Moira Kathleen Burke
moira@thoughtcrumbs.com
print | web | multimedia | visualization
moira@thoughtcrumbs.com
Much of my work concerns the connection between language and image. How do we describe what we see? Does our vocabulary reveal how we define ourselves?
The secret lives of vegetables Revealing the innate personalities of produce.
Biographies What are we made of?
On the dichotomy of religion Diptych montage of personal and institutionalized perspectives on religion.
Original covers for mix CDs of indie rock, jazz, folk, and hip hop:
More CD covers and track listings
These projects for primarily non-profit groups balance aesthetic appeal with highly-usable design.
Portland Community College LibrariesThis award-winning library website and catalog include numerous innovations based on usability testing and heuristic evaluation.
ThoughtcrumbsMy personal site. With seven CSS skins that can be applied on the fly and a PHP photo gallery.
Think and LinkUniversity of Oregon research group developing an email client for users with severe cognitive disabilities.
Clark Honors CollegeSimple site to serve students, faculty, alumni, visitors, and the administration.
Redesign of TILT: The Information Literacy TutorialA well known open-source information literacy tutorial, TILT poses some usability problems. This redesign of TILT for Portland Community College removed the cumbersome registration process and frames, allowing more efficient deep linking.
All of the following pieces were authored with Director/Lingo. Executables available upon request.
BratrisBrat Pack tetris.
MasqueradeAn interactive version of Kit Williams's book.
Box of self-reflectionA virtual tour through memory.
Playing with foodAlphabet soup is raining from the sky.
Exogenous attention capture of animationThe software for my undergraduate thesis research into attention capture on the web. Using sophisticated timing and I/O controls, it presented animated stimuli to experiment participants and recorded task performance times and error rates. More about the experiment and our findings.
Non-photorealistic rendering of human motionResearch visualizing physical parameters of human motion, such as the projection of a runner's elbows or the force with which her feet hit the ground. Written in Java3D, it coordinated Inventor and Alias|Wavefront files with motion-capture data. Research performed at the Computer Graphics Lab at Brown University.