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Statement by Margaret Semple collected by Rachel George on January 16, 2015
Date: 2015-01-16
Creator: Margaret Semple
Access: Open access
Statement by Anonymous collected by Marilyn Bronzi on August 27, 2014
Date: 2014-08-27
Creator: Anonymous
Access: Open access
Statement by Michael Augustine collected by Rachel George on November 17, 2014
Date: 2014-11-17
Creator: Michael Augustine
Access: Open access
Statement by Molly Socoby collected by Rachel George on March 5, 2014
Date: 2014-03-05
Access: Open access
"Pandemic Consumer Portfolio" by Sabrina Lin (Class of 2020) Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Sabrina Lin
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Virtual Reality Accessibility with Predictive Trails
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Dani Paul Hove
Access: Open access
- Comfortable locomotion in VR is an evolving problem. Given the high probability of vestibular-visual disconnect, and subsequent simulator sickness, new users face an uphill battle in adjusting to the technology. While natural locomotion offers the least chance of simulator sickness, the space, economic and accessibility barriers to it limit its effectiveness for a wider audience. Software-enabled locomotion circumvents much of these barriers, but has the greatest need for simulator sickness mitigation. This is especially true for standing VR experiences, where sex-biased differences in mitigation effectiveness are amplified (postural instability due to vection disproportionately affects women). Predictive trails were developed as a shareable Unity module in order to combat some of the gaps in current mitigation methods. Predictive trails use navigation meshes and path finding to plot the user’s available path according to their direction of vection. Some of the more prominent software methods each face distinct problems. Vignetting, while largely effective, restricts user field-of-vision (FoV), which in prolonged scenarios, has been shown to disproportionately lower women’s navigational ability. Virtual noses, while effective without introducing FoV restrictions, requires commercial licensing for use. Early testing of predictive trails proved effective on the principal investigator, but a wider user study - while approved - was unable to be carried out due to circumstances of the global health crisis. While the user study was planned around a seated experience, further study is required into the respective sex-biased effect on a standing VR experience. Additional investigation into performance is also required.
Freezing temperatures drive functional trait clustering more than habitat structure in eelgrass communities in the Gulf of Maine This record is embargoed.
- Embargo End Date: 2026-05-18
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: Bridget Marjorie Patterson
Access: Embargoed
"Pandemic Consumer Portfolio" by Xin Jiang (Class of 2020) Access to this record is restricted to members of the Bowdoin community. Log in here to view.
Date: 2020-01-01
Creator: Xin Jiang
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The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought
Date: 2023-01-01
Creator: David A. Collings
Access: Open access
- Humanity now faces the possibility that it will become extinct over the next few decades or so. This is not simply a reality about the biological fate of the species; it also raises the prospect of thought’s own extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might disappear? Thought’s possible disappearance shatters the assumption, at work across all the institutions and disciplines of the West, that one version or another of thought is enduring and will survive. As it turns out, no familiar practice rests on a secure ground; under the sign of the terminus - the prospect of humanity’s extinction - each one is shattered and undone. The cultural legacy becomes a field of rubble. In dozens of short essays, this book moves through this field. It takes up a host of specific inheritances and traces how each is shattered and transformed by an extinct thought. It engages with religion, philosophy, history, literature, ethics, studies of political power and resistance, and depictions of humanity’s place in the nonhuman world. It reconsiders the emergence of capitalism and of biopower, the science of climate change, the import of mediation and technology, and philosophies of temporality. Moreover, it contends with many innovative waves of thought over the past two centuries, from German idealism to deconstruction, from psychoanalysis to queer theory, from decolonizing theory to Afropessimism, and from the critique of ideology to speculative realism. It concludes by assessing what it is like for thought, having confronted its extinction, to live on in this debris, to dance with its own oblivion.
Plan of Brunswick Village
Date: 1846-01-01
Creator: C.J. Noyes, cartographer
Access: Open access
- Cadastral map, with views of First Parish Church and Bowdoin College Chapel