Current thesis students
I supervise many student theses at the undergraduate and master level. My goal is to empower my supervised students to have disproportionate impacts on the world and greatly exceed their own career and life goals.
Vizarath Syed. Topic: Augmented reality for healthcare training. Master of Information thesis.
Past students
Master’s thesis
Jenna Beresford (2023). Project FOCUS: A Free and Open Computer Program for User Meditation Success. Master of Information.
Juan Chaves Baquero (2022). Zoom Fatigue, Social Presence and Performance: How Do Remote Workers Feel? Master of Digital Innovation.
Harsh Gawai (2022). Project Nottingham: A study of user behavior on mobile investing applications. Master of Computer Science. Co-supervised with Dr. Vlado Keselj.
Rachel Moylan (2021). Presence, agency, and context: Students’ experiences engaging in creative group processes in an online educational environment. Master of Information. Co-supervised with Dr. Sandra Toze.
Bachelor’s thesis
Juliana Christiani (2023). Detecting Mind-Wandering During Long Lectures: An Electroencephalogram Study. Bachelor of Science Honors Neuroscience.
Lucy Coady (2023). The Impacts of Mind Wandering on Learning in an Online Lecture Context. Bachelor of Science Honours Psychology.
Jonathon Henneberry (2022). Identifying Affective ERP Correlates of Cybersecurity Threats and Notifications. Bachelor of Science Honors Psychology.
Simon Leger (2022). The science of YouTube: The role of enjoyment and mind wandering. Bachelor of Science Honors Neuroscience thesis. Co-supervised with Dr. Aaron Newman.
Tess Konwisarz (2022). Investigating the impact of lecture length on mind wandering and learning outcomes for pre-recorded lectures. Bachelor of Science Honors Neuroscience.
Graduate research projects and capstone papers
Abhijeet Singh (2021). Sentiment analysis of the comments of Tinder and Bumble subreddits. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Ankit Bajaj (2021). How to reduce cognitive overload in e-learning with human centered design. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Ashike Mahmud (2021). An investigation of e-commerce cart recovery emails during Covid-19. Master of Electronic Commerce research project.
Mark Vokey (2021). How do social media companies become successful in Halifax? Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Shakuntala Khatri (2021). On the application of business intelligence analytics in small-scale businesses. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Shreyas Bhaktavatsala (2021). Impacts of Covid-19 on Canadian retail and omnichannel e-commerce adoption. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Urvashikumari Patel (2021). A study of factors affecting the perceptibility of musicians in the music industry. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Aditya Ayri (2020). Implications of using RPA and smart contracts in financial organizations. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Carlos Calix Woc (2020). Psychographic profiling of charitable donations using Twitter data and machine learning techniques. Master of Electronic Commerce research project.
Gabriel Orellana Diaz (2020). Alternative dating app business model proposed based on investigations in social interactions. Master of Electronic Commerce research project.
Hardik Raval (2020). Using cloud computing to augment the learning process in higher learning institutions. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Suchindra Karthik (2020). Personalization in the e-commerce industry. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Saurabh Minotra (2020). Recommendation systems are getting smarter because of state-of-the-art technology. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.
Yanzhe Zhang (2020). Video games and loot boxes. Master of Electronic Commerce research paper.