Exploring Opportunities for Innovation
By Elizabeth Donaldson
For sixteen months, Master of Integrated Innovation for Products & Services - Advanced Study students are immersed in the academic study and industrial application of innovation processes.
During their final semester, each student dives into a topic of their choosing and investigates current innovation strategies or proposes their own theories for the master's essay project. Upon graduation, MIIPS Advanced Study students present their findings at an annual poster session, inviting faculty, staff, classmates, and friends to explore new topics and opportunities in innovation.
Master's Essays poster session on December 6, 2019
As a program designed around tenets of interdisciplinary study and collaborative project work, the MIIPS Advanced Study master's essay is one of the few highly personalized independent projects of the degree. The master's essay is an exercise in applying the research skills and practices gained throughout the MIIPS experience for a rich and refined argument.
Often, master's essays topics are culiminations of academic work and insights gained from the summer internship experience.
Review master's essay topics by exploring research areas:
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learnining
Virtual Digital Assistants for Enterprise Applications |
Mirror Mirror, Who is the Fairest of Them All? Image Dataset Curation to Mitigate Harmful Bias for Machine Learning Applications |
| Zhuoran Gao | Sisi Yu |
Corporate Strategy
Strategizing Intellectual Property: A Study of Legal and Non-legal IP Management Strategies for Tech Startups |
Product Manager in Unconventional Digital Product Industry: The Promoter of Interdisciplinarity |
| Vaibhav Gupta | QC Yang |
Finding the Pathway to Effectively Introduce Design Thinking to an Organization |
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| Satyan Chawla |
Data Science and Analytics
A Survey Paper on The Personification of Data Points on Social Media Applications from a Legal and a User Experience Standpoint |
Consumer's openness towards sharing private information in webmosphere |
| Sara Al-Megbel | Seema Bansal |
How Can Pervasive Computing Provide The Context-rich Data Needed To Detect Latent Needs And Forecast Trends |
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| Karan Naik |
Human-Computer Interaction
Organizational Structure in Human-Robot Collaboration and Factors Influencing Their Collaboration |
Designing for the Sixth Sense in Human Product Interactions |
| Rhea Pandey | Gaurav Asthana |
Internet of Things
How can IoT last longer: multi-level perspectives on IoT sustainability |
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| David Lin |
New Media Investigations
“Does Artificial Intelligence Dream of Generative Sheep?” Exploring the Possibilities of Human-Computer Creative Complex Through Art |
Computational Photography: Friend or Foe to the Photographic Landscape? |
| Cem Ergin | Shawn Koid |
Augmented Reality: the Main Mobile Computing Devices in the Next Decade and the Tech Landscape |
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| Rippen Liu |
Social Innovation
Environmental Sustainability
Morphing Hydrogels Can Revive the Marine Ecosystem |
Harvest-to-Order: Reimagining Local Farm-to-Fork Logistics Using Ride-Sharing Service Models |
| Harshika Jain | Yool Park |
Research on Innovation on AI-driven Applications Large-scale Agriculture Industry |
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| Xiaowen Xu |
Human Enrichment
I Am Autistic, But I Can Talk to You in A Different Way - How Brain-computer Interface Can Assist Autistic Individuals |
Designing for Trust and Sharing Economy: Through the Lens of a Mobile Application that Fosters Interpersonal Connections Offline |
| Melanie Zang | Jo Zhouzheng |
Transportation
User-focused Approach to Increase the Adoption of First and Last-mile Transportation |
The Innovation of Micromobility Solutions for Senior Citizens and Persons of Disability in the Context of Smart City Transportation Ecosystems |
| Vedhaviyas Gopalakrishnan | Brian Xiao |
Mobility as a Service: Why and How It Will Reduce Car Ownership? |
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| Menghan Zhang |
User Experience and Research
Analyzing the Enhancement of Mobile User Engagement Through the Optimization of User Actions, Psychological Rewards, and Time Investment |
Design Frameworks for the Subscription-based Apps Must Evolve to Meet the Needs of the Growing Voice-based Platforms |
| Tejas Kashyap | Ranveer Katyal |
Interaction Design in Current Technologies for Fertility Products |
Mixed-method User Research in Applied Settings: a Modern Approach to Guide Business |
| Silja Li | Jingtong Liu |
User Experience Design for Smart Home Products |
Gamification e-learning experience: Meaningful interactions in micro-courses |
| Silja Wang | Xiaohan Wu |
Integrate User Experience Design within Agile Environment for Transformation of Traditional Companies |
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| Yifan Zhu |