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ChromaClef
No full textMy project was created as a means to assist in the learning and understanding of reading music. The problems with learning to read standard music notation is that it involves different areas of the brain to work at the same time. Music reading activates the motor, visual, auditory areas in both hemispheres of the brain, along with the cerebellum. To deal with the problem, I have created a unique way of learning music that is designed to eliminate the dullness from standard music reading and inspire, inform, and motivate people to experience music in a completely different way. My business idea, ChromaClef is a beginner’s education program that teaches users how to read sheet music in a non-traditional way that is easy and exciting for everyone, no matter the musical background. ChromaClef combines color and music together in an aim to improve musical memory and understanding, proven by a process called synesthesia. Synesthesia is an unusual blending of senses in which the stimulation of one modality simultaneously produces sensation in a different modality. In this case, every note (or letter) is associated with a different color. This is called Grapheme-color synesthesia. Those with this form of synesthesia have enhanced visual memory for stimuli. Why? Some researchers believe it is due to a cross-wiring in the brain where a number or letter stimulates an area of your visual cortex that simultaneously responds to color stimuli. Not only does this color-to-music combination work because it enhances memory and comprehension, but it stands apart from every music-learning method because of its anomalous way of doing so. This non-traditional way of self-teaching allows users to learn on their own time and at their own pace.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1044/thumbnail.jp
Revisiting animation/game designs from Temple Run and Subway Surfer
No full textI am presenting a Creative/Research project of a phone game based on the work of past successful phone games including Temple Run and Subway Surfer. The main purpose of this creative project proposal is to understand the design of characters and environment in order to create an effective and enjoyable game for kids. The goals of my project are: 1. Develop one character that would entertain children in an interactive basis through compelling graphics and gaming object manipulation. 2. Study past characters in other games and apply different characters that are memorable, and functional as a reinvented feature in future versions of this video game. 3. Understand and design the concept of an environment that would become an engaging immersive scenario for the character adventures, and interaction with the phone game users. The conclusions of this creative project will have a great impact in my future professional work as an animator, and to understand how to become a successful 3d modeler in the industry.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1033/thumbnail.jp
Data Governance for Gardeners: Bridging Information Systems and Technical Communication
No full textIn this poster presentation, the author examines how core competencies of technical communication incorporate information systems and project management. The presentation explores particular data governance concepts that can be used to expand upon Hart-Davidson’s (2001) “core competencies of technical communicators” and Redish’s (2010) four elements of successful technical communication. Data governance defines roles and “assigns responsibilities for decision areas to these roles,” while establishing standards and ensuring compliance with strategies on an organization-wide basis (Weber, Otto, and Österle, 2009, p. 2). Technical communicators should be versatile and add value to their organizations and products (Dubinsky, 2015), as seen by the growing variety of competencies identified by Brumberger and Lauer (2015). These competencies connect technical communication to information systems and project management, as well as other fields. The presentation explores how this added value corresponds to Nardi and O’Day’s (1999) idea of the workplace “gardener,” an individual who grows productivity in his or her workplace. Specifically, this presentation demonstrates methods of bridging the fields of information systems and technical communication, elevating technical communication from its traditional support role by utilizing data governance concepts and versatile workplace “gardeners.”http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1032/thumbnail.jp
Situational Selection and Intergroup Relations
No full textIt is well established that favorable intergroup contact experiences reduce prejudice. We were interested in identifying personality variables that might lead some people to seek out favorable intergroup contact experiences and others to avoid them. Broadly, this process is called situational selection. Our main proposition is that the personality traits of openness, agreeableness, and authoritarianism influence the extent to which people seek out and enter into favorable intergroup contact situations, which, in turn, lead to favorable intergroup attitudes. The specific outgroups we examined for this study were Muslims, refugees, immigrants, the military, and Christian fundamentalists. To test our predictions, we asked 293 participants to complete measures of personality, intergroup contact experiences, and intergroup attitudes. Our main hypothesis was supported. Intergroup attitudes were significantly affected by the personality traits of openness, agreeableness, and authoritarianism, and these relationships were mediated by contact experiences. However, the strength of the relationships was also dependent on which outgroup was being evaluated. These results have implications for contact theory, which has generally neglected the potential role of personality. In addition, our results reveal a potential mechanism (intergroup contact) that may help explain why certain personality traits are associated with intergroup attitudes.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1028/thumbnail.jp
Parental Depressive Symptoms and Attunement to Preschoolers’ Mental Processes
No full textMothers with depression tend to engage in insensitive styles of interaction, which have been associated with delays or deficits in early socioemotional and cognitive development. Furthermore, decreased levels of sensitivity have been found, not only in clinically depressed mothers, but also in mothers with elevated symptoms of depression (e.g., Bettes, 1988; Donovan, Leavitt, \u26 Walsh, 1998). While research has established that maternal interactional sensitivity is an important contributor in development, little research has been conducted concerning contributions from the father. This is important because in the United States, fathers are present in 72% of households, making them a large factor concerning nonmaternal care and interactions with children (Forbes, Cohn, Allen, \u26 Lewinsohn, 2004). In the present research, depressive symptoms are expected to be negatively correlated with parental mind-mindedness (i.e., parents’ tendency to treat their children as individuals with independent minds; Meins, 1997), and parents’ sensitive attunement, or responsiveness, to their preschoolers’ mental processes during collaborative problem-solving. Parents completed a set of questionnaires, participated in a mind-mindedness interview, and collaborated with their child on a puzzle construction task. Parent-child interactions are coded for interactional attunement. We found that both mothers and fathers who showed depressive symptoms used more control comments and fewer autonomy comments. In other words, both mothers and fathers who exhibited depressive symptoms were more likely to give directions and engage in control comments (eg., “Put that there.”) when interacting with their child, and encourage less independent thinking. The present findings may contribute to the understanding of the relation between parental depression and interaction styles. Self-focused tendencies associated with depression and depressive symptoms may hinder parents’ ability to represent their children’s mental processes. The representation of mental processes is viewed as a precursor to the ability to respond appropriately and sensitively to children’s mental processes (Meins, 1999). Perhaps with additional research, intervention techniques could be developed to promote higher levels of mind-mindedness in those with a tendency to be self-focused, to promote more optimal developmental outcomes.http://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1011/thumbnail.jp
Moving Massasaugas to Mitigate Mortalities - Is Soft-release Translocation Effective for Managing a Federally Threatened Rattlesnake?
No full texthttp://opus.ipfw.edu/stu_symp2017/1053/thumbnail.jp
Developing a compartmental model of human vitamin B-6 metabolism which accommodates changes
No full textOur goal has been to develop a compartmental model of vitamin B-6 metabolism which can respond appropriately to a variety of conditions using data from the literature. Modeling vitamin B-6 metabolism is challenging because vitamin B-6 is interconverted between 7 common forms: pyridoxine, pyridoxine 5\u27-phosphate, pyridoxal, pyridoxal 5\u27-phosphate, pyridoxamine, pyridoxamine 5\u27-phosphate and 4-pyridoxic acid. In addition, in humans 5-pyridoxic acid becomes a significant metabolite with high vitamin B-6 intakes. Development of the model utilized the Simulation, Analysis and Modeling (SAAM) software originally developed at NIH and now available as WinSAAM(http://www.winsaam.org/) and SAAM II (https://tegvirginia.com/solutions/saam-ii/). The model is designed to achieve a steady state before changes are introduced. We found that several characteristics were required in the model. Because plasma values fluctuate with meal intake, the model needed to reflect meal intake. Because experimental data reveals flushing effects, at least some pool sizes must have limits to generate flushing. Because reducing intake has limited effect on the vitamin B-6 content of muscle, which accounts for about 70% of the body pool, there must be a mechanism to conserve vitamin B-6.
Models provide a method of simulating various situations. In the case of vitamin B-6 this model can be used to estimate turnover rates, the effect of changes in intake on body pools, and the role of erythrocytes in vitamin B-6 metabolism. The model can also be used to determine optimal sampling times for proposed experiments. It can easily be updated as new data become available. We are still working to improve the fit of the model to various data sets. We also hope to add more data on circulation and additional tissues
American Dream: Inclusion by Ethnicity and Family
No full textHolly Jean Holland is studying Secondary Education with a concentration in Social Studies and a minor concentration in Psychology, Government and Citizenship, and a minor in TENOL here at IPFW. She is a first generation college student and part of the 21st Century Scholarship program. This is her first time presenting at the Annual Undergraduate History Conference. Holly was selected for the Bahrom International Exchange Program with Seoul Woman’s University and studied in Korea for a month in the Summer of 2016. Her historic interests consist of a wide variety of topics, including 19th and 20th–century American History, Korean history and development, Native American history after Jackson’s Removal, and the history of revolutions and warfare. After graduating Holly plans to teach English in South Korea for a number of years before returning to America to teach Native American children and engage in politics to further America’s Education
