Research Symposium

BIO

I am a 2nd-year student from Tampa, Florida. Some of my hobbies are horseback riding, hiking, and reading. I have been interested in psychology since I took AP Psychology in high school and fell in love with the field. In hopes of becoming a psychologist, I have been gaining experience through volunteering, working, and participating in organizations such as Women in Math, Science, and Engineering (WIMSE) and the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP).

An Analysis of the Relationship Between Webcam Preference and Seating Preference

Abstract

● While the concept of online learning has been around since the 90s, for most students it became something familiar due to the worldwide emergency school closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic (Aguilera-Hermida, et al., 2021)
● Despite the lifting of restrictions, online learning is still commonly used through platforms such as Zoom, BlackBoard, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Skype
● Given the pandemic’s abrupt altering of learning environments, it is worthwhile to investigate how student behaviors in in-person classrooms translate to online classrooms and vice versa (Dennen, et al., 2022)
● Our research explores the relationship between webcam preferences for online classes and seating preferences for in-person classes
○ Are participants who prefer to keep their webcam on more likely to prefer sitting in the front than those who prefer to keep their webcam off?
○ Are participants who prefer to keep their webcam off more likely to prefer sitting in the back than those who prefer to keep their webcam on?

Keywords: Psychology, Webcams, Behavior, Social, Education