Reporting my journey as a Ph.D. in human-computer interaction, after a career in digital and print journalism.
1st kinetic typography video: “When You Wish Upon A Star”
Absurdly proud of having made this! A classmate provided the MP3 audio recording, then we created vector typography layers in Illustrator and brought everything into After Effects to create the kinetic motion effects.
“When You Wish Upon A Star” still from video. Credit: Cori Faklaris
Author: Cori
Cori Faklaris (aka "HeyCori") is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing. Faklaris received her PhD in human-computer interaction in 2022 from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. She also is a social media expert and longtime journalist, and/or "Doer of Things No One Else Wants to Do."
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