-tracking and self-optimization. The app constitutes a tool meant to enable its users to visualize their emotions through the creation and keeping of digital fantastical plants which act as emotional representations. Aside from the concept for the app, the project includes interface design and accompanying artwork, including four distinct 3D plants depicting different emotional categories and 3D representations of physical settings related to these particular emotions. Additionally, this paper examines the roles that information technology, design and play assume in propagating neoliberal values.
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    Here | Now | Look | See: information visualizations of recent climate records in Alberta
    (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of New Media, 2014, 2014) Clark, Christine; Elias, Leanne
    This thesis is an analysis of the application of information visualization and design to wicked problems, a class of problems whose complexity, interconnectedness and fluctuation make them extremely difficult to resolve, and serves as a supporting document for my studio research and practice. In this paper I identify challenges that emerge with information visualizations of wicked problems and describe methods for addressing these challenges through my practice-based research project. Using climate data provided by Dr. Stefan W. Kienzle, Associate Professor of Hydrology and GIS at the University of Lethbridge, my research project attempts to use information visualization to communicate the climate data by applying design strategies that explore the relationship between aesthetic and functionality.