2015 SILS Project Fair

The 1st Annual SILS Project Fair was held on April 10, 2015.  More than 20 graduate and undergraduate students presented their research and creations to fellow students, faculty, and guests. Students shared their work through poster presentations and demonstrations on laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices. Projects explored a wide range of topics, including predicting speech acts in MOOC discussion threads, transgender needs and the academic library, social tagging in digital image collections, analyzing data from the NBA, and e-textiles for youth and technology instruction.

Many projects focused on providing services, such as helping to educate African American women about their breast cancer risks, offering city and restaurant recommendations for foodies, predicting business performance on Yelp, and developing empathy through a mobile gaming app.

At the end of the fair, Olivia Dorsey (MSIS ‘15) won the Best Project Award for her project “The Northside Memory Project,” and Julie Stivers (MSLS ‘15) won both the People’s Choice Award and the Social Impact Award for her project “Stories and Voice: Serving Youth in Custody.”

For photos from the event, visit https://www.flickr.com/photos/uncsils/sets/72157651949764402/.