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Shawn Yama

Undergraduate Student

I’m fourth-year Computer Science student at Ontario Tech University. I am working on the Card-IT project as an undergraduate research fellow. Card-IT is a web application that teaches Italian through flashcard games. I am developing a visually appealing React.js frontend along with its backend built with Flask and mySQL. My interests in Computer Science are in human-computer interaction, web development and games.

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Publications

  • S. Yama, “Card-IT Versus: A Competitive Multiplayer Game for Testing Italian Verb Morphology,” Bachelors Thesis, 2022.

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    @BachelorsThesis{yam2022,

    author={Shawn Yama},

    title={Card-IT Versus: A Competitive Multiplayer Game for Testing Italian Verb Morphology},

    school={University of Ontario Institute of Technology},

    year=2022

    }

  • C. Collins, S. Arbour, N. Beals, S. Yama, J. Laffier, and Z. Zhao, “Covid Connect: Chat-Driven Anonymous Story-Sharing for Peer Support,” in ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2022.

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    @InProceedings{col2022a,

    title={Covid Connect: Chat-Driven Anonymous Story-Sharing for Peer Support},

    author={Collins, Christopher and Arbour, Simone and Beals, Nathan and Yama, Shawn and Laffier, Jennifer and Zhao, Zixin},

    booktitle = {ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference},

    month = jun,

    year = 2022,

    doi = {10.1145/3532106.3533545}

    }

  • M. Shimabukuro, J. Zipf, S. Yama, and C. Collins. 2023. “Evaluating Classroom Potential for Card-it: Digital Flashcards for Studying and Learning Italian Morphology,” in Proc. of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), pages 130–136, Toronto, Canada. ACL.

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    @inproceedings{shimabukuro-etal-2023-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating Classroom Potential for Card-it: Digital {F}lashcards for Studying and Learning {I}talian Morphology",
    author = "Shimabukuro, Mariana  and
      Zipf, Jessica  and
      Yama, Shawn  and
      Collins, Christopher",
    editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Horbach, Andrea  and
      Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Madnani, Nitin  and
      Tack, Ana{\"\i}s  and
      Yaneva, Victoria  and
      Yuan, Zheng  and
      Zesch, Torsten},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.11",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.11",
    pages = "130--136",
}

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