Innovation Day 2023 - Innovation Showcase

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INNOVATION SHOWCASE

This year’s annual celebration of innovation at DePaul focuses on bringing a creative spirit to research to find unexpected partnerships and approaches to solve problems DePaul community members will come together to present research, discuss perspectives on innovation,andmakeconnectionsacrossdisciplines

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DePaul Migration Collaborative

The DePaul Migration Collaborative engages scholars, practitioners, students and alumni to find solutions to society’s mostpressingproblemsintheareasofmigration,mobilityand human rights The Collaborative leverages the power of interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration to pursue dynamic, community-engaged projects, advocacy and research, while establishing innovative learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students who will become the field’s next generation of leaders and problem-solvers These efforts will allow the Collaborative to advocate for and contribute to better public policy, stronger communities and a morejustsociety

Virtual Production Stage

Virtualproductionisanemergingfilmmakingmethodthatuses computer software tools and large format LED screens to combine on-set performances and virtual computer graphics live in-camera in real-time. Virtual production techniques are revolutionizing film production methods and are rapidly being adopted across the professional industry. A prototype Virtual Production Stage is located at Cinespace on stage 21A. The prototype stage includes significant technical infrastructure including camera tracking systems, real-time computing & rendering,andanLEDwall.

SiobanAlbiolandShailjaSharma

CollegeofLaw,CollegeofLiberalArts&SocialSciences

BrianAndrews

JarvisCollegeofComputingandDigitalMedia

HughBartlingandEuanHague

CollegeofLiberalArts&SocialSciences

Urban Collaborative

TheUrbanCollaborativeintheCollegeofLiberalArtsandSocial Sciences was founded in 2018 to foster interdisciplinary and innovative scholarship, teaching, and projects related to Chicago and urban areas across the world. Through the Collaborative, faculty and students work with external partners tosupportvibrant,healthy,livable,andequitablecities.

CollegeofScienceandHealth

Undergraduate STEM Research Showcase

The Annual Undergraduate STEM Research Showcase, which is organized jointly by faculty and staff from the Colleges of Science and Health, Computing and Digital Media, and Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2022. The event highlights the quality and diversity of research conducted by DePaul undergraduates, and gives students the invaluableexperienceofpresentingtheirresearchtotheirpeers andthelargerDePaulcommunity

The world is digitizing around us Cryptocurrency is the digitization of cash and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are the digitization of assets The Metaverse is where digital currency and digital assets come together in a collection of digital worlds Come create a digital wallet, receive digital funds, and explorethemetaversetogether!

BernhardBeck-Winchatz

SamanthaClose

CollegeofCommunication

Scholarly Publication Beyond the Written Word

Academia is often critiqued as out-of-touch with wider culture. Scholarly publication is part of the problem: full of obscure terms,convolutedlanguage,andinaccessibleifyoudon'thave an expensive journal subscriptions or a library's buying power. Butitdoesn'thavetobethisway.

The creative arts offer unprecedented possibilities for writing research differently. This project explores these possibilities by conveying complicated academic ideas through graphic novel/comics,editedremixvideo,andlive-streaming Theworks allfocusonmaking"high"theoryaccessibletostudentsandthe broader public, demonstrating the importance of critical and philosophicalthoughttotheeverydayworld

CollegeofLiberalArts&SocialSciences

Incarcerated Canines

Dogs partnered with inmates to initiate the human-animal bond in a correctional setting. Second chances and new beginningsforbothcaninesandhumans

RhondaK.DeLong

MarieDonovan CollegeofEducation

Using Virtual Reality to Assess Prior Learning for College Credit

Research into why so many veteran IL early childhood (EC) teacher assistants do not hold any college credit (9,000+) foundtheydistrustedcolleges/universitiestograntcreditbased on what they learned through working, especially when institutionsusedtraditionalmeans(eg,portfolios) Community college and university EC faculty collaborated to create a PLA instrumentthatelicitsECstaff'spriorlearningthroughresolving simulated workplace dilemmas with avatars powered by trained actors in real time, in a VR environment (no goggles needed) The PLA session is recorded and the video capture evaluated by early childhood faculty who convert the performance to course credit. The instrument is available in English and Spanish. This presentation will explain the research into the need for the instrument as well as share a demonstration of it, along with showing how the video capture isevaluatedforcollegecredit.

HumanitiesX is a collaborative that joins faculty and students fromDePaulUniversitywithcommunitypartnersfromChicagoarea arts, cultural, and civic organizations Together we are working to reimagine teaching and learning in the humanities and demonstrate what can be accomplished in our classrooms and our city by interdisciplinary teams that apply humanitiesmethodstoreal-worldprojects

LisaDush

CollegeofLiberalArts&SocialSciences

Civics Initiative

DePaul's Civics Initiative is dedicated to grappling with the contentious and significant issues that lie at the heart of our contemporaryciviccultureanddemocraticlife.

Through an interdisciplinary curriculum, the Civics Initiative invites a diverse community of teacher-scholars to imagine new ways to help students rigorously interrogate historical and contemporary political structures, acknowledge differences in their lived experiences, and practice the democratic skills of listening and deliberation that will allow us to build a path forward.

CIVICS INITIATIVE

MollyW.AndolinaandBenEpstein

ElissaFosterandRoselyneTchoua

DePaul’s Social Transformation Research Collaborative (STRC) supports research in the humanities as a source of justice and healing for communities historically shaped by, and continuouslyfacing,racism,violence,anddispossession Through interdisciplinary research in literature and language, historyandculture,theSTRCdemonstrateshowthehumanities deepen our understanding of ourselves and our society, and empowerustoact,ethicallyandresponsibly,tocounterracism, dismantleviolence,andbuildamorejustandequitablesociety

JulieMoody-Freemanand

CollegeofLiberalArts&SocialSciences

DePaul ScholarHub, an RILF-sponsored faculty scholarship development platform tool

Visit our table for a sneak preview of DePaul ScholarHub a new online tool for faculty interested in connecting with potential collaborators based on similar and complementary research interests. DePaul ScholarHub is a comprehensive source for DePaul faculty and scholarship active staff and students interested in identifying potential collaborators. Proof-ofconcept includes scholarship clusters about “health” and “health justice”. We look forward to suggestions for future conceptclustersandtoolfunctionality.

MilesHarveyandAudreyJuergens

CollegeofLiberalArts&SocialSciences

DePaul Publishing Institute

TheDePaulPublishingInstitute(DPI)isthelatestinnovationfrom a nationally recognized creative writing program that specializes in hands-on training in book, magazine and web publishing. In addition to serving as the umbrella organization for five dynamic publishing efforts in the English Department Big Shoulders Books, Poetry East, Slag Glass City, Crook & Folly and DePaul’s Blue Book DPI aims to increase opportunities for student internships and employment, collaborate with funders, coordinate publicity efforts and enhance the university’s relationshipswithpublishersacrossthecityandcountry.

NandhiniGulasingam,KathrynIbata-Arens, andSvetaStoytcheva

JesKlass

AcademicAffairs-CenterforTeachingandLearning

The DePaul Instructional Game & Innovation (DIGI) Lab

The DIGI Lab works with faculty and staff all around the universitytocreategamesandinnovativeexperiencesfortheir courses. Our work includes digital games, analog games, XR experiences, illustrative course content, and more. Housed in the Center for Teaching and Learning, DIGI is here to help spread the word about the benefit of games in education, highlight the interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities within games, explore emerging technology alongside collaborating faculty, and demonstrate a working model for how university partners can collaborate to create innovative, new experiences fortheclassroom.

Intimate Partner Violence Induced Brain Injury

This project is a collaboration between faculty in Neuroscience and Social Work along with a community hospital to bring attention to the issue of brain injury acquired due to intimate partner violence The collaboration has resulted in the formation of the Illinois Coalition to Address Intimate Partner Violence Induced Brain Injury whose four pillars include Education, Research, Services and Advocacy https://tbi-dvilorg/

DorothyKozlowskiandSonyaCrabtree-Nelson

College of Science and Health, College of Liberal Arts & SocialSciences

CollegeofScienceandHealth

Teaching Analog Electronics by Making Modular Music Synthesizers

I will display and encourage participants to play modular analog music synthesizers made by students in Physics 231 using the resources of DePaul's Makerspaces, the Idea Realization Laboratories This is a project-based interdisciplinary course (required for Sound Recording Technology students) that teaches electronics and physics while creating performance-grade electronic musical instruments

CenterforTeachingandLearning,AcademicAffairs

Academic Media Production

TheAcademicMediaProductionteamworkscloselywithfaculty to design, film, and edit video projects and lectures that enhance engagement and learning experiences for students This includes light board lectures, green screen recordings, interview sessions, and audio booth recordings for any course, regardless if it is on ground, hybrid, or fully online Recent projects include several DSC and CSC courses, Flex Classroom training and promotional materials, and interactive Set Safety TrainingforallCinespacestudents

Sevenyearsago,theCollegeofBusinessbuiltTheMini-Studio–an affordable space to create high-quality video lectures on demand Version3ofthisconceptisequallyaffordable,butnow leverages a Neat Bar for live and prerecorded lecture content ThestudioworkslikeaFlexclassroomforafractionofthecost Come along and see how we did this and how the space can be used to share exemplary video material with students and stakeholders

EricLandahl

KevinLyon

JamesMoore

Computer-Aided Diagnosis

Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems have been used as “second readers” to augment the interpretation process for clinical decision making. Previous CAD research demonstrated high overall diagnosis prediction accuracy, but was often unsuccessful at predicting cases that only appear rarely. For example, in the medical imaging domain, the heterogeneity in the visual appearance of medical images often causes machinelearningmodelsfailatpredictinglowprevalentcases. Theproposedresearchdetermineswhetherthereisanoptimal way to stratify medical data to ensure that machine learning models benefit diagnosis not only for the cases that constitute the majority, but also for rarely encountered diagnostic cases. Weinvestigatethreeapproachesfordatastratification:anovel algorithmic deep learning approach that learns similarities among cases and two schema completion approaches that utilize domain expert knowledge. We further propose an innovative way to integrate the discovered latent groups into the loss functions of deep learning models to allow for better model generalizability under the domain shift scenario caused by the data heterogeneity. Our preliminary results for lung nodule diagnosis using Computed Tomography images show that learning homogenous groups within heterogeneous data helps boost the CAD system performance for the low prevalent cases.

DanielaStanRaicuandIanWang

JarvisCollegeofComputingandDigitalMedia

CollegeofScienceandHealth

College of Science and Health's Comprehensive Student Success and Retention Initiatives (CSSRI)

In 2022, the College of Science and Health (CSH) implemented its Comprehensive Student Success and Retention Initiatives (CSSRI) The CSSRI is a coordinated plan of evidence-based student success and retention interventions Its efforts are collaborative and multidisciplinary in nature CSH faculty and staff partner to seek to enhance undergraduate student retention, persistence, and graduation rates by building a greater sense of community and belonging among students, especially students from underrepresented backgrounds, and providing intervention and greater levels of support for courses/disciplines identified as barriers or historically more challenging The five primary components of the CSSRI are: 1) Jump Start Program, 2) CSH 101, 3) Student Ambassador Program,4)CUREs,and,5)Re-imaginedPost-bacProgram

CollegeofLiberalArts&SocialSciences

Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative

The Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative brings together researchers and community members working to create a safe, prosperous, and violence free future for all Chicagoansthroughcommunity-basedresearchinitiatives.The collaborative, which addresses gun violence through a public health lens, also includes Sinai Urban Health Institute, Rush University, Adler University, Loyola University Chicago and UniversityofIllinoisChicago(UIC)

MichaelRobertsandStephanieDance-Barnes

DanielSchober

GregScott

CollegeofLiberalArts&SocialSciences

Somewhere

A Multimodal Presentation of a

Drug Consumption Site

This installation features an immersive 360-degree 3D video documentary and a traditional documentary film that examine the inner workings of the first-ever unsanctioned supervised drug consumption site (SCS) in the United States. Participants will have the option to explore the space in virtual reality (wearing an Oculus Quest headset) or by watching the 15m traditionalshortdocumentary,orboth.

LeAnneWagnerandLienTran

JarvisCollegeofComputingandDigitalMedia

A Just Reality

A Just Reality is a virtual reality (VR) training tool to fill a gap in essential skills training for law enforcement by providing an interactive VR scenario for participants to learn and practice victim-centered and trauma-informed interviewing techniques when interacting with those reporting gender-based violence. The goal is to reduce bias in law enforcement responses to domestic violence and sexual assault using emerging technology.

AJustRealityprojectisacollaborationoutofDePaulUniversity’s SchoolofDesignandledbyfacultymembersLienTran(Matters at Play) and LeAnne Wagner (PUSH Studio). Our research and developmentteammembersincludeLynnBaus,BrightenJelke, JessReed,ChryselleRego,andChaseJones.

Matters at Play and PUSH Studio together explore solutions at the intersection of positive social impact and emerging technology, respectively. Through research and engagement with our network of stakeholders, our team has identified the opportunity to improve trauma-informed interview techniques forlawenforcement