Acknowledgments
My journey of exploring my thesis topic has been influenced and supported by many people in the past two years, and I want to thank all of them for helping me make it possible. First and foremost, I want to thank my parents for their unconditional love and support from 13,568 km away in India. They were always a call away and comforted me in every situation in the past two years. I want to thank my brother Savan and my sister-in-law Helly for comforting me whenever I felt homesick and making me laugh in all situations. Lastly, this journey wouldn’t be possible without my cousin sister Chandni, who stood by me through thick and thin and showing me how to live in New York City. She was my rock in this unknown world and my home away from home.
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I want to show my thankfulness towards my thesis professors, Tom Kinkostien and Janine Toro, whose support, questions, and knowledge pushed my work and research beyond what I could have imagined. This thesis would not be the same without professor Tom Klinkostien. He pushed me, encouraged me with every step at Pratt Institute. His imparting knowledge and use of words opened a new world of design to me.
