Blaire Bosley recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Digital Media from Georgia Tech. Her dissertation research explores the ethical dilemmas of using Immersive Experiences to build Empathy. Blaire is an educator, researcher, and designer.
Publications & Conference Proceedings
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Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss among persons over 50. We present a two-part interface consisting of a VR-based visualization for AMD patients and an interconnected doctor interface to optimize this VR view. Read More
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This work explores aesthetic, material, and experiential qualities of inflatable architecture. We created large-scale inflatable structures—from several stories high, to 15m long, to filling a plaza with an inflatables assemblage—in public space. Working from a first-person approach, we offer somaesthetic, material, and practical reflections and design considerations for architectural inflatables. Read More
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Users from marginalized groups are often faced with the challenges that result from a lack of diverse thought in the design and implementation of media and technologies that we engage in our daily lives. It is these artifacts that result in the harm, erasure, and hyper-surveillance of Black and Brown people. We seek to disrupt problematic narratives present in tech and design fields by (re) inserting Black Feminism and leveraging our personal experiences to build on design methods. Read More
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Much has been written on the history of the civil rights movement in the U.S. South during the 1960s. Historians have devoted most of their attention to the movement in the urban South and the role of adults. We need more attention to the activism of young people, especially in the small-town and rural South. My thesis shines a light on the youth-led civil rights movement in Americus, Georgia, in the summer and fall of 1963. I focus on the story of thirty-two Black girls who, after being arrested at a protest in Americus, were detained in the Leesburg Stockade, a decrepit Civil War-era building. My thesis investigates what happened, how it was covered at the time, how some of the women recalled their experiences, and how efforts continue to memorialize this significant but still not well-known episode in civil rights history. I hope that my work will reinforce the case for more academic and public attention to the historical contributions of young people to the ongoing Black freedom movement.
