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    Telling the market story through organic information interaction design and broadcast media : submitted to the College of Creative Arts as requirement for the degree of Master of Design, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2007
    (Massey University, 2007) Harvey, James Alex
    Interaction Design, which is essentially story-creating and telling, is at once both and ancient art and a new technology. Media have always effected the telling of stories and the creation of experiences. (Shedroff, N., 1994, p. 2) Advances with visual representations within broadcast design have been applied to areas such as weather simulations, sporting events, and historical reconstruction's. However, financial market information presentation is fairly uniform in television news broadcasting, showing little progression in pace with other news information catego­ries. While stock market news segments make limited use of supporting graphics, addi­ tional information that may assist the viewer is filtered out, effecting viewers interest, understanding and decision making process often associated with market related stories. Research to date has been limited to single visualisations. There has been little re­search into the use of multiple information views that are composed to support news presentations. People use many different information sources on a daily basis. News sources are used to stay informed about events, to some sources, viewer evaluation of informa­tion is a part of that process. News information and other data commodity sources are now more accessible, allowing designers to look at ways of transforming them into new or improved information services. This research explores the display of stock market information by looking at ap­propriate media delivery methods combined with Organic Information Interaction Design to enhance information relationships. Organic Design and Information Inter­action Design 1 principles are combined. This denotes a 'living' relationship between elements, incorporating hierarchy principles with enhanced information delivery and user experiences. Four themes are tied together through the use of a conceptual prototype. [FROM INTRO]
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    Investigative development of an accessible LED matrix display : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Mechatronics, 2014, Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, University of New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2014) De Jong, Scott
    Display technology stands central to today’s society, with many routine tasks involving at least one type of display. As LCDs replaced CRT monitors, LED-based displays are on course to replace LCDs as the main display technology. LED technology offers advantages across the board: Aside from their inherently greater efficiency, LED technology also brings gains in lifetime, colour gamut, and relatively environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. While the technology still requires some development before it is to replace LCDs, widespread adoption in applications such as live displays and performances has already begun. This dissertation aims to investigate the foundations the development of LED displays through the development of a prototype implementation. A strong focus is placed on flexibility and accessibility of the design. The prototype system utilises a simple PC software based video controller, which processes and distributes raw image data to a network of microcontrollers via a USB connection. Each microcontroller module contains circuitry to drive a 16x16 array of SMD RGB LEDs, and is addressable over the integrated I²C bus. This thesis describes the work completed towards the development of this prototype and steps taken to maintain alignment with outlined objectives. Development is broken down into the PC software development, electronics development, and embedded software development of the prototype.