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RESTful web services are one of our core design patterns. Fielding’s thesis identifies four major constraints that identify a RESTful architecture (statelessness, resource-orientation, uniform interface, hypermedia-driven application state). Many “RESTful” APIs only get 3 out of 4 of these; we’ve begun experimenting with using XHTML as a media type for our APIs, and this provides a lot of power in terms of scalability and loose coupling between client and server.

The topic of my Master thesis project is the development of a design pattern taxonomy for data visualization and information design. In its core, the project consists of a collection of 55 design patterns that describe the functional aspects of graphic components for the display, behavior and user interaction of complex infographics. The thesis is available in the form of a 200-page book that additionally includes a profound historical record of information design as well as an introduction into the research field of design patterns. It has been submitted by the end of February 2008, and will be presented in mid-April. Further information on the thesis content and a first version of the pattern browser prototype will be online soon after.

'S-XL CAKE is a baking dish with a new approach: The shape of the cake is inspired by the permanent issue "how to divide a cake?". S-XL CAKE plays with our individual need for different sizes of cake-pieces in a decorative, provocative and ironic way by taking advantage of the new possibilities that flexible silicone baking dishes offer.'

This thesis contains a detailed analysis of three specialized systems for the interactive exploration of large graphs, relating the intended tasks to the spatial layout and visual encoding choices.

video of my multitouch table with my software in action. Both hardware and software were built for my bachelor’s thesis which I handed in in march. The software that you see at the end is written in Python with PyMT, using the VTK library.

The design thesis, the portable city of New Malacovia, is the blueprint for a perpetually sustainable culture and an environmentally responsible city. Inspired by the narrative text of the lost Malacovian city from “The Dictionary of Imaginary Places”, the research followed the emigration of the city’s leader, a Nogai prince (and inventor) and his people during the Crimean War to a new settlement in the Danube River delta. The project extrapolates the inventions and urban ideas of the old city into programmatic, tectonic and environmental concerns for New Malacovia.

This is an overview of the visualization and interaction experiments I produced for my Masters Thesis “Visual tools for the socio–semantic web” (.pdf, 12MB).

Today, the sexuality is a taboo for elderly generations.

During my investigation, I have observed many prejudices about this topic in our society.

However, sexuality is always active over 70 years old.

I have revaled three specifics aims to start my project :

- Stimulate Sexual desire of elders into rest-home

- Educate practical nurses and students

- Sensitize general public about sexuality of elderly people

You can watch the differents ideas I suggested

to resolve these 3 problems in Diploma's part.

More than one hundred thou­sand person­al raw data sets were crawled from the web to fill this pa­ram­e­ters with subject mat­ters. Based on the thesis that the dig­ital identity is measur­able and compa­ra­ble these data sets were vi­su­alized us­ing custom compu­tational tools.

These stud­ies were designed to under­stand the data and determine its char­ac­ter­is­tics regard­ing the construction of dig­ital identity.

Af­ter the anal­ysis phase the data was vi­su­ally abstracted and interpreted to give the disembod­ied dig­ital identity a unique and char­ac­ter­is­tic »Gestalt« in form of a generated sculp­ture.

A motion graphics piece created by David Park, a student graduating from PARSONS SCHOOL of DESIGN. This is his thesis project, which is on Sneaker Culture. The piece touches on the trends of culture and their interactions with youth/pop culture, music, fashion, etc.