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Social Rejection, Avatar Creation, & Self-Esteem
Get PDFIndividuals use avatars as a means to interact with the virtual world. Self-affirmation theory (Steele, 1988) would suggest that creating an avatar could allow individuals to focus on their positive traits to mitigate threats to self-worth. Yet, a negative correlation exists between self-esteem and idealized avatars (Bessière et al., 2007; Pringle, 2015; Wang et al., 2014). To resolve this discrepancy, a 2 (Threat/No Threat) x 2 (Avatar/No Avatar) design was implemented to simultaneously explore the effect of social rejection on avatar creation and the effect that avatar creation may hold in buffering against losses in self-esteem. It was predicted that individuals who experience social rejection will create avatars that are more idealized (more similar to the ideal self and more attractive) relative to those in the control condition. It was also predicted that the act of creating an avatar would mitigate the loss in self-esteem experienced by those faced with social rejection compared to control and that this effect would be mediated by avatar idealization
Developing Intent and Application Through Virtual Design-Build
Get PDFThis paper was presented at the 2020 Schools of Thought Conference hosted by the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma.The process of design-build links intention and application within a curriculum that is difficult to replicate in a traditional educational studio. While most effective in the analogue world, design-build can be simulated within a classroom by leveraging virtual reality as a curriculum connecting client, spatial immersion, precedent study, construction, fabrication, and a digital design toolset. This paper and presentation will outline a course curriculum for second-year design students at the Hammons School of Architecture that leverages the pedagogy of design-build within a virtual process. The project connects specific intent for our client by crafting spatial experiences for the CHIL (Children’s Hospital Innovation Lab) Zone, a pediatric care unit of Montefiore Medical Center in New York that brings technology to their patients. Leveraging tools like AR (alternate reality), VR (virtual reality), and 3D fabrication, patients in the CHIL Zone are moved virtually beyond the confines of rooms when their medical limitations often reduce their opportunities for exploration. Approaching the process in a parallel modality to a design-build curriculum, student application happens through the construction of virtual versions of a precedent design study, including site, phasing, construction methods, details, and basic communication of the spatial concepts for their clients (kids from twelve to eighteen in a pediatric care unit). The process happens within the immersive qualities of virtual reality, creating a narrative about the architectural design that each student must communicate. Each project is resolved by finalizing a VR “docummersion” film that includes the precedent study and specific spatial elements of their own design. This process is directly generating new understandings of the design-build process. It is developing considerations of architecture and design thinking, including spatial exploration as a form of rehabilitation and health care, architectural design intended solely for use in virtual reality, and the connection of virtual reality and cognitive spatial awareness for design education.Ye
Photo Album of Iranian Zoroastrians, 1934-1937
No full textThe photographs in this album depict the Iranian Zoroastrian communities of Yazd, Kerman, and Tehran. Taken between 1934 and 1937, the photographs were originally compiled together as part of a bound photo album produced for the Iranian Zoroastrian Anjoman of Bombay: many of the photos bear the stamp of the organization on their reverse sides. These photographs were taken and compiled by administrators of Parsi-funded charities in order to demonstrate to Bombay-based Parsi benefactors how their charity
efforts were being used inside Iran.NoThe creators of this photo album have published an associated photo essay: Marashi, A., & Patel, D. (2022). As seen from Bombay: An Iranian Zoroastrian photo album from the 1930s. Iranian Studies, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/irn.2022.3
