December 04, 2023
Senior Madeline Easley took first place in the Department of Industrial and Systems 糖心Vlog传媒鈥檚 annual Undergraduate Research Competition. This was the second year she鈥檚 taken the top spot鈥攁 first for the department.
The award comes with a cash prize and funding to attend a research conference. Easley plans to attend the in Washington D.C. next summer. The conference highlights work around human-computer interaction.
Easley presented work she鈥檚 conducting with Associate Professor Jung Hyup Kim. For the past couple of years, the research team has been looking into the effectiveness of augmented reality in classrooms. This year, they studied the effects of a virtual instructor with realistic lip sync in an augmented reality environment.
Sophia McLellan and Ricardo Perez-Cruz took second at the competition for their poster on 鈥淲ait Time Reduction and Logistic Optimization at Emporium Caf茅.鈥
Erin Hyde and Jada Rowe took third place for their presentation around a simulation model showing varying levels of pre-registration impact of drive-through vaccination clinics.
Abbosjon Abdullaev presented work around the probabilities of surviving in a real-life 鈥渟quid game.鈥
Karolina Rapacz looked at on-campus navigation, essentially showing the most optimal routes students can take to their classrooms.
For his project, Brady Danek compared different betting strategies.