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- Recent experiments in participatory democracy, such as Iceland’s 2013 Constitutional Reform process to Chicago’s annual participatory budgeting process, have empowered members of the public to directly make policy decisions. These new participatory democratic institutions depend on citizens having capacity to organize new institutions and the capacity to participate in them....
- Keyword:
- participatory design, organizing, civics education, capacity building, participatory budgeting, and participatory democracy
- Subject:
- Social sciences education, Design, and Political science
- Creator:
- Lu, Kristine J.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_1004866 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16675
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- Description:
- As our world is increasingly filled with data visualizations, having the skills to leverage data visualizations is essential for participation in society. Confident engagement with data visualizations is critical for being an educated member of society; however, research has shown that it is difficult for individuals to digest and gain...
- Subject:
- Design, Educational technology, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Thompson, JaCoya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_971103 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16451
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- Description:
- Computational material engineering (CME) has increased the pace of material development many folds in recent years by taking advantage of computational tools such as using simulations as replacement to experiments, and building complicated processing-structure-property relationships using advanced machine learning tools. The importance of CME is underscored by new computation-based design...
- Subject:
- Design
- Creator:
- Ghumman, Umar Farooq
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_939364 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16322
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- The advent of metamaterials—hierarchical structures that manifest properties beyond those found in nature through geometry rather than material composition—inspired new possibilities and research in many fields. In mechanics, periodic metamaterials exhibit behaviors ranging from unprecedented compressibility to extreme stiffness. Numerous geometric classes of metamaterials with these properties have been discovered,...
- Keyword:
- Design representation, Deep learning, Design synthesis, Multiscale topology optimization, Data-driven design, and Data acquisition
- Subject:
- Design, Mechanical engineering, and Computer science
- Creator:
- Chan, Yu-Chin
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16251 and etdadmin_upload_928694
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- This thesis presents a new self-assembling robotic system that diverges from traditional approaches by enabling robots to build structures not constrained to a lattice and formed based on environmental conditions, rather than on a priori blueprints. Robot self-assembly is a class of behavior in swarm robotics in which many robots...
- Keyword:
- Attachment, Self-assembly, Locomotion, Robot, Climbing, and Algorithm
- Subject:
- Robotics and Design
- Creator:
- Swissler, Petras Juozas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16195 and etdadmin_upload_924376
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- Description:
- Between the 1880s and the 1980s, typography mutated from an entirely manual, craft-based practice to a comprehensively mechanized, then a fully digitized one. With the arrival of Apple’s Macintosh computer in 1984, the graphic design profession found itself in the midst of a deep transformation of its tools, techniques, and...
- Keyword:
- graphic design, postmodernism, labor, theory, typography, and capitalism
- Subject:
- Design, Art history, and American studies
- Creator:
- Brown, Jefferson Dakota
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15992 and etdadmin_upload_894059
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- Description:
- Engineering design is a systematic process of identifying needs and their translation into functional systems. This is a cyclic process that alternates between the acquisition of data and the synthesis of said data to inform design decisions. Conventionally, data from physical experiments are used to explore the efficacy of alternative...
- Keyword:
- Uncertainty quantification, Design, Decision making, Machine learning, Data acquisition, and Data synthesis
- Subject:
- Design and Mechanical engineering
- Creator:
- van Beek, Anton
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_861337 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15848
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- Description:
- The field of robot design mostly focuses on careful construction of complex control and planning algorithms (e.g., tuning neural network weights) which bear sole responsibility for improving task performance, while the robot’s body is often assumed to be part of the environment. In nature, however, biological organisms co-evolve both their...
- Keyword:
- Co-Design, Task Embodiment, Robots, and Emergence
- Subject:
- Robotics and Design
- Creator:
- Pervan, Ana
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15878 and etdadmin_upload_863964
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- Description:
- Materials science has been central to human advancement since time immemorial. There has always been curiosity around studying the processes required to extract materials, examine their structure, and ultimately tailor their properties to meet human needs. Over the last few centuries, the ability to tailor material properties was driven by...
- Keyword:
- Gaussian Process, Mixed Variable Machine Learning, Data Centric Design, Multicriteria Optimization, and Microstructure
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Statistics, and Design
- Creator:
- Iyer, Akshay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/02/2022
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_851800 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15801
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- Description:
- Depression is a challenging mental illness that requires individuals to manage their moods and emotions over time. While past mental health literature describes how individuals seek and share support on social media and within online communities, the ways that offline and one-on-one supportive interactions unfold is less clear. To address...
- Keyword:
- Self-Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociality, Mental Health, Communication Technology, and Depression
- Subject:
- Mental health, Design, and Communication
- Creator:
- Burgess, Eleanor R.
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15512 and etdadmin_upload_811409