Prepared and submitted Institutional Review Board (IRB) forms for approval.

Designed and created charts, maps, and timelines based on the design principles using Adobe Illustrator.

Implemented a cycle of the iterative testing process along with participants’ feedback to develop optimal perceived tasks.

Recruited participants and collected data.

Administered standardized neuropsychological tests to evaluate the construct validity of innovative tasks.

Analyzed data and created visual tools to present results.

Defended and submitted a PhD dissertation. 

Initiated the idea of using gamified learning environments as an intervention method to increase motivation of undergraduate students in psychology statistics labs.

Prepared and submitted IRB forms for approval.

Managed team members and assigned tasks accordingly. 

Served as a liaison with the mentor and research assistant for www.trydesignlab.com to foster learning UX Research and strategy to create student-centered learning environments.

Conducted detailed literature review related to intervention tools for statistics labs and gamification.

Designed the applied research study.

Created prototypes 0f the gamified learning environment in Microsoft Powerpoint.

Fostered increased engaging collaboration opportunities among students by implementing an in-class gamified fill-in-the-blanks task.

Collaborated with the Computer Science Department in each stage of the study.

Collected data in the classrooms within six weeks.

Analyzed data in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and interpreted the results.

Attended a writing workshop of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL).

Successfully published a research paper in the Statistics Education Research Journal.

Conducted literature review related to scene perception and perceptual grouping.

Generated visual stimuli using Adobe Photoshop and presented the stimuli on E-prime Psychology Software Tool.

Collected and analyzed the data, interpreted the results, and wrote a scientific report.

Successfully defended to committee members (the first doctoral project).

Presented the results at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL. 

Collaborated with a team of QR Fellows to develop faculty training workshops related to the use of infographics and interactive classroom response systems (e.g., clickers) in the classroom.

Led and developed a training workshop entitled “How to use infographics in the classrooms.”

Worked one-on-one with faculty to train them in the use of the clickers and in preparing a gamified learning environment in their classroom.