Undergraduate Research Assistant
Current- Acquired expertise on the social and psychological approaches to research on technologyinteraction effects.- Coordinated and performed research on the effects of human-technology interaction,examining how the use of media technologies (e.g., avatars, agents, automobiles).influences meaningful outcomes (e.g., education, health/safety persuasion).- Co-lead and conducted a 2x2x2 multi-conditional virtual reality research experimentinvolving the proteus effect and how it influences participants attitudes aboutenvironmental protection.- Diligently adhered to the experiment design protocol, systematically inputting participantdata into a spreadsheet.- Gathered data from a substantial participant pool of over 150 individuals in order tocontribute to the proposed research question.- Played an active role in suggesting improvements to protocols based on ongoing datacollection.- When required conducted data analysis by using statistical software (R)- Trained a team of 5 students to run a virtual reality study by demonstrating experimentprotocols and script following.- Assisted in weekly lab meetings to help organize lab projects and outreach activities.--
