The Photoshop Express Discover feed aims to recommend posts from a variety of content creators, not just the popular ones. We redesigned the recommendation algorithm based on collaborative filtering to predict interested topics by using recent post interactions from users. Our algorithm evolves as the user continues to interact with the product and promotes content based on users’ subject interests. This solution will help users explore and expand their individual interests and find communities to share creations, leading to more content sharing and boosting engagement.

For beginner fashion creatives hoping to break through in the fashion industry, finding an inclusive community to work, learn, and grow from can be daunting. We designed Artistree, a mobile application, to connect fashion creatives to those nearby them where they can receive support, collaborate on projects together, attend workshops, and share their creations. Artistree leverages technology to build a welcoming community that helps people develop their skills and demonstrates that mistakes are a part of fashion artistry.

Aware is a web application that helps Facebook users retrieve their personal data, understand their Facebook activity, and adjust their privacy settings. Our team was inspired to create Aware because we noticed that young adults do not understand their Facebook data and how to protect it, despite their deep concern for information privacy. Aware solves this problem by helping Facebook users make sense of various personal data, including ads, groups, politics, and interests information, and helping them manage their privacy settings. Our hope is that through Aware, users experience a greater sense of safety and control over their Facebook experience.

From the 1960s to 1990s, Plattsburgh had a vibrant culture of concerts and performances, playing host to rock groups and to speakers that were touring the Northeastern US and Quebec. Many influential artists visited the local SUNY Plattsburgh campus. For my Capstone project I focused on a period of time (1980s and 1990s) and interviewed five former students and local Plattsburgh residents. We talked about their experiences at these events and more broadly about their lives living in this town. I am creating an online exhibit showcasing these interviews and the events that the alumni reminisced about.

Cultured is a web app that builds personalized itineraries through an interactive quiz. As vaccination rates increase, people seek in-person experiences but struggle to coordinate with loved ones to try new things in their city. This led us to a key question: how might young adults make plans more efficiently to discover new activities and experiences? In a few easy steps, Cultured builds a personalized itinerary for individuals and groups looking to explore their city. Our interactive quiz learns what you like and builds a custom plan just for you. Discover hidden gems & local delights with Cultured!

Currently, about 20% of all college students live in dormitories. These students spend more than half of their time at their residence halls. Students' dorm experiences are an important aspect of their overall college experience. Dormino is an information sharing platform for all things related to dorm life. From sharing stories about the dorm to connecting with friends. With Dormino, students can live, share, and reflect beyond their dormitory rooms.

The Flipgrid team at Microsoft believes that a healthy online learning platform is the combination of the sense of safety and the level of engagement from its users on the site. Using PowerBI as a vessel to track Flipgrid’s platform content and user activity, our mission was to help the Flipgrid team refine how they measure the health of their platform. The insights generated from this report will support Flipgrid’s effort to create platform policies and feature enhancements that make the online platform a safe environment for all users as well as a source of good connections and healthy experiences.

Our project consisted of fundraising for new shelving and obtaining artwork to be displayed in the library space of Green Hill Academic School in Chehalis, Washington. We also aimed to provide more Spanish and Mental Health books. We fundraised $1,500 for the library’s shelves. Through our social media campaigning, we purchased 114 books from Green Hill’s wishlists. We are also proud that we secured ten pieces of artwork that will hopefully make a more vibrant library space for the residents. We hope that our efforts will impact the Green Hill Academic School Library and help to enrich the lives of the students.

Misinformation is a significant continuing problem in online discourse, affecting our trust of others and institutions. While unconventional, studying fandoms such as ARMY and the brony fandom yielded interesting insights into how commonplace misinformation occurs, and how these online fandoms developed strategies to counter them. This study expands on Prof Lee’s work on ARMY and applies it to the brony fandom, discovering that both fandoms share techniques but also have unique yet effective approaches to tackling misinformation. The results have significant implications for mitigating misinformation in online discourse without affecting community cohesion, restoring online trust in information.