The purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of the lived experiences of college students of color with psychiatric disabilities, particularly related to the formation of racial identity, disability identity, and the impact of perceived discrimination.

The goal of this study is to learn how young children think and tell stories about challenges between parents and children. Children will play games and tell stories using toys while caregivers fill out surveys and talk to researchers. This will occur twice, about 6 months apart. Qualities of children's stories, their language and regulation skills, demographic information about children and caregivers, and parenting behaviors will be examined.

This is a study that will examine how engineers make decisions under certain conditions and the factors that drive these decisions. The game will be used to simulate different engineering scenarios. All you need to do is play an online game with 3 different scenarios and choose what you feel is the better design based on the available information.

We are trying to characterize the movement of a shooter in a VR environment.

The study consists of one visit lasting approximately 30-40 minutes: 10 minutes for VR setup, 15 minutes for simulated test, and 5-15 minutes for post-experiment survey. During the simulated test, participants will be asked to move around in the environment and shoot NPCs.

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This study will be used for an undergraduate honors thesis, focused on mental health’s impact on perceived blameworthiness and dangerousness of violent crime offenders and sentencing suggestions for said offenders. In this study, participants will read a vignette about a crime (homicide or assault) being committed. After reading this scenario, participants will answer 4 questions about the individual who committed the crime. These questions will ask about blame attribution, sentencing suggestions, danger perception and likelihood of reoffending. The data will be analyzed through quantitative techniques.

Participants will read a vignette about a crime (homicide or assault) being committed. After reading this scenario, participants will answer 4 questions about the individual who committed the crime. These questions will ask about blame attribution, sentencing suggestions, danger perception and likelihood of reoffending. Participants will then answer one question about their gender and one question about the school year.

In this study, we investigate a recommender system for public, local events in Centre County, PA. Currently, there is no platform that aggregates all the events that take place in a community. The data is fragmented among many platforms and it can be difficult for people to find interesting things to do. Participants will interact with our software system and discuss their experiences through a survey and/or interview.

This is a user study to investigate the environmental characteristics of virtual reality (VR). This study will provide empirical evidence of the essential characteristics based on users’ feedbacks. During your visit, you will receive a brief training about using a VR headset and navigating in the virtual environment. After the training, you will explore the virtual environment, complete tasks in VR, and answer questions regarding your feelings to our VR application.

This project explores the experiences of asexual individuals in health and sexual education classes. Specifically, we are interested in the structure of the courses and the extent to which LGBTQIA+ identities were included in the curriculum. Additionally, we are interested in ways health and sexual education classes have since influenced how asexual individuals view and feel about their bodies, as well as how they approach their personal health. Individuals currently identifying as asexual will be surveyed about their experiences and will have the change to provide recorded interviews if desired.

Participants will be asked to complete an online survey that is expected to take 30-40 minutes. Participants also have the opportunity to elaborate on their survey responses during a recorded Zoom interview.

Participants may enter a raffle to win one of 10 Amazon.com giftcards

This study will involve surveying college students regarding their media literacy competencies and experiences with media literacy education.

This study explores how international students show and develop pragmatic strategies to effectively communicate with peers and colleagues from diverse language and cultural backgrounds at Penn State. Participants recruited from the StudyFinder are invited to complete an online survey, and will receive an Amazon gift card as a token of appreciation.

With the development of information and communication technologies, Social Network Sites and other online platforms can be great resources for career-related information and social networking. Despite the evidence of possible professional benefits, it remains unclear whether graduate students’ experiences with building online career profiles and social networking are positive. Therefore, this study aims to understand graduate students’ experience with professional practices on the Internet concerning their motivations, benefits, and risks.

This study aims to understand peoples’ selfie-taking behavior and how, if at all, they relate to their driving behavior and gender difference. The participants will participate the study by completing an online survey.

We are interested in developing robots that can interact with humans. We hope that to develop robots that can interact with people and be used in a variety of different situations such as schools, offices, and homes. This study investigates human-robot interaction.

This study aims to understand ways to affect how riders perceive and provide feedback to drivers through technology intervention. Particularly, we investigate how presenting drivers’ personal profile under different trip conditions may lead to differences in the ways riders may provide feedback. We hypothesize that riders will provide positive feedback when provided drivers’ personal information when the trip goes well, and that riders will provide less negative feedback when provided drivers’ personal information when the trip goes bad due to uncontrollable reasons.