Projects

1. Business Informatics

Derik Daubenspeck, Brittney Jones, Trent Senne, Alex Stucker


What is the importance of Business Informatics? What technologies have positively and negatively affected business' as a result of the successful or failed implementation of them? What can be taken information/models can be taken from Business Informatics? ...

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2. Collaboration: Enhancing Small Team Collaboration

Lucas Butler, Julian Chang, Joseph McGinn


Our world is continuously developing more and more complex ideas and products. To be able to put together these complex ideas and products, teams and groups are needed as the end result is too complicated for just one individual to put together. Schools are becoming aware of this and are now putting an emphasis on putting students in teams to work on projects. ...

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3. Complex Systems: Analyzing Social Patterns

Joseph Muessig, Paul Wesner, Ronnie Baldwin


What are complex systems? Complex systems is a system composed of interconnected parts that as a whole exhibit one or more properties (behavior among the possible properties) not obvious from the properties of the individual parts. They can be as small or smaller than ant colonies and as large as or larger than human infrastructure. In fact, most systems utilized by human ...
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4. Cyberinfrastructure/Bioinformatics: Analysis of Protein from the Thousand Genomes Project

Kaitlin Lisle, Kymberleigh Pagel, Alex Wu


Each person is born with their own specific genetic variations, which is called deoxyribonucleic acid, or more commonly known as DNA. In studying these variations, scientists can determine how each variation results in a specific human trait or characteristic. However, the process of deciphering these variations has been notoriously difficult since the methods needed ...

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5. HCI : How Rumors Influence Us

Janice Falotico, Jeff Lewis, Megan Ressig, Adam Schocke


With the enormous popularity Facebook has achieved, it comes as no surprise that employers would start digging up what information they could about current and potential employees. There are an increasing number of reports about people losing ...

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6. Health Informatics: The New Era of Healthcare Technology

Garrett Kolb, Joshua Apkin, Youngkyu So


Healthcare informatics is the most pressing issue in regards to improving the quality of health care. The health sector is extremely new in regards to technology and much research is still required before a knowledgeable understanding of how it all works is obtained. Our research project's overlying goal was to further and build upon prior research that has been completed ...

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7. Music Informatics/HCI: Music Database Visualization

Daniel Lee, Kush Patel, Soyoun Ahn


The research goal was to identify current problems with music software and ultimately create our own prototype by implementing new and experimental database visualization methods. Our primary research provided our group with the information to make a prototype with many great features taken ...

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8. Security: Permission System Evaluation on the Android Mobile Platform

Luke McLeese, Jacen Watkins, James Cole


Over the past few years, smartphones have become increasingly ubiquitous in the daily life of people everywhere. With this, smartphone users are using their mobile devices to store and handle a significant amount of personal information on a daily basis. In order to maximize ...

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9. Security: Spam – A Battle For The Inbox

Andrew Myers, Brian Merkel, and Will Hubbard


Today spam can be considered a big problem in today's world. The aim of our research project is to gain some insight on the specific targeting of spam. There are many problems with spam including the economics of spam. Since the price of spam is almost all paid for by the recipients of spam, spam is a big problem for some companies ...

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10. Ubiquitous Computing

Niles Burke, Michael Goe, Andrew Thompson


The Android market constitutes an open resource for fledgling application designers. As a kind of software commons it affords designers an invaluable chance to prototype and field test new software. Numerous applications are available for download which are designed to ease basic functionality for the average user. ...

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