Author: davidlavoie22

Project 3 (The MUUL) – David Lavoie

Project 3 (The MUUL) – David Lavoie

The MUUL Empathize: MUUL’s target demographic are users who struggle with nicotine addiction and want a healthy way to wean off their addiction, while still being able to inhale. Unlike MUUL, MUUL’s design goal is to specifically help the user end their addiction, and it More

Journal 8 – David Lavoie

Journal 8 – David Lavoie

EXERCISE 1: WHICH IS THE NEW MEDIA SOLUTION? PROBLEM: A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE I feel like solution A is the better option as it would actually preserve the spoken and dictionary language of the Passamaquoddy. This solution would generate a ‘crowd sourced’ many to many strategy More

Project 2 – David Lavoie

Project 2 – David Lavoie

Digital Clocks Digital Clocks have a very generic footprint and machining process that most products have. For example most of the components are plastics or mined metals like tin and copper. What it should be know is that these clocks’ materials are typically mined then More

Journal 7 – David Lavoie

Journal 7 – David Lavoie

The city of Bangor, Maine has an issue with modern technology. While the city itself doesn’t mean a lot to most people, its where I am from. In Bangor there are streams that feed into the river, which goes straight into the ocean. Our biggest More

Journal 6 – David Lavoie

Journal 6 – David Lavoie

The Arguments of AI: While in my studies of new media, the major idea that I keep hearing about is none other than A.I. A.I. Will be one of the worlds most powerful tools the moment it is actually created. Typically with A.I. there is More

Journal 5 – David Lavoie

Journal 5 – David Lavoie

Identity Supported: Identity Unsupported: A lot of games are making the transition to support self customization, or relatable characters to bring you more in to the game. Unlike Destiny, Snapchat(Bitmoji), and the Xbox avatars, games like League of Legend, Pokemon, and Madden NFL all have More

Journal 9 – David Lavoie

Journal 9 – David Lavoie

DIY Strategy – An example of a new media ‘Do it yourself’ project is WikiHow and YouTube. Both of these websites are absolutely fantastic for figuring out how on earth to do something. A great opportunity of a project would be creating a website, or More

Journal 2 – David Lavoie

Journal 2 – David Lavoie

Social Media Apps That I Use: Discord <- Will be discussing YouTube <- Will be discussing Reddit Impact of Social Media  With recent creations of newer social medias, and old, their has been a defined point in which depression rates have increased.  There are a More

Journal 3 – David Lavoie

Journal 3 – David Lavoie

The article, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica… and Hippocrates, goes on to talk about we as humans tend to be very hypocritical when it comes to tech. We like to believe that technology can be the source of many issues, Wall-E is a great movie representation of More

Life Cycle Activity

Life Cycle Activity

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P_CQsxoH8TgCdIPnNrnQT2jv-H6MJ06VzFqoJHnkJVU/edit?usp=sharing https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/13/inside-apple-iphone-where-parts-and-materials-come-from.html

Journal 4 – David Lavoie

Journal 4 – David Lavoie

Fish would not load for me on my MacBook, and I do not have an iPhone. But if I were to create something do design technology for love I’d incorperate the following list. -First you would have to make an algorithm or filter out unethical More

Project 1 – David Lavoie

Project 1 – David Lavoie

Smart Glasses and Smart Eyewear Introduction This industry for smart and technologically advanced glasses has been extremely volatile to the public eye. When Google Glass was first released, it took the world by storm as innovative and first of its kind, but then was quickly More

Depression and the Secret to Happiness

Depression and the Secret to Happiness

The ending of this video is actually very touching. While the video had started off explaining how Johann Hari realized he was depressed, and that medications weren’t the problem to his solution. He realized that it was his lack of in person social connection. Johann More

Journal 1 – David Lavoie

Journal 1 – David Lavoie

The Internet has changed the way we make decisions. More and more, it is not individual humans who decide but an entangled, adaptive network of humans and machines.  (W. Daniel Hillis  229) Before I was able to access the internet, finding information was a lot More