A collection of Visual Arts and Design Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Modeling Active Road-User Interaction: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach for Trajectory Generation with Social Context and Trajectory Prediction, Syed Mostaquim Ali

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Ruffled: Examining Feminism & Femininity Through Animation, Savannah Berry

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Inkling: An Exploration of Visual Effects as a Character, Joshua Cooper

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Magic Show: Themed Experiences Utilizing Animation, Emma Cuitino

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With Silk, Sage, and Bones: Confronting Death and Dying Through Nature and Ritualistic Healing, Brittney Fucheck

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Tooth Farmer: Exploring 3D Printed Replacement Heads for Stop-Motion Animated Films, Jamie Lachnicht

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Social Media-Based Crisis Communication: Analysis of Twitter Data from Local Agencies During Hurricane Irma, Naiyara Noor

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Remembered Spaces: Navigating Memory Through Drawing, Leeann Rae

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Miss-Adventures: Fantasy and Friendship in the Context of Animation, Nathaniel Shrage

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Understanding Evacuation Traffic Safety Issues during Hurricane Evacuation using Machine Learning and Connected Vehicle Data, Zaheen E Muktadi Syed

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Model Calibration for Microscopic Traffic Simulation Using Drone-Based Vehicle Trajectory Data, Zijin Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Automated Vehicle to Vehicle Conflict Analysis at Signalized Intersections by Camera and LiDAR Sensor Fusion, Alabi Mehzabin Anisha

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Peat And Patty: Providing a Voice For Nature Through Animation, Clinnie Brinson

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2D Animation of the 21st Century: The Digital Age, James Chambless

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The Universal Story: Coming-of-Age In Contemporary Animation, Christina Christie

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Reading and Writing for High School Students' Writing Identity Construction, Marie Gentile

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If Found: Exploring Death Through Animated Media, Hannah Huffman

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Assessing Public Perception and Proposing an Organized Questionnaire for the Deployment and Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles, Md Rakibul Islam

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A Spatiotemporal Evaluation of Freeway Traffic Demand in Florida During COVID-19 Pandemic, Md Istiak Jahan

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Un-Portalable! An Animated Exploration in Boundaries and Relational Design, Ira Klages

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Family Portrait: The Experience of Space and Place Through Painting, Anthony Mancuso

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Visual Frameworks and Analysis: Investigating the Link Between Primary Texts and Graphic Novel Adaptations Utilizing Semiotic & Visualization Framing Techniques, Kyle Parker

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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Taxi and Transportation Network Companies (TNC) Demand in the Wake of COVID-19, Dewan Ashraful Parvez

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Development of Active Learning Data Fixing Tool with Visual Analytics to Enhance Traffic Near-miss Diagnosis, Jinyu Pei

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Endless Curiosity, Ryan Price

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In The Attic of A Barn, Hunter Pylant

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Negative Space: The Transference of Trauma, Jeremy Robinson

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Discourse Analysis of Young Adult (YA) Literature: Analyzing Depictions of Anxiety in YA Fiction, Sydney Smith

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The Hands that Hold You: Negotiating Relationships Between the Self and the Conjured Landscape, Sheherazade Thenard

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Castle of Unknowing: An Immersive Virtual Reality Experience, Damian Thorn-Hauswirth

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Detecting and Tracking Vulnerable Road Users' Trajectories Using Different Types of Sensors Fusion, Zhongchuan Wang

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Crossed: Strength in Unity and Connection, Dillon Williams

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Eden Enflamed: An Examination of the Self through Fantastical Figures, Forrest Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Crash Analysis And Development Of Safety Performance Functions For Florida Roads In The Framework Of The Context Classification System, Ma'en Al-Omari

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Rubicon: The Dialectic, Marcos Carrasco Yanez

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Their Bodies Flamboyant: An Exploration of Self Through Figuration and Flower, Gabriel Cortese

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Liminality of Culture in Studio Art: A Biographical Investigation of a Second Generation Filipino American Experience, Danielle Culibao Powell

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The Potential of Location Data for Contact Tracing and Understanding Individual Mobility during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Marcus Figaro

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Storm: An Exploration of Home Through Painterly Animation, Kirstin Hardin

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Captivating Bubbles: Creating Lasting Children's Stories Using Animation, Rhythm and Life Experience, Ronald Hargrove

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Modeling of Crash Risk for Realistic Artificial Data Generation: Application to Naturalistic Driving Study Data, Lauren Hoover

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Incongruous Surrealism within Narrative Animated Film, Daniel McCabe

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A Mixed-Methods, Grounded Theory Study of Online Meaning-Making During the Pandemic, Kaitlyn Montcrieff

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A Linear Dynamical Perspective on Epidemiology: Interplay Between Early COVID-19 Outbreak and Human Mobility, Shakib Mustavee

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Monitoring of Microscopic Traffic Behavior for Safety Applications Using Temporal Logic, Mariam Wessam Hassan Mohamed Nour

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Rules for Living and How I Began to Break Them: The Influence of Creative Practice and Cognitive Dissonance on Personal Growth, Timothy Reid

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Effectiveness of Digital Interactive Experiment in Learning Outcomes and Engagement, Matin Salemirad

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For Consumption: Observations of Paint, Food, & Culture, Annette Tojar

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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The Relationship between Student Self-Efficacy and Close Reading in a Ninth Grade ELA Classroom, Karishma Assudani

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Soda Pop: Illusions of Consumability by Generational Minds: Crowdsourced Story Awakens the Archival Consciousness, David Bailey

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Some Southern Waters, Julian Baner

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Afrofuturism in Animation: Self Identity of African Americans in Cinematic Storytelling, Dana Barnes

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How Young Adult Literature Better Informs Canonical Literature in the 9th Grade English Language Arts Classroom, Amber Bernozzi

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Using the Enneagram as a Lens for Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in the Ninth Grade English Language Arts Classroom, Catherine Caudle

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Smartphone Sensor-based Pedestrian Activity Recognition for P2V Communication and Warning System, Dhrubo Hasan Chowdhury

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Compulsory: Art, Memory, and the Stigma of Mass Incarceration, Jason Fronczek

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Alexander: A Dive into Identity, Inspiration, and Release of the Creative Self, Alyssa Garoogian

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2030: Utilizing Animation in Political Messaging, Angela Hernandez-Carlson

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Seeds of Doubt, Amber Hilson

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Ouroboros: The Evolution From Industrialized Mass Production to Auteurism in American Animation, Heather Knott

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A Deep Learning Approach for Real-time Crash Risk Prediction at Urban Arterials, Pei Li

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Two's Accompany: Understanding Acceptance Through Animation, Brian Phinn

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Ethnographic Case Study of International Baccalaureate (IB) Seniors' Self-Esteem and Perception of Labels in a Title I School, Denis Serrano Cruz

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Party for One: A Monologue of The Importance of Oneself Through Book Arts, Jacob Zhefu Wan

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Mirrors For Monsters: A Journey Towards Self-Acknowledgement and Nuanced Representation in Film, Alejandro Watson

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Tenth Graders' Response to Dystopian Literature: An Exploratory Ethnography, Tevin Williams

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Understanding E-Bicycle Overtaking Strategies by Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Lishengsa Yue

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Traffic Speed Prediction and Mobility Behavior Analysis Using On-Demand Ride-Hailing Service Data, Jiechao Zhang

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Prediction of Pedestrians' Red Light Violations Using Deep Learning, Shile Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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A Grounded Theory Survey Study of Teachers Perception Perpetuating the Deficit Narrative About Marginalized Students of Color, Cavel Austin

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Pre-service Teacher Perceptions on the Education of Children with Critical Illness and Preparation to Teach Mathematics to Children with Critical Illness., Bethany Fralish

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The Impact of Youths' Digital Citizenship Levels on Their Self-efficacy, Madison Gannon

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Waking Up White: The Search For Black Happiness, Jason Gregory

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A Narrative Research Study of Self-Selected Tracking on Motivation in 10th Grade English Language Arts Classes, Audra Greuel

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Changing the Channel: A Study of Agenda, Immersion and Social Commentary in Art, Nicholas Kalemba

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Expanding and Shedding the Self: Processing Selfdom Through Painting, Theresa Lucey

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An Ethnographic Study Examining the Effect of Teachers' Socio-Political Bias on Latinx Students and School Culture, Jessica McMaster

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The Suburban Nightmare: A Study of Atmosphere, Mood and Emotion, Ericka Sobrack

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Legends of the Fabricated Wild: An Experimental Representation of Natural Landscapes through the Utilization of Analog Film Techniques, Nicholas Twardus

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Designosaurs: Technological Evolution and De-Extinction Through an Advancing Medium, Sean Vanzyl

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Digital Education: The Impact of Change, Acceleration, and Student Achievement Improvement, Sarah Walsh

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Exploration of Life and Decay in Technological Civilization, Mauro Wieser

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Developing a Traffic Safety Diagnostics System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UsingDeep Learning Algorithms, Ou Zheng

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Seeing Living Things: Observations of Figures From the Outside In, Forrest Deblois

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Momentum, Moment, Epiphany: The Psychological Intersection of Motion Picture, the Still Frame, and Three-Dimensional Form, Mark Gerstein

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House vs. Home: Defining Place Through Identity, Ryan Gleason

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Life, Death, and Awakening: As Seen in Reflections of Nature, Diane Parks

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The American Black Body: Materials,Symbols, and Representations from a Perceived African American, Christopher Santos

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Whatever Happened to Blackwater RD.?: A Visual Documentary Concerning Achievement in the Face of Failure, Michael Stephenson

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Dialectics of Microbudget Cinema, Milos Ajdinovic

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Agents of Change: Producing the Palpable from the Intangible through the Human Experience, Chealsea Anagnoson

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Design and Production of an Episodic Online Animation: Cairns of Apeiron, Andrew Cadieux

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Images of Nostalgia: An Exploration of the Creation of Recollection Through Visual Media, Allyson Dickerson

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Pioneer of Self: An Intimate Retrospective, Juliet Diienno

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Beyond Panels Interactive Storytelling: Developing a Framework for Highly Emotive Narrative Experiences on Mobile Devices, Michael Joseph Eakins

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83 Orange Peels, Klara Hammoud

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Indivim-kara: An Exploration of Ego and the Archetypes in Art, Jared Justice

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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The Mothers: An Exploration of Memory and Secondary Knowledge, Taylor Battle

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Mutable Means: An Exploration of Communication and Identity Through Visual and Verbal Deconstruction, Reina Castellanos

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Hidden Narrative: A Family of Objects, Alesha Hassard