D-level Essay Topics
Below are examples of possible essay topics. More suggestions will be added later. All these are open for discussion, and can be modified. We also welcome other suggested topics.

Suggested Essay Topics

1. Sense Modalities and Navigation
As we navigate through webpages to find something of interest, we pass through an impoverished landscapes as far as our senses are concerned. This probably makes the journey less enjoyable and memorable - so that we find it hard to find the same things of interest again. This study would investigate ways of enhancing the sensory stimulation experienced during web navigation, perhaps looking at the effects of adding colour, sound effects, music, and so on ....

2. Communication tools, especially for elderly people.
Alot of attention and marketing of information services and devices is aimed at the young. But, in Europe at least, there are likely to be much fewer young people about and many more old people. We know that old people have some problems relating to the use of technology and to everyday life in general - problems of memory, for example. This project would look at the kind of memory problems old people have, and how technology could help lessen the impact.

3. Art Therapy
There is a growing interest in helping people "find their true selves" using a variety of techniques that, increasingly, involve various kinds of multimedia technology. This project would survey the field of Art Therapy and make recommendations for implementing an interactive system.

4. Mood Devices
Can technology replace or enhance the use of other methods (drugs, exercise, meditation, for example) when we want to change mood? What might this involve and what might a mood device do?

5. Sensory deprivation and creativity
There is a common belief that to have creative ideas to solve particular problems requires a period of withdrawal from the everyday world in which the problem is grounded. Is this true? Can we test the idea by using some form of technology, to deprive people of normal stimulation?

Examples of Previous Essays
1. Sense of Presence and Subjective Duration with Different Media
2. Trust in Interaction Design for Web-based Banking
3. Hand-Image Collocation and Stereo Vision in Dextrous VR
4. Speech interaction with the World Wide Web