W. Michelle Harris
Assistant Professor

Department of Information Technology
GCCIS
Rochester Institute of Technology
office 70-2573, phone 475-4487
wmh@mail.rit.edu
capstone projects

New Media Team Project

Section 01: Tuesday, 8 - 9:50 am in room 7-1440
Lab Section 41: Tuesday, 2 - 5:50 pm in room 7-A410
office hours: Thursday 2 - 3:50 pm, Friday 12 - 12:50 pm & 3 - 3:50 pm in my office

Artifice: DOME CollaboRITorium

Our mission is to create immersive learning experiences to be used with the Digital Omnidirectional Media Environment (DOME), as well as a web site where DOME users can meet and share their experiences.
Joseph Pietruch, Mitchell Cardwell, Patrick Cartelli, John Keppel, Robert Kolb, Cathy Razim, Brendon Trombley, Max Van Duyne, and Gregory White

Backhand Love: Layer Tennis

Our mission is to implement a competitive design challenge site. At this site individuals will be able to participate in ongoing design competitions with other registered users.
Victoria Fontaine, Smitha Papolu, Brent Ruhle, Brian Babbit, Derek Hall, Chris Lambe, Dave Galvin, Brian Cain, and Errol Schwartz

Team Building Exercise 99: New Media Alumni

Team Building Exercise 99 aims to create a highly interactive, visually stimulating, user content driven, social networking website for New Media alumni of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Daniel Wasyluk, Eric Decker, Jeff Lin, Kellen Cooper, Graeme Reed, Gerald Nolan, Bryan Miller, Tim Maiura, and Adam Luptak

Buckaroo Grizzly: New Media Viral Campaign

We will be creating content for the web with the intention of increasing New Media’s web presence and awareness using common tactics that we have researched for viral marketing.
Keith Beltramini, Andrew Narayan, Brian Krebs, Dan Highbrown, Dan Hassan, Jonathan Larson, Justin Schrader, Kelley Piering, and Rachel Diesel

XAML House: Microsoft Silverlight Exploration

First, we have decided to develop a web application using the Microsoft Silverlight technologies, which will help families share their everyday lives, communicate easier, and manage multi-media. Second, we want to document every step of our exploration, challenges and failures, successes and innovations via our blog. We want to craft this blog in such a way that it becomes not only our story, but also a resource for developers and designers alike.
Matthew Robinson, Edward Baker, Jessica Davis, Kevin Thomas, Jim Alexander, Sarah Merchant, Andrew Carolla, Nate Wolfe, and Anna Demas
wmh - winter & spring 2007/8