Competitions

Projects

Projects

2012

Graduate Research Project
“Examining the effect of cognitive load on a user’s gaze: an eye tracking study,” co-authored with Ami Samani (MSIT) and Dhiren Mehta (MSIT). Winner of the first prize in the Business and Social Science division.
“Tracking Users’ Eyes When Searching for Information,” co-authored with Ruijio Yang (MSMTI) and Professor Adrienne Phillips Hall (School of Business).
“Information Technology Entrepreneurship: A Data-Driven Definition,” co-authored with Katerina Mangaroska (MSIT) and Professor Adrienne Phillips Hall (School of Business).
“User Experience, Eye Tracking, & Innovation – Review of Literature,” co-authored with Joanna Webber (MBA).

Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsored Dyn Inc.
“Website Optimization for Dyn’s Mobile e-Commerce,” by Wilmann Gomez, Tammy Liu, Frank Oglesby, and Georgi Kardzhaliysk

Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP)
Sponsored by the Office of Disability Services at WPI “Virtual Tutorial Center for Academic Support Technologies,” by Brian Leslie.

2011

Graduate Research Project
“Can Managing Heart Rate Variability Improve Decision Making Under Time Pressure?” by Ami J. Samani
Second Place winner, Graduate Research Achievement Days (GRAD), 2011

Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsored by Hanover Insurance Group
“Intelligence Strategy at Hanover,” by Sean Burke, Wenxuan Guo, Luis Javier Quiroga

Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsored by Hanover Insurance Group
“Minimizing Desktop Downtime and Improving Business Productivity at Hanover Insurance,” by Benjamin Cabrera, Otilio T. DePina, Jared Kellogg 

Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP)
“Virtual Learning, tootor.org,” by Ngoc D. Do, Khanh-Nhan P. Nguyen, Tran Nguyen, Patchara Santawisook
First Place Winner, Strage Innovation Award, 2011

Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsored by Dyn Inc.
"Dynamic DNS Web Usability for a Target Market," by Kristen Garza, Brandon Grace, William Grudzinski Jr., John F. Wyatt Jr.

2010
Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsored by Advanced Body Sensing
"Instantaneous Feedback of HRV for Monitoring Emotional State," by Ryan Amin, John Bond, Alexander Gorski, David Mullen, Anvar Niyetkaliyev.

Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP)
“An Empirical study on web usability," by Rui Dai.
A paper of this work is published in the proceedings of the 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-2010. This paper was presented by Rui Dai at HICCS, Kauai, Hawaii, January 2010.

2009
Major Qualifying Project (MQP) sponsored by Fidelity Investements
"Fidelity Global Pricing Workstation Testing Interface: A Web-enabled Test Automation Tool," by Liz Carey, Augustina Mills, Daniel Dahlberg, Michael Diamant.

2008
Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsered by fidelity Investments
"Appeal of web page layout and characteristics based on age -- usability research through eye tracking at Fidelity Investments Inc." by Marisa Siegel, Frankie Ng, Daniel Capozzo, Robert Groezinger.
A paper of this work is published in the proceedings of the fourteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Toronto, Canada, August 2008. This paper was presented by Marisa Siegel at AMCIS, Toronato, Canada.
Winner of Provost's MQP award, April, 2008
Winner of Best Paper Award in the HCI track, August 2008

2007
Major Qualifying Project (MQP) sponsored by Fidelity Investments
"Age, Gender, and Bricklets' Usability," Sponsored by Fidelity Investments" by John Bosch, Joseph Hsu, Erin Mazuera, Kelly Osberg.
A paper of this work is published in the proceedings of the thirteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, Colorado, August 2007.
This paper was presented by the MQP team at AMCIS, Keystone, Colorado, August 2007
Winner of Provost's MQP award, April, 2007

Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP)
"Online music store accessibility," by Kiryazov, Todor (co-advised with Professor Eleanor Loiacono)

2006
Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsored by Fidelity Investments
"Website Accessibility," by Mathew Girouard, Michael Hebner, Jason Krol, Michael Terranova.
A paper of this work is published in the proceedings of the twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) and was presented at AMCIS, Acapulco, Mexico, August 2006

Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsored by Fidelity Investments
"FPCMS Application Information Repository," by Christopher Baker, Jeffrey Mora, Robert Spanos, Daniel Vitale.
One of the three finalists for MQP award, April, 2006

Interactive Qualifying project (IQP) Sponsored by Athletic Facility at WPI
"Athletic Equipment Facility Operations," by Janelle Travares, Jessica Coelho, Antoine Coleman, 2006- 2007 (co-advised with Professor Diane Strong)

2005
Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsered by Fidelity Investments
"Financial Instrument Reporting System," by Aaron Judell, Mathew Leach, Peter Maranian, and James Wong (co-advised with Professor Diane Strong)

Major Qualifying Project (MQP) Sponsered by Fidelity Investments
"Fidelity Wireless," by David Argue, John Prudente, Andrew St. John 2004-2005 (co-advised with Professor Diane Strong)