Currently, we are able to determine whether or not facebook profiles are real based on content of images and posts, number of mutual friends, and the sorts of networks that the profile is involved in...

Our project seeks to research and understand the differences between facebook and google+. We will identify the strengths and weaknesses of each as well as future capabilities of both.
In addition to the social applications, we will be investigating the academic, collaborative, scientific, and research applications of both social networks. ...

This is the project work space for the #SocialQuake Group. We are researching the role that the Twitter has with earthquake detection, response, and relief.  ...

We are focusing our project around the question: Is the digital wallet better than the wallet that we know today? We aim to answer this question by researching the topics of security issues, ease of use and possible associated costs. ...

As technology advances rapidly, it increases the people interest towards the health issues. Today, tremendous number of health related mobile application exist and devices. Our research will focus on what are the roles of these apps and devices and compare the strengths and weaknesses of them. Our focused targets are Nike + and chosen health related apps. ...

TTo explore HCI problems or issues of multiplayer online games on mobile phone and design a new solution to solve the problems ...

We will be evaluating the different smartphone operating systems in order to gauge why people choose them and what it is people enjoy about using them...

Our group, made up of the latter members: John Sibo, Matthew Cheng, Dominique Black, and mentor Shunying An were assigned to research how Entrepreneurs can use Information Technology for new business development. When given this research topic, upon meetings with the group, we discussed narrowing down our research (due to Information Technology being a very broad field.). ...

There are many different ways that one can wake up in the morning. Most wake up to the sound of an alarm from either a clock or a cell phone. We are researching to find out other ways to wake up in the morning and what way is the most pleasurable. This may include waking up to music instead of an alarm, waking up to the smell of something such as coffe or baccon, or waking up to movement, such as the bed or pillow vibrating. ...

Future of books in education as we develop technology for better learning environments ...

We are interested in investigating exome-based copy number variation among different ethnicities. Copy number variation (CNV) is a form of DNA structural variation where a section of DNA one kilobase to several megabases in size exists in higher copies or lower copies in the genome than normal. They result from structural rearrangements in DNA such as duplication, deletion, inversions, and translocations. We would like to compare exon-based CNV among different ethnicities to ...

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? ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

After doing a research in the field of Cyberinfrastructure and Bioinformatics, we have learned a lot about the field itself. But we learned even more about research, group work, and working with mentors. We have realized the importance of research for undergraduate students whether they are freshmen or seniors, and whether they ...

Use Matrix Completion algorithm to complete sparse matrices that come from the original Netflix training dataset Compare matrices using RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error) ...

Google Wave is a collaborative tool developed by Google in order to solve the problem of electronic collaboration.Our research was to specifically focus on the use of Google Wave in a collaborative ...

The goal of this study was to understand what factors contributed to users' sense of acceptable behavior within social media. We wanted to link common Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) practices and some of our common interests. For this study, we decided to conduct semi-structured interviews in which we would ask people to rate ...

Our approach to this research project was highly individual, with a major group component at the end to develop our final product.
In the beginning, we met as a group once per week to discuss topics related to our project that we had researched, and to determine which ...

"Ubiquitous computing is the method of enhancing computer use by making many computers available throughout the physical environment, but making them effectively invisible to the user."

Mark Weiser, the "father" of ubiquitous computing ...

For our research project for INFO-I399 Research Methods in Informatics and Computing, we were given the task to design and implement a
School of Informatics and Computing Undergraduate Research Resource. We did this through interviewing professors about research fields and avaialable research opportunites ...

As our group worked throughout the semester on the issues of security and primarily the issue of mobile security, we gained a great insight into research and mobile technology. Quite possibly one of the most important things that we learned was the importance of understanding and preventing mobile security in the future ...