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Assisted Research Projects
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept of Communication, Santa Barbara, CA
Project: The Captain is Dead (Ongoing)
Research assistant to Dr. Norah Dunbar (Volunteer) 01/2025-present
Research Duty: Moderating for the game; technical support; pilot testing
Project: Technology and Retreat (Ongoing) 09/2024-present
Research assistant to Dr. Jennifer Gibbs, graduate director
Research Duty: Atlas. TI qualitative coding, Qualitative analysis.
Project: Theory for Concertive Control in Computer-Mediated Communication (Ongoing) 03/2024-present
Research assistant to Dr. Jennifer Gibbs, graduate director
Research Duty: Cleaned data and conducted qualitative analysis to offer theoretical insights.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept of Communication, Santa Barbara, CA
Project: Technologies vs. In-person Love Communications (Ongoing) 12/2023-10/2024
Research assistant to Dr. Amy Gonzales | Research Laboratory A 4015 SS&MS Bldg
Research Duty: Experimenter. Experimenter Trainer. Revising the experimenter’s script. Revising participant prompts. Technology support and software selection for recording dyads’ audio and textual conversation.
Project: Technology Support Infrastructure in Santa Barbara County (Ongoing) 12/2023-10/2024
Research assistant to Dr. Amy Gonzales
Research Duty: Data Collection in Santa Maria gathered more than 70 responses. Hands-on experience with Dr. Amy Gonzales, to Santa Maria on 2/12/2024 to conduct research and collect data. Data entry for collected data.
Project: Evaluating Non-Profit Digital Equity Interventions (Ongoing) 12/2023-10/2024
Research assistant to Dr. Amy Gonzales
Research Duty: Cleaning and transcribing project interviews. Exploring ideas of Intervention policies. Created Excel sheets detailing the interviews for the research group. Coding data.
Project: Evaluating Digital Equity and Race (Ongoing) 12/2023-10/2024
Research assistant to Dr. Amy Gonzales
Research Duty: Conducting a literature review.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept of Communication, Santa Barbara, CA
Project: The Benefits of Virtual Reality for Older Adults with Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment (Published)
Research assistant to Dr. Chris Otmar and Dr. Norah Dunbar 09/2023-12/2023
Research Duty: Completing human subjects training, coding nonverbal behavior with Excel and research materials, content analysis, and learning research Methods. Helping Dr. Otmar’s dissertation.
Project: Interpersonal communications (In press) 03/2023-07/2023
Research Assistant to Qing Huang and Dr. Andy Merolla
Research duty: Coding data with the codebook. Completing reliability test. Content analysis. Organizing data and analyzing it with SPSS. Literature review.
Project: No response? Chronemic expectancy violation and relational turbulence in technologically-mediated romantic relational conflict (JSPR published) 03/2023-07/2023
Research Assistant to Qing Huang and Dr. Andy Merolla
Research duty: Data analysis: running mediation/moderation models with SPSS, developing possible correlations between 3/7 variables. Data Coding. Content analysis. Helped identify possible mediation/moderation relationships.
University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept of Spanish and Portuguese, Santa Barbara, CA
Project: "A Victorious Afro-Hispanic Theatrical Presence: Victoria Santa Cruz Gamarra and Blackness," funded through an Academic Senate Research Grant 12/2023-1/2024
Paid Research Assistant to Prof. Silvia Bermúdez, former department chair
Research Duty: Essential Duties of the Job / Frequency of Tasks: Daily / Weekly upon supervisor-direction. 1. Photocopying 26 articles and 11 book chapters to prepare PDFs to submit regarding the "Black Pacific, Peru, Victoria Santa Cruz, his brother Nicomedes Santa Cruz, and the entire Santa Cruz Gamarra family. 2. Carefully revise the project updates for REMEMBERING VICTORIA SANTA CRUZ (1922-2014) by scholar Heidi Carolyn Feldman. 3. Produce a detailed report of the present status of each one of the activities celebrated in Peru and the USA (point 2).
FUTURE in AI-mediated communication and Interpersonal Dynamics: Online dating, friendships, connections, cross-cultural friendships, deception detection, butler lies, and deception consensus.
Please contact me at linhuang@ucsb.edu for collaborations on publications
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