Developing graduate schools and nurturing R&D manpower - Invest funding for graduate students and post-doctorates, contracting researchers to exert their efforts solely on research and study.
Prepared target populations and appropriate questionnaire. Investigated the social psychological and personality effects of playing games. Conducted an analysis of player participant data gathered from a professional survey institute in South Korea (n = 1,800).
Investigated the recent emergence of serious game research trends. Conducted the analysis of a serious game case study focused on a successful project. Developed the success model for application in South Korea.
Investigated the positive effects of gamification based on success case analysis. Defined concepts, categorization, and evaluations of gamification for the Korean government and public institutions. Proposed directions for future development.
Strengthening academic abilities in the field of social science through systematic support for social science research groups and next-generation human resources.
Proposing policies on the system for government-industry-university collaboration and cooperation in the culture area.
My project measures brain states of individuals on Facebook who consider sharing trending digital media events. In a modification of Matthew Lieberman of UCLA’s experiment, this fNIRS project measures “buzz” in the brain when participants share or do not share viral or trending media.
The purpose of current project is to investigate the effects of social presence on privacy concern in location based social network service (LB-SNS). We use Social Presence Theory as a theoretical framework, and seek to examine the potential negative effects of social presence, which was not much considered crucial in the previous literature.
My project has 3 experiments in an investigation of the overall neural activity of change in state suspicion (CISS). Instant messaging between partners, fNIRS measurement of state suspicion, and an experiment conducted online with authentic and fake phishing websites.
We investigated U.S. Army helicopter pilots’ perceptions of autonomous systems. The goal is to help the VTD identify core considerations related to the integration of the Artificial Intelligence system they are developing into future helicopters.
In a collaboration with electrical engineering and computer science post-doc and faculty, this project measures brain patterns elicited from mathematics and image-matching n-back tasks to identify individuals on the basis of their “brain-print.” The study required participants to come into the lab multiple times to participate in EEG and fNIRS data collection.
Project intends to examine people’s Danmaku video (videos with overlaid comments) watching experiences, with particular focus on their feeling of co-viewing with other people, transportation into the narrative, attention, enjoyment and cognitive workload.
This project investigates if the proximity of the news topic is related to brain activity. It is expected that people are more likely to use different brain regions when they are exposed to news from geographically closer location compared to farther locations.
Researchers: Stephen Song, Sung Yoon Ri, Makana Chock
Funder: Newhouse Endowment
The current project relates natural science to social science. Specifically, the concept of psychological distance is revisited to be applied to the context of physics. This research argues that the sub-dimensions in the concept of psychological distance has potential to be applied to mathematical formulas in physics (e.g., the formula of velocity). In addition, the current study integrates the theory of evolutionary psychology to coherently articulate the concept.
This study introduces a deviant group among youth that constantly consumes and shares information on virtual social networks in the cyberspace. this study will show the characteristics of this new type of group within virtual social networks using an empirical research approach. Also, youth who are in the early stages of brain development are likely to show brain plasticity within the framework of the theory of mind and feel unmediated social presence while they use mediated communication tools. It may result confusion on their perception for information credibility and also it cause another confusion on their decision making process by persuasive information from social media.
The meditation project involves using fNIRS to detect differences in brain state of individuals meditating. A collaboration with Hamilton State College faculty and students, the meditation experiment is aimed at assessing the effects of meditative states on the brain. Longitudinal studies with vulnerable populations such as trauma victims, veterans, and other local individuals is part of future work.
Recently, virtual reality become to be reissued by the development of Oculus Rift. However, applications of virtual reality are just brought from existing programs for 2D display. I am seeking a new approach to the design of virtual reality with phenomenology.
Workshop with associate Lab in Korea, Konkuk University, at MIND Lab Syracuse involving over 15 participants from Korea here under the Brain Korea initiative.
Company seeks to develop methods for measuring brain activity using a remote infrared measurement techniques.
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