"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me".

001 PP: See me, hear me, heal me: A THEATRE-BASED APPROACH TO ENGAGEMENT, CO-INTENTIONAL DIALOGUE AND MEANING-MAKING

Weaving Elders of the Andes

The Eyes of a Whip-poor-will I imagine the light all around me and I feel the energy My heart beats, my blood flows The mystery is no longer a mystery to me I feel the energized hand reaching out to me, it is filled with abundance It engulfs me and nurtures my being It empowers me with the wisdom to understand order The trees breathe out and I breathe in They are my brethren making me understan...

Courage Unmasked

Lying supine, the technician uses my mask to bolt me to the treatment table. After he leaves the room, I feel alone, and at first, afraid. I see and hear the radiation machine move around me, but feel nothing. Minutes later, the door opens, and the mask is unbolted. This process is repeated almost daily for 2 months... After 2 weeks, the skin on my neck and inside my mouth becomes red, sore, an...

Touch Me, Hear Me, Feel Me: Feedback Preferences for Mobile Text Entry

Many mobile devices use touchscreens for text entry. They also provide vibration and audio feedback to simulate interaction with a physical keyboard. To facilitate design decisions of new mobile text entry methods, we conducted a survey and a user study to measure user’s feedback preference and the effect of feedback modes on typing performance. We found that nearly half of respondents prefer n...

Direction-of-arrival Estimation of Wideband Sources Using Sensor Arrays

To my family. My father and mother. Especially, to my beloved wife Ji-Hyun and my precious Catherine. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS When I came to Georgia Tech, I used to imagine the moment when I graduate and thought that it would take forever to finish my graduate work. Since then, five years passed fast and I have finished my thesis. While I was writing this thesis, I could not help thinking that it ...