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A growing collection of qualitative, quantitative, and design research.
Exploring Sentiments of Creative Communities on Reddit Towards the Increasing Use of AI tools
Used sentiment analysis to test the hypothesis that individuals in creative communities have largely positive sentiments towards AI because they employ it as a tool in the creative process rather than viewing it as a threat to creativity.
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS
OxiWear: A User Research Initiative
Conducted qualitative research to gain consumer insights on the portable device and help OxiWear expand its audience from medical patients to athletes by strengthening its messaging.
INTERVIEWS + DATA ANALYSIS
Perceptions of Law Enforcement’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology on Society and Its Relationship to Race and Political Affiliation
Conducted survey analysis using select weighted measures from Pew Research Center’s Wave 99 survey titled “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Enhancement” to examine if there is a relationship between race, political affiliation, and FRT use by law enforcement.
SURVEY ANALYSIS
Chacko on Turner, Being Present
This book review critically analyzes Dr. Jeanine Turner’s most recent book titled Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work and at Home by Managing Your Social Presence. It was also published in Gnovis Journal Volume 23.
Gnovis is a unique platform within the larger scholarly community of Georgetown University. It is an academic platform that publishes and promotes interdisciplinary research that explores topics at the nexus of technology, communication, and culture.
BOOK REVIEW
Amazon Go: A Sociotechnical De-Blackboxing
Unpacking Amazon Go across five broad, overlapping areas including histories and iterations, motivations and power players, metals and bits, infrastructure, and standards, and users and non-users.
This was a semester-long team project that allowed for a deep dive into what makes Amazon Go run. Each week was spent researching the company, critically analyzing content, and synthesizing findings into a comprehensive research design poster
RESEARCH SYNTHESIS & DATA VISUALIZATION
Exploring Design Education in the Age of Generative AI
Used qualitative research to investigate the impact of AI on design education, focusing on how design faculty integrate AI tools into their teaching, their perceptions on how AI will impact their design specialization, and AI’s impact on the student learning process.
[MASTERS THESIS] INTERVIEWS + DATA ANALYSIS
An Evaluation of ChatGPT as a Provider of Quality Feedback on Writing Assessments
Used ChatGPT to acquire feedback for a writing sample which was then evaluated against a constructed framework based on Nicol and MacFarlane-Dicks's principles of good feedback. The framework was used to evaluate if ChatGPT is capable of providing high-quality comments to bolster student learning.
CASE STUDY + LITERATURE REVIEW
Hypertext: An Interactive Interface Solution to Our Core Semiotic Problems
Exploring how cognitive-symbolic interfaces have been historically designed to solve our core semiotic problems, utilizing hypertext as a case study
CASE STUDY
GU New Student Orientation: Training & Development Learning Engagement
A training and development workshop designed using learning science theories and instructional design methods.
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN