Department of

INTERACTIVE MEDIA

ABOUT

The Department of Interactive Media offers tomorrow’s visual storytellers and and innovators a complete curricular experience in critical understanding and effective creation of contemporary interactive design. Our programs are designed to prepare a new generation in the field of transmedia and interaction design with a mission to explore the creative uses of narrative, documentary, technology, design and human behavior to entertain, impact, augment, and influence how people communicate.

SPECIAL TOPICS COURSES

Please consider the following Special Topics course offerings from the School of Communication. Spring registration begins on November 7, 2022. Please consult Canelink, the instructor of record, and/or your academic advisor for more information.

CIM 489 section DEIntro to VR: Virtual reality (VR) is becoming mainstream, with more than 10 million systems used in the United States alone. This course examines VR through a variety of societal lenses, including popular culture, engineering, behavioral science, and communication. We will begin the course by laying a broad foundation for understanding numerous aspects of VR, such as latency, degrees of freedom, eye tracking, frame rates, haptics, head tracking, positional audio, room tracking, and more. Students will also learn a framework for creating their own VR models and transforming existing ones. Through a combination of lectures and discussions featuring guest speakers, we will explore the benefits and drawbacks of VR and augmented reality (AR) as well as potential industry pitfalls involved with extended reality (XR), which is an umbrella term for VR, AR, and mixed reality (MR). Students will leave the course with a broad understanding of this exciting new technology, its uses, and possible evolution, as well as with new insights into how companies and educators can transform their organizations with the help of VR.

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Faculty

Ching-Hua
Chuan

c.chuan@miami.edu
(305) 284-4388
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Clay
Ewing

c.ewing@miami.edu
(305) 284-2995
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Lindsay
Grace

lgrace@miami.edu
(305) 284-4661
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Kim
Grinfeder

grinfeder@miami.edu
(305) 284-6253
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Lorena Lopez

Lorena
Lopez

llopez@miami.edu
(305) 284-9289
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Sanne Martens

Sanne
Martens

sxm2632@miami.edu
(305) 284-5616
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Barbara
Millet

b.millet@miami.edu
(305) 284-1074
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Zevensuy
Rodriguez

zevenrodriguez@umiami.edu
(305) 284-4745
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Michelle
Seelig

mseelig@miami.edu
(305) 284-5211
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Vinicius Sueiro

Vinicius
Sueiro

vss43@miami.edu
(305) 284-1783
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