Spring 2025
Effects of AR Face Filters in Online Exchanges: Analysis and Implications
Instructors:
- Anna Lindner, PhD Student
- Mark Zachry, Faculty Advisor
This Directed Research Group (DRG) is focused on understanding the effects of AR filters in professional online interactions. Participants will analyze qualitative and quantitative data from a study investigating the impact of beautifying AR face filters during online job interviews. The DRG includes analyses of survey responses, interview transcripts, and observational notes. This research is designed to provide valuable insights into how AR technologies influence user behavior in professional contexts.
Students participating in this DRG can expect to:
- Conduct background research on the topic of AR face filters in professional contexts to inform our analysis.
- Engage in analyzing collected data and thematic analysis of qualitative observations.
- Contribute to reliability testing and manual validation of the emergent qualitative coding framework.
Note this DRG is at capacity and no longer accepting students.
Spring 2025
Developing a toolkit to support AI concept design
Co-Directors:
- Pitch Sinlapanuntakul (PhD Student)
- Mark Zachry (Faculty Advisor)
Motivation & objective
Designing AI with core design values, particularly in early concept development, is essential but challenging due to its inherent ambiguity and complexity. In this fast-paced DRG, we will first identify key challenges and design opportunities to support the process/practice of envisioning/designing value-oriented AI concepts. Depending on the results, you will engage in research through design to ideate, design, document, evaluate, and refine the solutions (i.e., design toolkit) to support design practitioners in the above activities.
Note this DRG is at capacity and no longer accepting students.
Winter - Spring 2025
Evaluating Live Streams
Instructors:
- Keri Mallari, PhD Student
- Mark Zachry, Faculty Advisor
There are two parts to the DRG.
The first 3 weeks will focus on evaluating live streams. We have recruited live streamers, and are working on evaluating our prototype with non-members of their community to evaluate their streams. We will be working on evaluating these streams, and generating a summary of these evaluations for our live streamers.
The second part will focus on collecting sets of videos and blog posts of content creators about their experience as a live streamer. We will then conduct an analysis of these text and video content to help inform design of another prototype for live streamers. Since this second part is open-ended, there is a possibility that this DRG might extend towards Spring 2025 to continue the development and evaluation of the prototype.
Note this DRG is at capacity and no longer accepting students.
Questions? Email Keri at kmallari@uw.edu